Jtsummers

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The Armored Sarcophagus Saving Ukrainian Soldiers(theatlantic.com)
1 points by Jtsummers 1h ago|0 comments
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by Jtsummers 4d ago
Unless it was edited after your comment, it's mentioned in the first paragraph: > Two young people riding in an autonomous vehicle were arrested in San Francisco after authorities allegedly found them in possession of an illegal “gh
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by Jtsummers 4d ago
> Poor man's runtime "dynamic" version. AKA: A much worse version. Contracts don't have to be evaluated dynamically, that's just one way they're implemented. See SPARK/Ada for an example of contracts be
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by Jtsummers 4d ago
HN does not use markdown code block formatting so this is hard to read. Formatting code blocks is simple, two blank spaces before any line to make it a code block and no need for extra newlines (unlike between paragraphs): double deposi
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by Jtsummers 5d ago
> In surprised they're redacting things like labels on a map I think you're referring to this one: https://www.cia.gov/static/06-23-1998-Potential-Targets-for-... Since it's redacted, we can only gues
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by Jtsummers 5d ago
> The important context missing here is that Bush was infamous for treating the PDBs like a hassle he didn't want to have to deal with. The important context missing here is that Bush was only president for about 8 months when 9&#x2
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by Jtsummers 5d ago
> From the outside, it even looks like Trump attacked Iran because of the epstein files. He attacked Iran because he has warhawks and wannabe crusaders in his core group of advisors who believed that it would actually be a quick war, and
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by Jtsummers 5d ago
Correct, it's not part of the name, which is just "Snap!".
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by Jtsummers 5d ago
> Any name that you can't type is going to be a problem. Fortunately the name is Snap! so typing it isn't much of a problem. (With the !, which was stripped from the submission title and when most people write about it.)
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by Jtsummers 5d ago
Schools have long relied on an honor system, unless you can get really close to a 1:1 ratio with the students so the instructor can properly evaluate each and every one. But, as a society, we've decided that's too expensive so peo
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by Jtsummers 5d ago
NetLogo is its own language, but definitely inspired by and modeled on the original Logo (thus the name). But it has some differences in syntax and semantics, and is oriented toward agent based modeling (which also introduces some new synta
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by Jtsummers 5d ago
Logo was directly inspired by Lisp and the first implementation was even written in Lisp.
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by Jtsummers 6d ago
The submitter made it up. Despite being a user on the site for years they apparently don't know the submission rules: use the original title, only edit to fit or for obvious clickbait. The simplest rules are the hardest to remember?
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by Jtsummers 6d ago
> You would conclude that storytelling is higher structures of some base unit I'd be very surprised to meet someone who learned that lesson by comparing protein folding (suggesting a high level of intelligence and probably education
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by Jtsummers 6d ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260910195003/https://www.theat...
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The Thrill of Wanting AI to Destroy the World(theatlantic.com)
3 points by Jtsummers 6d ago|2 comments
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by Jtsummers 6d ago
Analogies are like models, some are useful, but they're all wrong. Just because we can analogize between protein folding and narrative/storytelling doesn't mean that we can derive anything particularly useful about one from t
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by Jtsummers 6d ago
I guess my real confusion is this: You keep predicting the end of civilization in your comments, but you only seem to talk about collecting money to deal with it. Does your end of civilization not also involve the severe loss in value of ou
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by Jtsummers 6d ago
How valuable will your money be once civilization is destroyed and you, self-admittedly, have no skills that would help you after the collapse? Seems like a better use of your time may be in identifying and developing those skills and culti
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by Jtsummers 6d ago
Suspicious in that it's unlikely or suspicious in that it betrays their real motivation? On the former: It kind of makes sense if they think they can convince regulators that they (and maybe a few select competitors) are the only ones
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by Jtsummers 6d ago
Effective Altruism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism It has some interesting ideas, and also gave us people like Sam Bankman-Fried.
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by Jtsummers 7d ago
He can't promise money since Congress hasn't approved it, and this would be north of $1 trillion so I guess he's looking to set more record deficits.
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by Jtsummers 7d ago
Stopping to listen to someone is not very egocentric. Without the headphones (in the scenario) she would have just ignored him or politely declined the flyer. So either way, wrong word.
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by Jtsummers 7d ago
> came off as quite geocentric Did you mean to use another word here? I mean, the vast majority of people are still on Earth so many things are geocentric and that's rarely considered a problem.
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by Jtsummers 7d ago
Fair, zooming in I guess I can see that. You may want to correct the label on the photo though, it shares dimensions with the 5 but you've clearly photographed an SE (original, it turns out, which was part of my confusion since you swi
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by Jtsummers 7d ago
https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/?modelList=iphone-13-mi... The SE was the one that shared the 8's dimensions, the Mini was smaller than both. That Mini appears to be in a case, so the comparison photos a
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by Jtsummers 7d ago
The passport card is only used for land and sea entries, it's not a full replacement for the passport (would be nice if it was) and never has been. It does work as a federally issued ID if you need one.
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by Jtsummers 7d ago
The iPhone Air's SOC demonstrates that they could compact the actual SOC portion substantially. Add a bit of thickness back for the battery, and they could have a Mini with space for a decent camera and decent battery life. Remove the
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by Jtsummers 7d ago
> The last Mini was iPhone 8 sized It was smaller than the iPhone 8. It was slightly thicker (0.01"), shorter (by 0.27") and narrower (0.13"). And it had a bigger display despite being overall smaller. It was bigger than t
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by Jtsummers 7d ago
> Article reads like an ad. You've mistaken a press release for an article. This is Apple's own site and announcement of Apple's own product. Of course it's an ad.

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