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by __egb__ 3mo ago
Maybe the lack of nuance is due to learning, through decades of experience, that the assumption “it won’t be done right” can be baked in.
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by __egb__ 1y ago
It really depends what your goals/targets are. You can still do a lot with narrowband filters that make light pollution a minimal concern. One of my favorite images was taken from a resort balcony with my telescope directly under a flu
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by __egb__ 1y ago
Did the Navy really have a choice at the time, though? Politically, I mean. Yes, the Navy can select a higher bid as long as there is justification, and here the justification is long-term value and readiness…but a significant portion of th
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by __egb__ 1y ago
> I'm against different criteria for people based on race. Take away affirmative action and any explicit race-based admissions and hiring programs and we’re still left with different criteria based on race. For example, it’s been sh
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by __egb__ 1y ago
IMO, even more important than funding is that NASA rockets are now designed by Congressional committee. It’s hard to innovate when you’re pressured into reusing Shuttle components to keep the money flowing to specific contractors.
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by __egb__ 1y ago
The Navy already does forecasting for the DoD. They have their own computing facility (called Fleet Numerical) in California and run their own models.
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by __egb__ 2y ago
> They still ask for a tip. Finally, something to do with all the old sticks of RAM I have.
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by __egb__ 2y ago
Time to start keeping track of how many times attorneys from ‘DEI schools’ win on the other side of the courtroom.
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by __egb__ 2y ago
Oh, come on now, this one’s easy. They can just activate Textualist-mode and say that that if the founders wanted this clause to apply to tariffs then they should have explicitly used the word ‘tariffs’.
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by __egb__ 2y ago
So many of the further-left’s answers follow the progression of the “step 3: ???” meme. I guess these days we might call it “concepts of a plan”. Even when the goals sound great, the paths to reach them are vague or non-existent (or even wo
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by __egb__ 2y ago
Read it again. 40% of the 10% flagged by Cruz. So just 4% of all NSF grants were related to DEI…in some way that isn’t even apparent without actually reading the proposals.
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by __egb__ 2y ago
It’s all fun and games until the seat in your car—or spaceship—says, “Moisturize me!”
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by __egb__ 2y ago
There have been plenty of government commissions in the past. None of them functioned anything like DOGE, not even the ones instituted by the current President during his first term. I think this is a surprise to many…even Trump’s more arde
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by __egb__ 2y ago
What should Tim Cook call himself if, say, a little DOGE-ie gets into the Passport or IRS or SEC systems and actually changes all Tim Cook references to Tim Apple?
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by __egb__ 2y ago
I’m a huge fan of Asimov. Years ago I bought a back issue of the Newsweek that this was originally published in, framed it, and still have it hanging in my office: https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/0
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by __egb__ 2y ago
Trump has said he won’t make the same mistake of having people like Kelly or Milley or Wray around. Commander in Chief is an official duty of the President. With the Supreme Court ruling, is there such a thing as an illegal military order f
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by __egb__ 2y ago
We had a similar situation in our family and we tried teaching mindful screen habits. We still lost because we couldn’t do anything about the school screen (chromebook). If we took that away at home it just provided an excuse for not doing
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by __egb__ 2y ago
> Also worth pointing out that NIST doesn't set policy… Which has a side effect of NIST not even following its own guidance!
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by __egb__ 2y ago
Are you under the mistaken impression that hurricanes are spread evenly across the season? I don’t understand how you can speak in the past tense when the season isn’t over for another three months. The historical peak is September 10th and
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by __egb__ 2y ago
> but shareholders (who should put pressure on executives and the board to act with prudence to avoid these kinds of disasters) are adequately punished. So if I own some Vanguard mutual fund as part of a retirement account, it’s now on m
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by __egb__ 2y ago
The killer app for me is unchaining myself from a desk. I just can’t work effectively on a laptop screen, so while I’d love to go work while sitting at the beach or in a park or whatever, I just can’t do that right now.
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by __egb__ 2y ago
This is why I have such high hopes for AR for work. I can keep my job but still return to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of my distant ancestors…only I would be hunting bugs and gathering requirements.
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by __egb__ 2y ago
To expand on this, Webb uses the Deep Space Network (DSN) to communicate with us. It can’t stream data back 24/7. There are generally three contacts per day each lasting a few hours, but I believe this is dependent on the scheduling of
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by __egb__ 2y ago
I don’t understand either. I have an iPhone. My wife has a Samsung. According to certain pockets of the internet it’s a miracle we made it past our first date and now it’s only a matter of time before we’re divorced. Our group chat with her
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by __egb__ 3y ago
> Don’t the many zero setback cities invalidate your setback argument? They’re not drowning in stormwater - clearly it can be managed in a number of ways. This means nothing without knowing the specifics of the local geography and ecosys
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by __egb__ 3y ago
> …hundreds to thousands of such rules and the vast majority of them are _not_ that important. And you base that on…? > How does not wanting houses to flood relate to setbacks, minimum square footage, lot size, etc. requirements? Here
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by __egb__ 3y ago
Many of the zoning rules you list, and far many more that you don’t, exist for valid reasons. Those reasons may not be as obvious as the chemical plant/preschool rule, but that doesn’t mean they’re not just as valid. I live near a cove
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by __egb__ 3y ago
That is not true. It’s on a state-by-state basis and only a few states have laws that say ownership is automatically seen as intent to commit a crime. It’s legal in most states to own lock picks and use them on locks you own. I also believe
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by __egb__ 3y ago
How about, “Winception”
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by __egb__ 3y ago
And the first 30 seconds was just unscrewing the base.

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