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Space Force Uniform Is Inspired by Quasi-Satirical Film 'Starship Troopers'(deadline.com)
37 points by alex_young 8d ago|30 comments
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by alex_young 17d ago
"have" is doing most of the work here. Most EVs have a small 12v battery to power 12v components. But the driving the car to the store part is done with lithium.
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by alex_young 1mo ago
This seems to be the model for “self” driving cars too. Good luck keeping attention during that ten thousandth time it navigates something tricky and suddenly needs immediate intervention.
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by alex_young 2mo ago
The Library, or part of its collection, was accidentally burned by Julius Caesar during his civil war in 48 BC, but it is unclear how much was actually destroyed
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by alex_young 2mo ago
Did it not burn? Was it not the most extensive library of human writing at that time? Please help us all understand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
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by alex_young 2mo ago
Perhaps the burning of the library at Alexandria would qualify. How intentional that was is somewhat in question, but the world certainly turned its back on the only collection of written knowledge and let it turn to ash.
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by alex_young 3mo ago
The 4th amendment protects people from unreasonable searches by the government. It does not require businesses to do anything special. There are plenty of great reasons to, and even other legal requirements to, protect and limit informati
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Digital devices are being used to comfort babies and parents(1001criticaldays.com)
2 points by alex_young 3mo ago|0 comments
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by alex_young 3mo ago
I worked for one such employer long ago that would “accidentally” bounce paychecks. This happened with such regularity that people would take their checks to said employer’s bank on payday and stand in line to cash them before heading to th
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by alex_young 3mo ago
A reverse centaur is just a person with a horse head right? I don’t get the analogy. I understand he’s talking about getting pushed around by an LLM, but would a normal centaur push an LLM around? It doesn’t even have any hands right? S
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by alex_young 3mo ago
Does this not work with HomePod? How is an AI voice assistant not compatible with the smart speaker?
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by alex_young 3mo ago
Conservation easements are a thing. Many people support protecting natural spaces and the law is composed of such general understandings.
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by alex_young 4mo ago
The U.S. Treasury publishes a daily total of the national debt, which as of May 2026 was $39 trillion. a little less than half of the total national debt is owed to the "Federal Reserve and intragovernmental holdings" I
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by alex_young 4mo ago
a flight attendant told passengers over the PA system that they "must turn off Bluetooth immediately," or else the aircraft would have to turn around.
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by alex_young 4mo ago
How would turning bluetooth off convince anyone that there isn't a bomb on board? It seems like the bluetooth offering is the least of our worries in the insane case that this is how a threat was delivered.
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by alex_young 4mo ago
I read it, but I don't think it's compelling. "the short run can be a lifetime" is kind of a throw away phrase not backed by evidence. We've seen rapid growth of knowledge work at the same time as increased product
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by alex_young 4mo ago
The small town constraint is a bit artificial to this problem isn't it? If you operate a machine shop in a large urban area, have competitors, and access to much improved low cost tooling, would you: a) lay off a bunch of workers, or b
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by alex_young 4mo ago
Why is this time different? Won't super power AI tools allow companies to do more with the same number of people? Don't you think a smarter way to run a business is to capture more of the market if you have the resources to do so
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by alex_young 4mo ago
Someone replied. It was the exact same text the AI had given me. How would this happen? I thought most of these things used random seeds when returning responses. I understand similar, but exactly the same seems pretty odd if 2 pe
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by alex_young 4mo ago
You would also need vehicle miles traveled and pedestrian miles traveled. The overall numbers are up, and there is ample evidence that US cities are both less walkable and more dangerous to walk in than our counterparts in Europe. Just b
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by alex_young 4mo ago
Pedestrian vehicle fatalities are up over 40 years, have increased significantly recently, and are a very real problem. https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/fatality-statistics/deta...
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by alex_young 4mo ago
I want to let my kids walk wherever they want to. It’s great for them. My 5 year old bikes to school, accompanied by an adult. It’s a bit more than half a mile away from the house. I’d like to tell him he can do this on his own next year,
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by alex_young 4mo ago
I live in a town of fewer than 8k people. Our local toy store is not only thriving, it’s central to the community. People would rather shop there than go online. Why? Because they are a part of the community. At every farmer’s market or
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by alex_young 4mo ago
This is the second time Fisker has burned car owners and gone out of business. How many more times will it happen? Shouldn’t stuff be allowed to die?
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by alex_young 4mo ago
Clusters are almost never the right answer for most problems: https://yourdatafitsinram.net/
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by alex_young 4mo ago
Doesn’t say one way or the other, but probably suspended with pay. That’s typical. It’s like a free vacation day.
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by alex_young 4mo ago
Isn't this really about "protecting" minors using Instagram? If they allow E2E encryption, they can't scan for CSAM or do other monitoring stuff effectively, so they can't provide a "safe" place for minors
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Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX(anthropic.com)
3 points by alex_young 4mo ago|1 comments
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by alex_young 5mo ago
I think that’s what we used to call a program. Things like vi and wordstar seem like they’d qualify.
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by alex_young 5mo ago
CLI. Wtf is a TUI? LLMs say it has some to do with interactivity in a menu or something, but believe me, we had this all in the 80’s. Nothing new here, but the truth is the CLI is better faster and cheaper. Pick all three.

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