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by api 4mo ago
Earth has been screaming it has a very likely biosphere for at least 500 million to a billion years. To anyone with huge space based telescopes. So why no visitors? If there had been, we wouldn’t know. Any probes that dropped into our plane
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by api 4mo ago
I live in Cincinnati and thought at first glance maybe somebody set up some kind of weird indie radio station and somehow got those call letters, which would be epic. Sad.
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by api 4mo ago
It's mind blowing that we've allowed the development of a de-factor personal ID device absolutely controlled by an oligopoly of two private corporations. Do people realize that this means either of these companies, since they can
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by api 4mo ago
There's a sizable Cuban-American community that hates the regimes and wants to use the USA to overthrow it, and they're a swing voting bloc in Florida which has a lot of electoral votes. That's the point. Deciding the Cold Wa
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by api 4mo ago
People forget that all the training data to make these things was harvested with little concern for copyright or proper licensing. A dividend or basic income or something funded by a tax on this stuff is not at all unreasonable. The technol
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by api 4mo ago
It was fun. Was a bit younger but played it like crazy too on my 286. Rollers! Lava! It’s like the author started with a simple tank war game and then just threw in every weird little effect they could code as a creative weapon. There were
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by api 4mo ago
If anything, my use of AI (admittedly not as a companion or a psychologist) suggests that it is on the whole significantly less toxic than the seething cess pit of social media. AI is positively affirming by comparison.
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by api 4mo ago
International politics is familiar to anyone who has supervised a group of 2-4 year olds.
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by api 4mo ago
Then we never go. What if expanding helps us coexist peacefully? Maybe being in a crab bucket with no frontier is part of the issue.
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by api 4mo ago
Simple is harder than complex.
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by api 4mo ago
Nobody’s tried because they are a short flight away from South America. No point. It’s cheaper and easier to fly it in. There are skeptical arguments against Mars settlement but the Antarctica thing is kind of a weak one. To point out one m
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by api 4mo ago
Why does this kind of thing need new hardware? The stuff I saw here could be apps running on any OS.
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by api 4mo ago
“The nuts are always the loudest” has been an observation forever. This is showing how in the social media system the dynamics play out.
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by api 4mo ago
It's a protection racket born of fundamental weaknesses in the Internet's bedrock protocols.
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by api 4mo ago
I would not have believed the shoplifting thing if I hadn’t seen it. Walked into a CVS midday in SF. There were even cops not far away. Poor rent a cop in there is just yelling “police have been called” while three or four people are roamin
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by api 4mo ago
I don’t know what I was expecting. Not much from this crew. But it’s less than that. It’s a pile of trash. It’s already known stuff, old hoaxes, cases from preexisting UFO literature, things that have already been leaked, and hilarious phot
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by api 4mo ago
Great Old Ones and beings from the ultimate void can be blurry in photos from the ionization of air around their bodies as they attempt to synchronize their quantum spin states with our normal universe. But it’s not just like a blurry photo
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by api 4mo ago
If we are being visited we would never see them unless they decided to show themselves, and if they did it would be absolutely unambiguous. Someone with the tech to travel the stars (or something weirder like between dimensions) could make
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by api 5mo ago
I remember one take I had in 2024 after the election. We're all familiar with some of the "defund the police" experiments that went too far in places like Portland and San Francisco and resulted in things like epidemics of ca
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by api 5mo ago
The correct Information Age is the one you get when you let your prefrontal cortex play DJ and pick your media based on what will enrich your life or teach you something. If you let your brain stem drive you’ll spend your life scrolling pol
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by api 5mo ago
I listened to a podcast a while back (human authored I'm pretty sure) about low-quality gutter level streamer content and how popular it is, speaking of personalities like asmongold and a vast number of even worse imitators. This conte
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by api 5mo ago
"It is simple to use, easy to organize and manage, and very robust." This is why nobody uses it. Cloud stuff has to be as baroque as possible.
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by api 5mo ago
I can manipulate space-time. Enter the on ramp to the highway and accelerate. I am now aging slightly slower than you are. I can also manipulate gravity by charging my phone. Since E=mc^2 my phone weighs slightly more when charged.
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by api 5mo ago
That’s really the killer for survivalist mesh ideas. It’s trivially easy to jam, and if it’s open it’s also easy to DDOS. Jamming is done in military scenarios too, but in that case it’s limited by the fact that a jammer is a big transmitte
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by api 5mo ago
It doesn't surprise me. This is a deep networking problem and very few CS people know anything about networking or how to design clean, fast, low-overhead network protocols and systems. If IP were designed today the packets would have
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by api 5mo ago
TBH Meshtastic's code isn't great either. It's neat to play with but not robust.
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by api 5mo ago
Look at how fast various nations ramped up advanced (for the time) military production before and during WWII, or the Manhattan Project, or the Apollo program, or China's rapid rise. Engineers who know how to build factories, batteries
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by api 5mo ago
This is not a Rust issue but an inherent issue with dependencies in all languages. External dependencies rot. For Rust code for serious industrial use cases or firmwares, it's always best to minimize dependencies as much as possible to
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by api 5mo ago
I think that was true maybe 5-10 years ago. We have Rust code in a living code base that is more than 5 years old and it's required maybe one touch in the last 5 years to fix some issues due to stricter rules. It was simple enough it c
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by api 5mo ago
The EU has the talent to ramp local production of panels and batteries in years, which as the parent said is how long a panel or battery embargo would take to really cause a crisis. I mean the EU has ASML, the Large Hadron Collider, and ITE

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