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by arrobbiato 1y ago
This is the problem that the Pentagon’s Replicator Initiative is trying to solve.[1] However, the initiative (while well funded) only began less than two years ago. As MacArthur once said, every failure in war comes down to two words: “Too
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by arrobbiato 1y ago
I'll refer you to the article I sent, which you seem not to have read. Or this one: https://thecityvoice.org/2024/10/18/de-minimis-the-us-law-th...
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by arrobbiato 1y ago
We don't have 120,000 school shooting deaths a year, but we do have that many overdose fatalities. I'd say the cure is just fine in this case.
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by arrobbiato 1y ago
Some of that impact will be positive, as de minimis shipments are a major route for importing drugs and their precursors into the US: https://www.cbp.gov/frontline/buyer-beware-bad-actors-exploi...
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by arrobbiato 1y ago
I’m firmly convinced that a lot of the acoustic tricks that AirPods Pro do to achieve noise canceling involve ultrasonic harmonics, perhaps unintentionally - and this has created an epidemic of tinnitus among their users.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
Taiwan should be thrilled. Every indication is that this administration is letting Europe fend for itself so it can focus on the Pacific.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
I spend a lot of time in the “flyover” areas, and this is simply not true at all. Maybe it was long ago, but we are no longer living in that age. It seems like the media want to portray middle America as some kind of medieval redneck nightm
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
This is exactly why hand-to-hand combat instructors will tell you that fighting an obese person will go very differently than you might think it will.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
My teenage son and I have been watching, and loving, this show. And, I wonder if watching it has been innoculating him against a corporate life of quiet cubicle desperation. If so, then thank you, Apple.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
The other awful thought is that millions if not billions of people would look at Macrodata Refinement and think, "That beats the hell out of my current working environment." And in many ways they would be right.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
If Stanley Kubrick made a television series, he'd make Severance . For some people that makes it a must-watch, for others, not so much.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
My understanding is that the tritium is bred in the reactor and then consumed in the reaction. But most designs do have some amount of radioactive waste, including structural parts and reactor walls that suffer huge amounts of neutron acti
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
If you require taxpayers to consent to every single line item, voting is going to become rather cumbersome.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
5. The fuel is notoriously difficult to contain. There will be leaks, and even small ones can spoil the reaction and tip your device into unpredictability. Also, the fuel has a tendency to infiltrate metals and embrittle them.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
Agreed with all of this. And, there’s an implicit criticism of science journalism here. Any article that suggests useful fusion reactors are X years away should address the massive unsolved engineering problems that have to be surmounted. B
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
The First Amendment is not what grants you freedom of speech. You are born with it. It is your right, regardless of what any law, contract or person says. The First Amendment simply prohibits the government from infringing on it.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
Technology is quickly approaching the point where you don't need to speak Mandarin if you want to speak Mandarin.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
And then YT makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in Stephenson's follow-up book, "The Diamond Age."
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
Oswalt, not Oswald.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
I had a similar experience recently, the dental assistant told me "we're going to do your x-rays now, but the controller isn't working right so I have to use a workaround, it'll take a little longer." I told her to
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
US social media companies have been banned in China for many years, so in fact the “brainwashing” you’re referring to has only gone in one direction until now.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
Because a number of people on our team were born and raised in China. It’s very likely that some of them had family affected by the awful aftermath of the Hundred Flowers campaign.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
I don’t think it would be acceptable to say “Arbeiten macht frei” in a casual conversation. Just because Chinese history is distant from and unfamiliar to western experience doesn’t mean we should trivialize it.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
Similarly, I’ve had to privately advise coworkers not to use the term “let a thousand flowers bloom” as an idiom meaning “let’s get ideas from lots of people.” It sounds great until you understand the horrible historical context in which i
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
Thanks, Ondsel - it was a worthy and welcome attempt. And you left FreeCAD much better off than when you found it. For that reason, Ondsel may be shutting down, but it is anything but a failure.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
I don't use TikTok, which might explain the discrepancy.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
You clearly have a wealth of expertise that I don't, and because of that, I again thank you for your original comment. It's probably better for me to simply consider your point of view rather than try to question it using second-
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
This seems extremely negative on China, and echoes a lot of web content that frankly smacks of anti-Chinese propaganda. To be clear, I'm not accusing you of being a propagandist and in fact I believe you are 100% sincere, and I'm
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
Hans Gruber referred to him in "Die Hard," so that's good enough for me.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
Human speech is 54 bits per second (and that is surprisingly uniform across languages). Bandwidth from a consumer-grade EEG headband is maybe four bits per second. Something doesn't add up.

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