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Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop(reason.com)
380 points by bbatsell 11d ago|209 comments
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by bbatsell 25d ago
Agreed. seatbelt/sandbox-exec has been “deprecated” for many, many years yet it still underlies all of the system’s sandboxing and Claude et al. use it for their own sandboxes. (And so do I — writing seatbelt rules is the only chance I
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by bbatsell 2mo ago
I encourage anyone interested to read the actual facts about this incident, which differ significantly from the above recitation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengvaxia_controversy
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by bbatsell 2mo ago
Correct link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7059338
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by bbatsell 2mo ago
While that’s true, IMAX also doesn’t make its digital projectors. They buy off-the-shelf Barcos and then integrate them into a larger system.
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by bbatsell 5mo ago
AppleCare+ annual is perpetual as long as you keep paying it (and Apple offers to switch to that when your 3-year lump sum expires if you choose that instead). I’m guessing it ends whenever they officially discontinue hardware support, whic
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by bbatsell 6mo ago
Sumaddle is a wonderful puzzle/logic game.
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by bbatsell 7mo ago
This headline unfortunately offers more smoke than light. This article has nothing to do with the current tête-à-tête with the Pentagon. It is discussing one specific change to Anthropic's "Responsible Scaling Policy" that th
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by bbatsell 8mo ago
The president can only pardon crimes against the United States. Even if removed to federal court, state charges remain state charges and the judge & jury must follow state laws. Only the venue changes, with the intent being that the fed
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by bbatsell 8mo ago
No, because there is no information to report at present. This site contains a live map of the hourly position reporting from the OI vessel: https://www.mh370-caption.net/index.php/armada-tracking/
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by bbatsell 8mo ago
Absolutely fascinating that this report is very detailed about _certain_ things... but edits the source video to fade out right at the relevant instant and then completely omits the fact that the agent called her a "fucking bitch"
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by bbatsell 8mo ago
This article is 4 days old and Ocean Infinity has already given details — technical problems with one AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) and poor weather and wave conditions. There will be many such changes in location and speed during thi
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by bbatsell 9mo ago
Anchor to new information (HN strips it from the URL): https://github.com/IQuestLab/IQuest-Coder-V1/issues/14#issue... Context: Earlier this week a new model was released and researchers discovered that durin
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Clarification: Regarding the Performance of IQuest-Coder-V1(github.com)
1 points by bbatsell 9mo ago|1 comments
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by bbatsell 11mo ago
There are multiple statutory routes to activate the NG, and nearly every time Trump has done so, it has been through a “federalized” route. Even red-state governors have requested this because it transfers the financial and legal obligation
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by bbatsell 1y ago
One technique I occasionally use is to look at the “zap” stanza of an app’s homebrew cask formula: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/f44500902e420... Based on the “notion-updater” I’m guessing th
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by bbatsell 1y ago
Budget resolutions for quite some time have used the reconciliation process, which only requires a simple majority (but imposes some restrictions). The problem is that they shoved through the “OBBBA” using the process intended for the budge
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by bbatsell 1y ago
> I think a bigger issue is that AI is being used to censor footage from the owners of the camera themselves. There's been stories about gunshots being censored from the owners of the camera by Ring. Can you provide sources for this
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by bbatsell 1y ago
I agree that it's not the usual response, but given Musk's strong promotion of natalism and the fact that he has used IVF to select XY embryos for _all_ of his offspring...
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by bbatsell 1y ago
It doesn't really solve the underlying issue. On long-duration flights, pilots have to rotate who is in the cockpit and who is in crew rest. They receive food and beverage service from flight attendants entering the cockpit. On very ra
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by bbatsell 1y ago
My understanding of the purported reasoning behind the reversal was: - They required airlines to implement cameras to monitor the hall leading up to the cockpit so that the pilot in the cockpit can verify who is requesting entry (without th
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by bbatsell 1y ago
I can't tell if this is droll sarcasm, but just in case not... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
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by bbatsell 1y ago
The HTTPStatus enum example is a good one, but the backtick syntax is _rough_. I would only ever use the Type.case form in practice. The test stuff is basically a way to create BDD-style test names, which is kind of just a preference thing.
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by bbatsell 1y ago
> or for someone not at all knowledgeable who is looking for an overview before they plan to do deeper learning/studying through reading Yep. This is what I have used them (sparingly) for — a scaffold to build the deeper learning on
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by bbatsell 1y ago
It’s possible I’m missing visibility into some part of the industry, but I don’t think this has been true for quite some time. There are multiple providers of Ground Segment as a Service that satellite operators can buy radio time from acro
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by bbatsell 1y ago
Almost certainly blocked by NDA; that is her inviting Congress to issue a subpoena so she has legal cover.
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by bbatsell 2y ago
Arianespace ≈ ULA, yes. Ariane 6 ≈ SLS, absolutely not. There is no official figure yet, but even the most pessimistic estimates place its per-launch cost at $150m (as opposed to $2b for SLS — with a hazy goal to eventually trim it to $500m
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by bbatsell 2y ago
That is not an independent variable. For example, lenders could have decided that the market in 2023 was on the way up and not writing off as much debt would allow them to collect more delinquent accounts in the future. In 2024, they think
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by bbatsell 2y ago
They added custom instructions to Apple silicon to more easily emulate x86 behavior (e.g., https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/acc... ). They may have now removed them because their analytics s
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by bbatsell 2y ago
The Quest 2 has minimal inter-pupillary distance (IPD) adjustment — only three fixed options. If your eyes don’t match closely enough to one of them, it can be very uncomfortable. Mine don’t, and I have the same experience as you, but I can

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