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by burnt-resistor 4d ago
Ukraine's Sargan-3000 sea drone destroyed a Russian sea drone using a Protector 12.7 mm cannon.
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by burnt-resistor 6d ago
And the Saudis asked the US to strike the Houthis because they don't trust the leadership of their own officers, but the US said "no". MbS is furious with the Trump crime family as a result. (While the Saudis have tons of US
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by burnt-resistor 6d ago
I love this so much because I hide every "Look at me, I use LLMs and it makes my toast" stories.
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by burnt-resistor 6d ago
Diesel generators are mostly for emergencies. Natural gas turbines (many of which are or are derived from jumbo jet engines) are for on-prem power generation.
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by burnt-resistor 7d ago
Well, those are functional clones of RHEL/CentOS and unsuitable for CERN as mentioned in the article.
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by burnt-resistor 7d ago
Unintentional consequences or accidents enabled by technological/AI ubiquity is the more probable existential threat. We might accidentally poison ourselves, harm infrastructure or supply chain(s) in some very damaging manner, or do so
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by burnt-resistor 8d ago
It's the Putinification of the Presidency playbook. Too big to jail.
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by burnt-resistor 11d ago
This is the key danger of worshipping LLMs as false gods or oracles. They do not have superior answers, only random noise generated to appeal to simplistic, expedient deference of lazy people. All answers thus generated fall victim to an im
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by burnt-resistor 11d ago
Example: https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300022782-rocket-cart-s... https://maps.google.com/?q=51.5708572,-4.2850887 51°34'15.1"N 4°17'06.3"W
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Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information
24 points by burnt-resistor 11d ago|6 comments
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by burnt-resistor 12d ago
The dumbest red herring ever.
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by burnt-resistor 12d ago
Bothsidesism is bunk nonsense. TCO is measured per year, but it goes down with age. Many EVs are already far cheaper to own than ICEVs.
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by burnt-resistor 12d ago
Multiple reasons, not just the US. Might be that 2027-2028 are shaping up to be the riskiest time in living memory including such factors as ENSO heat, floods, droughts, and food insecurity.
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by burnt-resistor 13d ago
An inconvenient truth is a very large fraction of Americans dislike EVs and are ideologically/culturally married to ICEVs as part of their "culture"/"identity", and don't care about ecology or climate chan
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by burnt-resistor 13d ago
Parliamentary systems of other countries usually have the advantages of lessons learned since the American revolution. The necessary feature of the American system is countervailing powers, but as a uniparty for corporations or one weakened
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by burnt-resistor 13d ago
Secondary to the extreme corruption. Corruption is the issue that must be resolved before everything else. The fashions of political parties or their structures are superficial by comparison.
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by burnt-resistor 13d ago
Female thinness emphasis is also associated with fascism. https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2025/11/24/the-fascists...
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by burnt-resistor 13d ago
Prior restraint*
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by burnt-resistor 14d ago
Constitution, Art. I Sec. 4: Elections The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter
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by burnt-resistor 15d ago
My grandfather nearly starved to death on his parent's farm a couple of times during the Dustbowl and he contracted a disease while in an immunocompromised state due to malnutrition that left its mark throughout his bones. Later, he he
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by burnt-resistor 15d ago
The HP 48G series graphing RPN calculator had such a powerful, software-controllable IR LED with a learning remote program someone wrote that could control TVs roughly 70' / 20 m away as long as the TV had a sensitive enough IR re
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by burnt-resistor 15d ago
Don't forget his semi-recent shop tips and machining tricks videos: https://www.youtube.com/@dgelbart
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by burnt-resistor 15d ago
Take a sabbatical without going into details, if at all possible. It's unfair to expect someone to perform at a high level while suffering. When not depressed, work becomes a whole lot easier and many things aren't as seemingly in
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by burnt-resistor 15d ago
Hardware customarily receives 7 years of OS support. Less than that cheats owners.
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by burnt-resistor 15d ago
Welcome to technofeudal fascism.
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by burnt-resistor 16d ago
Adjacent to the noble savage myth, the good ol' days illusion meets the grass is greener on the other side. Just 4 generations ago, when people worked a low tech, hand-to-mouth agrarian existence without powered equipment, proper nutri
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by burnt-resistor 17d ago
Good luck with that. Managing zillions of Macs has always been difficult, clients and servers. Stanford tried to build an Xserve cluster and failed miserably at it because the OS wasn't conducive to it, nor the hardware at the time eit
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by burnt-resistor 17d ago
It needs to move and raise funding.
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by burnt-resistor 18d ago
I rather hop a freight train than celebrate pseudo-non-consumerism consumerism with mostly techbros, yuppies, and addictive substance excessivists. Sure there are still some cool burners but it's just way too big. It's a simulacru
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by burnt-resistor 18d ago
Nawh, not even. The truth is it takes 550k/yr TC to buy a basic house ($1.6M) in exactly the neighborhood where I grew up in scrubby yards and broken sidewalks south San José. In SF, it takes 720k TC to afford a regular house ($2.5M).

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