dunmalg

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Issues with "C99 implementation of new O(m log^(2/3) n) shortest path algorithm"(github.com)
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by dunmalg 2y ago
Here is a link to Gass' patent portfolio: https://patents.justia.com/inventor/stephen-f-gass Notice that the vast majority of his patents have to do with various aspects of "active injury mitigation technolog
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by dunmalg 2y ago
>Gass also has a PhD in physics and was the person who designed and engineered the product. So what? That doesn't make him NOT an attorney. There's nothing that says a PhD and product inventor can't ALSO be a engaged in a
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by dunmalg 2y ago
Airbus is a threat, but they have a huge obstacle Boeing doesn't: they don't build planes in the US except for the A319-320-321. Any defense contract won with an Airbus airframe as its basis (e.g. NG's KC-X submission based o
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by dunmalg 2y ago
That far north is definitely outside the central valley. Once you travel north out of Redding, you're climbing up into the mountains, and it's 60 miles of that before you get to Shasta. Lassen is better candidate, since it actuall
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by dunmalg 3y ago
SpaceX will never have an IPO because being publicly traded means ceding a certain degree of control. The founders' goal is to make life multiplanetary, and the typical goal of rando shareholders is to pump up the stock price. They don
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by dunmalg 3y ago
Firearm and ammunition manufacturers are already not culpable for people getting shot. Your argument would be better made comparing Comma 3X hardware + OpenPilot software to something that unintentionally causes injury despite being used as
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by dunmalg 3y ago
Like any public utility, there's a huge cost to get the infrastructure in place because there is... well... a CITY in the way. The immense capital outlay is generally worth it for the first to enter the market in a given area, because
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by dunmalg 3y ago
Lustvig is a crackpot. https://anthonycolpo.com/sweet-stupidity-part-2-the-bitter-t... His understanding of what happens to fructose in the liver is fundamentally incorrect.
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by dunmalg 3y ago
Problem is, both sides of the ideological spectrum have spent 100+ years studiously ignoring the actual basis for rights in the US--- Natural Rights theory--- in favor of more "malleable" approaches that can be twisted to their de
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by dunmalg 3y ago
$10/gal gasoline is not the answer, because it's a regressive tax that just prices the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder out of the transportation they need to get to work. It also adversely affects businesses that can't u
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by dunmalg 3y ago
Comparatively cheap because you're just handing off magnet links, but when you're serving millions of unique visitors daily, it all adds up.
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by dunmalg 3y ago
lol, step 1 destroys the entire stock market!
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by dunmalg 4y ago
The other problem with increased complexity is that the more intricate your mechanism is, the more prone to failure due to wear or contamination it becomes. A security measure is only as good as it can remain usable. As a locksmith for work
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by dunmalg 5y ago
Yeah, it's a bit of a tautology. It amounts to "complex problem solving tools tend to converge with existing tools for addressing similar complex problems as their level of complexity approaches parity".
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by dunmalg 5y ago
A) I think this is one of those jokes that has enough of a core of truth that it isn't entirely a joke. Murphy's Law is likewise a joke, but it speaks to a core facet of reality, so it also gets treated seriously. And B) there&#x2
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by dunmalg 5y ago
Yeah, there's still value in Amazon reviews despite the noise. If you take the time to just sit there and read through them one by one, you can definitely learn things about the product. Obviously you skip over the trash "ya this
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by dunmalg 5y ago
>Let's just say the country isn't new to food safety scandals... Yeah, just because I can't taste the melamine they used to water down the milk doesn't mean I want to drink melamine. I especially don't want to dr
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by dunmalg 5y ago
>we should mandate some form of this technology so we don't waste foundary output on throw-away parts (planned obsolescence). That's not planned obsolescence. Planned obsolescence is INTENTIONALLY rendering a product unusable&#
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by dunmalg 5y ago
"living charismatic leader the enemy can't seem to catch" has much greater recruitment value than "dead leader martyred, but we'll keep fighting".
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by dunmalg 5y ago
I used to work in intelligence. "Secrecy creep" has long been a serious problem inside DoD. How information get classified has largely been left up to low level federal bureaucrats, people my father used to angrily refer to as &qu
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by dunmalg 6y ago
No one is saying they shouldn't make money. It is our right to gripe about it when they do so in an annoying or obnoxious manner. We might even abandon the platform if the advertising push becomes too obnoxious. If that happens and the
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by dunmalg 6y ago
"rare" != "unique" I have a stack of old laptops 2 feet high, and my old Dell that frayed at the strain relief is the only one whose cable crapped out.
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by dunmalg 6y ago
On the list of most marginally relevant edge cases, I think "beach proof design" ranks pretty high.
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by dunmalg 6y ago
>why not expand to not limiting your search to only one manufacturer Software. People become accustomed to the closed ecosystem of OSX, which you can't duplicate on others' hardware. This is a key facet of Apple's business
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by dunmalg 6y ago
>they will actually be more likely to follow his lead Good leadership is less about convincing people to follow you than it is about being able to lead people in the right direction. David Koresh was highly charismatic and convinced a lo
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by dunmalg 6y ago
>It's a great "mind-blown" insight story, but just not true. People do judge each other and have opinions and put them in little mental boxes all the time Yes, we all understand that people stereotype. I think you're
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by dunmalg 6y ago
Atlas Air, ATSG, and the like provide the pilots and therefore the training. Amazon has nothing to do with it.
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by dunmalg 6y ago
Not maintaining a foreign bank account is a non-trivial thing, equivalent to saying "just pay for everything in cash". In many European countries pretty much all routine bill payments are handled by direct bank transfer between lo
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by dunmalg 6y ago
I think the point is that if you can't install Linux running natively, you can't escape "undesirable behavior" by the Apple-supplied OS. For example, if you want to ensure your laptop isn't sending Apple information

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