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by metiscus 5d ago
Someone very likely 3d printed an AR lower (unserialized, therefore a "ghost gun"), unlikely it had an autosear. The news and police typically call disfavored semi-auto weapons "assault rifles" and things that are fully
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by metiscus 13d ago
Most of what goes on on most bases is as unsecret as it gets. The rooms where sensitive things happen have security measures in place and they keep you from bringing your phone in there. Usually a little locker is provided where you store y
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by metiscus 3mo ago
That is largely an artifact of the source data, sadly. I place the dots where they were found, if the dataset has that information, otherwise I georef them back to the "findsite" in the data, which aggregates many finds at one pla
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by metiscus 3mo ago
And thank you to whomever flagged EDCS-31400647 and EDCS-21700214. The militia militia militia attribution was hilarious, wrong, and has been fixed.
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by metiscus 3mo ago
But yes, the runbook in the project gives the llm instructions on how to use the scripts and what to modify. I let Claude code read that and tell it to work on a province. It runs a small segment and analyzes the results until it hits 1-2%
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by metiscus 3mo ago
The short answer is yes. Successo-Terra has done a lot of work on the preroman history of Italy quite recently. https://www.successoterra.net/en The Vesuvius scrolls have been partially decoded with some interesting results
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by metiscus 3mo ago
I also used EDH as ground truth but not directly as a source and link out to it and other sources when I have those links available.
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by metiscus 3mo ago
The actual code is here https://github.com/metiscus/roman-names/ and it is licensed under MIT, while the datasets are slightly more restrictive, and mentioned in the repo.
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by metiscus 3mo ago
Yeah, I thought about that. The issue is that the date density is poor already and the ranges are pretty broad. Someday I'll give it a try, but the search interface can limit you to date ranges for now, so the infrastructure is all the
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by metiscus 3mo ago
So most inscriptions are somewhat formulary, and I provide examples to the llm to assist it to find the names. I also have a postprocess blacklist that removes some known cases where things slip through. It's never going to be 100% per
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by metiscus 3mo ago
so there should be some links when I have the information available. If you link me the entries I'll see what is going on.
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by metiscus 3mo ago
Somehow despite writing an essay above, I forgot to mention that the whole codebase and web frontend is on GitHub. For reasons the main dev right now is on a branch, also the browse feature is live allowing a better search ability. https
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by metiscus 3mo ago
I've contacted a Professor in Europe who was doing research in this area and pointed him to the page. What I genuinely need is someone to spot check a few of the attributions. I can send you a list of the ones I think are the most like
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by metiscus 3mo ago
So the points are georeferenced when the underlying source data is otherwise I georeference them back to the findspot, which tends to cluster many at one point.
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by metiscus 3mo ago
Full code and data available at https://github.com/metiscus/roman-names/ The running version on new. is the webapp branch. Eventually I will get it all fixed up.
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by metiscus 3mo ago
The map tiles themselves come from the Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire. Which you can find here. https://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/
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by metiscus 3mo ago
I am hoping to push a few fixes to the new web interface later today, so if you looked at this and saw anything off, hopefully by COB today I will have the known issues fixed.
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Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire(new.roman-names.com)
210 points by metiscus 3mo ago|52 comments
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by metiscus 4mo ago
It looks like devicenative "accidentally" deleted their documentation page that was linked from that article. Fortunately someone archived it beforehand. Oops. https://web.archive.org/web/20260526042018/h
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by metiscus 4mo ago
At least in the states, the postman is almost assuredly doing the end delivery of the mail, and is often given a stack of advert materials to mix into the delivery for a certain delivery area. The use of a mailbox by anyone who isn't a
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by metiscus 4mo ago
Fertilizer is pretty fungible and is a global market, so even if the US is primarily supplied by Canada, and overall global demand remained constant, prices would go up since there will be supply reduction due to the Hormuz strait being clo
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by metiscus 5mo ago
Spirit dying is going to mean prices go up substantially across industry. They provided a price floor above which other airlines couldnt raise prices without risking losing business to spirit. Usually the difference was pretty small, basica
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by metiscus 9mo ago
They're also killing this off next year and you'll have to install via adb, unless something changed and I didn't hear about it.
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by metiscus 9mo ago
This is probably why they killed installs that dont have attribution, specifically to undercut f-droid.
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by metiscus 10mo ago
Google is basically killing side loading for all practical purposes. I get your point but the race for the bottom should be televised.
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by metiscus 2y ago
Sounds like Infineon may owe someone a new satellite soon. At least if it can be shown that they sent NASA bad parts and didn't notify them in time to prevent this failure.
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by metiscus 2y ago
You see, these contractors tend to hire retired admirals and generals directly out of acquisitions positions and onto their boards. The contracts are written in ways that make it hard to punish shoddy work in a way that doesn't make th
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by metiscus 3y ago
Goodwill and stability have a value too. If it were me and I was in the position where the retracted changes would have endangered my business, I would have at least someone working to ensure that we could pivot to Unreal or another engine
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by metiscus 3y ago
After the fees fiasco, many studios began plans to migrate away. I can't help but believe some will move to Unreal or Godot etc for their next projects.
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by metiscus 3y ago
It is a testament to the great work they do that many people believe that IT does not do much. The work required to keep things working without noticible downtime is hardly trivial.

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