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by rnk 2y ago
Vernor Vinge introduces many fantastic ideas in his really excellent scifi book A Fire Upon the Deep. He has many fascinating concepts like what if somehow there are parts of the universe where you can go faster than the speed of light, and
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by rnk 2y ago
But we keep seeing these devices after multiple generations and they keep using more and more silicone so they're not shrinking that much.
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by rnk 2y ago
But if someone calls you on the phone, they are just sending their voice to you, there's no Avatar from them, except for one your software invented. The one that you're looking at is disconnected from the actual person.
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by rnk 3y ago
I'm skeptical of this argument. I don't want to be on the same road with people who self identity as expert drivers going at the limit.
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by rnk 3y ago
The credit card company could access subcategories of your purchase. It would make sense for them to do that to track you
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by rnk 3y ago
Can you explain what project is unwinding? It looks to me like Europe is still coming together to resist the danger of Russian invasion. For Nuland, it looks like she had a long career, she had many good roles, she championed protecting Ukr
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by rnk 3y ago
Software jobs still seem to be available for over $200k remote.
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by rnk 3y ago
rpn for for the win I guess ;-). I actually didn't get to try my first linux stuff until grad school in the 80s. I wish I had saved off all my init files from then to see what they look like now.
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by rnk 3y ago
I got tired of typing bc -l years ago, I have a function so I can do it on the command line: calc 2^27 + 3^15. I wish somehow the shell would let me add parens here, instead of having to escape them with a quote. function calc2 {
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by rnk 3y ago
who does not use bc? people who aren't old unix people ;-) I use bc
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by rnk 3y ago
How do we get China to stop? It's impossible. It's completely to their advantage to have drones get better. They can mass produce them way better than us. The CPUs don't seem to be that advanced up to now, so they can probabl
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by rnk 3y ago
What if they are careful to make a fake kid who looks nothing like the original (other than kind of looking like a kid of that age and kind of looking like the same race)? There are dramatic re-enactments. I don't want to see this, but
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by rnk 3y ago
Yeah, the ideas expressed by the person above seem to lead to a lazy and incorrect argument that there's aren't any things to argue anti-trust. Google doesn't have one android store, they have 57, across 57 countries with dif
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by rnk 3y ago
The "Satellite" could be a rich person's enclave. I can see an extension where someone in a wealthy powerful country has a good standard of living, but it depends on the toil and environmental destruction which affects those
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by rnk 3y ago
I think the idea is that it used to be Boeing didn't have these kinds of problems, they managed themselves and made safer airplanes. At least they appeared safer.
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by rnk 3y ago
Yeah that was a great anecdote, I was going to post the same story! Parent pays you to install spyware , rich kid pays you not to install spyware, double payment for nothing.
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by rnk 3y ago
And they called him Hiro Protagonist.
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by rnk 3y ago
How is this different than the argument to sell NFTs that are jpegs that somehow have some value, or token's having value from all these random crypto sites. And they take your 'hard crypto' eth or btc and somehow manipulate
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by rnk 3y ago
This is a surprising and interesting. This is an actual supply of hydrogen that wasn't based on using fossil fuels or cracking water. Since they are reused fuel cells, they don't have that incredible expensive fuel cell bill of ma
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by rnk 3y ago
Dictatorships don't care. Look at Russia, it's much worse than China, Russia still suffers from ww2 losses. You can distract the people with a "good war". China has so many more people than Taiwan, they can waste a lot.
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by rnk 3y ago
We've got to make it 10 years from now for demographic change. Great fictional book about a possible 2024 era war, "2034: A Novel of the Next World War", Novel by Elliot Ackerman and James G. Stavridis. It's much more re
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by rnk 3y ago
There are more efficient ways to get our needed energy, wind, water, solar. In the US we are up to 20% using this (and 20% nuclear). In other countries they will be able to transition to solar, as it will only get cheaper and cheaper. Elect
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by rnk 3y ago
Okay, call them unnecessary status symbols for people to show their wealth. See also fancy cars, gaudy diamond rings. They are kind of in that category.
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by rnk 3y ago
There are multiple reports of similar problems on related vehicles like lyriq, also see reddit for some. There's nothing good there. Behind it there's the mysterious lack of details about underlying anemic ultium production in gen
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by rnk 3y ago
The embedded db is cool, but what's the security boundary around UDFs? I figure running "standard" SQL is safe, because it's just some functions implemented in the database (SPJ). It's not malware (maybe only slow ;
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by rnk 3y ago
Great info, I had not heard that, it was needed. You cost someone years of their lives by that. The "authorities" always try to burry the details of the actual improper behavior behind the scandal of the leak, usually successfully
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by rnk 3y ago
There's a 25% tariff on Chinese Autos right now. The volvo ex30 is actually made in China (Volvo was bought by Geely). But the ex30 is highly reviewed in previews, coming out for $35k after the tarriff in 2wd model. This compact suv
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by rnk 3y ago
There's a trend of these things happening. Reporters constantly miss what tracking tech does. Reality Winner's situation, where they gave the actual printout she gave them to the feds and it had secret codes embedded in it to iden
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by rnk 3y ago
That's a lemon. That's unacceptable of course. We do know from millions of teslas sold that they work fine over the mass of cars. They are made by people, they'll have problems, they will break. But the sum of experiences is
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by rnk 3y ago
The endless series of failures by legacy auto keeps convincing me that they are doomed to lose most of their market share. Because they are incompetent and not trying to build evs with all their might - they don't recognize them as the

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