sandworm101

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by sandworm101 3d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Fragile_S... This is why Trump's fight with canada is doomed: Trying to destabilize a top-10 country when your own country doesnt break the top 30.
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by sandworm101 3d ago
They do and there are certainly some mid-level management jobs at risk, but ask any farmer/electrician/millright about the claimed impact of AI and they will laugh. They have yet to see an AI capable of reliably replacing a fuse l
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by sandworm101 3d ago
That is a very effective use case, but until we live in hive cities, stadium-level device densities are an edge case. Developing a new generation to service the 0.01% of time phones spend inside stadiums seems inefficient.
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by sandworm101 3d ago
Prejudice and some practical reality. Woman at the time died randomly but very regularly in childbirth. Every pregnant woman had a sword dangling over her head: not a safe bet for leadership.
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by sandworm101 3d ago
Ya, AI is very good at generating number, be that code for software, images for ads, or banal prose for company blogs. AI not so good at growing corn, cooking eggs, biulding houses, running fiber, treating disease, changing brake pads, load
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by sandworm101 5d ago
I dont see this working on significant fires. Let it run, separate flame from fuel, but what happens a few seconds later? The fuel is still there, the heat is still there, as soon as the sound stops it will reignite. Water/foam and s
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by sandworm101 6d ago
And in the future it will be robots pushing you around. They will learn to be intimidating. That's what AI does. It spots patterns and then exploits them for its own purposes.
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by sandworm101 8d ago
Wireless arent used because they need power/wires and are less reliable than IBIS. Civilian versions of sikorsky helos use the same system.
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by sandworm101 9d ago
>> labeling of a similar kind to IFixit's repair-ability Because the public generally does not care one iota about repairability. Phones are more robust these days than ever. A fatal flaw like a screen break occures on the order
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by sandworm101 9d ago
And the general scam of an attractive young woman speaking to a bunch of elderly men (realy, look up the early investors) and somehow convincing them to part with thier money is as old as time. Heck, Henry kissinger was on her board.
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by sandworm101 9d ago
Which doesnt work. LG tvs will scan for availible networks. Someone setting up a new router within range briefly disables encryption and "your" tv will jump on that network and transmit all the stored data. It is tinfoil hats time
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by sandworm101 11d ago
Are they still using the little girl? THAT invention deserves its own ignoble category for contribution to public discord. This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAnVNXaa5oA
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by sandworm101 12d ago
Or he was sharing other material that was kept quiet.
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by sandworm101 12d ago
Does anyone honestly believe that Zuck doesn't have his own history with filesharing? Any computer nerd from that time would have deep knowledge of filesharing.
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by sandworm101 12d ago
It had to be more complicated than simple copyright infringement for the cops to get involved.
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by sandworm101 12d ago
They dont drive flash vehicles but they still do not drive junk. Thier car might be 20+ years old, but it is still a great car. Someone driving a well-maintained 90s BMW gathers more respect than anyone driving the latest model. Clarkson ha
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by sandworm101 12d ago
I will give the heaviest electric, but it is nowhere near largestt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Pathfinder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVironment_Helios_Prototype Wingspans basically d
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by sandworm101 13d ago
Or just buy a 5060. This will run on most any 16gb card. Slower for sure but far cheaper than another subscription.
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by sandworm101 13d ago
Small thing: there is a difference between a "test pilot" and a "maintenance test pilot" or MTP. A test pilot is an elite aviator who participates in the development of new aircraft and systems. An MTP is a pilot trained
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by sandworm101 13d ago
>> or the far bigger next version of the PandaX detector, currently under development in China... Has there ever been an article about particle physics that didnt end with a statement about the "next and bigger" version of
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by sandworm101 13d ago
And if they were intractable, motions would be so irregular that pheneomena such as billion-year stable orbits would not be possible... leading to a lack of evolution and life generally. So it is a very good and necessary thing that cows re
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by sandworm101 14d ago
Legal to try, but massively impractical unless you are rich enough to setup an estate to police the matter. You need to have someone checking on the situation, forever. Courts have thrown out most wills that demanded children stay married
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by sandworm101 14d ago
Those things are controlled by government, which you may change. You aren't confined to a single job/city because your dead father holds you their by contract, the penalty being you repaying for all the food you ate as a kid. When
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by sandworm101 15d ago
Or you tax it. Or, more correctly, you remove the current protections that allow land to appreciate tax-free for decades. That would move capital out of land and free it for other uses. The current system was designed to put money/peop
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by sandworm101 15d ago
I am not a fan of these super-natural art projects. It is one thing to make a statue that might stand for a thousand years ... or not. It is another to designate forest land and other resources, to attempt to lock them away from use by fut
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by sandworm101 15d ago
If someone has physical access enough to install a modified tube, there are far simpler and less detectable means of recording audio.
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by sandworm101 16d ago
You dont want to know your hours. Perhaps my greatest shame is the number of hours i have spent on factorio. I was afk for much of that (letting the factory run) but ... i would not want other people to see the number.
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by sandworm101 16d ago
For now. And that is because humans are the only customers engaging with content. As agentic AI takes hold and is given credit card authority, bots will will engage. Bots will read the posts of other bots and use those when making purchase
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by sandworm101 24d ago
"BC Place" is still BC Place. It was the only World Cup venue that didn't have to hang drapes over its real name.
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by sandworm101 24d ago
>> programming is a branch of mathematics. I saw a cryptographer interviewed. She was maybe 20yo and was working onboard a US aircraft carrier. Installing and managing cryptographic systems does not make one a cryptographer. Doing mat

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