stackghost

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by stackghost 4d ago
> actually it's better than most rich countries after controlling for race/ethnicity Yikes dude
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by stackghost 4d ago
Sure, but the quote I was responding to was not "what will the government do", it was "what will cops do". Well, Flock and countless other examples have shown us exactly what cops will do.
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by stackghost 4d ago
No, I know this is a minority opinion on HN but I think violence towards women is a larger problem than seldomly enforced laws being enforced more often. You can repeal a law. The courts can strike it down. The same cannot be said about cop
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by stackghost 4d ago
>I’m not sticking up for car manufacturers, but at what size or capacity should you be required to document and publish these things? It requires employer time and effort and has a cost associated with it. You're talking about thing
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by stackghost 4d ago
Well you see, requiring companies to let farmers fix their own tractors is Socialism. And the USSR had "socialist" in the name, so Socialism bad. In the big, beautiful Land of the Free(tm) they don't do Socialism because th
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by stackghost 4d ago
Yep and they were fined a paltry 6 million dollars or so. For actively distributing and infecting users with malware. This on annual sales exceeding $3B. That case sure put Mark Russinovich on everyone’s radars, at least. Good times.
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by stackghost 4d ago
> What happens when cops are allowed real-time access to Waymo's in-car video footage? Same thing that happens whenever cops get new surveillance powers. They’ll use it to stalk and harass women.
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by stackghost 5d ago
35 years ago we didn’t have the cultural precedent/zeitgeist of getting cancelled for some stupid shit you wrote on a message board in 1991 so we were less guarded with our opinions.
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by stackghost 5d ago
So, less than the boiling temp of water. That is not outside the realm of solvable problems
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by stackghost 5d ago
It’s also in darkness for 2 weeks. Terrestrial radio telescopes experience sunlight too. That would seem to be a solved problem.
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by stackghost 5d ago
What precisely are your motives, then? The umpteenth example of Musk companies behaving poorly and here you come to suggest that we can’t let pesky things like science stand in the way of “the internet”. As if Starlink services is synonymou
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by stackghost 5d ago
Thank Prabhakar Raghavan for that. After destroying Yahoo’s search product he failed up and did the same at Google. In reward for making Google Search materially worse in every way except ad revenue, he failed up again and was promoted to
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by stackghost 5d ago
I didn’t say it was justified, I said it had little to do with the absolute body count.
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by stackghost 5d ago
Oh maybe I misremembered, for some reason I thought it was much earlier
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by stackghost 5d ago
It definitely precipitated the surveillance state and the erosion of civil liberties across not just the USA but large parts of the west, but it's not about body count. Everyone knew, even in the immediate aftermath, that a copycat sit
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by stackghost 6d ago
HN is particularly notorious for armchair aviation experts. I am an aerospace engineer having worked in airworthiness & certification as well as maintenance/repair/overhaul on multiple different aircraft types both fixed and
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by stackghost 6d ago
I will check it out, thank you.
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by stackghost 6d ago
Hey you’re right, we should gladly accept every decision the big corps make. They know best, after all. We should probably lick their boots too, in gratitude for their benevolence.
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by stackghost 6d ago
Quite so. When it first took off, I took no end of flames and downvotes for suggesting that WebGPU is a terrible idea. HTML and the browser were originally conceived to render documents, not serve as a bastardized application distribution
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by stackghost 6d ago
My background is a field most would consider "hard", so I'm no stranger to jargon or dense notation optimized for real-world use. So, I don't buy the excuse that you can't have both good pedagogy and usable notatio
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by stackghost 6d ago
> I come from the “music theory makes a lot more sense once one understands that 2:1, 3:2, 4:3 sound really whole and good to the human ear, 5:4 has a little more tension, and 6:5 has even more tension” school of thought Ah, well, that m
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by stackghost 6d ago
Sure, I knew what they meant. But if they are sloppy with their terminology on the knucklehead stuff then it doesn’t bode well for the esoteric stuff to follow. My point was not to showcase my confusion, rather to reinforce the fact that m
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by stackghost 6d ago
Suffers from the same problem that all music theory texts seem unable to avoid: they require the reader to simply accept a bunch of random facts to memorize with no context. Example: memorize the major scale as a series of whole and half st
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by stackghost 6d ago
So, people in Yemen are running full on weapons development programs. Meanwhile 5.6 sol claims it found a vulnerability in one of my side projects but won’t describe the attack chain to me because “we take safety seriously” What the fuck
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by stackghost 6d ago
What crooks?
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by stackghost 7d ago
It just sounds like the behaviours of an unprofessional douchebag to me, not mental illness
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by stackghost 7d ago
> But I have big hands, and I can't use my iphone 17 now without two hands. Are you a woman by any chance? I am currently typing this one handed on an iPhone 17 pro (not the pro max) and don’t consider my hands to be particularly l
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by stackghost 7d ago
Apple are king of form over function. Have we already forgotten that hack Jony Ive and his fetish for removing usefulness in favor of a few mm of thinness? Or the stupid fucking Touch Bar keyboard? I still have a touch bar MacBook and the
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by stackghost 7d ago
Run through pysdr[0], which I found has the right complexity gradient and the right levels of abstraction for people with technical chops but who aren’t familiar with SDR [0] https://www.pysdr.org/
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by stackghost 8d ago
No no, not "mods". The phpbb people were always weirdly militant about calling them them MODS, uppercase. Why, I'm not sure, because it's not an acronym. Eventually they decided to start calling them Extensions, which

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