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by stackghost 4mo ago
If they truly are useless that's one thing, but the ability to "impress" some asshole in a 30 minute pitch has little to do with running a successful tech company. With what authority are VCs claiming to be capable of being a
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by stackghost 4mo ago
>It’s common knowledge that the military has access to a separate, encrypted, higher-precision GPS signal. The most militarily-valuable aspect of the military GPS signals is actually the anti-spoofing qualities, rather than the higher pr
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by stackghost 4mo ago
They need Matt Damon, a chopped up wooden crucifix, and some silicone caulking
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by stackghost 4mo ago
Using "humble" to describe a list of folks that include John Romero is certainly an interesting choice of adjective.
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by stackghost 4mo ago
Wow is this just a shitpost (it was funny!) or do your builds actually take about an hour? That's nuts, if so.
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by stackghost 4mo ago
American security, and indeed the entire pax Americana has been predicated upon your country's network of global military bases and your carrier battle groups. This is what enables the USA to decisively influence any conflict anywhe
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by stackghost 4mo ago
It's like that in engineering, for sure. My background is in aerospace and there are lots of things that a reasonably technically-inclined random can probably do passably. It takes an engineer to know which tasks those are, though. I
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by stackghost 4mo ago
I've never seen a single LinkedIn post that wasn't overinflated horseshit like "I was late for a job interview and stopped to feed a starving dog. I missed the job interview. The next day I got a call from the CEO of the co
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by stackghost 4mo ago
>Person builds trust on X/LinkedIn ... You don't actually advise them to post on LinkedIn, do you? You know all the engagement on LinkedIn is fake, right?
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by stackghost 4mo ago
I got permanently banned for the "Christianity is just worshipping a Jewish zombie who is his own father who will save you if you invite him into your head, symbolically drink his blood, and eat his flesh" copypasta, so not everyo
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by stackghost 4mo ago
>I am extremely worried about how so many seem to have outsourced the control over who can access their websites to a company, with no second thoughts whatsoever. I think the Web is on its last legs, anyway. Generative AI and LLM-instea
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by stackghost 4mo ago
This is cool. For some of these whimsy, ultra-niche nerdy labours of love it's sometimes a very web 1.0 experience (derogatory), or at best it'd be like OEIS which is perfectly functional but otherwise un-noteworthy in terms of d
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by stackghost 4mo ago
>This behavior is strictly the new 2010s Apple-like microsoft. Surely you jest. US v Microsoft, the antitrust case, was decided in 1998. Microsoft has always been a shitty company run by shitty people doing shitty things. They enjoyed
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by stackghost 4mo ago
It is now
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by stackghost 4mo ago
Government work also usually means relocating. The money wouldn't be good enough for me to uproot my family.
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by stackghost 4mo ago
The hacker claims it can bypass PINs as well, but AFAIK hasn't posted poc
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by stackghost 4mo ago
>And your taste is why your work disappoints you. [...] We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. I think most of us have experienced this. I consider myself an above-average writer and I absolutely hate
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by stackghost 4mo ago
The Arrow would be a terrible, terrible aircraft for today's world. It was built to shoot down Soviet bombers coming over the North Pole. It could not perform air superiority missions because it was too big to be agile. It could mayb
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by stackghost 4mo ago
>The implication that this somehow weakens Alberta’s constitutional status is false. I implied no such thing. In fact I was careful to use the term "unilaterally" when referring to secession. My understanding is doing it prop
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by stackghost 4mo ago
>Albertans can just declare that they don't respect Ottawa's authority, right? Sure, but just like nobody gives a shit about what Sovereign Citizens do or do not respect, such a declaration would only carry weight if there are
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by stackghost 4mo ago
Hypocritically, Kegsbreath himself is on record saying the concern was about E-7 survivability: https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/2025/06/us-defence-s...
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by stackghost 4mo ago
>The only thing really stopping Alberta from leaving is whether or not BC, Ontario, and Quebec are willing to fight a war to stop it. Unlike the individual US states, Alberta never joined Canada. It was not an entity that existed prior
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by stackghost 4mo ago
>The E-7 Wedgetail is a vastly more capable platform than the Erieye/GlobalEye in pretty much every way The airframe itself, perhaps. As for the radar, that remains to be seen. The E-7 uses an L-band AESA radar, whereas the Global
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by stackghost 4mo ago
>Here is the strange part. Knowing the truth doesn’t drain the emotion from the story. It relocates it. >The poetry was never in the rover. The poetry was in us. Generative AI has absolutely destroyed the web.
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by stackghost 4mo ago
>I posit that Rust is the optimal language to emit from LLMs unless you have to target web, a specific platform, or a legacy project: What would you suggest is optimal for targeting web?
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by stackghost 4mo ago
>I have on multiple occasions gone player to player, typing the IP into their address bar for them. Sounds like you play with some serious noobs, friend.
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by stackghost 4mo ago
I'm sure the AI companies will continue to pirate textbooks and papers, like always.
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by stackghost 4mo ago
Everyone loves to say it because it's true. Asking questions on SO was always at best an adversarial process, but it got really bad in the last decade or so. It was quite simply a profoundly unpleasant "community" to inter
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by stackghost 4mo ago
>The real issue is that if you do manage to build a cheaper clone they can just delete you by lowering their prices. Yep, this is why cost leadership strategies tend to be unattractive to startups. Finding ways to be meticulously frugal
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by stackghost 4mo ago
>With their block level syncing, Dropbox is still not really replicated in the market. I'd only take issue with their price given the volumes of data I'm dealing with. Business Strategy 101 teaches that broadly speaking, there

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