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by stackghost 8d ago
I guess in this extremely contrived hypothetical where a Navy helicopter flies through heavily-irradiated dust cloud from a nuclear detonation, yes, the blade alarms might go off spuriously. Well done.
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by stackghost 8d ago
Nothing I wrote refutes that
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by stackghost 8d ago
It is, but a) it's a probabilistic process and b) most of the products decay rapidly, down to the background level in a matter of days.
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by stackghost 8d ago
Exposure to a nuclear blast doesn't necessarily make things radioactive. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not radioactive wastelands. Even in Chernobyl, the other reactors continued to operate for a time after the accident, and nature is t
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by stackghost 8d ago
Tell me you haven't used LibreOffice without telling me you haven't used LibreOffice. It's actually a pretty great software suite.
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by stackghost 9d ago
I'm interested in learning more about "Io's shenanigans". What are you referring to?
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by stackghost 9d ago
Can anyone summarize? Not going to risk watching a 2 hour video.
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by stackghost 9d ago
>In a twisted kind of way, the replies were reasonable and logical. They're not dumb, they can see it was crap. No one org can actually own this fix, so in that kind of situation it realistically requires someone like Bill to choose
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by stackghost 9d ago
>To me that's just a very tedious pedantic argument that simply fails to capture the actual meaning behind why/when we might call something low level. The part I find tedious is C programmers who cling to the language by claimi
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by stackghost 9d ago
Isn't the point that x86 instructions are themselves no longer a good mental model for what the processor is actually doing under the hood, and thus C which was long billed as a thin layer over top of assembly is itself a higher abstra
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by stackghost 9d ago
>Tesla offloaded the hardest, least profitable part of the Solar Roof — the physical install and the customer relationship — onto small local companies, let them absorb the training and tooling costs, and then pulled the product out from
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by stackghost 9d ago
Agreed. From the comments, lots of people down-thread who clearly haven't worked in large orgs. They are arguing about not wanting to take ownership because they know the organizational structure is going to be an impediment. The pro
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by stackghost 10d ago
>Look at the histogram and think about what distribution one could reasonably impute from samples. And what you would set as bounds for "outliers", per your needs. While we're at it, let me also say that it might be useful
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by stackghost 10d ago
Oh good, the vegans are here to leave smug comments
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by stackghost 11d ago
>It's because Europe is absolutely obsessed with the United States and obsessed with Americans. Is this the new cope? The USA is a Goliath on the world stage. The deranged tweets of your president move global markets and the next t
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by stackghost 11d ago
I mean if I had someone tailoring workouts to me, keeping me motivated to stick with a training regimen, and free time enough to get super fit and look great naked, I'd sure be happier.
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by stackghost 11d ago
?
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by stackghost 11d ago
As with many things, it's easier to stay healthy if you are wealthy. You can buy personal training services, workout gear, a home in traffic-calmed neighborhoods where you aren't jogging or cycling along rural highways, a pool, et
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by stackghost 11d ago
Music theory has very little to do with playing music.
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by stackghost 11d ago
Veganism would be more popular if vegans weren't so insufferable.
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by stackghost 12d ago
I think Americans are unwilling or unable to see just how much foreign attitudes towards the US have shifted.
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by stackghost 12d ago
>But I believe you can relax, because this is all nonsense. Wow you guys really don't get it, do you? It's not nonsense to us.
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by stackghost 12d ago
Gosh, have we in the West forgotten so much of our history already? Much of the gold was moved out of Europe prior to and during WWI. Partly out of fears of German aggression b ut also because throughout the war, European countries bought
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by stackghost 14d ago
It can be solved, yes. But it almost certainly won't be, in aggregate.
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by stackghost 14d ago
In a negative way. They weren't bad children, just undersocialized. The benefits of school go beyond what the teachers teach.
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by stackghost 15d ago
I was a camp counselor in my late teens and early 20s, and we could always tell which kids were homeschooled. Always.
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by stackghost 15d ago
I don't know what a mensch is but if they wanted to be compensated for their software they should not have released it as Free Software.
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by stackghost 15d ago
>How much money have you contributed back to this seemingly indispensable project? Perhaps it's time for you to become familiar with the terms of the Mozilla Public License, under which Libre Office is released. There is no require
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by stackghost 15d ago
>I feel like Reddit has just become such a toxic place. The more I learned about reddit's early history, the more I realized it was always rather toxic. Alexis and Steve (and Jeremy) were totally fine with Michael Brutsch (/u&
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by stackghost 15d ago
>What kind of issues are you running into with Bazzite? It's just a mess. There are three different ways to get software, so despite being a seasoned Linux user of 20+ years I'm never really sure if I'm installing somethi

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