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by vmh1928 21d ago
Near Juneau, Alaska, USA, the Mendenhall glacier has repeatedly, over the last few years, had a Glacial Lake Outburst Flood. Not nearly as catastrophic as the one in Nepal but it did flood areas near Mendenhall River in Juneau. The latest
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by vmh1928 6mo ago
Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaemons The Eudaemons were a small group headed by graduate physics students J. Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard at the University of California Santa Cruz in the late 1970s.[1]
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by vmh1928 8mo ago
Just a reminder here of this experiment using adversarial techniques to confuse the license plate readers. Just an experiment, may not be legal in all locations, check your local laws. https://youtu.be/Pp9MwZkHiMQ?si=nas4d
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by vmh1928 8mo ago
Flagstaff, Arizona. https://www.azfamily.com/2025/12/20/flagstaff-cancels-contro...
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by vmh1928 9mo ago
Make money from the next greater fool who walks in the door. That's the essence of crypto, magic beans and greater fools.
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by vmh1928 10mo ago
The part that was spun off was "Infrastructure Services" (from the Wiki article.) Outsourcing and operations, not the business consulting organization that provides high level strategy to coding services. https://www.i
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by vmh1928 10mo ago
Reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode where the aliens visit Earth and someone on Earth snags a book from them with the title "To Serve Man." The rest of the book is written in the alien language. Everyone is excited because th
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by vmh1928 10mo ago
"we built a tool using other people's copyrighted content and now they're suing us and want to know how much use the customers of our "other people's content" tool made of the copyrighted content we used to tra
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by vmh1928 1y ago
Silicon Graphics was still viable in 2006, mostly used for engineering (and maybe video production) graphics. Sun and IBM also competed in this space. SGI went bust in 2009 due to competitive pressures from Windows/x86 workstations.
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by vmh1928 1y ago
The issue is the gun goes off by itself without the trigger being pulled. Remember that all this type of gun has the firing pin under spring tension all the time. The only thing keeping it from firing is a latch mechanism that is supposed
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by vmh1928 1y ago
It's important to add some context to the "hand count" idea in the US. It was part of a larger scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election which involved creating doubt about the validity of results in key states. Th
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by vmh1928 1y ago
You let machines count your money don't you? Who insists on a hand count of the currency to verify your monthly checking or brokerage account? They don't even count cash by hand, it's all done via machines.
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by vmh1928 1y ago
What many people outside the US may not realize is that ballots here may include 40-60+ races. The presidential race appears on the same ballot the races for Senate, House of Representatives (both national races,) state wide positions like
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by vmh1928 1y ago
Air Cadets appears to be a part of the Canadian Armed Forces and intended to provide an on-ramp for young people interested in different aspects of the Armed Forces (Army, flying, Naval.) https://www.canada.ca/en/depart
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by vmh1928 1y ago
Modulating a laser beam for communications is not new but this distance effort by amateurs doing a two-way voice transmission over 167km in New Zeland is pretty cool. This article also mentions a number of other laser communication long di
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by vmh1928 1y ago
We are dependent on a relatively small number of complex weapons systems. In a high intensity conflict with a peer like China, say, we could expect to loose a significant number of our big ticket items within a few days. It's a big mi
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by vmh1928 1y ago
The first one went over during evasive maneuvers while it was being moved by a tractor. So it wasn't tied down and the people on the ship can't schedule plane movements around missile and drone attacks. That the ship had to take
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by vmh1928 1y ago
The catalog is a reminder of a time when the prime motive power for moving material was a human. Thus, the large number of different shovels(for different materials and situations,) with a human interface (i.e., the handle.) Ames was jus
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by vmh1928 2y ago
From the title I was expecting a discussion of physical building subsystems, like HVAC and elevators.
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by vmh1928 2y ago
Here's a fairly detailed description from NASA of the space craft and subsystems and science experiments as well as a list of subcontractors. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19810001583/downloads&#x2F
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by vmh1928 3y ago
I owned a number of 2001 CNG Chevy Cavaliers around 2010, purchased through govt. surplus auctions. Their tanks were 3600 PSI. The tanks were certified for 15 years with no recertification. Nothing would stop working but they would
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by vmh1928 3y ago
There's a hotlink at the bottom where it says "the undersigned."
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by vmh1928 3y ago
On the right side where it says "Access Paper:" pick one of the options such as "download pdf."
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by vmh1928 3y ago
One problem that doesn't, in my opinion, get enough attention is that a model trained using unlicensed copyrighted work also stores some amount of the copyrighted material and uses that to create answers. This is also a licensing issue
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by vmh1928 3y ago
Here's the thread from 72 days ago(from 9/20/23) on Sarah Silverman's copyright infringement lawsuit for the same issue with Open AI. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657540#36658582
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by vmh1928 3y ago
Isn't part of the problem that some of the training data is retained by the model and used during response generation? In that case it's not just that the copyrighted book was used as training data but that some part of the book h
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by vmh1928 4y ago
Is this the answer you received? Q: do human races exist? ChatGPT: The concept of race is a social and cultural construct that has been used to categorize and distinguish people based on physical characteristics, such as skin color, hair ty
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by vmh1928 4y ago
I've found that keeping my nose hair trimmed makes a big difference in nasal breathing air-flow and inhalation ease. And by trimmed I mean using a battery powered trimmer with the circular cutting head with slots and getting as far bac
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by vmh1928 4y ago
Thanks for the link. If I sleep on my back my jaw slackens and moves back toward my throat and blocks the throat or at least constricts and I snore. I tried a device like a mouth guard that captures the lower teeth but the pressure on my
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by vmh1928 4y ago
Would be cool to build an analog gauge cockpit for a flight simulator program. You would really appreciate the workload required by the pilots of old; before software ate the world.

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