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by wcfields 2mo ago
Depends on the value of the target. Costs Ukraine $918 to kill a Russian soldier[1] but if you’re using a fully offline automated swarm to destroy a petro system worth billions then what’s a few GPUs strapped to each one to run local models
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by wcfields 4mo ago
It's only Coca-Cola if it comes from the Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée of Atlanta, otherwise it's only a sparking cola beverage.
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by wcfields 5mo ago
It's a catch-22: I already gambled the coin I was going to use for the heads-or-tails bet.
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by wcfields 6mo ago
If anyone from Ford reads HN: What's keeping me from a Ford Maverick truck is waiting for the PHEV version.
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by wcfields 7mo ago
Just take a look at the photos of his residences, it's filled with big black redaction squares of the "artwork" and photos on his walls and the little bits that can be seen lend a huge credence to his prior conviction. Absolu
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by wcfields 7mo ago
Insane thing to write when the "purity test" is not supporting/investing in a defense contractor with a CEO who begged Epstein to go to the island.
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by wcfields 8mo ago
Zip was fairly defacto RW media between ~1997-2004. I was in College around that time and the blue Mac G3's in most computer labs had Zip drives, and many PC's in the labs had Zip drives too.
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by wcfields 8mo ago
Can speak for someone who managed a racked [1] Mac Mini racked as a server in 2015~2018: * Profile Manager / MDM * Caching server for OS updates * Thunderbolt connection to a PCIe RAID HBA for a JBOD for NAS file sharing All these thin
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by wcfields 8mo ago
Anecdotally on how this affects the day to day user experience: I just deployed T-Mobile 5G Business Internet to a temporary pop-up art space (it's only active for a few months) and I'd say twice daily I get a CAPTCHA challenge on
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by wcfields 11mo ago
On the used market you'll find absolutely cooked (literally) Leafs whose first life was in Arizona and barely have enough range to back out of the driveway.
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by wcfields 1y ago
I’m not any sort of analyst but from my understanding the threats Thai faces is Cambodia border skirmishes and Myanmar both of which could be handled with any aircraft. China is a non starter, even a next gen aircraft is no match for their
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by wcfields 1y ago
“Best” but you’re going to spend millions per missile system to have “the best”. Israel quickly found out when trying to shoot down “cheap” $30k Iranian drones.
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by wcfields 1y ago
> willpower I mean, sure, but if it was just willpower for everyone then we'd all speak 10 languages, play piano, be buff as hell, be emotionally stable, and no one would be an alcoholic. But we're squishy apes that are regulat
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by wcfields 1y ago
> natural Yeah, "natural" would be living in constant fight-or-flight fear from being eaten and/or attacked by a neighboring tribe. Probably always quasi-starving and having low-level diarrhea from eating scavenged rancid
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by wcfields 1y ago
> They don’t really have a monopoly on local events or marketplace. Yeah, I'd say from 2004 - 2015 was the heyday for me on local events for small bands, house shows, and punk/DIY venues. Eventually FB Events died out socially
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by wcfields 1y ago
More food: - Brussels Sprouts taste much better now: https://www.bhg.com/news/brussels-sprouts-less-bitter/
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by wcfields 1y ago
Not to sound like the oldest person in the room/thread, but the use of "opponent" as 'opps' has gained a lot of traction in the vernacular of Gen-z/alpha. Not so much as an outright enemy, and not so much as a
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by wcfields 1y ago
Do you have a link or reference to this? I'm going to be thinking about this for weeks now.
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by wcfields 1y ago
Retro gaming enthusiasts have been creating mini-PCs first starting with industrial computers (386) built for CNC machines, and have recently been getting custom PCBs made like the Pixel x86: https://youtu.be/B8WfiRRvQXo?si=
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by wcfields 1y ago
The author is probably Indian based upon the blogs subtitle of “ tales from indian web rabbit holes. “
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by wcfields 1y ago
I mean, if someone is saying plainly "I'm going to ruin your life and critically endanger your health." then one should expect some pushback.
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by wcfields 2y ago
Burning Reputation? It's so out in the open if you know, or more likely, worked in media advertising. Their competitor, Vizio, owns iSpot[1] which is, in my opinion, the best in the space. Samba TV[2] is it's nearest competitor an
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by wcfields 2y ago
Their competitor, Vizio, owns https://www.ispot.tv/ which is used for ad delivery tracking . It's much more reliable and precise than the familiar Nielsen ratings: since you know the total audience of X% TV households
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by wcfields 2y ago
IIRC: There was a bonanza of DEC Multia Alpha's[1] that made it's way to some salvage seller in the late 90's for like $100-ish. The catch was they didn't include RAM and it had to be True Parity RAM which was fairly exp
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by wcfields 2y ago
My experience echos this but on a smaller scale, I’ve visited the NK run restaurant in Bangkok in 2019 and found it to be basically any average nondescript very dated East Asian / Korean restaurant, but odd. It was smaller, maybe seati
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by wcfields 2y ago
Their value is the niche of being able to work at the poles, unlike any other constellation, despite being dialup speed.
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by wcfields 2y ago
Lets not forget that Airlines make a ton of their revenue from co-branded credit cards. [1] Spirit has a credit card from Bank of America [2], but it's terrible outside of the introductory bonus miles offer, which for an airline card g
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by wcfields 2y ago
As an American that went to Cuba for tourism during the Obama years, let me say, once you go to Cuba once you’ll decidedly go somewhere else after.
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by wcfields 2y ago
Yup, technical project manager.
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by wcfields 2y ago
I’ll keep repeating this but I used to be a TPM for “advance analytics” for a major media agency and we used this data in our reporting for ad reach effectiveness. From a previous comment of mine: > … my Insignia TV (best buy store brand

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