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13,167karma·7,722submissions·April 29, 2021
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Not an astrophysicist, but I'm thinking 5 AU could quickly fry the Earth - because it takes very little in the way of solar comets, asteroids, and dust to build a temporary accretion disk around …
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As a generality, right-wing politics favors unification, to gain and retain power. Ideology is whatever stuff you say to that end. Vs. left-wing politics favors endless ideological infighting. At ti…
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You know you're old when...you feel an instant disbelief that anyone with $18B to lend could actually believe mere 10% interest was sufficient compensation for the risk of default here.
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In between IC's and vacuum tubes, isn't there discrete transistor logic?
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Does anyone know if this a major issue in progressive/feminist circles, vs. the the Guardian just puffing up a bit of (relative) trivia for the clicks? (Either way, it was interesting that the ar…
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Critical bits of the article: This is an extremely rare cause of fatalities (in the US), and the fatal flight was very high risk with out the GPS blocking. > It's worth taking a closer look …
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> I'd personally label the factions within the military that view aerial bombing as an effective strategy as "conservative"... If "aerial bombing as an effective strategy" …
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I'd bet people are saying it - you're just too isolated from low-experience/low-competence DB users to notice it. Vs. the much newer LLM's...
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Yes? SQL injection attacks have been a thing for decades now, and some people are still failing to guard against them.
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In utterly unrelated news: "The 2026 Texas gubernatorial election is scheduled to take place on November 3, 2026, to elect the governor of Texas. Incumbent Republican Governor Greg Abbott is runn…
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The delusion is somewhat over a century old now. It originates from factions within the military community (vs. politicians) and there's nothing particularly conservative about it - https:/…
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Perhaps dating myself... 2001: A Space Odyssey (2001)
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"Fewer and dumber" screens is the new "more and better" screens.
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> But he still thought we'd be having linoleum on our floors... Yes, but no. He's writing a story about a character (the automated house) that needs lots (relative to the story length) o…
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> A chess game between to bots is boring, no matter how ... I'm thinking quite a few chess nerds could be interested - depending on how the game develops.
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> baiting title, adjust to ... Meh. The article's titled "Final Countdown", which (on HN) tells me nothing about the article. Vs. the subtitle is nicely informative. From a quick s…
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You might want to read this, for a better sense of local attitudes toward AI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151933 …
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True - though you may be misreading my "this one", said when there were no other comments or upvotes here, and the article was again fading into obscurity. Context of my "this one"…
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Judging by the short lifespan of this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Unix - I'll guess there wasn't much demand for *nix on the Amiga. Also, saying NeXTSTEP save…
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> ...only cultural/society/civilizational goals make someone think that far ahead ... Not saying I was paying close attention to America from 1850 to 1950, but a variety of cultural and s…
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> ...one doesn't exclude... Yes, but I don't see that realization as noteworthy. Does history record a nation which never found its own advancement hobbled by the scheming of its petty l…
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Long-winded, as anyone familiar with the New Yorker would expect. But still very good. Whatever its other weaknesses, China has the enormous advantage that the people really in power are focused on r…
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The fake-it-'till-you-make-it crime lab "scientist" is worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Gilchrist …
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6 submissions, 4 comments, and a combined 24 upvotes so far: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=admiralcloudberg.medi... Keep trying, folks. This one is worth it. EDIT: > Note…
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> Some 180 kg of explosives were used today, Adevărul reported, to move a large rock restricting the flow of water. > Acting defence minister Radu Miruță hailed the operation as a success, sayin…
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> What the hell is the point of human interaction if ... Sadly, the point is validating the human worth of the human who can't do any better than this. But, assuming you're not stuck on t…
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You are too focused on the gov't being a "cause" of the 9/11 attacks. Vs. mere incompetence - which the gov't demonstrates its mastery of 24x7x365, year after year after year…
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Opinion, I have never been a legal practitioner in the UK: As a generality, "NO". Why? Unless there is a specific professional standard for AI use, then "use AI" is either a quic…
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Not an expert, but... The use case for this water is calibrating ultra-precision instruments. The use case for those instruments is measuring water with normal-ish isotope ratios. Calibrating your ul…