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Re:The Scientist and the Warplane That Became Britain's Most Unlikely ...
on Sunday October 15, 2023 @02:22AM (#37887392)
It certainly would have been interesting if Bohr had been found dead upon arrival because his oxygen mask wasn’t properly handled.
Re:Jupe: Off-grid shelters that pop up anywhere on Earth
on Sunday October 15, 2023 @12:12AM (#37886819)
Good to know there are products targeted at exclusively the ultra wealthy. Was worried that with all of the calls for them to pay their fair share of taxes that the markets for them would dry up. /s
Re:Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTub...
on Saturday October 14, 2023 @09:33PM (#37885997)
https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1713305785659211991
Fixed it for you.
Re:Humid Heat Can Kill Us Much Faster Than We Thought
on Saturday October 14, 2023 @12:51PM (#37882072)
100C? Where we boil water? ;)
Re:Microsoft reveals IRS notice asking for $28.9B in back taxes
on Thursday October 12, 2023 @09:35AM (#37856914)
Yes we kindly accept iTunes gift cards.
Re:Movie Piracy Is Strongly Linked to Box Office Revenue
on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @11:52AM (#37833746)
> Everyone I know who used to pirate music, now just subscribes to Spotify or whatever. So definitely not the case there.
Sure, people can ascend through income classes, but there’s always a new cohort of broke young people. I imagine young adults today are pirating plenty as well.
Re:Show HN: Timbre – An app that finds the best sounds for your sleep
on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @09:42AM (#37831995)
$5/mo for lullabies for adults feels… I mean do you, build that side-income
Re:Movie Piracy Is Strongly Linked to Box Office Revenue
on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @09:41AM (#37831980)
There’s some economic idea I heard a long time back whenever I hear about piracy, where basically the argument for allowing piracy of digital goods is “well, the majority of digital pirates lack the income to be honest customers in the first place; even if you managed to stop 100% of digital piracy, you’re not going to find any residual revenue.”
I don’t know how I feel about it, but it always intrigued me.
Re:Show HN: Timbre – An app that finds the best sounds for your sleep
on Saturday October 07, 2023 @05:04PM (#37805546)
> I could never really see which sounds genuinely helped me sleep
Have you tried “no sound”? Your free competitor is occupying market share and you need to figure out a way to pivot and compete.
Lmfao.
Re:Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe?
on Saturday September 30, 2023 @05:04PM (#37719793)
“Since Galileo’s time the physical sciences have leaped forward”
Wow, who is letting high school students write for Scientific American these days?
Re:CEO of Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket company resigns
on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:36PM (#37693757)
Found the CEO
Re:CEO of Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket company resigns
on Monday September 25, 2023 @09:14PM (#37653064)
If a rocket company CEO can be replaced by an e-tail company exec, what do CEOs do that warrant such high earnings again
Re:The Year Lou Reed Gave Up on Music
on Saturday September 23, 2023 @01:23PM (#37625301)
Why do people unironically like “Walk On The Wild Side”
Answer: “can I kick it? Yes you can.”
Re:Fixing for Loops in Go 1.22
on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @08:24PM (#37578939)
Thanks, must have missed the module versioning bit
Re:Fixing for Loops in Go 1.22
on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @06:24PM (#37577810)
Can somebody please explain to me why this doesn’t constitute a major version due to a breaking change? Maybe I didn’t read precisely enough but it sure sounds like a breaking semantic, esp. with the fact that “this will only work for versions 1.22 and later.” Sounds like a version upgrade trap to me? What am I missing?
Or is it just because it’s Golang and they’re “we’ll never release a go v2 even if we actually do release go v2 and call it v1.x”
Re:MGM losing up to $8.4M a day due to cyberattack, analyist says
on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:35PM (#37575218)
analyist
Re:A.I. and the Next Generation of Drone Warfare
on Sunday September 17, 2023 @11:33PM (#37551917)
Imagine throwing away all of this lithium for batteries on “attritable war technology”
Re:A.I. and the Next Generation of Drone Warfare
on Sunday September 17, 2023 @11:28PM (#37551894)
> “I flew stealth fighters in the Air Force. I flew the F-22. It’s an amazing airplane, but we only bought a hundred eighty-seven of them.“
> “When we look to the future, we just think that this economic model doesn’t work—so we’re going to increase the mass, just the number of physical things, that we’re able to bring into the theatre.”
I mean generally speaking wouldn’t you not want your enemies to get hands on your tech? Like, with solution it’s basically like saying “come join us, let’s make a shit show of it.”
Re:Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens (2022)
on Friday September 08, 2023 @06:33PM (#37440149)
Anybody with even a cursory understanding of Adversarial Networks and critical thinking skills can conclude that this is a horrible idea. The end result will be better forged information, indistinguishable by anyone (in the limit). We probably need rubes as a buffer.
Re:Modern Robotics: worth reading in 2023?
on Friday September 08, 2023 @02:55PM (#37437833)
I’m trying to bootstrap some robotics knowledge for myself to try and start building a portfolio of robotics projects and then go look for jobs. I’ve got an industry background in SE, from distributed cloud computing to low level embedded systems & os driver development, plus a background in higher maths & physics (diffeq+group theory, qm), and a familiarity with the SOTA of ML from 2022.
Is this book a good starting place for theory, or would I be better served looking elsewhere? Is my approach of trying to build a small private portfolio stupid, can I get hired without a degree? I’m interested in trying to get into industrial automation.
Re:Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly int...
on Thursday September 07, 2023 @10:37PM (#37428561)
It’s the AI thing. Everybody is building walls around their data.
Re:Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly int...
on Thursday September 07, 2023 @10:34PM (#37428544)
So stop using chrome. Tell your CTO that your engineer department no longer wants to develop for chrome as the primary web app target.
Re:Poor people ‘surviving not living’ as UK social contract collapses,...
on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @06:25PM (#37398647)
Didn’t think I’d see “social contract collapse” in 2023 but here we are. Anyway, cute the flames, let’s eat the fucking rich already
Re:Klack – Satisfying sound with every keystroke
on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @04:46PM (#37397510)
Why
Re:He created the Katamari games, but they’re rolling on without him
on Sunday September 03, 2023 @10:21PM (#37376549)
Man, I wish we could all write a card to Keita, all the kids of the 00’s, and tell him thanks for a good time rolling around.
Re:X violated its own policy by blocking First Amendment group’s ads
on Friday September 01, 2023 @11:01PM (#37358239)
The En-xitification of Xitter
Re:X violated its own policy by blocking First Amendment group’s ads
on Thursday August 31, 2023 @03:40PM (#37342659)
Twitter. Twitter. Twitter.
Not X.
Re:The secretive world of North Korean science fiction
on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @06:54PM (#37315226)
Ok
Re:The secretive world of North Korean science fiction
on Monday August 28, 2023 @05:43PM (#37300774)
I feel like Andy Weir did a phenomenal job with his handful of books. The Martian, Project Hailmary. Both of these felt more like team effort emphasis, which I liked.