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Cacti··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
I mean, 1990 was 36 years ago and accompanied with a massive land invasion. At what point do these comparisons become meaningless?
Cacti··on Starbase injury rates outpace rivals as SpaceX chases its Mars moonshot
The amount of people here who didn’t read the article and don’t understand basic statistics is shocking.
Cacti··on Is the Q source the origin of the Gospels?
Which ones do they have in common?
Cacti··on Fiber optic drone control beats any RF jammer
These have explosives and a ten mile fiber optic cable. Little different.
Cacti··on How great was the Great Oxidation Event?
This sounds right, but it is speculative at best. If anything it just goes to show how complex the modern cell is and how long it took to assemble all the right pieces.
Cacti··on Trackmania Nightmares
lots of cuda libs
Cacti··on Dear Julia, Dear Yuri: A mathematical correspondence (2022)
gregory chaitin has an accessible version of the math, if you’re interested. he builds a LISP with it.
Cacti··on Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs
Seaborn, plotly, datashader, etc. all exist to wrap matplotlib and they are wildly successful. Is there some reason an equally good interface couldn’t be written in elisp?
Cacti··on Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangerous
thanks but my reputation already has a colorway
Cacti··on Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangerous
they’re there to be googles bearded monopoly foil, nothing more
Cacti··on Notebooks Are McDonalds of Code
It’s a REPL, for starters.
Cacti··on Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'
Hitchens supported the war and voted for Bush. Of course he hates Chomsky.
Cacti··on Jury finds Boeing stole technology from electric airplane startup Zunum
Everyone going up and coming down is a success. Everything else is not a success.

If you want to care about the schedule or cost, you’re welcome to.

Cacti··on Jury finds Boeing stole technology from electric airplane startup Zunum
I mean, they just put astronauts into orbit a minute ago. What’d you do today?
Cacti··on Jury finds Boeing stole technology from electric airplane startup Zunum
At this rate HN will be blaming sunspots, cicadas, and the score of the next game on the BA-MDC merger.
Cacti··on Here comes the Muybridge camera moment but for text
The space is an uncountable set, at the limit. Mostly it’s noise. See: curse of dimensionality.
Cacti··on A fragment of human cerebral cortex reconstructed at nanoscale resolution
health scans from eg MRIs are often given in voxels
Cacti··on How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy?
Is this something we have evidence for, or is this just in theory?
Cacti··on Value of one of S.F.'s biggest buildings plunges by 80% after Uber, Block leave
Because they’re burning money.
Cacti··on Nix: The Breaking Point
Anduril specializes in counter-drone warfare and collaborative intelligence. They are not bombing civilians on the other side of the world.
Cacti··on Nix: The Breaking Point
The majority of the tech industry is part of the military industrial complex. It's a shame more don't realize that.
Cacti··on The Myth of the Second Chance
Honestly I don’t get the appeal. It reads like something one would write in the middle of puberty and then throw away when you’re a few years older and embarrassed.
Cacti··on Senate passes reauthorization of key US surveillance program after midnight
Pretty sure the GOP controls the House. Do you expect Biden to sit at a desk and sign a bill that can’t pass the House?
Cacti··on Senate passes reauthorization of key US surveillance program after midnight
This is basic human empathy from a very small group of insiders. I mean, this is their job. Do you think they all go around work being dicks to each other all day every day?

Besides, it cost him nothing.

Cacti··on Senate passes reauthorization of key US surveillance program after midnight
I mean, except that many people can’t get either an abortion or IVF. This affects people’s entires lives, it’s not “pretend” unless you are unaffected.
Cacti··on Senate passes reauthorization of key US surveillance program after midnight
which is exactly why the vote went the way it did. they wanted it passed, they found the votes from senators that were safe, and everyone else was allowed to bail so they didn’t have to deal with it at reelection.

this is normal practice, to provide cover for your party members.

it’s divided by party line because it’s national security. they’re splitting the spoils.

Cacti··on Senate passes reauthorization of key US surveillance program after midnight
I would imagine Duckworth has a personal interest in it, given her work history.
Cacti··on Meta says you can't turn off its new AI tool on Facebook, Instagram
you don’t think it’s plausible a moms group on facebook got trolled by some random person?
Cacti··on Phone conversations with law enforcement can be recorded without their consent
we generally agree as a society that police, military, etc. have a monopoly on the use of force. That is kind of the entire point of the system.
Cacti··on Algae that can fix nitrogen – thanks to a tiny cell structure
Just want to point out, the Great Oxidation Event took 400M years.
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