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Darvonon Our Agreement with the Department of War

Use its real name, the one orange shitler renamed it to: the department of war.

Why the fuck does the department of war get to dictate anything to a private organization?

Why does the constitution say that you have to let the government murder schoolgirls with your tools?

Darvonon Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game

Elon? That trust fund oligarch who bought twitter and was throwing around Sieg Heils on stage at donalds's inauguration?

The one teaching his nazi AI to lie about "wHiTe GeNoCiDe? That dickhead elon?

Darvonon CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

If you were ready to ditch corpomicrosoft why would you go to corpoapple instead of something foss like debian tho

Darvonon Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?

x13 amd is just about perfect. linux or ltsc both work.

Darvonon Swiss army restricts use of messenger apps for military purposes

Nothing says secure like proprietary code maintained by some guy's privately owned limited liability corporation with 20 wageslaves labouring for him.

Darvonon You can't copy code with memcpy

Why did you download an executable that you don't trust? Don't even scan it, just delete it and go find one you do trust.

Darvonon Toronto committee calls for ban on robots from sidewalks

If a wheelchair and a robot cross paths, the robot isn't trained to give way I assume.

Darvonon Ethereum Services Are Centralized

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum_Classic#The_DAO_bailo...

Eth is immutable unless the central players lose too much money then they can roll it back

Darvonon Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer

Or, I mean, hear me out: buy a Kill-A-Watt for $50, plug it into the wall, and then check what the dial says when your computer is neutral vs. when it's looping your code.

Darvonon “to grow that ounce of almonds, the process demands 97 gallons of water”

Turning one ounce of almonds into four ounces of almond milk takes three ounces of water

Darvonon iDOS 2 will be gone soon

GrapheneOS - android access with better than iphone security

Darvonon A single cell slime mold makes decisions without a central nervous system

The buhddists put in the legwork ages ago: the line is if the organism has a chemical stress response to stimuli.

Like could an motivated human torture it and could it try and escape the situation.

Darvonon A single cell slime mold makes decisions without a central nervous system

Artificial Life community does this research. Simulating worm brains and modelling ants, etc.

Darvonon Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

Log into work's Microsoft subscription from hotmail.com to keep The Man humble

Darvonon Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B transferred after seven years

bisq

Darvonon Does C++ still deserve a bad rap?

You can't get a degree without being exposed to a number of lecturer's language-of-choice. I'd be shocked to find someone who had only used c++

Darvonon OnlyOffice is an alternative to LibreOffice

I've never found it taxing to just copy and paste my references into a text file.

Darvonon Artificial Intelligence is stupid and causal reasoning won't fix it

If it was just a matter of horsepower we could perfectly simulate animals with simpler brains already.

Darvonon Let’s Learn x86-64 Assembly: Part 0 – Setup and First Steps

Depends if your goal is to teach the maximum number of people the fundamentals of logic, or to transfer as much practical knowledge as quick as possible to the students with an aptitude for programming.

Darvonon Ford’s electric car engineers go crazy with 1,400hp Mustang Mach-E

What if instead of adding more tanks of petrol, you added more trailers of batteries.

Darvonon Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies

I'd hate working alongside a young anxiety free conformist who doesn't have external commitments.

Darvonon Bitcoin is more like ham radio than the early internet

There's a few pretty far along mesh network projects that are designed to keep internet/crypto functional over portable radio networks.

Darvonon The largest unknown Bitcoin wallet moved nearly $1B for $0.48 in fees

Monero

Darvonon Julian Assange charged in superseding indictment

In which jurisdiction is it illegal for an Australian to publish evidence of American war crimes?

Darvonon WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensive password

What percentage of your networth would you bet that the Chinese government can't access WeChat passwords?

Darvonon Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming

I was in academic compsci/ai from 2001-2017 and it was entirely c++ and python in my department, except for one oldschool professor who used delphi.

Darvonon Assange Hearing Day 2

More information on the piece of shit Judge

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/11/assa-j11.html

Darvonon C++ coroutines: Initial implementation pushed to master

I can't imagine a real world robotic assembly line in 2020 not using c/c++ indefinitely. Doesn't matter how cool the new language is, what people really want is to not have to rewrite that dependency they're still using from 1998.

Darvonon Intel’s Manufacturing Roadmap from 2019 to 2029

That was my first thought as well: "I thought tunneling made this impossible"