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coffeeblack··on As Covid hit, Washington officials traded stocks with exquisite timing
Your president has been in federal positions of power for 50 years. Same for the speaker of Congress and many others. Why is anybody surprised that this is the outcome?

That’s what the “swamp” was all about.

coffeeblack··on An account was suspended
> Twitter and FB both learned the hard way to not ignore these

Are there actual cases (plural)? I only know one lawyer and one case where that happened and was decided by the BGH (federal court).

coffeeblack··on Starlink Aviation
They are air to geo stationary, and that’s a long way. 50,000 km instead of Starlink’s 300 km, iirc.
coffeeblack··on Why Rust?
Probably better if you are not a cryptographer. Because you have fewer inclination to write “your own cryptographic algo”.
coffeeblack··on Kanye West is buying Parler
> but it contains so much toxicity

Easy. Allow all legal speech, but make it very easy for each individual user to block what they don’t want to see.

Maybe even allow external providers to offer filters. Like an App Store but for content filters.

Let each individual decide how much and what kind of censorship they want.

coffeeblack··on Kanye West is buying Parler
Awesome.
coffeeblack··on A gentler, better way to change minds
Or they may even lose their job at WaPo or the Atlantic! ;)
coffeeblack··on Nikola founder Trevor Milton found guilty of fraud
“act recklessly”? So what’s fraught about that?
coffeeblack··on Recovering a password-protected ThinkPad T60
No idea why you get downvoted because that’s the reason it is set up the way it is.
coffeeblack··on Nikola founder Trevor Milton found guilty of fraud
Maybe he did. But a letter of intent isn’t the same as a contract. Yet it warrants the statement “funding secured”.
coffeeblack··on Nikola founder Trevor Milton found guilty of fraud
Except he actually did consider it and negotiated with investors. How is it fraught when you investigate a business opportunity?

So many salty shorts itt.

coffeeblack··on Nikola founder Trevor Milton found guilty of fraud
When did Musk take subsidies (other than those any other competitors received to)?
coffeeblack··on Nikola founder Trevor Milton found guilty of fraud
No, it’s a tunnel for cheap where cars carry people. It’s not a hyperloop, no idea why you use that work in the context.
coffeeblack··on Using the Free Pascal IDE for a Week
Ah, upper case D, yep that works! Thanks!
coffeeblack··on Using the Free Pascal IDE for a Week
:gd

E492: Not an editor command: gd

VIM 8.2

Do I have to activate it somehow? :)

coffeeblack··on Uniform eXchange Format (UXF) – plain text human readable typed storage format
Because even the author uses true to describe what he means by yes.
coffeeblack··on Using the Free Pascal IDE for a Week
Interesting, didn’t know, will try it. Does it do “jump to definition” out of the box?
coffeeblack··on Using the Free Pascal IDE for a Week
Not if you add about half a million partially conflicting add-ons to it, no it isn’t!

Sorry. Yes, (n)vi(m) is great and useful and all, but it’s not an IDE.

coffeeblack··on Uniform eXchange Format (UXF) – plain text human readable typed storage format
> Use no for false and yes for true.

Wouldn’t it be better to use true for true and false for false?

coffeeblack··on White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by reflecting back sunlight
Why don’t we all just leave the fridge door open for a day or two? That should cool the planet.
coffeeblack··on White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by reflecting back sunlight
Or if one day we discover that those aerosols have side effects we didn’t think of.

A better way would be to build a large mirror at a Lagrange point between earth and sun. With the huge reduction in launch cost by Starship this would become possible. And it’d be “easily” reversible.

But nothing of this will get done, because there are way simpler solutions.

coffeeblack··on White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by reflecting back sunlight
Isaac Arthur has a few videos about the viability of this on his YouTube channel. Very much worth a watch if you are into the science part of science fiction.
coffeeblack··on An unexpected revival of Firefox OS
Now would be the time. With more and more languages getting Wasm compile targets, apps can now be completely running in the browser.
coffeeblack··on An unexpected revival of Firefox OS
That’s a rebranded Mullvad VPN.
coffeeblack··on U.S. Army Chooses Google Workspace
Yes definitely. However, in the case of the Ukraine invasion, I see a lot of the fault in the West too. Very much reminds me of the first US-Iraq War in the early 1990s.
coffeeblack··on [dead]
I call it the Aid-Industrial Complex.
coffeeblack··on U.S. Army Chooses Google Workspace
Or protecting people from being killed. Taiwan, Philippines, Vietnam, and many others, mainly in Asia and Africa rely on the U.S. for their security. Not to mention the protection of international trade routes that feed billions of people.
coffeeblack··on Pentagon Puts DJI on Blacklist
Mostly the physical picture stabilization and the better form factor, where the bulky part of the cam is the handle to hold it.
coffeeblack··on Pentagon Puts DJI on Blacklist
Is there any non CCP replacement for their DJI Pocket2 camera?
coffeeblack··on 12,000 Facebook employees, 15% of its workforce, may lose jobs amid quiet layoff
Only the second time I noticed it. Maybe its a quiet trend.
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