dj_gitmo

If they thought Iran had nukes they wouldn’t be attacking them. Nobody thinks Iran had a nuclear weapon, or that they are even trying that hard to get one.

It’s horrible that the president can start a war without even asking congress.

During the first Trump term, most of the institutions did resist Trump. The fact that he go reelected after his first term was so chaotic and scandalous has basically demoralized everyone. There are other factors, like the utter failure of Biden and the democrats, but its hard to recon with the fact that people are so far gone at this point.

They are not being tasked with making Toyota like reliability. That is not what made Tesla successful. Falcons are pretty reliable. With that said, Musk went crazy a few years ago and people are just now starting to realize.

Check out Gregs Airplanes and Automobiles for really well researched aeronautic docs. He made one specifically about the Wrights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkpQAGQiv4Q

Do the adjustable lenses work if you have an astigmatism?

This biggest concern I have about VR, especially for work, is that it forces you to spend too much time looking a screen that is very close to your eyes. This is known to cause myopia and digital eyestrain.

Do any VR headsets attempt to address this problem? Can a headset force your eyes to change focal distance either using the display, or more likely, a physical lens? Ideally the headset would slowly, but consistently, force you to change your eyes focal distance. Is that something that Eye Tracking would enable?

Also, does eye tracking work properly if your eyes are slightly misaligned?

This is just how tech has worked forever. Large established companies are not great at developing new products, so they buy startups. Youtube was a startup. Google Docs was a startup. Hell, Network Address Translation was a startup at one point.

Great answer.

> Of course if it's manned it's reliability has to be so high that you don't have to worry about loss of payload, so building two copies of it was no longer necessary.

I wasn't expecting a space shuttle tie in, but of course there would be. They sure had to promise a lot to get that thing off the ground.

Do these missions ever build back-up hardware? What if the probe is lost because of a lunch mishap, or there is a malfunction during the deploy (see Viasat VS3 antenna deploy failure).

It is an added cost, but it cannot be that much compared to the overall R&D/tooling/launch/ect cost.

We should educate people about what questions you should, and should not, be asking LLMs in the first place. You really should not be asking an LLM

> "Did fighters of the Azov battalion burn an effigy of Trump?”

LLMs are horrible at answering questions about small isolated incidents. Part of modern media literacy should include understanding what LLMs can reliably answer.

Counterpoint: People are not going to get off the couch.

Reagan also ran huge deficits because of tax cuts and military expansion.

This is just vandalism. They don’t want the government to function at all.

It's mostly a business decision and I'm guessing they will try to push into new markets if they think they can get some traction. This may convince them that they can. I know that Akira convinced anime studios that there was a market outside Japan.

I can only imagine what happens to your hearing if you work at some of these bars. Long term exposure would wreck your hearing.

I disabled noise-cancelling on my headphones because I actually found it make the sound of my kid crying very uncomfortable.

I honestly think that noise-cancelling is a great idea for a technology, and is basically required from a marketing perspective, but not all that helpful in practice. Sound isolation isn't is sexy, but it works much better.

One of the reasons that these attempts to increase diversity are such a mess is because it is illegal to have a straightforward quota.

If these agencies could just have a policy like "Group X is %Y of the population. This agency must hire at least %Y/2 from group X", there would be no need to have these sneaky roundabout methods of increasing equity.

> I’m not sure if anyone could ever “get” one of his movies completely beyond the experience and the narrative.

The plots of his movies are often more concrete than people expect. I'm not saying a movie like Mulholland Drive is easy to follow, but it does have a legible plot. Feel free to read the wiki or something if you are not sure who some character is or what they are doing.

If you are just letting the experience wash over you, you may be missing some plot points that are not meant to be mysterious.

Obviously his movies are weird and not entirely legible, but don't assume everything in them is meant to be inscrutable.

There is an entire cottage industry on Substack of people writing about Wokeness. It has been covered extensively and I do not feel like PG is adding anything new here.

IMO Freddie deBoer wrote the best definition of "Woke", something that many people fail to grasp.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230404013504/https://freddiede...

How did you come up with the name? And is the “Oblin” protein is named after Obelisks?

TV screens and monitors are also measured in inches. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I wonder if this is actually the right move, or if the Chinese are just falling into the same trap as the Russians did with the Buran. The Buran was a clone of the shuttle, and the space shuttle was arguably a disaster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)

> Again, this wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't so deeply embedded in Microsoft's culture. If you search for the term “Growth Mindset” on the Microsoft subreddit, you’ll find countless posts from people who have applied for jobs and internships asking for interview advice, and being told to demonstrate they have a growth mindset to the interviewer. Those who drink the Kool Aid in advance are, it seems, at an advantage.

This reminds me so much of the experience I had at an early stage start up. I didn't have a degree, and I needed the job, so I really made it clear I would buy in %100.

I am not sure I would want to join a 40+ year old company that still demands that level of commitment.

I wanted to write in cursive a few years ago and realized I had completely forgotten. It didn’t take long to remember with the help of a cursive alphabet, but I was still completely unable to get started without it.

> And still weight kept on coming on. Worse yet, I am on ADHD medication, which are amphetamines and actually make you lose weight. Yet... the number on the scale kept on creeping up.

The therapeutic amphetamines dosages for ADHD is below the threshold required for produce meaningful weight loss. It's not surprising that it didn't help you lose weight.

I am surprised the a liberal senator would try protecting AM radio. AM talk radio is very right wing and it definitely contributed to the radicalization of the American right-wing. I remember when AM radio was a major boogie man for liberals.

They supported it by banning them? That doesn’t make much sense to me.

I don’t understand what point you are trying to make. Are you saying women should be exactly the same as men?

I have had the opposite experience. I have had professionals find and treat problems in weeks after wasting years using books and the internet. I am not saying it is impossible, but find good info on the internet, but it has its limits.

Good for them. It takes a lot courage and organization to stand up against a giant like Apple, especially when they could shut down the entire store.