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Not like super seriously, but in limited joke capacities it does work

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1rsbxn9/stop_sp...

> Training using VR equipment is picking up steam, as typically you need a sizeable amount of real estate to practice when the weather is bad.

I always wondered, how does that work?

Over in bullseye rifle we live and breathe dryfire (no ammo), but I understand the equivalent (no arrow) with a bow is a recipe for breaking the bow.

Like my brain just cannot comprehend how to get enough reps to get good enough at a thing without being able to do dryfire at the volume we do for rifle.

Olympic style fencing is pretty interesting too, to be fair. Physical Chess

Also it's less... scary? At least you'll get less scary-looking bruises (though probably more total number of bruises)

I dunno, but it does seem a time honored tradition

https://goomics.net/106

Maybe because buildings are easy to describe the surface concepts to people without deep understanding of civil engineering or architecture or whatever, compared to other engineering disciplined like mech or chem or electrical.

Everyone knows what a building foundation is and why it's important, but if someone starts talking to you about negative roots being necessary for a stable linear time-invariant system, most people's eyes are going to glaze over.

San Francisco homicide rate is like what, 2x Berlin and 3x London, so Berlin is half a Mad Max?

Well if the objective was just about distracting from some domestic issue, then maybe it doesn't matter from Trump's perspective.

Fair, but at the very least "hyperinflation caused Hitler" is a significantly weaker statement than "deflation caused Hitler", given that the former was replaced by the latter like 8+ years before Hitler's takeover.

Economic problems was a big part though, the 1929-33 great depression. It features heavily in political literature pushed by the Nazi party leading up to takeover. You know, like "Arbeit und Brot", etc.

I don't think apollo 11's toilet malfunctioned, it was just not very good. Everything smelled like poop mixed with chemicals, and that was by design.

I mean five nines is legitimately difficult to accomplish for a lot of problem spaces.

It's also like.... difficult to honestly and accurately measure. And account for whether or not you're getting lucky based on your underlying dependencies (servers, etc) not crashing as much as advertised, or if it's actually five nines. Or whether you've run it for a month and gotten <30s of measure downtime and declared victory, vs run it for three years with copious software updates.

I always assume most people claiming five nines are just not measuring it correctly, or have not exercised the full set of things that will go wrong over a long enough period of time (dc failures, network partitions, config errors, bad network switches that drop only UDP traffic on certain ports, erroneous ACL changes, bad software updates, etc etc)

Maybe they did it all correct though, in which case, yea, seems hard hitting to me.

Hyperinflation in weimar Germany ended by what, 1924-ish with a return to gold standard? Hitler came to power 8+ years later

So London homicide rate is 1.1 per 100k? That's substantially lower than New Hampshire, Maine, and Idaho, which have the lowest homicide rates in the US.

Does seem like much ado about nothing.

I get 1G (in the US) and am in a similar boat - I could pay for 8G, and my house is even wired for 10G. But..... all my network equipment is 1G, we rarely saturate it, and I don't want to shell out like a thousand dollars to replace my router, three managed switches, and three AP.

Actually $1k might not even do it all, but I could probably get the switches and router for just under $1k and leave the WiFi at 1G.

I suspect my 1G costs a bit more than yours though

I was mostly confused because the article made 0 mention of the float adjustment or the changes to nasdaq float adjusting that is proposed (5x float, which would still put SpaceX at <20% of its market cap, or <1% of the index, no?)

It is just not addressed at all in the article, which makes it seem like they're assuming it's 100% of market cap.

Looks like yes. Last jet shot down was a warthog in Iraq 2003. Last fighter jets shot down were a nighthawk and falcon in 1999.

More like 40% effective tax rate at £100k, even including employer side of things?

> Spacex will be around 4.5% of the index [2].

Does that article say that? I didn't see "4.5xm" mentioned anywhere. Also jow does QQQ do float adjusting? Will it do the same 5x that we're hearing nasdaq is going to do? (Which would make it what, <1%?). Or something else?

That's just nasdaq though, yea? VTI follows CRSP, not nasdaq. SPY doesn't follow nasdaq. Etc etc

I guess figure out whether QQQ is going to do the 5x float thing?

What is an example nasdaq 100 fund that isn't float adjusted?

The float adjustment probably handles this for you? The tiny amount of float of that $1.75T means that for any large total market or s&p or whatever fund (VTI, SPY, etc), SpaceX is going to be a minuscule fraction of the fund.

Apple has a float of >99%. SpaceX is going to come out with 3-4% float. Since all big serious total market / whatever index funds are float adjusted, this means that SpaceX will be treated more like a company with $45B market cap, not $1.5T or whatever.

If you're buying most index funds, you should literally not care about this.

If you buy VTI, then SpaceX is going to be like what, <0.1% of the fund? That is noise.

Yes but they don't track the literal index that we the public see.

They track a float weighted approximation of it

(Typically - I thought QQQ did based on your earlier comment, but it also is float weighted)

Why is it really about the index though, if the index fund doesn't track that public index?

If the index fund is tracking some proxy that is float weighted, isn't that what matters? At least when it comes to people's money.

Ok fair, I forgot that QQQ is as big as it is.

Edit: wait, but QQQ is float adjusted?

What are the biggest not-float-adjusted index funds?

Aren't basically all the huge serious index funds float weighted?

No way, we've known for 15 years that it was the CIA, not DARPA, after The Onion broke the story:

https://youtu.be/ZJ380SHZvYU

Idk about rent, but even as of a year or two ago, Austin metro housing index was lower than its 2016 level. Rent following a similar trajectory wouldn't be super surprising to me.

Yea I don't doubt that capitalist greed goes into it too.

And in the case of true fear of liability lawsuits, even that also has capitalist greed undertones:

Imagine you're building random-iot-device-with-a-lithium-battery. You could:

1. Build the whole thing so it's easily hackable

Your lawyers point out prior art in liability cases around exploding/burning lithium-powered-devices and won't really approve release without some precautionary measures

2. Properly isolate and test the battery and related systems, ensure they can't possibly overheat even in the face of arbitrary input from the rest of the system, if modified. Lock down the battery parts, leave everything else open.

3. Do some testing on the whole-ass system to assuage your lawyers, and then lock the whole thing down

3 is typically cheaper, a lot of companies then open door 3 instead of 2.

Capitalism and liability lawsuits tag teaming here imo

Side note, the reason we have a litigious society imo is because most companies reach for door #4

4. Yolo, release unsafe product even with company's own firmware, fires and explosions ensue, people are maimed and die, lawsuits follow. Because lawsuits are the only recourse, we don't hold the companies criminally liable or anything.

Idk what the word for it is

Hackintosh typically refers to running not-MacOS on apple hardware? Imo this project of removing almost all of the inner guts and using effectively a Frankenstein'd collection of things to reconstitute it into laptop needs a different word.

If it were me I would choose

Franekntosh

And sadly it's only going to get harder and harder. More stuff is going to get locked down - not just PCs and PC-adjacent stuff like PS/XBox/etc.

It's already somewhat involved to get new firmware on a lot of network connected home devices you buy, but it'll become even more difficult.

3D printers are about to get pushed over the edge via legislation.

Tractors.... gestures wildly at Deere

You can't fix software problems in your dishwasher or fridge.

Liability lawsuits drive a lot of this :/

Ok I will endeavor to be more precise when I'm talking about modern/practical rifles, and not just like literally any gun at all.

The relevant point is that the line for gun ownership pushed by the Democrats (at least where I am) is way far away from the line for gun ownership pushed by Republicans.

And when stating that line, it strikes me as an odd position to take when I'm also simultaneously being told that Republicans are going to go even farther hard right / authoritarian/ take-over / w/e, while also keeping the fairly pro-Republican police armed to the teeth (again, with modern rifles).

Trump supporting red flag laws or not seems kinda like a distraction. Trump supporters saying they can shoot protestors is exactly what I'm pointing out - if that is what we're scared the future will hold, why push for giving up modern rifles?

Ah yea sorry, I meant literally my guns, as in the ones I use for service rifle competition. Those guns specifically, like the practical ones, are definitely on the docket. In fact if I moved to my current state today, I wouldn't be able to bring my guns.

Yes they will allow me to have a deer rifle with a 5-10rd capacity.