Comment Found my comment (Score 1) 79
On the 5 year post. Don't want to think about how much time I've spent commenting here since then. Damn, I've been here almost 30 years. Still spending my work day in Linux.
Who's this old guy in the mirror?
Comment Because State ownership of the means (Score 1) 99
of production made the USSR what it is today!
Comment Re:Stupid is as stupid does (Score 1) 205
Keep in mind that the "American Century" included nuclear nonproliferation. Which, to be sure, was already on life support. But it's dead now. We're all going to miss that.
It also included the US Navy guaranteeing freedom of navigation. We're going to miss that, too.
Comment Re:So not a big deal (Score 1) 160
Or a variant that's closer to Ebola Reston. Airborne, 100% fatality rate (so far only in a couple species of monkeys. So far...)
Comment When I saw the re-releases of Dogma and Holy Grail (Score 1) 152
Both ran without preceding ads. At both, just before the films started, I was thinking the theaters were awfully empty. Then, about 20 minutes in, people started coming in.
Comment Re:I thought it was the DG Eclipse (Score 2) 39
Aaak. I think it was. That'll teach me to work off of decade old memories...
Well, it probably won't teach me.
Submission + - Tracy Kidder, Author of "The Soul of a New Machine", has died.
wiredog writes: Tracy Kidder, author of "The Soul of a New Machine" has died at the age of 80.
"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.
"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.
"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
Submission + - AI found 12 New OpenSSL zero-days (lesswrong.com)
wiredog writes: "Our goal was to turn what used to be an elite, artisanal hacker craft into a repeatable industrial process. We do this to secure the software infrastructure of human civilization before strong AI systems become ubiquitous. Prosaically, we want to make sure we don't get hacked into oblivion the moment they come online."
Comment No, he can't declassify DoE stuff. (Score 1) 99
While you are broadly right, the Department of Energy has (AFAIK the only) classified materials that the President has no control over. Energy has "Restricted Data"–nuclear weapons information that's classified by law under the Atomic Energy Act, not merely deemed classified by the President under Executive Order 13526. Restricted Data can only legally be declassified by the DoE after thorough review, not by an Executive decree.
It's why the DoE has the legendary and totally misunderstood "Above Top Secret" Q clearance–you can have all the TS/SCI clearances you want, but by law you need the DoE's specific to see their secret stuff.
Comment Control surfaces can absolutely break (Score 3) 58
there is no control on an aircraft that if it goes to max deflection capable of breaking an airframe. The worst control surface going hard over is the ruder. it will make the plane yaw to one side them pitch over.
See American Flight 587; also Maneuvering Speed.
Comment You're one of today's (Score 1) 20
Time to go down the Panspermia rabbit hole!
Comment No one online seems interested in acknowledging (Score 1) 37
That the primary motivator towards forcing the sale wasn't the algorithm as such, it was the probability that the PRC would use TikTok as a propaganda tool.
Comment Re:Precedents only matter when SCOTUS says they do (Score 2) 180
The Republicans aren't conservative in any sensible meaning of the word. They are radicals. The Democrats are far more conservative than the Republicans these days.
Comment It's not just IT workers. (Score 2) 125
Lots of medical workers, especially in rural hospitals, are on H1-Bs.
Comment I work in a SCIF (Score 2) 51
I never stopped coming in to the office. Before that I worked in industrial automation, and that work couldn't be done remotely either.
