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Rhaedas

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There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

  • Programmers in 2026

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  • Holodeck settings and scenarios are open source, and it's a big galaxy to pull from.

    But they aren't perfect, as the Bynars showed. Without extra processing, a very detailed Minuet turns into just another holodeck character.

    (Sad Riker trombone sounds)

  • Oracle fires 21,000 employees to fund AI spending

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  • So same business model as Microsoft. Same self-inflicting injury strategy too,

  • Oracle fires 21,000 employees to fund AI spending

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  • Selling high, buying low. The tactic never changes. Sorry/not sorry on all the collateral damage done for their gains. Even if some of the injuries are to themselves.

  • Senior Pentagon official suspended after bashing Trump on hidden camera

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  • On the other other hand, hopefully when people like that leave an organization (military or a company in general) they take a knowledge base and experience with them, making things dumber and less efficient.

    But I agree, I'd rather have a mole on the inside doing what good they can to block the march to evil.

  • Trump Invents the Corporate Pardon

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  • First of all, we're not there yet, but to maybe avoid any future conflicts depicted in scifi, we should narrow the rights protected to persons, and then define what a person is that doesn't constrict it to human. Or at least leave it open enough to allow different concepts of self aware beings while cutting off the very broad definition that allows a company to qualify.

  • Pattern Recognition

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  • Could be a type of loss.

  • Trump Rages at Fresh Iran Setbacks as GOP Midterm Panic Grows: “Bleak”

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  • I wonder if some of the major news organizations purposefully send a woman reporter to these, knowing it really upsets him.

  • How often do you admit you were wrong?

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  • What can be also hard is to admit that you don't know, but that can be turned into a good thing by admitting your ignorance and either listening to someone's reasoning, or together try to find an answer. Especially with kids, part of being a parent was learning with them as you seeked out answers to a simple question that you weren't sure about. A subset of the XKCD Ten Thousand. Being right or appearing to know something isn't always as good as the journey to get to the actual facts.

  • How often do you admit you were wrong?

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  • You could also prefix something you're not fully sure about with "From what I understand". That lets you pivot to being wrong if the other person presents better facts, but also is a more positive if your position remains solid.

  • I'm fine. How are you?

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  • I'm all for learning new things. I don't think the usage here of BOE is correct. Number one, how does one measure extent on the Antarctica ice coverage? I realize they do measure the ice amount and it's low, but because it's not in an enclosed area it's a bit different, as is the water heating as the ice disappears. More important in that case is how the ice in the sea prevents ice loss from the land (as in with Thwaites) and how that will impact sea level rise, much like Greenland's losses.

    Also, none of the charts show an extent area coverage of the Antarctic, so I don't think it's a thing except in trying to tie in with the Arctic BOE and how they are both intertwined and going to affect the overall global condition.

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  • Agreed on all that, but you should look at your first link, as it makes my point. The BOE is literally an Arctic event. The only mention of Antarctica is the ice sheet collapses (there and Greenland) which will be long after the first BOE. Fun fact, when the Arctic loses enough cooling power from lack of ice, Greenland will take over as the main driver of the weather in the northern hemisphere, and it being much offset from the rotational axis should provide very interesting weather side effects. So much for stability.

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  • Antartica's ice will be present even in a hothouse Earth, at least for a millennia. That's a lot of ice. And there's no "ocean", just the surrounding waters that don't freeze in the same way as the Arctic. We are about to get some action though from the Thwaites glacier, so that will be fun.

    Granted, its surrounding waters and refrigerator action does influence the weather and current systems in its own way, but is different.

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  • Does double BOE mean back to back years? I don't see how any following year wouldn't have a time of clear ocean after the first one can collect that energy. The BOE point from then on just gets longer and longer, until the waters stay open all year. I.e., there's only one BOE, and no going back.

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  • Doomer talk.

    Not inaccurate, just what it will be labeled as.

    On a positive note, the BOE isn't the end of things. It's just a labeling of a new turning point. Whee.

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  • Okay, five minutes of that and now I need to recover from dehydration, plus my skin cancer risk just spiked.

  • I feel bad for the future of both Gen Alpha and the parents who raise them.

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  • Using LLMs that way with the knowledge that it is a sort of mirror of yourself works much better than pretending it's an actual consciousness that understands you. Think of it as a modern journal or diary that you can put thoughts into and then get back more organized, maybe with some ideas to branch from.

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    Does anybody know an instance that federates with all(or almost all) other instances or simply has the lowest number of blocked instances?

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  • I looked on my instance's federation (fedia.io) just to see what it was, and while the defederated list wasn't nearly as long compared to the federated, what struck me is how many there are. Lots of people out there with their own now. And from what it looked like, most of the defederated ones seem to be single user ones, so that tracks for how many spammers there used to be in the first year vs. now.

  • My bad bro

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  • The loss is the imagined future that you would have continued to grow in your mind into something that becomes regret for a non-existent thing. Find out if there's anything there. If there is, great. If not, then you know where you stand and can use your energy for things that have potential.

    A bonus for just saying something without expectations is that you'll be more yourself, so anything that does happen is based on a realistic setting and not some planned outcome that distracts you.

    The only thing worse than the mind games some people play with others is the mind games you play with yourself. But you can stop doing the latter.

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    China plans to hit an asteroid with a Mach 26 projectile in planet defence test

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  • It's good that it will have two parts of the mission, the impacter and the observer, but the article doesn't mention if the measuring probe will get there first and determine any specifics of where to impact based on those readings, or if it's just seeing the impact and afterwards and scientists will work backwards. Part of an actual deflection mission would be to know the rock you're moving well inside and out way before doing anything. If this is a rubble pile type asteroid it will give a lot different results (and be harder to "stop") than something more solid and/or metallic.

    Also, "blowing it up" is much harder than it sounds, and if too late it could be in some ways worse than leaving it a single body to impact Earth, as enough large objects all reentering at once could be a major heating event in that area, potentially affecting more over a wider part. The movie version where the two halves split and narrowing miss the planet is total fiction.

  • You find yourself teleported onto the stage of a TED talk right NOW with a large audience. What topic do you speak about?

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  • I could think of a few subjects, but with such a short time to prepare I'd probably ramble on like a rabbit hole of connections to related stuff. It wouldn't be a great TED talk overall.