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  • Scott Adams, 'Dilbert' creator and conservative commentator, dies at 68

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  • Scott Adams, 'Dilbert' creator and conservative commentator, dies at 68

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  • His cancer was absolutely terrible. I wish it on no one. Dude's bones were growing daggers into his flesh and tearing him up from the inside and there's little anyone can give to ease that kind of pain.

    I mean, he's no saint and I'm sure he's got a nice place in hell waiting for him. But damn, that kind of cancer is the stuff nightmares are made from.

  • Former New York City Mayor Rug Pulls Community? Eric Adams' NYC Token Plunges 81%

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  • Why are all these politicians so interested in Crypto?

    One can only wonder.

    Analysis shows that a wallet linked to the token’s deployer removed approximately $2.43 million in USDC liquidity shortly after the peak.

    Yeah so this is classic rug pull. Hype, get it into retail, have automated buy in, pull liquidity. Maybe put it back a bit and pocket the fees for retail going crazy.

    I read somewhere on here someone say "people wouldn't have enough time to get scammed." A lot of this is all bots buying, including small time players who are just using something like Freqtrade python scripts for buying and selling. No one is doing actual research, they're just a program watching microtransactions. Thirty minutes is eternity.

    But yeah, this is exactly why you see so many bros so strong on this and why politicians and Governments are getting into it. The early days are like the early days of completely unregulated stock markets. It's cash grabs everywhere. Down the road, there's going to be this moment of ladder pulling to "keep everyone safe".

  • Trump tells Cuba to 'make a deal, before it is too late'

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  • The Soviet Union isn't actively moving a part of it's nuclear arsenal to the island.

    The entire aspect of the crisis was weapons that could actually reach mainland US.

    At the moment, no one who borders the Gulf of Mexico has weaponry that could reach say Miami or say Texas City a more strategic point.

    So there's a sense of security by distance in the United States. Now the thing is, this whole thing changes the second any one of these nations procure a medium range weapon. That was the missile crisis. The US found out the USSR was trying to send long range missiles that could strike deep inside US territory.

    The same would be true here. The second any of these nations obtain a missile that can hit the US the whole calculus changes.

    Can you imagine? "Oh yeah, we invaded Venezuela but they have the ability to start blowing up condos from their own nation." People would be a whole lot more upset than they are currently.

  • The information density on a vinyl can be higher earlier in the record than later...

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  • That's correct. Reason why the inside track will usually be a song with less bass, etc...

  • X now lets any user AI-edit other users’ images without consent, and there is no opt out

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  • Also not OP. And not everyone is coming from Lemmy. Some are coming via other federated channels that have different UIs that don't make it entirely obvious where you're at.

  • Developers remain willing but reluctant to use AI: The 2025 Developer Survey results are here

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  • It's still very meh. Like does anyone remember those visual studio wizards for doing something? AI tools are about that good, roughly. But the difference is, you still have to review everything with the AI tool because it'll still make mistakes.

    I use AI maybe once or twice a month, but it's far from, replaced my snippets with Ctrl+H replacing keywords.

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    Man sues Tennessee county after he was jailed over meme related to Charlie Kirk killing

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  • This is a few counties over from where I'm at, but the biggest thing was Channel 5 News did an interview with the Sheriff and he basically admitted on air that the guy wasn't guilty.

    Like I can not stress how much the State's county DA and Sheriff have fumbled this case and basically handed this guy a blank check.

    And the thing is, while a majority of folks were okay at one point for punishing guy over his meme, the county has all but replaced all that with disgust how how terrible the cops have handled this.

    Like they're still upset about the meme, but nowhere near as upset with how self destructive the Sheriff's department has been.

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  • And this is why it's popular for children to swing in the corpse of the guilty. To serve reminder to those who may harbor similar ill intent. We are a society kept in balance by the reminders of our most gruesome displays to each other.

  • Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.

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  • Your example is people randomly sharing information. That is not the same as a Government entity after following the process outlined in the law, releasing information related to that Government action. We know who is awarded contracts, we know where tax payer money is going to, and so on because of disclosure requirements by Government entities.

    When an elected entity has acted in a manner accordance to law, that action ought to reasonably disclose the subject of that action. That's not to say 100% it always must be this way, but this is why we allow the public to comment on changes to those disclosure requirements.

    I would like for you to understand, there's a very fundamental difference between "random people" and "people via a method given power to rule over other people." That fundamental difference between the two is key to the point here.

  • Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.

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  • That doesn't change the aspect of it being censorship. It just means that a risk adverse company is risk adverse to the degree that they will employ censorship to maintain that aversion to risk. At the end of the day, it's censorship. The rationale for why they've employed it is notwithstanding.

  • Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.

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  • Publicly available police reports.

    I'm completely against doxxing. But there were public reports. That's censorship.

  • G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you

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  • Mom, I want an aim bot!

    But we have aim bots at home.

    The aim bots at home.

  • I stuck my camera up the ass end of an ICBM

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  • Liquid is good if the entire purpose of the rocket is to do something other than go up only and have no care about the down.

    Like SpaceX's Merlin engine is liquid. That's because it matters for that whole boosters landing thing. So the whole coming back down matters so liquid is really worth the complexity.

    Compare to say the Space Shuttle's SRBs. They went up, got jettisoned, and then just basically fell back down into the ocean to be recovered later. The whole down part wasn't that important.

    So you can see why things like ICBMs went solid. The whole down part isn't a big concern, well it is but for a different reason than what you would use liquid for.

    EDIT: And to be sure, there's more to it then this. Reasons to go solid vs liquid. But for the whole ICBM discussion, solid is better for many reasons, being less complex and cheaper factors into thing requiring going boom later on.

  • I stuck my camera up the ass end of an ICBM

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  • Yeah the injector plate is a bit of distance up the ass end of a Titan II. We're seeing the walls of the ablative skirt of the engine on the side and it gets fuzzy as it comes closer to the camera, I would assume.

    You can see what I mean better from a side view from Wikipedia.

    . The injector is roughly where the skirt meets the metal tub looking thing.

  • I stuck my camera up the ass end of an ICBM

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  • If this thing was in the ON position, you would be very warm right now.

    Also, if I remember correctly, the smaller holes are fuel and bigger holes are oxidizer.

    And for those wondering what any of this means. The more surface area of your fuel, the better the combustion. So the fuel is sprayed out of these holes with the oxidizer and that's what burns. But these holes aren't like a shower head, the flow doesn't come straight out because then you would have streams of fuel and oxidizer in parallel flows dropping into the giant fireball below and it would be highly reliant on that fireball's turbulence to do the actual mixing.

    Instead the pair of holes are kind of angled at each other. So that their streams that they spray form a V. This causes the fuel or oxidizer to start spraying, which increases surface area, which increases combustion. They played with all kinds of designs with these, because maximizing the combustion is critical to getting as much energy out of the burn as possible.

    So that's why you see a pair of holes all the way around. They shoot fuel or oxidizer at the other fuel or oxidizer coming out of the other hole of the pair. And the arrangement, size of hole, angle of the hole, etc, were all characteristics that were basically the secret sauce of rockets back then. This arrangement is a like pair impingement injector. That is, there is a pair, they shoot the same thing out each hole (like), and the holes are angled to form that V I talked about (impingement). Unlike pair, and unlike triplets were also other types of designs. Unlike pairs are a bit more complex because the oxidizer (dinitrogen tetroxide) has a bit more mass than the fuel (Aerozine-50), so the spray from the two jets hitting each other would cause the atomized molecules head off in an angle biased AWAY from the thing with more mass' hole. So you compensate by changing the angle of one of the jets by an amount that would put the spray to atomize evenly.

    More complex designs also had to start adding baffle plates to reduce fuel sloshing. The baffles break up the waves of force pushing the fuel out of the intended direction. There's also pogo oscillation where the wave of force pushing the fuel begins to hit a frequency that matches the fuel's natural slosh frequency. This would lead to a feed back loop that if unchecked would begin producing pressure waves into the rocket's structure that can start to match the resonant frequency of the material used to build the rocket.

    The rocket is flying up, fuel and oxidizer is flowing down. So the fireball moves down as the speed of the rocket moves up, the rocket is starting to leave where the fireball was at. But that allows more mixing (since the fireball and the fuel source are further away) causing stronger combustion, causing the fireball to slowly move back up into the rocket because now the fireball has more power. This pushes the rocket faster causing it to get away from the fireball, rinse and repeat. That up and down motion (longitudinal) is where these waves of force are coming from.

    And all of this is why solid rockets became way more popular. There's way less of these things to consider in a solid rocket design.

  • ALL KEYS CLAIMED - Free PC Game Keys to Give Away (Merry Christmas!)

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  • Good on you. I hope all the games find a good home.

  • Libxml2 Becomes Officially Unmaintained After Maintainer Steps Down

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  • That's super underselling it. Open Financial Exchange OFX is still the go-to for markets and banks to exchange information with various end user devices. ISO 20022 is a standard used in banking that is XML based. Fedwire, the platform that moves money between the central banks completed transition to XML in July... of this year.

    Credit reporting agencies, insurance agencies, hospitals, medicare, medicaid, massive amounts of the entire global logistics industry are heavily using XML with no plans in the near future to move off of it. Like the network that handles auto insurance claims and reporting them to people like LexisNexus is all XML.

    Like it's impossible to cover just how much of this planet runs on XML.

  • Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba resigns as New Jersey U.S. attorney after disqualification

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  • She can't resign from a job she never legally held.

    That's like this kind of interaction in a race:

    I'm sorry sir, we're disqualifying your car from racing today. It seems to have a jet engine attached to it and we don't know how that got by inspection. But it's not allowed in the rules.

    Oh well that's easy to explain, I just didn't take my car by inspection. I just drove it out here and told everyone I'm here to race. It's a race, correct? Well I'm here to race with the best of them.

    That doesn't sound like you're an actual participant in this race then. You should not be here and I'll have to ask you to leave.

    Leave? Perish the thought. I officially withdraw from this race. scoffs Clearly you are not ready for innovative takes on race car design.

    Well it seems you weren't in the race to begin with, but by whatever means, please see your way out.

    That is what this whole thing summarized is...