dmvdoug · HackerTrans

9 giorni fadiscuss

Can’t release data sets if they can’t be sufficiently anonymized so as to avoid Privacy Act/other non-disclosure statutes. Can’t anonymize data sets sufficiently if you’re banned from using the techniques data people use when anonymizing data sets. Not that difficult to follow.

dmvdoug

5 mesi fadiscuss

That’s another reason there just isn't any point in looking at these articles anymore unless they take you on a trip deep in the weeds of some specific problem or example. We need deep case studies (pro and con), not bulleted lists and talking points.

dmvdoug

5 mesi fadiscuss

See, whatever one may think or conclude about the substance, it’s this kind of thing that might actually help advance the conversation.

dmvdoug

5 mesi fadiscuss

Yeah, i’ve gone to the point where I will just stop reading AI posts after a paragraph or two if there are no specifics. The “it works!” / “no it doesn’t” genre is saturated with generality. Show, don’t tell, or I will default to believing you don’t have anything to show at all.

dmvdoug

6 mesi fadiscuss

Old Aardwolfers gang, rise up. Loved that game.

dmvdoug

9 mesi fadiscuss

Nope, but that wasn’t what I was responding to, either.

dmvdoug

9 mesi fadiscuss

I’ll give you an example: the technology in the Instrument Unit on the Saturn V, which was the computer that controlled the Saturn V during launch, was largely derived from System/360. By technology here I mean things like the Unit Logic Devices (ULDs) out of which the logic boards in the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC) were made. No surprise, I suppose, given that it was contracted to IBM’s Federal Systems Division.

dmvdoug

9 mesi fadiscuss

It’s true of all private launch providers, not just SpaceX.

dmvdoug

9 mesi fadiscuss

> * I'm not seeing what makes SpaceX government funded beyond just that it provides services to the government*

Take away all of SpaceX‘s government contracts. You imagine SpaceX would still be in business?

As you said, every launch provider is basically dependent on government contracts to stay in business because the government is the only entity that has a legitimate need for launch capability such that it’s willing to pay for its development. There are no sufficiently profitable private contracts out there to sustain a launch provider.

dmvdoug

9 mesi fadiscuss

Yes, this. And the reason why congressional appropriations plummeted was that no one saw any need to maintain such high expenditures. There hasn’t been an actually coherent vision of what NASA is supposed to be working towards since the Apollo Program. Everything after that is lurching from one project to another, justifying it based on short-term possibility rather than committing to a longer-term goal the agency is supposed to be achieving. Just look at Shuttle. It accomplished some nice things, but it was always a dead end. Everybody in NASA knew it. ISS: accomplished some nice things, dead end. Sure, you can talk about how these were steps along the way to learning about long-term human habitation in space, but we’ve never had a coherent vision for that that everyone is aligned with. What they really were: make-work projects that were at least short-term justifiable, executed in order to preserve NASA’s capacity to do anything at all.

dmvdoug

9 mesi fadiscuss

Nah, that’s false. Miniaturization was already underway before the Space Race. The space program absolutely benefited from it, yes. But NASA wasn’t at the forefront of those developments.

dmvdoug

10 mesi fadiscuss

Dude’s been arguing with people since at least 2012 that systemd is a good thing. It took me less than a minute to figure that out by searching his blog.

dmvdoug

10 mesi fadiscuss

It was very odd to start a “review” of a book from 1992 by criticizing it for lacking all the things you think a book published in 2025 should have. And then searching GitHub for code related to it, like TFA is expecting this to be something widely read as an introduction. TFA never considers who the target audience for the book was—in 1992, hardly a year when books about compilation techniques were looking to reach a wider audience (like Nyquist’s book Crafting or something).

dmvdoug

3 anni fadiscuss

No, the judge begins with the sentencing guidelines calculations, and then takes into account a host of other factors. The judge has significant (but not absolute) discretion in choosing a sentence. As a general matter, white collar criminals more often get downward variances than others. But we’re still likely talking in the decades worth of federal prison.

dmvdoug

3 anni fadiscuss

That’s not how sentencing works. You can’t just add up the counts and get a number. Federal sentencing involves a Byzantine process, starting with the federal sentencing guidelines. I am not even going to attempt to wade into that since it makes even federal criminal lawyers get twitchy. That said, Ken White (a.k.a. Popehat) has suggested the time in prison would be substantial. So if/when he gets out, he’ll be elderly.

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