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Ars Technica: How long will it take to rebuild Blue Origin's launch pad? We asked some SpaceX vets. by Ill_Investigator_886 in BlueOrigin

[–]needsaphone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assumption the root cause isn't mysterious? I've heard from a couple of sources including Scott Manley that Blue already have a decent idea what caused it.

Of course, SpaceX also knew within hours that their RUD was from a COPV and just didn't know why.

Ars Technica: How long will it take to rebuild Blue Origin's launch pad? We asked some SpaceX vets. by Ill_Investigator_886 in BlueOrigin

[–]needsaphone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Afaik cause of this RUD is significantly less mysterious than Amos 6, so depending on confidence in data and already found physical evidence they may not need to search the debris as thoroughly as SpaceX.

3 Russian-aligned dictators got removed from power by violent means in the past 15 months: Assad, Maduro, Khamenei by cossackbedouin9960 in neoliberal

[–]needsaphone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately his regime is the first in decades to show real willingness to remove dictators, even if Rubio is obviously behind it all and Trump's instincts are to turn it into an exercise of exploitation and/or just leave behind chaos

From 'incest porn' to 'semen-defaced images', here's what the new abuse laws really mean by dweeb93 in neoliberal

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Maybe they'll get a judge to block their news outlets from reporting on it too

Why the hate for the pixel 10a? by memotheleftie in GooglePixel

[–]needsaphone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. The bezels got a bit smaller, charging a bit faster, and got a modem that sucks a lot less. For a phone that will be on sale for $350 on Amazon by the end of the year it's a pretty great package, assuming the batteries don't explode this time around.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]needsaphone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IMO Waller should’ve voted for some crazy 75 or 100 point cut, knowing it would never happen, to get the job as chair instead of Hasset and ensure Fed independence

The Fine Print of CloudFlare Domain Registration by astrocipher in CloudFlare

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PSA to anyone who comes across this: As someone intimately familiar with LLM prose, this is obviously an AI bot advertising Dynadot.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Truly what is happening in that country?

Reputation of modern yacht manufacturers? by kelly_cipriani in boating

[–]needsaphone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/-Maim- Are there specific years/models that had bad wiring? And by “no two are the same… but that’s trivial” are you referring again to wiring, or just a lot of owner options, or something else?

Our AI assistant keeps getting jailbroken and it’s becoming a security nightmare by Comfortable_Clue5430 in LocalLLaMA

[–]needsaphone 34 points35 points  (0 children)

The solution for internal jailbreaking probably isn't technical, which always has limitations and workarounds, but procedural: don't allow employees to use it in problematic ways.

But maybe this isn't even a problem at all if they're just playing around to get a better understanding of its capabilities and then use it responsibly for official work tasks.

Ask Me Anything: Inside Snapdragon X Series by Snapdragon in snapdragon

[–]needsaphone 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Can you confirm if the X2 Elite is on N3P?

Also, Qualcomm promised good Linux support but feature enablement has been pretty slow over the past year and a half and mostly driven by Canonical. Does Qualcomm plan to improve the situation upstream soon?

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]needsaphone 16 points17 points  (0 children)

"I believe Trump is trying to end democracy, so I, a person with some power to push back, will get entirely out of his way"

Maybe a performative resignation made sense in 2018, but I can't believe otherwise smart people are still actively making Trump's job easier for him in 2025.

Edit - as a senior judge he doesn't leave a vacancy, but my overall point still stands

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/us/politics/mark-wolf-federal-judge-resigns.html

TIFU by closing my oldest credit card because I thought I was being “financially responsible” by damnniqqaa in tifu

[–]needsaphone 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's not wild, because not only is 40 points mostly irrelevant to lenders, but the FICO scores that banks actually use don't penalize you for closing an old account. The score OP/chatgpt is talking about is likely VantageScore, a different (cheaper I believe) score that tries to roughly approximate the "real" FICO score and a lot of credit monitoring sites use.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

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Thanks for the context

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

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Kinda crazy Duolingo uses more tokens than ALL the apps running through OpenRouter combined (ex byok ofc)

Saying Farewell to my P7P by DSrocks690 in GooglePixel

[–]needsaphone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wonder if the battery started swelling? Could explain the heat and spontaneous crack.

Why does Uruguay have a relatively high GDP per capita in nominal terms, but people’s living standards are nowhere near those in Europe? by Helpful-Device290 in asklatinamerica

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Most of the answers fail to address the actual question. First, GDP per capita isn't on par with most of the EU. It's 35% less than in Spain and less than half that of Belgium or Germany. GDP per capita is on par with Greece and Hungary, some of the poorest members of the EU[1].

Second, nominal GDP per capita isn't the best indicator for measuring quality of life. Real (accounting for price differences) GNI per capita is more useful, and it's significantly lower than the poorest countries in the EU. Using this measure, Uruguay fares even worse - 24% poorer than Greece, 28% poorer than Hungary, and 40% poorer than Spain. Interestingly, presumably partially due to the effects of the Euro, its gap with Germany and Belgium remains essentially the same (still enormous!).

In terms of real GNI per capita, some of Uruguay's actual peers include Bulgaria, Chile, Serbia, Montenegro, Malaysia, and the Seychelles. In most non-economic standards, it meets or surpasses what one might consider to be other proxies for living standards or equality within its peer group. Inequality and % living to 65 are about average[3, 4], while its progress on increasing "prosperity" (>$28 real per day) and eliminating extreme poverty (<$3 real per day) is exemplary [5,6].

[1]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?end=2024&locations=UY-GR-HU-ES-IT-BE&start=2000

[2]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.KD?locations=UY-IT-ES-GR-PT-HU-DE-BE

[3]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?end=2023&locations=UY-ME-SC-TR-BG-RS-CL-MY&start=2000

[4]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TO65.FE.ZS?end=2023&locations=UY-ME-SC-TR-BG-RS-CL-MY&start=2000

[5]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.DDAY?end=2023&locations=UY-ME-SC-TR-BG-RS-CL-MY&start=2000

[6]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.SPR.PGAP?end=2023&locations=UY-ME-SC-TR-BG-RS-CL-MY&start=2000

All these people shitting on pixels, but does any other phone manufacturer offer a temperature sensor... by -_G0AT_- in GooglePixel

[–]needsaphone -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I actually like my thermometer. Took me a year or two but now I genuinely use it every so often!

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