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I made compend.org. It's a Letterboxd-style review site for all earthly things. It just seemed like a fun idea. I'll keep adding features if people use it, probably.
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anyone else feel like election day is actually lowkey scarier than halloween... because of all the numbers...
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In my line of work I talk to a wide range of people from poor to rich, rural to urban. Something that unites them all is that they have practically zero knowledge about the history of the town they live in and have nonexistent curiosity about the rest of the state.
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MGS4 depicts the next generation of proxy wars and war economies waged by unmanned weapons and PMCs. A future where parties do not fight, but are represented by drones, proxy soldiers and corporations. In this future, those who sell or rent weapons introduce SOPs to take full control of the battlefield. The concept of "arms laundering" will also emerge, which will allow the parties to escape from the SOPs. Also, by suppressing SOPs, the battlefield can be controlled.
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Researchers gave bumblebees a straight route to food but some wandered off it to push tiny balls around instead. One bee did it 117 times.
Thank god we can find and intercept lost hikers as they mistakenly run away from rescue in dense forest!
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
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incredible 1998 defacement of an indonesian website by first-generation chinese hackers including very gracious instructions on how to restore the site back to normal
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On message boards, mods would delete threads if you’re just talking about the same annoying topic over and over again. Social media does not have this and that’s why we are in hell








































