• wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    I wonder when they’re going to fire the employees responsible for maintaining Microsoft Answers. Lol just kidding they dont have any employees working in that department.

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      8 days ago

      Look I know you’re monologuing here, but when calling for murder you may want to at least name the right guy. Jassy is AMZN, not MSFT

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        To be clear, I am not calling for murder, I was careful to point out that doing something like that is never going to be fulfilling for anybody in any vengence sort of way (violence is repulsive because it ends with no resolution, which is always a crime no matter how small), we must recognize the structural reason and act accordingly.

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          You’re talking about “cruise missiles finding their way” so “careful” is not what I’d call your language

          Still the wrong guy though

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            Yes, I am, because I understand how cruise missiles find their way and if you did too you wouldn’t see that as a threat.

            One of the first methods used by cruise missiles was inertial guidance, which is still used today and allows the missile to fly along a flight path programmed prior to launch. [16] Another guidance method is terrain contour matching (TERCOM), which compares a terrain map to the current terrain the missile is flying over to ensure the missile is flying on the correct path.

            https://missiledefenseadvocacy.org/missile-threat-and-proliferation/missile-basics/cruise-missile-basics/

            Preparation of the maps required the route to be flown by an aircraft. A radar on the aircraft was set to a fixed angle and made horizontal scans of the land in front. The timing of the return signal indicated the range to the landform and produced an amplitude modulated (AM) signal. This was sent to a light source and recorded on 35 mm film, advancing the film and taking a picture at indicated times. The film could then be processed and copied for use in multiple missiles.[citation needed]

            In the missile, a similar radar produced the same signal. A second system scanned the frames of film against a photocell and produced a similar AM signal. By comparing the points along the scan where the brightness changed rapidly, which could be picked out easily by simple electronics, the system could compare the left-right path of the missile compared with that of the pathfinding aircraft. Errors between the two signals drove corrections in the autopilot needed to bring the missile back onto its programmed flight path.[citation needed]

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM

            pats on head

            Do you see now my little cruise missile?

            If you actually listened to me you would understand I am talking about the odd ways we can create maps within us and use them to tell truth from lies no matter which susposedly infallible guidance systems governing our daily lives are compromised or not compromised, if we need to :)

            TL;DR Go read a book

            Also, the map that ultimately I am talking about is a high resolution gravity map of the Earth, which is pretty damn cool actually as an idea for determining a consistent basis for where things are on Earth relative to other things.

            I guess maybe this is the Land Surveyor in me coming out, I naturally distrust the idea of GPS not GPS itself because I can see the subversive power in a 15 year old theodolite that can establish truths far more precise than you can imagine just with basic trigonemetry and finely-made-but-fundamentally-simple electronics and nobody else needed except a rodperson. People want things to have a precise location but they end up taking out their philosophical existential denial that maybe things don’t have ever have a precise location on Land Surveyors through the contorted stories of real estate dealings and the way they clash with the unstable reality beneath us. A reality we still pretend our misunderstanding of exclusively comes from a lack of fidelity in our instrumentation and methods.

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                I have said nothing about warheads, which is kind of my point, you are clearly projecting that into my words when I am trying to have a discussion about the accuracy of maps not in terms of fidelity but specifically in terms of who we put trust into in the process of making a map and what the consequences of that necessarily are.

                Also, even on a metaphorical level you are completely missing the point if you think what direction a cruise missile happens to be pointing or indeed even heading is indicative of its destination, or rather that it even has a destination necessarily. The point of cruise missiles is they have the most precise internal maps and can move in ways that you can never fathom or understand because you simply cannot know how much more deeply they have learned the landscape around them than you because you wasted your time fighting not listening and learning.

                Cruise missiles are the most expensive form of murder, and I do not condone murder, but I can understand the cruise missile as a process of gathering intelligence that has been foreclosed into lethal action, and that before that point maybe flying an inert cruise missile by the window of someone who kept wanting to kill might pose an interesting question to them about whether they want to continue to murder or not. That is what the cruise really means in a cruise missile, it can take it’s time or rather it takes it’s time because it knows the best way to survive is to be so powerful that it can appear to be anything and nothing in the home of the enemy for as long as it wants and you won’t know until after the consequences have happened.

                If this sounds like a threat, consider why you may feel threatened because the shadow that just passed across the sky over your head too quick to have been a real thing is now gone and the birds have begun to fill the air with their songs again. This is a call to peace by the periphery not a drive toward violence at the core.

                When you lazily accuse me of condoning violence you flatten this entire conversation, exactly the way it needs to be flattened to allow more violence and as an artist I will not have it.

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      8 days ago

      All I’m saying is it would be pretty neat to watch the fear on his face before the light goes out

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        Yes, but it would still be unfulfillingly short and brutal, the punishment must be far worse.

        Don’t let these attempted mass murderers off the hook easy by sending them to the next world too quickly, no, keep them here a little bit longer, hold their sense of rest in indefinite limbo.

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    8 days ago

    Dell will be doing another round of layoffs as well that will eliminate thousands of jobs, most of which will likely hit their sales force. Their target manager:employee ratio is 1:20 - there’s no way you can do right by the people you’re managing with that many direct reports

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    I’m so glad I left working for them when I did. There was about a year where I questioned my decision, but then the AI hype train started, and I never 2nd guessed my decision after.