In more news: I just got an opportunity. I can keep the UH-60, which was my second choice of helicopter–or I can switch to the OH-58, which was my first. I have 24 hours to make the decision.
Pros of switching: I get guns. I get a more interesting mission.
Cons of switching: I class up a [...]
I check out of the Basic Combat Skills phase of flight training this Thursday, and have an expected wait of several months before I start training in whichever advanced aircraft I end up with. Naturally, a project was spontaneously created to fill the anticipated upcoming free time. In this case, the project is to learn [...]
Explodicle’s been pondering implementations of a computer-assisted delegated democracy. As of his last post, he’s hit a stumbling block: login-based implementations are a pain. They start you thinking along the lines of centralized servers polling remote servers, and things just start to get cumbersome.
What if, during normal voter registration, you are free to register a [...]
Say that you are buddies with a top computer scientist. He has been working for DARPA on an AI project. He succeeds! True AI! Over the period of a few months of shakedown trials and training of the new AI, you befriend it. This time ends when your buddy announces to DARPA project success, so [...]
I’m facing a programming problem I’m not sure quite how to approach.
I need to inspect an arbitrary process running in Windows. I’d call the task introspection, but I have no access to the source of the process I want to inspect. Ideally, there is some sort of powerful framework for this built into Windows itself, [...]
My car, a 2000 Saturn LS2, now makes a steady tone upon startup that does not stop. It has the sound of a fairly serious warning tone, but none of the dashboard lights are on. I’d really like to know what this means, if anything. It didn’t seem prudent to drive it without knowing what [...]
Assume some way to effectively pause a human life. It doesn’t matter the means: cryogenics, temporal stasis fields, or anything else works so long as it is possible to essentially stop time for that individual indefinitely and start it again later.
What is the difference between failure to revive and murder?
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Bonus points: is it a crime [...]
One consequence of the long delay before I leave for Basic Training is that I have to come up with two more months’ rent. As such, I set out yesterday to acquire a basic, simple job that would pay over $10/hour and for which I could start immediately and end abruptly when it was time [...]