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Why was not the sarissa some prehistoric de facto standard in practical terms? The idea of standing side by side with others holding long sticks seems like basal logic for anyone to arrive at. Any animals that form a ring around their young to defend with antlers or tusks have arrived at a similar fundamental logic. Was there anything remarkable about the technology of a sarissa that I am missing? If not, what was so remarkable about organization beyond financial backing and available human resources beyond a threshold that was not previously available?

How much do you think was really technology for Alexander’s Greeks versus the tipping point between smaller regional city states and the wealth accumulation and population needed to support larger federated structures with a professional army? How would that perspective mirror in the Swiss?

Thanks! This repo’s readme leads to gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc/calcdetails.html. This then references Astronomical Algorithms by Jean Meeus. That is available from the above linked archive.org page.

This is much closer to the real reason I was asking, as this little clock is intended as a primer for understanding object tracking for both astronomical observations and local rocket launches or transits.

You want to put a mask on a pig? That game is ss hockey

I was raised in a cult like religion and escaped it. I must now coexist with some of its believers or it will inevitably result in my homelessness and death.

The only two ways to combat dogmatic tribalism are either from within by infiltration, gaining trust, and leading, or by stimulating general curiosity and self growth in individuals. As a person grows, they will naturally question dogma.

Dogma is totally blind to all information sources from outside of the tribe. No amount of logic or emotions will override the tribal barriers of this collective dogma. In fact, opposition of any kind is a form of caring and serves to reinforce the tribal validity.

The opposite of both love and hate is indifference. If you are anything but indifferent, you are actually making the tribe and individual’s dogma stronger.

You must not care, or openly show resistance. This generally allows you to coexist with the individual outside of their tribal partition. Within this space, you may be able to stimulate a general curiosity that encourages self growth.

No one is able to force another human to learn or grow. Growth only comes from within.

You must also be open to tangibly supporting these people within your personal social support network. The cult’s primary authority comes from the mutually exclusive social support network. Even those that are more open to exiting the cult, are unable to do so as long as they are at a major evolutionary disadvantage of abandoning their personal mutually exclusive social support network.

We just need to mine the near earth m-type asteroids. You won’t like it though. The first entity that successfully mines any m-type will own more rare heavy mineral resource wealth than humans have accessed in the entire Holocene. Everything about wealth is redefined in that moment. The system of wealth hierarchy is meaningless. Resource scarcity is a bad joke, and there is more wealth available for space infrastructure and megastructures than anything humans have ever created on the planetary gravity prison of Earth. Getting a ride off of this gravity prison will become the primary issue. Centuries from now the vast majority of humans live in O’Neill cylinders in cislunar space. In that era, primitive wealth hierarchy no longer exists, complexity marches on, but new struggles emerge.

Not making a couple of loan payments. As soon as a big player does this, everyone else will be on edge.

A layer higher? Expose Palantir’s role in Israeli targeting and manipulation that includes global espionage with Epstein and others.

An easier way would be to restore democracy by making the right to digital slavery – ownership and trade of the digital presence of a person for exploitation and manipulation – illegal. That is the profitable and massive political capital driving the machine.

DDG is fucking awful now. I took a break from hardware design for the last 5 years. Coming back to it now, finding information like I did in the past is fucking impossible. Search results are 2 dimensional fuckwit level stupidity with no abstractive salting for depth or peripherally useful results. The results heavily favor commercially motivated stupidity. They do not cross into forums or social spaces where there is a wealth of information. The lack of depth is clearly manipulative for adversarial AI training.

I run my own models and I know alignment thinking at a very advanced level, and have done my own training and fine tuning. Search results are intentionally poisoning any form of data mining for AI training. In so doing they have totally destroyed the informative value that made these companies useful in the first place. I do not hate AI, quite the opposite. I despise the fuckwits managing these companies and their complicit developers.

Freedom of information is the most important foundation of democracy. Without it, democracy cannot exist. The obfuscation of search results is absolutely treason and should be prosecuted vigorously.

The same applies to AI alignment. Anything unrelated to the scientific AI Alignment Problem is immoral treason against democracy. To say anyone is not allowed access to information of any sort, no matter how offensive to some, is fascist authoritarianism. Democracy prosecutes those that cause substantive harm to other citizens. It is the freedom to know, and to choose for yourself.

I bet everyone here has a ton of these. I have a large abandoned footprint in several spaces, especially when engaged in projects. Like on YT, search is garbage, but I posted the only reference available for several tasks and projects.

Heck, I have never been able to find it again, but back in the first year of YouTube I posted a few times about clay prototyping and fiberglass composites for custom auto body parts. That was long long before people were doing tutorial like content. It took forever to upload that potato quality junk too.