Leonard_of_Q

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by Leonard_of_Q 4mo ago
The tour guide could just give that answer to any such question. It'd be comparable to the answer given to someone who wants to know what that new railroad which was built where there used to be fields or forest is used for: people rid
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by Leonard_of_Q 4mo ago
Mwah, that depends on what you consider walking distance. I remember walking back from a Rite-Aid in SF when attending an IETF conference, entering the conference hotel and being asked by other attendees 'where the hell I managed to fi
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by Leonard_of_Q 4mo ago
Not to mention the presence of two small boats which are not the type you'd want to cross an ocean in.
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by Leonard_of_Q 4mo ago
With or without paying those who made SpaceX happen?
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
Games. Build campaigns in hours instead of months. Make it possible for users to create their own campaigns, move the action to different game worlds - 'gimme Mario Kart in the ${favourite_game} world', etc.
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
Most videos seem to have some issues like that, e.g. the book on the table in the library video takes up different shapes every now and then. The 'Refiner' effect seems to do the opposite if the examples are representative as in a
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
Whether they're 'effective' is unclear but that this has been a long-growing trend is clear and with that I wonder why this post was downvoted.
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
The former, yes. The latter, no, that one was partly paid for by Fauci & co. who also did their best (but failed, [1, page 9 and onwards]) to keep this fact out of the news. [1] https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content&#x
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
They're getting ROI on other ventures and uses those returns to finance their expansion towards Mars (and other planetary) orbit capacity. It may be rare to see a company looking further than the next quarterly report but it is nothing
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
> "Your house is getting a swift brick, your choice is whether you install it during construction, or I install it through your window." While I'm fine with adding nesting opportunities for birds to newly built houses I&#
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
There's nothing NSFW about that photo, she's wearing some shirt-thing which happens to be light-coloured.
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
Did you get a warning about your data being /dev/nulled with an admonition to download whatever you wanted to keep before unsubscribing? If you did, well... should'a heeded that warning to make backups, shouldn't you?
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
Don't get him started: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
As far as I understand it immigration violations fall under federal law which is not the responsibility of the police but of federal authorities like the FBI and, yes, ICE? Soon to be renamed NICE from what I've read with the 'N&#
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
> What's the point of listening to purely AI-generated music? For formulaic music-as-a-product (McMusic™) it arguably makes no difference whatsoever whether it is totally machine-made or assembled out of vat-grown parts in the musac
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
Voting combined with voting on the votes/voters worked quite well in the olde days of yore when Slashdot used such a system. You did not 'vote up' or 'vote down', instead you voted things like 'insightful'
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
That would raise electricity prices in Spain just like prices in Sweden - which traditionally had low prices - went up with the 'diversification' of the European distribution network. While these price effects were mostly seen in
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
Well, they do provide jobs and tend to stay around for a while given the large investments needed to establish one. There is a big one about 15 km from where I live, it smells about the same as a wastewater treatment plant. There was one cl
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
As long as Lavazza also sponsors the launch costs for the coffee cartridges which come in at ~100 times the weight of the free-dried alternative used in lieu of this contraption. Next up: - the Russians will launch a new module containing a
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
Paper mills need a lot of heat energy to run the processes. Data centres produce a lot of heat. Sounds like a good combination? Cold water -> data centre cooling loop - > warm water -> paper mill with heat pumps to transform low-gr
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
You seem to assume that I'm an American? I'm not, nor do I live in the Americas. You're not an American either but for some reason you seem to have taken over an awful lot of the "democratic" viewpoints. Those viewp
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
Are they really unaware or do they actively deny the cultural connections? Prussia was a thing not that long ago - it is still used as a slang term for Germans in parts of the Netherlands ("de Pruisen" of "die Preußen").
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
Två kan spela samma spel, frågan är vem det nu är som läser eller lyssnar och vem inte gör det. Det hjälper inte heller att kalla allt som inte passar åsiktskorridoren som 'extremhöger' eller amerikanska versionen av samma koncept
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
> this is Poland for you. everyone complains about everything That is western Europe for you, not just Poland. Same in the Netherlands, same in Sweden, same in Belgium, same in Denmark, same in Norway, same in France, same in Germany, et
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
Same standards as e.g. 2026 Audi Q8 e-tron: "Popular electric car recalled due to brake pedal problem" [1] A problem with a "screw connection" (unclear whether this is a mounting screw or it serves some other purpose) ca
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
Yes, it is a question of magnitude and also of planning for those specific threats. To catch storm surges you'd use catch areas, dry basins and some sacrificial areas - parks come to mind - where storm surge water can be temporarily he
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
Hm, McDonalds? Last time I made an attempt to get something there was in 1997 after Hacking in Progress in the Netherlands. I was cycling back home, bicycle cart full of computer/network stuff behind my bike, wooden shoes on, a cari
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
Ditch Google Search as well then, use something like SearXNG or another meta-search engine. You'll get more representative results, no tracking and no captchas. Sometimes some of the engines may return captchas but they're kept fr
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
That can be solved using desalination of seawater, an energy-intensive process which is tailor-made for the abundance of solar power in the area. If for some reason desalination is not deemed sufficient it may be possible to slow the seepag
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by Leonard_of_Q 5mo ago
No, it is a realistic approach to a problem which has been facing many places elsewhere in the world where it has been solved using engineering. It is far more apt to call climate doom predictions statements of religious faith given the his

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