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by Lio 9mo ago
I think a lot of that comes down to cost. If we can drop the price of electricity enough it will naturally become the favoured choice for heating and transportation too.
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by Lio 9mo ago
Memento mori. Death is inevitable but worrying constantly about it, whether your own or your loved ones, is no way to live. As I get older and as my parents get older I take comfort from that.
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by Lio 9mo ago
Textbook enshittification from YouTube. You'll watch what we want you to watch.
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by Lio 9mo ago
Yep I agree, I think people haven’t woken up to that yet. Moore’s Law is only going to make that easier. I’m surprised by how good the models I can run on my old M1 Max laptop are. In a year’s time open models on something like a Mac Studio
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by Lio 9mo ago
That ignores the possibility that local inference gets good enough to run without a subscription on reasonably priced hardware. I don't think that's too far away. Anthropic, OpenAI, etc. are pushing the idea that you need a subsc
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by Lio 9mo ago
> “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’.
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by Lio 9mo ago
I'm a big fan of the current range of French Renault electric cars. The 5, 4, Megan and Scenic are just excellent. I think the Scenic is probably the one I'd buy right now based on the range, 380 miles but the 5 and the 4 have so
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by Lio 9mo ago
Brits are no strangers to the Citroen C15 as the article seems to imply. We liked them. It was the basis of a successful line of British built micro-campers from Romahome. https://www.practicalmotorhome.com/advice/used
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by Lio 9mo ago
Same I still have my original Core Duo Macbook Pro somewhere. I really loved that machine and it was definitely a gateway drug the Mac world. I used it mainly for development work but also for DJing and I have some really fond memories of
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by Lio 9mo ago
> their music Richard and James Aphex; the Aphex twins. :P > leaves a doubt if some of the praise being heaped on it is 'perfomative'. This sounds rather like someone that doesn't like art in general complaining a
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by Lio 9mo ago
Yep, as it is some sizes are easier to work with. Domestic drill sets don't seem to be designed for tapping holes but if you stick to M3, M6 and M10 the tapping sizes do correspond with the 2.5, 5 and 8.5mm drills[1]. I guess if it was
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by Lio 9mo ago
That's a good question. I guess it could be depth of discussion but in the end they both come down to trust. I guess unless you have an offline system you are at the mercy of whoever is running the services you use.
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by Lio 9mo ago
I have a diesel car and in theory you could fuel it with used cooking oil if you needed to. I don't think I'm likely to do that as I think this would gum up the engine but I know people that have told me they've done it with
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by Lio 9mo ago
"We" as in the whole world really. I know in Europe we have the GDPR regulations and in theory you can get bad information corrected but in practice you still need to know that someone is holding it to take action. Then there&#x27
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by Lio 9mo ago
This actually highlights a big privacy problem with health AI. Say I’m interested in some condition and want to know more about it so I ask a chatbot about it. It decides “asking for a friend” means I actually have that condition and then s
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by Lio 9mo ago
It’s an unpleasant experience to have people who think they know you but clearly don’t project their opinions of what they think you’re like. It’s probably a very human trait to do that but it is a bad habit.
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by Lio 9mo ago
How long is a piece of string eh? That works but with a piece of paper you can tell the time too, so long as you get a nice man to write it down for you[1]. ;) 1. And now the confusion of having to explain the Goon Show: https:/&#x2F
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by Lio 9mo ago
Metric is beautiful. I remember when I first got into metal work and wanted to get some tapping drills. There are a plethora of standards when you start looking into it. For what I make though if I use metric I really only need one, ISO Co
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by Lio 10mo ago
I don’t think “giving away” has much to do with it. I mean we did give away code as training data but we also know that AI companies just took pirated books and media too. So I don’t think gifting has much to do with it. Next all the Copilo
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by Lio 10mo ago
This is fascinating. My first question would be what are they catching? What can sustain that number of spiders so far underground?
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by Lio 10mo ago
Thinking back to my time as a contractor, this makes me wary. In the UK at least, you would need to be careful that by allowing people to waste your time (and them paying for it) you would be breaking the dreaded IR35 tax rules by appearing
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by Lio 10mo ago
You're assuming that VW is following the GDPR. In 2024 when they got hacked it turned out they were gathering (and "lost") a great deal of user data that they weren't supposed to. https://cybersecuritynews.com
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by Lio 10mo ago
I think the key was that Microsoft could see the market was expanding exponentially. I think grasping the effects of exponential change is difficult for the human mind but I think Gates, et al grasped that. Exchanging a smaller short term r
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by Lio 10mo ago
Counter point, I had no issues on my last visit to Spain.
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by Lio 10mo ago
I think the distaste is for rent being charged on a device that you've supposedly bought out right. Charge a subscription or sell the phone outright but don't do both. I feel the same way about cars where you pay for the engine or
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by Lio 10mo ago
When you say "Europe" where exactly do you mean? My experience of not having a Whatsapp account and being in Europe is that I don't miss it. I'm not in a few group chats with people that won't use Signal but that&#x
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by Lio 10mo ago
I realise it's this is about the all "Red" line but given Britain's long and close relationship with Portugal and the island of Madeira that the line to India didn't run through there. Aha! OK, after a quick search
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by Lio 10mo ago
This is the bit that gives me pause: > In certain markets, we use conversation data to train the generative AI models in Copilot, unless you choose to opt-out of such training. "Build me a SaaS platform exactly like ____" If
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by Lio 10mo ago
I think they've missed a trick there, they could have used `|` like low-type does. e.g. def greet(name: String | "Hello"): String I know it's all subjective but I think that reads better and it's valid ruby.
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by Lio 10mo ago
Well they're similar enough for this project to work: https://github.com/wouterken/crystalruby It allows you to call crystallize on a ruby method and then have it recompile with crystal and called over FFI, which

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