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by Pingk 3mo ago
Sony chose to use the words "purchase" and "buy" on their pages, and hide some sneaky text in the EULA that changes their definition to remove the implication of ownership. They know that using terms like "rent&quot
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by Pingk 3mo ago
In some European countries, yes, but other countries like the US have different laws. The UK doesn't have a classification for a speed pedelec, just the 25kph class.
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by Pingk 4mo ago
It really doesn't. You're purely relying on radiation fins to carry heat away, which are incredibly inefficient. > The radiator surface area problem also scales uncomfortably. At 838 watts per square meter, rejecting 1 megawatt
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by Pingk 4mo ago
Not related to the story, but that your go-to example of converting to a for-profit organisation is a hospital is horrifying to me
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by Pingk 8mo ago
You do it to yourself, you do, and that's why it really hurts. > Importantly, the company did not mandate AI use (though it did offer enterprise subscriptions to commercially available AI tools). On their own initiative workers did
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by Pingk 10mo ago
This isn't a good idea regardless of why it's being deprecated. If it's no longer being maintained then put a depreciation warning and let it break on its own. Changing a deprecated feature just means you could maintain it
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by Pingk 10mo ago
Western employment has survived because automating and outsourcing labour has pushed people to take up knowledge/services work. If AI is somewhat successful at automating knowledge work, what feasible job could exist that doesn't
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by Pingk 1y ago
There are plenty of non-US index funds, like EU, UK, Japan and others. There are also indices that track smaller companies rather than just the S&P500 or Nasdaq. Or diversify in both directions - small US, and big and small internationa
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by Pingk 1y ago
This is often made worse as a result of hiring outside consultants. Firstly they don't have the institutional knowledge you have when starting a project, but they also aren't incentivised to properly document and hand over their k
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by Pingk 1y ago
Except it's getting so difficult to find the companies producing the more durable alternative, so everyone is forced to buy the flimsy piece that falls apart
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by Pingk 1y ago
The article doesn't mention if tips are included in their calculation (I suspect not). Are Uber/Lyft still cheaper after a 10-15% tip?
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by Pingk 1y ago
Given that no models are profitable for the parent company afaik, it's only a matter of time before the money-squeezing begins
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by Pingk 2y ago
Consulting companies destroy valuable institutional knowledge and make the government less effective, so I'm onboard in theory. The flipside of removing them is you now need to hire experts/specialists to do the work properly, not
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by Pingk 2y ago
It's cheaper and more profitable to make thing out of plastic rather than something more durable/sustainable, and companies lobby against strong environmental regulations so they don't need to care about improving.
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by Pingk 2y ago
This is the reason I chose to go with AMD's 7000 series for my 2022 build. I wasn't aware of Intel's limitation when I built my first computer in 2016 so when I wanted to upgrade a few years later I wasn't expecting to n
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by Pingk 2y ago
To make 1 gram of antimatter, from E=mc^2, would take about 90 Terajoules. For reference, the atomic bomb that dropped on Hiroshima released about 60 Terajoules of energy. So you would need at least (and with the efficiency loss of producti
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by Pingk 2y ago
I'm not worried about the label, but I am worried about the implication - since software made the jump from physical to digital/OTA distribution, there's been a decline in software release quality because "we'll pat
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by Pingk 2y ago
Tech isn't siloed for no reason. In the UK government, before programming was considered a high-value skill, the vast majority of programmers were women. So much so that programming was measured in girl hours (which were paid less than
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by Pingk 2y ago
The whole 9000 series has been disappointing, in terms of price/performance you're better off getting something from 7000. It seems like 9000 (and the newly announced Intel 200 series) have a lot of restructuring work and lay the
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by Pingk 2y ago
Maybe, but it was already public knowledge: > In September 2023 the government regulator, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), had issued an improvement notice to Network Rail about overcrowding at the station, warning: “You have failed to
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by Pingk 2y ago
I think you're missing the point, it doesn't matter if it was spam or not - The point is that automating creativity is not a useful way of facilitating content creation. We should be automating the tedious behind-the-scenes stuff.
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by Pingk 2y ago
Yes, being able to see all the traffic on a given network is a legitimate threat to Tor's anonymity. IIRC There is an alternate method of connecting to an endpoint which uses a 3rd node as a rendezvous point which is meant to be better
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by Pingk 2y ago
Why do you think he set up repair.wiki? It's a free resource he started to provide diagnostic and repair guides for a wide range of electronics. He's very transparent about wanting people to be able to repair their own devices and
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by Pingk 2y ago
Self-driving in Europe is more problematic in a couple of ways. Firstly the road structure is very different to the US, streets are much narrower and less car-centric so models are harder to train; secondly regulating it is much harder beca
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by Pingk 2y ago
How robust is the system to fix bugs? Can you just point at a thing and say "fix this bug"? How does that side of it work?
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by Pingk 2y ago
No one ever got fired for hiring a consulting firm to check if a potentially risky strategy will make them money. If it pays off, the fee doesn't matter because we made more money. If it lost money, well we did our due diligence so we
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by Pingk 2y ago
As a physics graduate, I always knew the explanation was incomplete (like all analogies, they have to break down somewhere), but laying them out like this was quite surprising. I've not read his book, but seeing an endorsement by Sean
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by Pingk 3y ago
The problems with GIMP are the same as Musescore before it was bought out - Having dedicated designers/programmers allows more sweeping and coherent changes to be made. Voluntary fixes are necessarily smaller in scope and suboptimal as
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by Pingk 3y ago
Wonderfully uplifting, I love the idea of people quacking for a good joke! (Indonesia)
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by Pingk 3y ago
Title is misleading. Twin Galaxies hasn't reinstated Billy's scores as legitimate high scores on their current record table. Instead, they have created an archived record table as the scores were before ownership changed hands to

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