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by ajb 4mo ago
There is a fundamental minimum amount of energy needed to desalinate: you can't take less energy to do it,than you could gain back (from osmotic pressure) if you allowed the desalinated water to expand a cylinder containing the residua
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by ajb 4mo ago
I think the GP's point is that accountability/responsibility isn't a substance, it doesn't have to be conserved like energy or momentum. I agree with them. It would be perfectly valid for the law to be that individuals
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by ajb 4mo ago
Odd - they've had that for years, but only on the command line. Wonder if it's different under the hood? They also have firefox containers which also never quite became a first-class feature (you have to install a plugin).
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by ajb 4mo ago
I don't know if it's specifically UK terminology, but here we don't call bathroom silicone "caulk" - we use that term for decorators caulk, which is much more sticky; so needs to be treated differently to silicone.
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by ajb 4mo ago
SanDisk has designed a flash equivalent to HBM, which has 1.6TB/s of bandwidth. I expect that it will be available initially to server manufacturers only, but once supply ramps up will be built into individual machines. At that point i
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by ajb 4mo ago
Not a direct answer, but there is a standard code for what actions emergency services should take, and the code[1] for this stuff is 3YE, which means "Use foam or dry agent, substance reacts violently/is explosive, BA [breathing a
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by ajb 4mo ago
That's a very interesting page, but the language ranking is wildly different for "average percentage" (python bottom) and "success rate" (python second). Sounds like there is some subtly about this.
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by ajb 5mo ago
The argument works at the margin as well, though. Suppose companies deliver value X and also extract rent Y, and defend Y on the basis that it would threaten the value of pensions to prevent it - this is rebutted in the same way.
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by ajb 5mo ago
It's true that the current pension provision depends on this. But if pensions are mainly funded by companies which extract monopoly rent, then it would actually be more efficient and be less distortionary to the competitive market to f
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by ajb 5mo ago
In effect, robots.txt should have an "embargo" directive?
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by ajb 5mo ago
Interesting, but - it says it's a co-op, but this is a word with a legal definition. Every co-op I know publishes what it's legal entity is, how voting is done, etc. This just has "click to join". If your pitch is that y
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by ajb 5mo ago
TBH something like this sounds useful even without LLMs (although I haven't fully grokked this yet). The problem with the operational level is that you can't express the invariants etc at the type level - not least because you&#x2
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by ajb 5mo ago
Amazing for 250 year old automaton. A bit odd that the show is it catching a fish! Swans are not predators. Given the immense diligence it must have taken to build, I hardly imagine they overlooked that fact - they must have cared less for
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by ajb 5mo ago
If we are outdone in intelligence, diligence, and creativity, humanity will have to fall back on its weakest talents - integrity, fairness, and compassion. What a nightmare.
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by ajb 5mo ago
I think that may not be the potential used for electrolysis, but the chemical potential of the saltwater-metal boundary. But hopefully someone more knowledgeable will comment.
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by ajb 5mo ago
"We must now Single-click "Select" on that icon to actually bring the application to the forefront and activate it. I don't know what that's all about, but that's how it works." What that was about was tha
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by ajb 5mo ago
Mmm. It's true that stream cyphers do not need to mix information (of the plaintext) and block cyphers do. I'm not sure I fully agree with your comment, but I'm also not quite sure what you intend to say and it's late at
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by ajb 5mo ago
What's ironic is that originally one of the advantages of automation was that it was more impartial than human-delivered services. The inventor of the automated telephone exchange, Strowger, designed it because he was concerned that th
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by ajb 5mo ago
I would argue that they are not the same, but there is a symmetry between them. The central problem of cryptology is to prevent inference about either the key or the plaintext, despite the requirement to be able to reconstruct the plaintext
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by ajb 5mo ago
This is not a drastically different technology like optane - it's almost solely a packaging change. It's applicable to exactly the same markets as normal DRAM, so if it dies customers will just switch to whatever DRAM variant wins
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by ajb 5mo ago
This is overthinking it a bit. You mostly only need that stuff to tell you why it isn't working. If you want to know if it's up to the job, you can just measure the error rate, which just means sending a lot of data across and c
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by ajb 5mo ago
The problems of IPv6 deployment are ones of incentives, not design. Increasingly, the vast majority of services are accessed via the service cone of various CDNs and IAAS providers directly at edge servers local to them, and at some point i
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by ajb 5mo ago
The format is editable. The line chart seems always to be scaled so the minima is at the bottom, but you can get the zero point by changing it to bars. The options do seem a bit idiosyncratic, but I guess they are useful for the kind of dat
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by ajb 5mo ago
It's surprising how long we've had these. On this page is a panoramic image taken in 1864: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8ok-AQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&ne... It doesn't look like a photo, because at that
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by ajb 5mo ago
When that happened to a former employer AWS was calling us within a day. Worth making sure a real phone number is on there, as that's how they contact you for anything serious (and also if your finance dept decided to change the credit
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by ajb 5mo ago
There are occasional cases of male lactation reported in humans. Very rare though. In the guinea pig, the large head at birth is provided for by the carteliginous symphysis joint in the hips detaching. However unless the animal gives birth
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by ajb 5mo ago
Indeed. Conscript squaddies were representative of the population, that's how conscription worked. Except for being all men, of course. It's no more silly to expect them to be interested in art, than to expect schoolchildren to be
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by ajb 6mo ago
It is
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by ajb 6mo ago
RIP. He's better known for his works about people and sex, but I know him from his book "Catwatching", which is a very thoughtful observational study of cats.
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by ajb 6mo ago
The rivalry continues in the fibre era, with ITU's GPON and successors competing with IEEE EPON etc. ITU does seem to have lost out comprehensively at layer 3. They do some stuff like OAM which is only interesting at Telco scale, altho

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