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by ajb 7mo ago
I see where you're coming from, but I disagree. If we see it as a dilemma between: * trust giant unaccountable organisations * do things yourself, because you're the only one you can trust we won't solve the issue, because th
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by ajb 7mo ago
Occasionally people in the UK get caught putting cooking oil in their (diesel ) cars, which is not illegal per se - but technically if you do it, you should pay fuel tax, which they generally don't. McDonald's are large enough tha
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by ajb 7mo ago
I guess one day there will be a massive leak of executives chats with their LLMs, and we'll find out what they really think.
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by ajb 7mo ago
True, but in this case you'd need to make the PCB larger as you can't put any components on the part the USB plug will attach to (unlike the case with USB-A, where the contacts are only on one side. Nevertheless, this is worth con
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by ajb 7mo ago
Unfortunately python does add features in a drip-drip kind of way that makes being behind an experience with a lot of niggles. This is particularly the case for the type annotation system, which is retrofit to a language that obviously didn
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by ajb 7mo ago
(edited) My bad, I meant to type "options" not "shares". You get to choose when to exercise options. When tax is incurred will vary according to your jurisdiction. I'm fairly sure that Sundar Pinchai will have paid
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by ajb 7mo ago
No; just the difference between someone who gets a fixed number of shares and has to sell them (and pay the tax on them) that year, versus someone who is allowed to accumulate the shares and pay the tax at the end. This may assume that ther
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by ajb 7mo ago
You're thinking about cash. This is options
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by ajb 7mo ago
Shocking? Taxed on payout is a discount versus ordinary stiffs who get taxed every year. A percentage taken from the increase of an amount every year, is more than the same percentage taken at the end; as the former foregoes the opportunit
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by ajb 7mo ago
I used to use brown noise, but I find that rain/ thunderstorm sounds are better. It's a noise that your brain is used to ignoring, and other sounds blend into it - even if they are almost as loud -while with the more homogeneous b
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by ajb 7mo ago
Don't know about the tuning fork one, but there is a method where by if you poke some muscle on the back of your neck repeatedly, it stops for some people. This is apparently due to that muscle being the thing that makes a noise, and p
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by ajb 7mo ago
Did you mean to write Ellison, rather than Galloway?
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by ajb 7mo ago
Yeah sytemd-oomd seems tuned for server workloads, I couldn't get it to stop killing my session instead of whichever app had eaten the memory. Honestly on the desktop I'd rather a popup that allowed me to select which app to kill.
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by ajb 7mo ago
He's probably talking about this: https://www.972mag.com/ellisons-paramount-tiktok-israel-medi...
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by ajb 7mo ago
It wasn't so long ago that doctors assumed that it would be better for the family if babies like this died quickly - and quietly helped them off. I had a cousin with spina bifida, who only lived because her own mother was a doctor and
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by ajb 7mo ago
There's a certain amount of evidence that getting over anxiety is harder if you try to do it by doing the thing you are most anxious about. An alternative is to do things which allow you to become more comfortable with a reasonable deg
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by ajb 7mo ago
That's like that scene from Crocodile Dundee - for those that don't know the movie, the guy is from some tiny town way out in the sticks in Australia, and visits NY. In the scene I'm thinking of, Dundee walks down a street in
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by ajb 7mo ago
The only language I'm aware of that's a bit like that is rpython, but it's the other way round: designed for python to compile to it. If you think about it, you get more benefit from the typed language being the base one, as
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by ajb 8mo ago
There is no precise definition. English has many synonyms where the formal meaning is the same, but one is used pejoratively because it's acquired a bad association. Regime is like that, formally it just means the rule of a particular
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by ajb 8mo ago
At some point, they will start using violence to discipline their own side. Today, the people currently dismantling the rule of law, still in their heads imagine that they can do that and retain the benefits themselves. That's why the
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by ajb 8mo ago
Structurally all these companies have adopted the approach that the anti-fraud team is it's own world, that should be uninfluenced. So you can't talk to them on the phone, even customer support can only email them; the only feedba
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by ajb 8mo ago
These days digital shelf labels look like a really cheap option; lots of them look like they require a proprietary base station, but there are some out there with BLE/NFC - have been meaning to get one to try. Of course, if you have an
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by ajb 8mo ago
They declined to say: https://www.eetimes.com/taalas-specializes-to-extremes-for-e... Except they say it's fully digital, so not an analog multiplier
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by ajb 8mo ago
From some random googling it seems like "swie" could be "silence", but it doesn't seem to be quite that meaning. There may be some religious overtones .
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by ajb 8mo ago
Anyone wanting to hear the older language spoken, this is a performance of Beowulf: https://www.youtube.com/live/2WcIK_8f7oQ?si=NpXTrRjcHN09Zn56...
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by ajb 8mo ago
Yes, I nearly missed it myself
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by ajb 8mo ago
Yeah same. The explanation at the bottom is interesting, lots of the words imported from Normandy drop off then, and the grammar changes more significantly.
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by ajb 8mo ago
"Ibuprofen, for example, is crude oil." In what sense? Ibuprofen is a specific chemical compound, crude oil is anything but that - it's a mixture of a huge number of chemicals. I don't think the pharma industry is a mora
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by ajb 8mo ago
Historically, what R&D there was, was often done by the state; simply because of being the entity with the most spare capacity to do so. It goes a long way back, Egyptian pharoes and Chinese emperors had written in their histories about
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by ajb 8mo ago
There's (vo2master) device that can apparently measure it in one breath; there was a video on some swimmer using it on turnaround without much interference with their exercise. $7k though.

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