arethuza

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by arethuza 2y ago
Regarding "No one ever takes a photograph of something they want to forget" - I take photos of things all the time of things precisely so I can forget them - I take pictures of gates closed on farmland, electrical items switched o
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by arethuza 2y ago
Well Europe and the EU both have larger populations than the US and quite a bit higher population densities (even though the continent of Europe is slightly larger) so wouldn't you expect Europe to have more skyscrapers than the US?
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by arethuza 2y ago
I actually prefer the JSONPath version, probably I used to like XPath and I'm not hugely fond of JavaScript.
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by arethuza 2y ago
Other than the decision on whether to be interested in IQ tests - which I suspect does diminish along with accumulated "life experience"...
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by arethuza 3y ago
Azure Storage seems to have an integrated AV option: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/d... Mind you, last time I designed something using this we just used ClamAV - which is pretty e
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by arethuza 3y ago
Lawyers can also be held professionally liable if they get things wrong.
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by arethuza 3y ago
You may have rediscovered the Sociopath/Clueless/Loser categorisation: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
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by arethuza 3y ago
Fair point - I had only skimmed TFA. Mind you, as a fan of the Culture novels I'm choosing to believe that a future super-intelligent AI could also be a good thing.
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by arethuza 3y ago
But all of those are risks now - what about the current breed of AI systems makes them any more of a threat other than enabling people? The "AIs" we have seem to have little agency?
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by arethuza 3y ago
"When the AI stuff has an event as significant as a gun tragedy" I'm struggling to imagine what an event might look like - apart, I suppose, from purely AI controlled weaponry?
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by arethuza 3y ago
Having the same project name and having pretty much the same materials with different customer names was apparently a bit of a give away...
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by arethuza 3y ago
Would it have been better if they had kept the company name as "tutanota" and called their email service "tuta" on the "tuta.com" domain?
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by arethuza 3y ago
I thought the advice was NDA'd to hide the fact that exactly the same advice was being sold to different organisations?
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by arethuza 3y ago
"are almost entirely in their mid-20s" Probably a lot easier to keep their salaries relatively low as well?
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by arethuza 3y ago
The road near where I live was repaired recently and I swear it has more potholes now than it did before! I volunteer at a charity and was appalled to speak to someone last week who had tried (and failed) to remove some of his own teeth bec
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by arethuza 3y ago
My dad had knee problems when he was older because of a career with a lot of manual labour - that means when you do get old you are less mobile which leads to other health problems... I'm in my 50s myself now and while I have some othe
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by arethuza 3y ago
I'm sure there were reasons for it but it's the only time I've ever seen a salesman in a car dealership really want to NOT sell a particular car.
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by arethuza 3y ago
To be fair back ~8 or so years ago VW did have e-Golfs in dealer showrooms but the actual dealerships seemed really reluctant to sell them - my wife asked about one at the back of a showroom and basically had the salesman spend his time exp
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by arethuza 3y ago
In the long term it is about as relevant as IBM creating the modern "PC".
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by arethuza 3y ago
But as you say this has all changed - all those brands are now pushing electric cars as strongly as Tesla?
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by arethuza 3y ago
In the Xeelee Sequence humanity uses a neutron star as a missile to try and attack the Xeelee Ring - which is quite big (millions of light years across).
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by arethuza 3y ago
No - I went to the far less prestigious Heriot-Watt (although I was accepted by Edinburgh!) which at the time I was there had the distinct advantage of having the relevant departments located in the Grassmarket. Fees for Scottish universiti
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by arethuza 3y ago
"the flash of explosive light would have been faintly visible to people on Earth with their naked eye" That makes it sound like one of the reasons for cancelling it would have been that it really wouldn't have been that imp
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by arethuza 3y ago
"The proposed nuclear destruction of the Moon has been rejected by astronomers on several grounds" That made me laugh. I wonder if this is where Neal Stephenson got the idea for Seveneves which has the opening line "The
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by arethuza 3y ago
You're not going to like this: that degree cost me nothing financially - I didn't pay any fees and I got a full grant which was more than enough to live on and have a nice flat in central Edinburgh. Edit: Turns out this was a pr
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by arethuza 3y ago
Just because the weapons are in Taiwan doesn't mean that the US would use them to defend Taiwan - unlike Cuba I doubt if the military leaders would be given delegated authority to use nukes defensively and I doubt any US political le
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by arethuza 3y ago
When I did a CS degree in the 1980s at a UK university I think we had at least 4 hours of lectures per day - with lab hours and tutorials on top of that (maybe a couple of hours a day). We thought we had it easy - the Electrical Engineering
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by arethuza 3y ago
I've never really equated "hours worked" with "work ethic" - if anything I would say that of all the nationalities I have worked with the people who seemed to have the best work ethic in the sense of turning up, foc
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by arethuza 3y ago
If the US wanted to defend Taiwan with nukes wouldn't it just use bombers - no need for the weapons to actually be based on Taiwan?
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by arethuza 3y ago
I'd be very surprised if someone lost their license over doing this in the UK - you might get a fixed penalty notice but I suspect if you managed to explain to the police what you thought you were doing you might get away with a good

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