benj111

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by benj111 5mo ago
I used to do vacuums. As I understood it, it was house clearances etc. I think it depends on how much it's been parted up. A big mess of everything is probably safer than a listing of 15 identical items.
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by benj111 5mo ago
Project Guttenburg was my first introduction to the foss ethos. Well I suppose there was Wikipedia, but project Guttenburg really spoke to me. This was probably around 2003? So I'm glad to see it still going strong. I just looked at th
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by benj111 5mo ago
>knowing what you need. But if you have a government department that builds software, they can also spec it. And everyones interests are aligned. Further you open the door to bell labs/DARPA type speculative work. Seems to me, the t
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by benj111 5mo ago
So why would CPU speed be the bottleneck then?
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by benj111 5mo ago
I think you're misinterpreting "I know the answer". The GP is suggesting rewriting it, so the know the issue.
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by benj111 5mo ago
As someone not involved in this space I assumed there was specialist hardware. My pi Pico can do fancy things with DMA etc, without the CPU at all. So why isn't there this kind of stuff in routers?
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by benj111 5mo ago
I never understood why nation states pay outside companies for this stuff. You need the expertise to actually evaluate what you're getting anyway. Incentives are in no way aligned. At the state level you have the scale to do it in hous
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by benj111 5mo ago
True, but this is military expenditure. So would you rather they spend this on an exercise or on actually saving people?
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by benj111 5mo ago
"On Feb. 1, 2025, Muneeb Akhter asked Sohaib Akhter for the plaintext password of an individual" Why the hell were passwords being stored as plain text? I know approximately nothing about security, but even I face palmed at this.
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by benj111 5mo ago
While interesting is this ever going to be actually needed? Unless hydrogen is going to be used in a decentralised fashion, which seems unlikely, water can simply be saved from recombining hydrogen and oxygen. So you only ever need a finite
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by benj111 5mo ago
We use this sort of short hand all the time. There's "ye olde" in a gothic font. Walk into a super market, every product is giving you non textual clues as to what it is, and why it's different from the identical thing r
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by benj111 5mo ago
"1 billion Tesla Optimus robots" Christ. I thought we had seen the last of the Musk-tards.
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by benj111 5mo ago
You can put computers underground. Cheaper than launching into space. Why put them in space? Power? We have that on earth.
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by benj111 5mo ago
There's collectables as in over priced stuff and collectables as in what ever you like to collect. I think the former is more useful, and the latter could be anything. The GGP was probably thinking the former, the GP being pedantic use
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by benj111 5mo ago
Why? Who isn't aware of eBay?
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by benj111 5mo ago
I was thinking the same. ToggleMenu(); should do it. Or is there something I'm missing? Ie is the function misnamed? OpenMenu(true); maybe what the function is doing?
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by benj111 5mo ago
The text was given as an example of what socialist believe. If I said Nazis don't believe X, and held up Mein Kampf as an example, would I be implicitly endorsing it and a positive thing?
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by benj111 5mo ago
This is a global audience. Define 'minimum wage'
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by benj111 5mo ago
I suppose it depends how we define 'true mastery' Yes you have to understand the problem and state the solution, and that is a prerequisite to 'mastery' but I don't think that's everything that's required.
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by benj111 5mo ago
The problem with permacomputing to me, is that computing demands, by and large are dictated by web pages. I run an old laptop, my last one was replaced solely because of the web browser dragging it down. From that view, something like frog
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by benj111 5mo ago
He was trying to exit from Vi.
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by benj111 5mo ago
In context though, it was trying to move standards forward. Look at how acceptable C has changed over the years. In ye old days it was acceptable to just read in any old text without checking bounds, now that is considered harmful. There ar
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by benj111 5mo ago
But you still need to know the language specific constructs. I can't magically speak German because I know a load of abstract language theory. And this can work the opposite way. If I know small talk, and then read that C++ can do OO c
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by benj111 5mo ago
I think it's just acknowledging that the thing has happened, and you aren't pissed because you know it wasn't intended so they don't need to feel bad. Of course this being Britain, the tone used could make this mean the
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by benj111 5mo ago
Not quite. If you had to get off a packed bus with a large rucksack I'd certainly be saying sorry and I'm from Yorkshire.
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by benj111 6mo ago
Yes. First time I've had that error.
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by benj111 6mo ago
You have half a point here. Diesel was traditionally the fuel of people who did high miles. Ie not the people that can't have an EV 'just in case they need to do 300 miles on a day's, because they probably legitimately are. Y
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by benj111 6mo ago
Yes well people like to complain, and people have a short memory. If it were really a massive problem you would see a lot more smaller cars, rather than Range Rovers and BMWs. We will see exactly the same thing again in a few years when peo
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by benj111 6mo ago
I think you're somewhat underselling the problem. Even in Wales, 25% can't. This isn't a figure you can ignore. And that's a hypothetical, it relies on landlords playing ball etc. then there's the social issues. On
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by benj111 6mo ago
45 to 65mpg is a near 50% increase. I would say that's "slight"

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