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by berdario 1y ago
The grandparent comment is arguing about the budget over a whole year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43751178 > We use the grid like a battery, getting a one for one credit for everything we put in. So during summe
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by berdario 1y ago
A Tesla Powerwall3 (which apparently uses LFP) has a capacity of 13.5kWh A household uses up at least around 2MWh per year, most of which during the winter, if you don't use air conditioning in the summer and don't have an electri
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by berdario 2y ago
They probably singled out Irish citizens because Ireland (just like the UK) doesn't provide ID cards... But they have a "passport card" https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/travel-and-recreation/...
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by berdario 2y ago
They can also do it while you're abroad, and then it doesn't matter if the other country accepts you or not. The problem is wholly on your shoulders. A notable case is Shamima Begum's: born in London, the UK deprived her of B
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by berdario 2y ago
It's pretty common around the world. EU citizens don't need a passport to travel across the EU (even outside the Schengen area, where you have to go through a border check), they just need an identity card. (most) EU citizens coul
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by berdario 2y ago
it seems he also overlooked, in his tirade against EU VAT, that almost the whole world has VAT. It's just an handful of countries like USA and Malaysia that are the weird ones, and don't implement a VAT tax
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by berdario 2y ago
This approach is notable for benefitting from swelling headcount increases i.e. if you hire 1000 new people, even if only a small fraction will vouch for you, on average you -and everyone else- will benefit by seeing the # of people who lis
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by berdario 2y ago
The difference is in the material that you end up consuming. It's not necessarily an intentional act: it might be that... - the algorithms are pushing you depressing/apocalyptic content, because it increases engagement - you inten
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by berdario 2y ago
> They give useful probabilities Yes, compared to an all-or-nothing approach, it's better to be upfront about the uncertainty, especially if the tool surfaces the probability by-sentence. But how are those probabilities computed? Yo
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by berdario 2y ago
Most "AI detection tools" are just the equivalent of a Magic 8 ball. In fact, most of them are just implemented by feeding an LLM the text, and asking "is it AI generated?". You cannot trust that answer any more than any
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by berdario 2y ago
None of the photos show the "LED screen" effect
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by berdario 2y ago
I remember reading about some people joining ISIS for economic reasons, I cannot find the article, but this one makes the same point (that among the other reasons, unemployment is also a factor): https://carnegieendowment.org&#x2
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by berdario 2y ago
Seems neat indeed... But > nobody have to change any habits. That could still be confusing though for tourists which are used to smoke at home OTOH laws regarding which substances are ok to consume/purchase differ by country anyhow.
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by berdario 2y ago
Some flows might allow only Platform authenticators (disallowing external hardware keys) https://developers.yubico.com/WebAuthn/WebAuthn_Developer_Gu... https://www.reddit.com/r/webauthn/comme
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by berdario 2y ago
> any speech being made on TikTok can instead be made on other platforms That wholly depends on what are the other platforms. Meta's platforms for example are pretty heavy handed in their censorship: https://www.hrw.org&#
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by berdario 2y ago
To elaborate, if you're genuinely thinking that: 1- the affected maintainer has any concern of potentially being strongarmed 2- the affected maintainer appreciates being excluded from a project in which they worked on for several years
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by berdario 2y ago
> This is a win-win for the people banned also, because they are in a vulnerable position to be forced by the Russian regime to commit crimes. Nonsense. If your concern is that a maintainer might be strongarmed into getting surreptitious
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by berdario 2y ago
The company in question entered bankruptcy in August 2023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikal_CPU#Bankruptcy I'm not arguing for/against the exclusions due to sanctions. I think the benefit of banning people
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The Issue of Library AI Circulation Policy(smartbitchestrashybooks.com)
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by berdario 2y ago
I'm afraid that it just hasn't been tested in court yet. I haven't read this paper yet, but... https://www.tesble.com/10.1080/0270319x.2021.1886785 from the abstract: > The article concludes that Perm
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by berdario 2y ago
> A new library release that ‘adds support for Python 3.14’ is very likely to include other changes in the same release that may or may not be trivial There's no reason to believe that would be the case. The exceptions are: - add su
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by berdario 2y ago
A bunch of people are mentioning the bugbear of the Python3 migration, but there's an important difference that makes the migration a lot simpler for a backward-incompatible change like this one proposed in PEP760: You can just write c
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by berdario 2y ago
> a core tenant tenet: a principle or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy. tenant: a person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord.
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by berdario 2y ago
I'm not aware of nations in nearby islands/archipelago who are claiming the territory of Hawaii, so that's one difference. But for sure, the locals would've appreciated it if the US didn't colonise Hawaii https:&#x
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by berdario 2y ago
The obvious difference, is that you're comparing sovereignty over a nation/state's mainland, vs sovereignty over a separate colony, thousands of km away from the mainland (and even used only for military purposes, apparently)
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by berdario 2y ago
Yeah, it's a bit of a mess. https://wise.com/help/articles/2956754/what-are-sepa-transfe... > However, while banks shouldn’t charge for receiving SEPA payments, unfortunately there is a very small num
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by berdario 2y ago
For sure, yesterday's was a terrorist attack, since it indiscriminately hit civilians (multiple children, healthcare workers, etc.) That said, before more people jump on the rethoric of declaring a specific entity terrorist: The decisi
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by berdario 2y ago
Layoffs at big companies have nothing to do with individual impact. There might be exceptions, and with companies that are cash-strapped (or smaller companies in general) the situation might be different. But for big companies, it's ju
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by berdario 2y ago
> the US custom detained my electronics, including a Yubikey Can you elaborate on what happened? I know that it's theoretically possible, but I thought that: 1- They would potentially detain only devices that they can extract inform
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by berdario 2y ago
As long as the expensive bits continue to be externalized (i.e. publicly funded), I think that there might not be any cases that aren't profitable. The expensive bits being: - road maintenance - theft and vandalism policing Surely, onc

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