clarionbell

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by clarionbell 5d ago
Not really. There is EU regulation. But is not really well enforced and offers some interesting loopholes, like zero-rating.
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by clarionbell 5d ago
It isn't. But reform would a political suicide, because all of these people are voters. So the status quo continues, and for now everyone can feel great about how caring the society is.
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by clarionbell 18d ago
If EU were to "leverage" ASML, and that would require rather unlikely approval of Netherlands, it wouldn't end very well. Already shipped machines can not be taken back, nor can they be stopped. Sure, you can cut the support,
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by clarionbell 18d ago
Sort of yes. But it's nowhere near as much as some would like to believe. It mostly concerns those who have unclear immigration status, had their funding cut off, or don't care about money. Now, that is quite a lot of people. But
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by clarionbell 23d ago
Good news: we have discoverd FTL! Bad news: the ship came back *wrong*.
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by clarionbell 1mo ago
I would be surprised if a significant number of people anywhere had a basic statistical understanding. It is a difficult topic.
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by clarionbell 1mo ago
In my experience, when someone mentions burning library of Alexandria, they are either exaggerating, or have a poor grasp of history. Usually it's both. This post, the discussion, do not change my mind.
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by clarionbell 1mo ago
https://itsfoss.com/news/glimpse-gimp-fork-archived/ Yep, it's dead.
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by clarionbell 1mo ago
Seeing things that don't exist is generally detrimental to your short term survival.
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by clarionbell 2mo ago
This seriously needs to be repeated again and again. It's not that Mittelstand got greedy. Neither did most other small and medium companies in Europe and US. They gradually became less competitive by overregulation, high input costs,
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by clarionbell 2mo ago
I won't discount the possibility of someone getting into this of their own free will out of hand. But I seriously doubt that it's going to remain this way long term. We have recent examples from Cambodia and Myanmar after all.
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by clarionbell 2mo ago
It would be nice if that led to lower prices. All the comparisons I could find are showing Germany near the top for electricity price. https://energyfactbook.com/world/electricity-prices-by-count...
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by clarionbell 2mo ago
Pretty much. Average household doesn't see this though, not directly. The industry on the other hand does, very much so.
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by clarionbell 2mo ago
Who is making all those solar cells and batteries? I'll give you a hint, it's not a European country.
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by clarionbell 2mo ago
I feel like there is an unspoken assumption of long term maintainability when it comes to LLM generated software. We are still very early in this, so I don't want to make assumptions. In principle, it shouldn't be impossible to bo
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by clarionbell 2mo ago
Cultural revolution?
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by clarionbell 2mo ago
Not really. I've found that they often believe that they understand the code. They obviously don't. But they do feel like they do.
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British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply(bbc.com)
153 points by clarionbell 2mo ago|308 comments
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Efficiency focused "ThinkingCap" model series(bottlecapai.com)
3 points by clarionbell 2mo ago|0 comments
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by clarionbell 3mo ago
I can see lot of potential in this, but I somehow doubt it's going to be used for good.
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by clarionbell 3mo ago
Sometimes I feel that EU has an unhealthy obsession with safety, at expense of almost everything else. This is one of those times.
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by clarionbell 3mo ago
Not really. EU is actually trying to decouple. But in many cases there are not any homegrown alternatives to support. There is not a single company in EU that could replace, even a considerable part, of software stack provided by Google and
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Antares achieves criticality of Mark-0 reactor(antaresindustries.com)
77 points by clarionbell 3mo ago|119 comments
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by clarionbell 3mo ago
I like how balanced their energy mix is. It is very obvious that China is optimizing for capacity and availability. There isn't really a push for clean energy sources for political, or climate, reasons. They are deployed when it makes
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by clarionbell 3mo ago
Good luck convincing old building protection pressure groups about it (yes, around here these people are real and have power). Not to mention the bureau actually in charge of landmark protection (in some areas everything is a landmark).
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by clarionbell 5mo ago
People underestimate how difficult it is to seek buyers for the amount of produce we are talking about here. Farmers are specialists at growing things, not at moving them across great distances, marketing them to dozens small buyers and or
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by clarionbell 5mo ago
You may be surprised, but there are countries in Europe where gun ownership is relatively wide spread and it just works. Czech Republic for example has it access to guns guaranteed in Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms[1]. One of t
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by clarionbell 6mo ago
Please don't buy into that stereotype. People with aspergers are capable of getting sarcasm. Especially if it's over the top like this.
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by clarionbell 6mo ago
That is disappointing. One would say that with all the budget and compute, Google would be able to create something that beats methods from 70s. Maybe we are hitting some hard limits. Maybe it would be better to train an LLM with various tu
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by clarionbell 6mo ago
Pinned to 1.74.9, so not compromised.

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