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by cromulent 1y ago
Didn't they announce this 3 years ago? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/03/capta...
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by cromulent 1y ago
Yes. LLMs are good at producing plausible statements and responses that radiate awareness, consideration, balance, and at least superficial knowledge of the technology in question. Even if they are non-committal, indecisive, or even inaccur
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by cromulent 1y ago
Note that the proposal for this came from the EU Commission over the last few years - the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). Initially Finland pushed back on it as being too expensive. https://transport.ec.europa.eu/t
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by cromulent 1y ago
Progress has been made and is ongoing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Baltica#Project_progress
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by cromulent 1y ago
After Viber was pinged for delivering Pegasus spyware, I switched to RebTel. Works fine. https://cyberinsider.com/viber-messenger-abused-for-deliveri...
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by cromulent 1y ago
Buffet said of Munger: > “In terms of managing money, there wasn’t anybody better in the world to talk to for many, many decades than Charlie.” Buffet gets all the press, but he acknowledges Munger as a huge part, if you listen.
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by cromulent 1y ago
Note that this means "in class" rather than "in school".
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by cromulent 1y ago
If the point is that bringing items into Australia could have a negative impact as they are not present (such as cane toads, rabbits, etc) then sure. However, Australia already has much uranium. The mine at Rum Jungle has quite a lot left.
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by cromulent 2y ago
Isn't that basically the AliExpress business model?
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by cromulent 2y ago
For me it is Evel Knievel high above the Caesers Palace fountain. So many extreme sports descend from his daredevilry.
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by cromulent 2y ago
> Unfortunately, news of the 1582 promulgation had not yet reached the developers of Lotus 1-2-3, so they assumed that 1900 (being a multiple of 4) was a leap year. Joel Spolsky mentions a more charitable take on this from Ed Fries: >
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by cromulent 2y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23093815 (2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15223212 (2017)
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by cromulent 2y ago
Well, from the web page source: <title>Why Apple’s Severance Gets Edited Over Remote Desktop Software</title> <h1>Severed Edits</h1> So it seems correct.
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by cromulent 2y ago
We were building an app to sign up for a toll road that shipped electronic tags to the users, circa 2008. <input name="tag" id="tag" this failed in IE with very strange results. Took a long time to realize we h
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by cromulent 2y ago
The power unit in F1 generally refers to the ICE and the MGU-H & MGU-K. This article doesn't mention nor specify the actual numbers. Mahle / Ferrari were getting 45% or so out of the ICE a few years ago with pre-chamber igniti
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by cromulent 2y ago
We become reliant on technology so quickly. Alternatives may not be safe in extreme weather. We have also torn down previous systems like Omega. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_(navigation_system)
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by cromulent 2y ago
Map: https://gpsjam.org
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by cromulent 2y ago
> Private organization funds itself. A pertinent example would be Tesla. They shipped approximately 100 cars a month in 2009-2010, with the chassis made by Lotus. They received a $465 million loan from the Department of Energy in 2009 (&
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by cromulent 2y ago
Amblyopia and monocular diplopia here. No way I can see these, my brain won't let me.
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by cromulent 2y ago
17.0% for BYD. https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/01/28/tesla-and-bmw-s...
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by cromulent 2y ago
It's not mentioned in the article, but the EU imposed tariffs on Chinese made EVs at the end of October. Tesla had a 7.8% tariff imposed. BMW's are at 20.7%. Most Teslas sold in the EU last year were imported from China. Both comp
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by cromulent 2y ago
This is a logical fallacy, tu quoque . https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by cromulent 2y ago
LLMs are good at producing plausible statements and responses that radiate awareness, consideration, balance, and at least superficial knowledge of the technology in question. Even if they are non-committal, indecisive, or even inaccurate.
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by cromulent 2y ago
As someone who has both diagnoses late in life (autistic/Aspergers and ADHD), they explained it to me as different things. The ADHD wants to respond to stimulus, the autism wants to resist it and impose order. One at a time is fine. If
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by cromulent 2y ago
For sure. We need all types. ADHD people would have been naturally de-selected otherwise. I submitted your [1] here back then, conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39451173
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by cromulent 2y ago
This is a good point, and why so many ADHD people feel guilty or unsure about their diagnosis. Doesn't everyone feel like this? Adrian Chiles' "inner chimp" and other columns [1] helped me understand it. Also, when I lau
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by cromulent 2y ago
Lots of similarities here. Getting diagnosed rocked my world, because I finally understood that other people experienced the world differently. > the therapist said that she had rarely been more certain of a positive ADHD diagnosis >
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by cromulent 2y ago
Yeah of course there was always going to be an end date. However, there are people saying it was not profitable at all and that is not really the truth. Bannister knows probably more than anyone about the topic and tells the story well. Tho
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by cromulent 2y ago
Started reading the book again :). The $5k fares were the transatlantic ones. They made a lot of money doing day trips to Venice, Helsinki, Cairo, etc - places only Concorde could do in a day. “Lord King’s edict that the aircraft had to be

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