digitalPhonix

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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
I can do it with a scratch pad. And I can also tell you when the calculation exceeds what I can do in my head and when I need a scratch pad. I can also check a long multiplication answer in my head (casting 9s, last digit etc.) and tell if
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
> If the radars that the USA uses are so great, then why don't Finland and Sweden purchase these systems instead of blocking almost all offshore wind farms? Are you deliberately not trying to see the difference? Early warning system
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
> Baltic sea Still don’t see a problem making this comparing? Atlantic ocean: thousands of miles to the nearest land from the NE coast; unrestricted commercial activity Baltic sea: Belligerent nation on the coast (Kaliningrad Oblast) ~10
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
> And by the way, this is not democracy, it is 'representative democracy' Representative democracy has been part of the definition of democracy (in English) since before the USA existed: https://www.etymonline.com&#x
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
There's a big difference between a) Finland needing fast & accurate RADAR tracking across their 50km gulf and restricting activity in the gulf as a result. Not just wind farms, other commercial activities are restricted in the Gulf
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
Your original comment was: > but your local router has old software and treats all packages to x.x.x.x.* as directed to it. So how do you have an IPv4x address? And then how did you let someone else on the internet know about the IPv4x a
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
> an administration deliberately failing to enforce immigration laws What civil liberties are being eroded there? (I do agree that poor handling of the pandemic normalised the removal of civil liberties)
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
Wasn’t it also a free upgrade when it launched? They didn’t bump the price of their search plans when they added Assistant. I wish they’d separated them from the start because I knew immediately that my subscription (where I don’t use Assis
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
> Orion isn’t a recoloured Chromium or another Firefox fork, but a native Linux app built in GTK4/libadwaita and WebKitGTK, with platform-level integration. Isn't it just a recoloured Safari (through WebKit)? Why is Chromium&#x
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
A simple proxy experiment I’ve seen are private torrent trackers. The ones that have a monthly/weekly/daily free download allowance don’t suddenly deflate the value of “uploaded bytes” across the whole network. The allowance is en
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
How would anything on the internet know about x.x.x.x.y.y…? Your computer knows it’s connected to an old router because dhcp gave it x.x.x.x address and not x.x.x.x... so it knows it’s running in old v4 mode. And it can still send outbound
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
> Changes land in branches I haven't read. A few weeks ago I realized I had no reliable way to know if any of it was correct: whether it actually does what I said it should do. I care about this. I don't want to push slop, and
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
I think they’re asking from the context of it being a military vessel being deployed to a relatively hot zone.
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
I am chosing, perhaps naively, that the Chicago red light cameras are an exception and not common because that whole process was criminal: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/former-redflex-ceo-sent...
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
> generally because the operators lower the yellow light time to increase fees I'm skeptical of this claim because the red light camera operators are usually contracted by municipalities. They don't have any direct control over
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
> Fine, maybe country first. The purists in the comments are technically correct — postal codes aren't globally unique. You could do country first (pre-filled via IP), then postal code, then let the magic happen. The point was never
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
He’s not claiming the rewrite is a clean room implementation. In fact he’s explicitly saying it is not: > However, the purpose of clean-room methodology is to ensure the resulting code is not a derivative work of the original. It is a me
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
I was unaware that the secretary of defence was a combat role? He (and his allies) have referred to him as "warfighter": https://www.radiofree.org/2025/04/23/look-ma-im-a-warfighter...
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
> Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is making a last-ditch attempt to strike a deal with the US defence department after the breakdown of negotiations last week left his company at risk of being frozen out of the military’s supply c
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
You have a car (I assume, replace “car” with whatever else if not). The government asks if they can rent your car. I hope we agree that you don’t have to say yes. (Specific exceptions exist to places of lodging etc.) Anthropic is exercising
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
This is another example of Goodhart's law in action, right? Weirdly Pediatrics (chart 7) skews the other way (less publications tended to get into residency programs)? Are those doctors/administrators/programs somehow seeing
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
Amazon had the concept of terminal role (SDE2, but I’ve heard it has changed) long before facebook existed.
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
The updated text still says: > For intelligence activities, any handling of private information will comply with the Fourth Amendment, the National Security Act of 1947 and the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act of 1978, Executive
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
> Setting AI aside for a moment, this reflects a broader issue in India and elsewhere. When institutions respond to new technologies with anger or threats rather than systemic thinking, it signals a deeper problem. No, especially in this
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by digitalPhonix 7mo ago
Is this just an ad for Delta? I couldn't find the answer to "Why Delta Air Lines Doesn't Want Blended Winglets on Most Aircraft Anymore" (just that they seem to have switched to the split-scimitar, not why) but I could f
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by digitalPhonix 8mo ago
You open with > Every driver in the UK has experienced this. Most assume the truck driver is being inconsiderate. But then go on to explain how that is exactly true. The truck driver is taking time from *all* drivers on "roughly 4.
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by digitalPhonix 8mo ago
Have you tried renting recently?
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by digitalPhonix 8mo ago
New CEO will be Asha Sharma, who was the president of CoreAI at Microsoft. It’s a little worrying that she has to include this preemptively in her statement: "We will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless
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by digitalPhonix 8mo ago
> Autopilots in airplanes are kind of dumb (keep heading, speed, and altitude, they won’t do much anything else) That is absolutely false. A 20 year old avionics suite in General Aviation (GTN 450) does much more than maintain altitude,
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by digitalPhonix 8mo ago
The trend is to include as much as the aircraft’s capabilities in the checkride now. For an IFR checkride, if you do it in an aircraft equipped with autopilot, at least one approach will have to be flown with the autopilot. Not sure if that

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