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by dmurray 3mo ago
This seems like an interesting solution, even if it's absurdist at first thought. What if we just shift the steel bar in Greenwich 20 metres east or west instead of adding a leap second? Then everything would theoretically be correct.
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by dmurray 3mo ago
Quite a few MPs in Westminster already don't take their physical seats in Parliament (and never vote or address the House) because the conditions attached to doing so aren't compatible with their principles. Maybe Count Binface wi
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by dmurray 3mo ago
Or...that you would be comfortable relocating if you did lose your job, helped by the buffer of savings you accumulated by not having to pay for your house?
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by dmurray 3mo ago
I suppose Google also has the user-collected data that can tell you which routes are going to be busy. Almost impossible for OSM to replicate that.
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by dmurray 3mo ago
Have advances in explosives, fuses and quality control made fireworks safer in the last 40 years? Or perhaps the safety improvements are offset by sellers now offering bigger fireworks (either because those are now actually safe and both bu
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by dmurray 3mo ago
Fireworks on holidays were also a huge part of Chinese culture, but they've been banned now in cities and the ban seems to be mostly effective. China even has the same issue as the US, where they aren't banned at the national leve
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by dmurray 3mo ago
Isn't OSM the data layer, and people are free to build apps on top of it? "The data is better than Google maps, it just needs a better routing algorithm" should be catnip to a certain class of OS dev. If it's really true
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by dmurray 3mo ago
Are the tech hipsters disproportionately in the areas already covered by AT&T? It seems plausible , if Apple and AT&T were targeting similar demographics that Apple would choose AT&T as its first partner. But it's on the e
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by dmurray 3mo ago
It worked great for me recently buying running shoes. I knew what shoes I wanted, there are plenty of no-name merchants selling them, competing on price (last year's model, so not being sold in big name stores). Click through each of t
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by dmurray 3mo ago
Am I missing something important or does the author completely skip over whether people got the agent to respond to them? > Fiu was instructed not to reply to emails (it was too expensive to reply to every email), but it had the ability
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by dmurray 4mo ago
This just seems way better and more likely to be solved with lidar, or a similar passive solution, rather than relying on your bike to broadcast "this guy is more vulnerable/faster/more litigious than you expect, so be really
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by dmurray 4mo ago
What information would your bike send to the car in this example that would help? We're closer to having lidar in all new cars than this mesh network, so "There's a bike behind you travelling approximately X speed" is so
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by dmurray 4mo ago
Even if you don't think he goes too far ethically , you can probably agree that it's reasonable for the police to intervene once he's interfering with the cars of government ministers.
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by dmurray 4mo ago
Does it ever get abused? "This PR introduces the ability for Clickhouse to mine Bitcoin...":
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by dmurray 4mo ago
Does your country sanction all other countries that start "random wars", or just Russia?
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by dmurray 4mo ago
Have you played the game? The board today has three parties and the winning solution is to make sure your party wins one district and the other parties tie in the other four. Under any real world system, you will lose this election if you r
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by dmurray 4mo ago
Right. I'm replying to the commentator who questioned how we could possibly purchase and staff enough MRI machines to give people regular full body scans. I'm saying there's no question that would be economically viable. The
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by dmurray 4mo ago
MRI machines cost in the six figures [0], last 10+ years and could reasonably do thousands of full-body scans a year. That's basically free by healthcare standards. Rent for the room to put it in would cost more in most cities. MRI ope
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by dmurray 4mo ago
Most of the neighbourhood names in my large European city were like this on Google Maps. Either old names or hyperspecific landmark/street names that I had never heard being used as synecdoche for the area. This was definitely true 4
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by dmurray 4mo ago
But don't we all feel sure he could have rolled along for three or two or one more year? Surely it's not like his creativity ran out suddenly on Jan 1 1996 and he had no more comic strips in him. And it's not like the quality
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by dmurray 4mo ago
So like... One in four cars would break down at the side of the road before it was otherwise EOL? One roadside breakdown every 800,000 miles or so? That really doesn't sound bad.
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by dmurray 4mo ago
25% every journey, or 25% over the lifetime of the car? Neither seems really believable but I don't understand how else you would measure this.
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by dmurray 4mo ago
If I understand right, the hard part is purifying the radioactive material. Even if you have access to a uranium mine, there's a lot of work to filter the U-235 from the U-238 or to breed it into plutonium. It's even harder if y
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by dmurray 4mo ago
It might solve it for the majority of people by compute use, though. Charge $100,000 one time auditing fee to get approved for it. For a Fortune 500 company or EU government agency or a big NGO that's nothing.
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by dmurray 4mo ago
I'd be inclined to pay more for it getting it from my friend than on a second hand marketplace. It removes the chance I'm going to be scammed, or the product isn't as described, or the seller will leave me a bad review. On th
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by dmurray 4mo ago
You can be strict about who you do business with while still respecting their privacy once they are set up. The respectable, politically popular country setting this up would simply say yes to the International Criminal Court, but no to Put
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by dmurray 4mo ago
It's much more than that. There's plenty of market for people and companies who don't specialise in cloud software. The market for programmers who don't use AI is going to be more like the market for programmers who don&
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by dmurray 4mo ago
The announcement I saw was that your enterprise would have to turn off ZDR to get Fable, not that users could accidentally opt out of ZDR by selecting the wrong model. Unilaterally disabling ZDR seems like a step too far in the enterprise m
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by dmurray 4mo ago
> So, unless you are a Spanish trader from the 16th century or have a book with fractional stocks from the 90s, HandsOnMoney will serve you well. US treasury futures are still priced in 32nds of a dollar increments. Sorry, that's no
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by dmurray 4mo ago
It is extremely uncommon, in fact, to the extent that the English premier league doesn't have a single player "6'8" or upward". Lots of 6'4" players, though, which is comfortably tall enough for profession

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