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by dmurray 11mo ago
In Ireland, the police (and the public) look on the UK regime with envy. After this case [0] the standing orders are that it's basically never worth it, you risk a prosecution no matter what the circumstances. [0] https://m.
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by dmurray 11mo ago
This matches other sources on the internet: a bomb requires about 15kg of U-235 [0] with a good use of neutron reflectors, and HEU by definition contains 20%+ of U-235 [1]. We don't know exactly what the U-235 concentration was in the
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by dmurray 11mo ago
Why then does the NTSB point blame so much at the single wiring issue? Shouldn't they have the context to point to the 5 things that went wrong in the Swiss cheese and not pat themselves on the back with having found the almost-irrelev
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by dmurray 11mo ago
Source for it being a composite? The article says under the headline > This is not photoshopped. That’s really a person falling in front of the Sun. I haven't watched all the videos. From the Reddit thread, it sounds like it was pho
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by dmurray 11mo ago
> Side note, would anybody know how "easily" do political elites get off the hook in France? The actual ex-president got sentenced to jail time last month (and even served some of it) so you're at least not guaranteed to e
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by dmurray 11mo ago
In that case, how does the week's training help at all? Maybe it's helpful just for you to understand the way the military is organised: if you are conscripted you should report to this base, you'll sleep here, your commandin
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by dmurray 11mo ago
If you can produce a clean design , the LLM can write the code .
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by dmurray 11mo ago
There are some economics of scale that work best at the country level. Even with the EU single market, mobile phone operations almost always follow country borders. You'll get a different set of providers in Germany than you'll ge
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by dmurray 1y ago
(Not a supporter of the administration but...) It's an order to form a standing army, not an order to deploy troops anywhere in particular. The article describes a recruitment and training drive that sounds like it should take 3-12 mon
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by dmurray 1y ago
I thought the writing was banal but fine. The stars of the show are the images, not the text. Assuming it's largely LLM written, this seems like a good use of that technology. The text adds some pieces of information you wouldn't
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by dmurray 1y ago
But the control group was families who did opt in and who lost the lottery.
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by dmurray 1y ago
A bit of both. He definitely did criminal things, but they look worse because Gaddafi was such a politically unpopular ("terrorist") leader in the west. If he'd got the same funding from the Obama regime, surely he would neve
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by dmurray 1y ago
"Gross margin" is not the same as "hold" here. Options pricing is reasonably competitive. Even a gambly thing like a Tesla zero day option has a spread of 1-2%, so someone trading it at random loses 0.5-1% per trade. And
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by dmurray 1y ago
One of the weird things for computer people about the Irish voting system is that it's non-deterministic! You can count the same ballots in a different order and get a different result (because it depends which votes you choose as &quo
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by dmurray 1y ago
This is a good point and it completely fits serf's concern. So OK, I change my answer, it is reasonable to be concerned about exploits from just copying malicious content to the clipboard.
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by dmurray 1y ago
The engineers who wrote your browser already thought of this and made sure it wouldn't work. In case anyone mocks you for this, though, it's not a stupid question at all : there have been 1-click and 0-click attacks with vectors
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by dmurray 1y ago
The command helpfully already tells you where you can find a base64 decoder: it's in /usr/bin/base64. Assuming you already have a ChatGPT window handy, which many people do these days, I don't think it's any wo
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by dmurray 1y ago
> Is there any guide for us non-americans to help us gain enough grasp on the rules to, at least, understand the dynamics of the game? If you've already read "no matter how many" and don't get it? Then no, you probabl
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by dmurray 1y ago
Convertible debt is very different: if you do the same (simplistic) analysis as in the article, it behaves almost like the equity example, not the debt one.
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by dmurray 1y ago
And that's why there are a hundred different possible values for LC_COLLATE, and it's completely normal that two popular Unix distributions picked different default values for that setting...right? It would have been reasonable to
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by dmurray 1y ago
It's a modern style of a lot of publications that want to appear progressive or fear appearing insufficiently progressive. Black people (specifically this means people in the US who have dark skin and whose ancestry is in the US) have
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by dmurray 1y ago
Since this goes back to 1995 I'd also like to request Franc Sinatra, Nick Gilder, and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.
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by dmurray 1y ago
Natural gas is odourless, so the smell of a gas leak is artificially chosen. They could have just made all the piped gas smell like croissants instead.
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by dmurray 1y ago
And plenty of people living with diabetes manage to self-medicate with injections multiple times a day.
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by dmurray 1y ago
Also, lab mice only live for ~2 years. A study of mice for significantly longer than that doesn't make sense.
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by dmurray 1y ago
> Ignoring the question of why there's some random assignment to x in the first place, where are its type hints? Those were added starting with Python 3.5 via PEP 484 just over 10 years ago and have been added to since then. The cod
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by dmurray 1y ago
Type checking in Python involves guessing. Take a program like x = [3] Should the type checker guess that the type of x is list[Any], or list[int], or list[Literal[3]], or something else? Libraries you depend on will pose more difficult ver
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by dmurray 1y ago
Building the wheels and frame out of plastic is a fun gimmick, but they're selling this as a low maintenance option that "doesn't rust or require lubrication". If they really have an all-plastic drivetrain that competes
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by dmurray 1y ago
It does seem like a lot of money, but distributed across all Americans it's not that insane. Americans spend approximately the same on election ads as on chewing gum. Here's a source, but h/t James Gleick for the comparison:
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by dmurray 1y ago
I feel most laptops still don't work completely out of the box with Linux, so you don't have to hunt for old hardware. Maybe you won't find an issue as simple as fixing a button, though.

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