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by eesmith 4mo ago
I'll say again: "And then there's something odd about thinking that if you connect to Facebook's data center in Ireland then that interaction with Facebook is fully regulated by the EU and the data is safe." The EU–
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by eesmith 4mo ago
You'll end up with warning fatigue. For example, the French Parliament at https://www.parlement.fr/ uses fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com . The Spanish Senate at https://www.senado.es/web&#x2F
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by eesmith 4mo ago
Who would use it? Like, if you are in Germany and want to travel to the UK then you need to use a UK site to get an Electronic Travel Authorization. UK is not in the EU, so you'll need another browser. Norway and Switzerland are also n
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by eesmith 4mo ago
Microsoft and Amazon should have been restricted, due to their monopoly power, long before 5 years ago. I've read enough of the pre-Borkian (ie, pre-1980s) history of antitrust law to know this was very actionable. They were not easily
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by eesmith 4mo ago
From the 1960 children's novel 'Mike's Mystery' from the Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner, at https://archive.org/details/mikesmystery00warn/page/28/mode/... &g
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by eesmith 5mo ago
Does it matter? Is 8GB enough for marketing AI acceleration on a professional laptop? If not, then the reasons don't make a difference if it can't achieve the marketed use. My take-home message is Microsoft's hypocrisy, like
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by eesmith 5mo ago
This isn't about "empirical proof of either slowdowns or efficiency gains" but ways in which the process of evaluating its capabilities can be flawed. The first paragraph is: "Suppose your manager asks you next week to d
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by eesmith 5mo ago
I assume you are implying you disagree with the summary given, and not making a general observation about how some studies are flawed. Aggregated by date: 2026 3 2025 7 2024 1 2023 3 2022 1 2021 1 2019 1 1984 1
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by eesmith 5mo ago
Because "completely" isn't read to include everything down to tardigrades and E.coli. To start, here are examples of (seemingly knowledgeable) people using that phrase: "The Atlantic lowland forest of Brazil compris
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by eesmith 5mo ago
Oh, interesting! I read https://www.newsinenglish.no/2024/10/01/cash-cleared-for-a-c... and https://www.lifeinnorway.net/norway-strengthens-right-to-pay... . The point of budgeting via "
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by eesmith 5mo ago
If it requires (or will require) Google/Apple authentication then it's of course not sovereign payment. It looks like Wero works on GrapheneOS, at least for now. Will that always be possible? Will it always be smartphone only, or
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by eesmith 5mo ago
"A biome (/ˈbaɪ.oʊm/ BY-ohm) is a distinct geographical region with specific climate, vegetation, animal life, and an ecosystem. It consists of a biological community that has formed in response to its physical environment an
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by eesmith 5mo ago
Links to an opinion piece by Kyle Smith, film critic and columnist in the Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/al-gores-long-an... I don't know why his views are supposed to be tha
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by eesmith 5mo ago
Wow, I messed up there! You were talking about Connections. I watched The Day The Universe Changed. Just realized my mistake now, and watched Connections episode 1. Yeah, totally about technology traps.
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by eesmith 5mo ago
I think it's pretty surprising for you to make that "Probably no Hiroshiaite" claim given that the linked-to Wikipedia article says it exists: "Following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, it was discovered in 2016 that be
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by eesmith 5mo ago
Yes, even the steel support structure and copper electrical wiring affect the trinitite composition.
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by eesmith 5mo ago
The book "The Annotated Alice", mention by a couple of people here, says that is one valid interpretation, at https://archive.org/details/agt-annotated-alice-5807b6/page/... : > The simplest expl
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by eesmith 5mo ago
Several others have mentioned Martin Gardner's book "Annotated Alice". It has a section on the Cheshire cat's grin, at https://archive.org/details/agt-annotated-alice-5807b6/page/... >
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by eesmith 5mo ago
We do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitite#Similar_materials says "Occasionally, the name trinitite is broadly applied to all glassy residues of nuclear bomb testing, not just the Trinity test" and lists
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by eesmith 5mo ago
How often in the US does a "bunch of friends drive over to barbecue and watch TV on your giant screen"? My experience is that it's rare. Even the math doesn't work out that well -- if "a bunch" is 6 friends, th
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by eesmith 5mo ago
I beliebe q3k's comment should be read as "[even if it's acceptable to the most stringent of gatekeepers] then this would be churn for the sake of churn."' Not that only idiomatic Rust is appropriate.
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by eesmith 5mo ago
Or as the article puts it: "Over the long run, it’s true that the Industrial Revolution radically boosted economic growth. But living through it was another matter entirely. Many people saw their wages stagnate and working conditions d
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by eesmith 5mo ago
The text said "some instances". If you're next to a hydropower dam and are willing to pay for it, you can outbid others, who then switch to non-renewable sources. The dam can only put out so much energy. Ideally you'll s
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by eesmith 5mo ago
I just watched the first episode. The simulated nuclear attack did terrify me. That said, his commentary about telecommuting is spot-on. At 39:49 of https://archive.org/details/the-day-the-universe-changed-s01... . &qu
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by eesmith 5mo ago
Remote attestation is a policy, not a technology. The policy is "I will not let you access this system unless your system software implements this technological protection." A camera is technology. A security camera is policy, bec
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by eesmith 5mo ago
Life isn't a play based on narrative conservation and necessity. All sorts of things go into the Congressional Record. If there were, we would expect something more from https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record&#x2
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by eesmith 5mo ago
In parts of the US (well, eBay.com) you can by bills of 50 trillion from Europe for very little. In other words, Africa is a big place. Just say "Zimbabwe".
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by eesmith 5mo ago
Correct. They knew the address. Someone had to live there to use it. The first time I needed to show id for phone service was for my first cell phone in 1999, and I thought it was odd to need it. By that time I had had 5 different land line
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by eesmith 5mo ago
Do not make that slur become acceptable again. And from what can tell, this advice is "move fast and break things. YOLO!"
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by eesmith 5mo ago
We can see what that looks like in PLATO, which started in the 1960s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system) . "Courses were taught in a range of subjects, including Latin, chemistry, education, mus

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