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by fmajid 1mo ago
“Niquer” means “to f*ck” in French slang
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by fmajid 1mo ago
They forgot to mention the most famous corvids in mythology, Odin’s familiars Huginn and Muninn
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by fmajid 2mo ago
and has a touchscreen
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by fmajid 2mo ago
I have the older Paper-S3, which has better specs (larger screen and battery, 16-level grayscale) and also has a Crosspoint Reader port. Nice device, clearer screen than my Pocketbook Verse.
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by fmajid 2mo ago
Revolut pulled that stunt, I cancelled my account with them.
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by fmajid 2mo ago
No, UEFA is performing discovery in Florida on FIFA's US affiliates to gather evidence of Infantino's corruption. The suit against Infantino will still be filed in Switzerland since that's where FIFA is headquartered (in Züri
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by fmajid 2mo ago
Hmmm. Reminds me of 1999, when I worked for Dutch ISP EuroNet Internet BV, and the legacy telco KPN claimed it did not have capacity on its phone network and needed at least 2 years to connect our modems. Odd that a country whose very exist
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by fmajid 2mo ago
My parents in France replaced their 40 year old gas boiler with a heat pump 5 years ago, half subsidized by the government, then replaced their gas range with induction and got rid of gas altogether. This includes hot water (using a tank).
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by fmajid 2mo ago
This is what happens when Boomer politicians are finally kicked to the curb.
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by fmajid 2mo ago
Old people are ruining their grandchildren’s lives everywhere , not just in Slovakia.
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by fmajid 2mo ago
If you're using a Mac, it could be from the brain-dead way Apple OSes implement WiFi based geolocation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31356730
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by fmajid 2mo ago
For a while I had wireless mesh networking in my new house, until I finally got around to pulling fiber to get a proper 10Gbps backbone. Upgrading from my UniFi WiFi6E AP to a WiFi 7 doubled my effective throughput as measured by SpeedTest.
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by fmajid 2mo ago
No, Congress itself is, for not giving its own Library the resources to do is job.
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by fmajid 2mo ago
The SAAB + Bombardier (Swedish + Canadian) GlobalEye AWACS already exists (in service in the UAE) and is superior to the US alternatives.
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by fmajid 2mo ago
GitHub’s scaling problem is handling huge numbers of relatively small repos at high concurrency. This is not the same problem as Google, Microsoft, Meta et al who have terabyte-scale monorepos, and all have lazy-load solutions to create vir
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by fmajid 2mo ago
It is correct about the current status of Tibet, as recognized by the US or India, but of course wrong about the past, as China’s claim to sovereignty effectively lies in claims to be the successor to the Mongol Yuan dynasty of Kubilay Kh
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by fmajid 2mo ago
The AI companies’ working assumption is that if someone found it worth printing, it has enough information content to help train a model. That assumption might be invalid with some of the more rambling self-published books, however.
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by fmajid 2mo ago
Since they seem to leapfrog each others’ models every few months, the training data is one of the few ways they can build competitive advantage, and that explains why they don’t share, even if we don’t have to like this.
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by fmajid 2mo ago
They should send them to The Internet Archive instead.
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by fmajid 2mo ago
The Internet Archive tries to be that magical library, but they can only scan and physically archive what is sent to them.
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by fmajid 2mo ago
Aren’t publishers required to deposit a copy with the Library of Congress (in the US), or the British Library (in the UK) etc. to claim copyright?
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by fmajid 2mo ago
Soviet applied mathematicians, mostnotably Kantorovitch, made major contributions to linear programming in the 1930s (not the 60s), precisely to make central planning viable, but it's the US that cracked the nut with George Dantzig&#x2
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by fmajid 2mo ago
So does that mean modern human females are less efficient at walking or locomotion than men?
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by fmajid 2mo ago
My turn of phrase, yes. The immediate after-war years were quite grim, even after £1B Marshall plan ($13B in 2026 dollars) reconstruction aid, almost as much as Germany got. In 1850 the colonial income represented half of all government rev
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by fmajid 2mo ago
I didn’t even realize Claude Code doesn’t honor AGENTS.md. Nothing a quick sed -i -e s/CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md/g can’t fix
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by fmajid 2mo ago
Both the UK and the Netherlands budgets relied heavily on wealth extraction from India and Indonesia respectively during the colonial era (~$50 trillion over 200 years for the UK and around $34T for the Netherlands). That kind of money sp
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by fmajid 2mo ago
The approved term is “Axlotl tank”
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by fmajid 2mo ago
And ollama were sketchy about not providing proper credit to llama.cpp, even though that’s all they are, a wrapper for it.
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by fmajid 2mo ago
The Chinese government may not be a bastion of the rule of law, but they at least seem to still have a functioning antitrust enforcement.
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by fmajid 2mo ago
In the 90s I remember billboards on US-101 for VHDL something or the other. At least people have heard of AI. But yes, these low-effort and occasionally creepy billboards are nowhere near as entertaining as the old Lombardi Sports ads (&quo

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