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by ggm 8mo ago
I don't think they do hate it, any more than they hate "A Beautiful Mind" which is a pale shadow of Nash's real life, or "The Man Who Knew Infinity" about Srinivasa Ramanujan, or Breneditch Cumbersome's in
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by ggm 8mo ago
Tolkien and Jansson shared one thing: people did translations of their work which they totally hated So it's sort-of funny that she wound up pissing him off with artwork which didn't fit his mental model, when they both experien
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by ggm 8mo ago
The lived reality for most traffic by packetflow is that it goes from you, through your ISP, to a CDN close to your ISP logistically speaking. It has almost zero global routing impact, and global addressing impact is low. It might as well b
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by ggm 8mo ago
A significant component of the price gap is indeed subsidy. It would be foolish to say otherwise. It's $4700 of a $9000 price gap and thats not nothing. Delaying payment to suppliers is a dog act. Thats no way to build business. I don&
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by ggm 8mo ago
Can't say I ever noticed or used this space, and I'm glad a more organic self editorialised model persists because I think this smells of monetised search feed. I wonder if this was google justifying cash splash on trad media and
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by ggm 8mo ago
Noting that we have always been at war with Eurasia, given we actually are not at war with Eurasia, would it not be both normal and sensible to at least know your Eurasian counterparts? I think isolationism amongst the war party is less hel
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by ggm 8mo ago
You would think it either discussed differences with FresBSD jails, or chose another name.
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by ggm 8mo ago
Lifestyle choices, stress and the known risks of heart issues with covid and related infection. The far smaller percentage of risk of heart problems from covid vaccination exists, but is overwhelmed (it would seem) by these other factors. I
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by ggm 8mo ago
A lot of older paperbacks seemed to use a lower grade of woodchip fibre and truly awful glue. Admittedly I live in the subtropics which is very unkind to books but it's my airport thrillers, cheap scifi and old penguin and pelican book
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by ggm 8mo ago
My priorities changed massively, as I partnered up with a local. My weightings definitely changed. One thing to bear in mind is that legalisms in migration often penalise age. It is possible your window to migrate is closing. Also, your ass
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by ggm 8mo ago
These kinds of multivariate decisions are extremely hard and what decision support systems were designed to work with. Typically you construct a model with all the qualitative questions, and a process which weighs each of them against each
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by ggm 8mo ago
That detail is important. Yes, they would but I guess what it would exclude is trans people unwilling to be "deadnamed" or a more appropriate term including misgendering.
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by ggm 8mo ago
The only book less likely to be sold was "voyage to Arcturus" which is the worst most depressing Sci fi fantasy ever. That, or future shock by Alvin toffler.
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by ggm 8mo ago
Copies hung around my partners secondhand bookshop for years. This was in the 1980s. Properly shelved under "esoterica" 1st Ed. Now worth $6,000 oh well.
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by ggm 8mo ago
Presumably this feeds voter ID and so also is designed to exclude them from the poll.
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by ggm 8mo ago
Farming is odd, because there's a huge inter-generational phobia about selling the heritage, but there's also a degree of pragmatism (bad year? shoot the cows) going on. And, there's also often a massive debt overhang, tolera
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by ggm 8mo ago
How would this work in the context of the various VM models like UTM on OSX? If this is a path to a good underlying abstraction, it would be nice to get better 2D rendering.
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by ggm 8mo ago
Chip making has a long, torrid history of using toxic, long lived chemicals and not cleaning up very well. They also use a lot of water, and that's often a concern with supply level continuity at risk. If you don't take great care
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by ggm 8mo ago
Oddly, The AI company doing the deals with the US military, and refusing to step over a line on the use of their tech, is the same company which just removed a key word from their mission statement, one which in some ways was a visible sta
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by ggm 8mo ago
Run local root. Rootservers are not essential. It's in ietf draft discussion now as 4 documents but already works and just has to be turned on. If you want to change pace, ask your dns sw provider to turn on local root by default. (One
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by ggm 8mo ago
"made" == "assembled"
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by ggm 8mo ago
Yes, and here is the result. The question was can you give me a critique of __https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16291__ And the last part of the response was: Overall assessment This is an intriguing paper with genui
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by ggm 8mo ago
I fed the abstract into an AI with the prompt: can you give me a critique of https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16291 from the point of view of a functional programmer who is skeptical and I liked the answer. I won't
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by ggm 8mo ago
I wish there was a HN flag for sarcasm. I guess the intent is that it's a gating function, "you have to be this tall to understand my humour" thing. I don't have to pic and chose who I hate, in the world of AI product of
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by ggm 8mo ago
Just at the time when the cohort of COBOL programmers who wrote the business logic and compliance s/w for almost all finance/fintech institutions which predate the modern era of software, and exist as inner core "DO NOT TOUCH
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by ggm 8mo ago
Normally I hate the video links posted here, but I did this one with subtitles and 2x speed and it was informative, and the diagrams for once aided comprehension. It made some things which have confused me in the ontology of fan/prob&#
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by ggm 8mo ago
In 1985, a microwave was affordable and portable, if you had to do a rapid flit. If a house was set up for gas, then the stove (which typically was left in a house) was gas. If you were illegally occupying a house scheduled to be demolished
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by ggm 8mo ago
In 1986 I briefly lived in a squat in North London, and the gas had been disconnected. We cooked everything in the Microwave, and we ate nutritious and completely unexpected (to me) normal meals, like Lasagne made with dried pasta, which us
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by ggm 8mo ago
I'm guessing the Aircraft tracking is so that when you film yourself, you have something sexy with a map on it, for the Instagram?
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by ggm 8mo ago
This is an archive of the service which is being shut down under the current WH administration?

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