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by ggm 8mo ago
In 1982 I joined Leeds university as a computer operator/assistant. First job out of a CS degree in another uni. The department head was a laser physics specialist and I, and other snobs used to say "what does a laser man know abo
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by ggm 8mo ago
periodically the various forces tackling CSAM release images which are ENTIRELY SFW, and are purely of a jersey, a backpack, a location, a tea setting, and ask people to tell them things: Was this available in Belgium? Did you ever see this
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by ggm 8mo ago
That's fair.
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by ggm 8mo ago
American pharma has an overhang on the world unequal to its size as a population. 350m consumers isn't nothing, but set against the world, its not everything either. So you would hope "the market" manages just fine with Canad
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by ggm 8mo ago
The underlying tech in a signed public ledger, using chaining methods and merkle trees to record things with non-repudiation, thats useful. I went to a meeting which included people from the Reserve Bank of Australia or the financial regula
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by ggm 8mo ago
> That being said, no, it wouldn't particularly surprise me if Y Combinator sends data to Palantir. A point I hadn't thought of before. A denial at this point wouldn't mean much because with the API and some sensible pac
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by ggm 8mo ago
"Lost at sea" and "lost with all hands" exemplifying a ship sinking, precision to place is neither denied nor supplied. It's a net loss to the fleet, the shareholders and the insurer. And of course wives and childre
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by ggm 8mo ago
Do both. It's not like other companies don't do the same, Microsoft sell surface as well as Windows. Samsung sell tech to Apple and compete with Apple.
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by ggm 8mo ago
It's not all bots. Some people back this push, and FB is where they hang. I don't think this stuff is why people will be pulled out of line at CBP, but it will inform why they are bounced, should they otherwise come to the attenti
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by ggm 8mo ago
No, your view is valid. The people in Venezuela deserved better than the government they had, and expropriation of the oil assets broke the system and they were left to rot. It's stupid. The parade of refugees down through Brazil to Ur
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by ggm 8mo ago
I didn't expect "just put it in the DNS" to translate to "woof woof woof woof woof" but .. it kind of makes Woof.
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by ggm 8mo ago
Somebody on staff dreamed this up, he's just saying yes. I agree to the above being how it sold to him, but he didn't think this up, I would expect somebody else decided this was their 4D chess move, and he got the headlines.
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by ggm 8mo ago
I think like most people in power, he works to satisfy a domestic agenda. If he can use this to leverage a lower pump price, he wins. If he can gain traction with the oil companies in dispute over stranded assets and losses in Venezuela, he
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by ggm 8mo ago
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reportedly been asking tech companies for information on accounts posting anti-ICE sentiments. According to The New York Times, DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Redd
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DHS has reportedly sent out subpoenas to identify ICE critics online(engadget.com)
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by ggm 8mo ago
https://archive.md/qTxAX
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by ggm 8mo ago
"Expositional Adventure" should be the title of a book about OSS/CIA action in europe during and after the war. I like to think of the coffee and wine drunk to write all those artists manifestos the French intellectuals insis
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by ggm 8mo ago
Isn't the LRB the one which people buy for the lonely hearts ad? "neurotic, high functioning oxbridge reject seeks rich older man to predate, future matrimony possible if you can satisfy my need for Proust reading and cake"
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by ggm 8mo ago
We're beyond peak oil. Not peak from lack of available reserves, peak because we need and consume less. OPEC and other market/supply manipulation, plus collusive behaviour explains pricing more than availability. Why would anyone
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by ggm 8mo ago
One of those counterfactual moments. Like many other 5:2 practicing people I did it, and I moved on, but the weightloss was real to me, and I have managed to keep below my peak. Other forms of dieting did not "stick" and so if its
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by ggm 8mo ago
Porque no los dos? Keep on doing IPR focussed design. Grow deeper roots into a foundry, work on integration of the tech into FPGA and big chip/platter stuff for AI. If AI tanks, the work will find a value point. We all want more memory
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by ggm 8mo ago
Although much of this resonates, the factoid here is that taylorism is a thing, and since before Marx economists have debated the extent to which piecework over time-rate alters the equation for paying for the labour inputs in capital. Bein
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by ggm 8mo ago
This has happened before. I think given the legalisms around pets, ownership, responsibility, all of the chip registry companies should have been required to put the data into escrow, with a recovery plan and a handler of last resort in the
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by ggm 8mo ago
One of those least-worst choices? What if the intensity was modulated as a function of the dB of externally sourced sounds?
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by ggm 8mo ago
"Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole"," is Evelyn Waugh's take on the gentleman naturalist in "Scoop" (1938) a role which Peter Matthiessen seems to have taken to heart. It's a j
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by ggm 8mo ago
BBC Micro, Acorn Atom, Commadore PET. all kinds of home computer. So prime retro material late 70s early 80s. There's a CP/M port. So you can use PIP which traces it's lineage back to the DEC Tops-10 operating system if not b
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by ggm 8mo ago
Never felt American Lounges got the point. Absolutely agree (unsurprisingly) the international ones are just better executed. Mainly, I just want to unwind a bit and then get home. I know people who pick routing to get a specific lounge (tu
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by ggm 9mo ago
I miss russetted apples. Rough skin, go fantastic with Wensleydale or Cheshire, sharp or chalk crumb cheese. They just don't exist in Australian fruit, as if the industry has decided not to do them. I think russetting is held to be &qu
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by ggm 9mo ago
I have a self winding mechanical with a 24h rotating bezel which I love. But, I'm wearing a citizen JJY/DCF synchronised solar powered unit. It's aesthetics are good, and the dual time functions fantastic, and with a rPI radi
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by ggm 9mo ago
Can't be half pregnant with this administration. Nobody sets limits on the war departments "what if" modelling. If it makes sense to model decimating the population "pour encourager les autres" and Anthropic doesn&#

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