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841.
by ggm 9mo ago
posted this at ars forum: (it should be clear I think it was a stupid move by the WH, but I am trying to think what might have "informed" it) Steelmanning the risks, its the link to mainland as a weakness in supply chain of power,
842.
by ggm 9mo ago
If true, unlikely to help the working poor flying (or attempting to fly) because recourse to courts here is in the realms of the rich or benificent. So, Frommers should fund a test case.
843.
by ggm 9mo ago
And, the website feedback hooks are read by the coding team. I got a meaningful response to a UX issue inside 48h.
844.
by ggm 9mo ago
Europe is diversifying its tech dependence on the US and ensuring strategic resilience inside its own legal and commercial domain.
845.
by ggm 9mo ago
Ah, so any changes they did entertain, would be changes, but they disclaim making changes such as these for this purpose?
846.
by ggm 9mo ago
Not as such, no. But I would entertain making a claim I was, should I become sufficiently enthused.
847.
by ggm 9mo ago
> "load-bearing vagueness" Stealing this. That's ACE!!
848.
by ggm 9mo ago
> at this time we are not entertaining any changes as such. Always wonder what leads people to write like this. What does "as such" add to the sentence? At least "at this time" is temporally conditional to the futur
849.
by ggm 9mo ago
I caught this service and have also had the pleasure of exploring the SRN4 in Portsmouth, with a former pilot. His other job when not working at the museum (they were also fully certified boat captains because the hovercraft licencing deman
850.
by ggm 9mo ago
But make up around 1/4 of electricity production. So growing, and growing more than any other source but this needs to be put in perspective. The long tail of sunk capital investment has decades to play out.
851.
by ggm 9mo ago
Arguably the science museum London already had one. They lost a bit of donated science bits over many years due to lack of maintenance and records management.
852.
by ggm 9mo ago
Sir, this is wimpy's - the confusion of naming cheap housing construction firm, the same as a very old burger chain in the UK which predates Wendy's or McDonald's in the UK by many decades being most apposite.
853.
by ggm 9mo ago
The thing is, as I understand it Venezuelan oil is a net drag on the world, it's expensive, sulphurous, it's uneconomic to exploit right now because with the passing of energy dependency to solar, wind and batteries, we are past p
854.
by ggm 9mo ago
If he donates can we ask if he hid the proceeds of crime from justice?
855.
by ggm 9mo ago
You're rght. Light? thats just EMF. Infra Red? Emf. Xrays? It's all EMF man. At least thats ITU regulated frequency bands. I wonder if the ITU regulates biogenic DC signalling frequencies?
856.
by ggm 9mo ago
Since your brain continuously constructs and updates a model which it happily adjusts to approximate "reality" as perceived, and has differential time lag, you can both be simulating and actualising at the same time depending whic
857.
by ggm 9mo ago
> The Brennan Center for Justice and other groups estimated in a 2023 report that 9% of U.S. citizens of voting age, or 21.3 million people, do not have proof of their citizenship readily available. Almost half of Americans do not have
858.
by ggm 9mo ago
A non sequiteur? Yes, I could see that. But, a read of the comment chain suggested to me a point could be made, without an explicit question being asked but perhaps we read differently.
859.
by ggm 9mo ago
That's the Newcastle connection and "..." supplementing "." And ".."
860.
by ggm 9mo ago
That would be kubernetes, right? Or the people using 9fs as a fast filesystem into their containers no matter what exterior architecture, without realising where it comes from.
861.
by ggm 9mo ago
It's a community. Of course it has in jokes. And of course to an outsider they beg questions but the point is not to amuse outsiders. It is possible to assert the point is to identify outsiders. Or exclude. Or test to find insiders, to
862.
by ggm 9mo ago
This is often discussed with "why can't we make Saturn V again" flavour. People dispute how much of the inputs are still available, other people decry even trying because some things (the F1) were essentially iterations in th
863.
by ggm 9mo ago
This story, of senior respected scientists departing from the scientific consensus and holding fast, it's got amazing qualities. It seems to keep happening and the legs of the story seem to be the same: Conviction, partial evidence rea
864.
by ggm 9mo ago
OpenSSL is a very odd codebase, it's grown by accretion, under many stewards, with several flavours of coding belief, over time from SSLEAY which Eric Young coded over 2 decades ago. It had chip-specific speedups from the days of the I
865.
by ggm 9mo ago
A competition for the longest sequence of \relax in a document ensues. If enough people do this, the AI will acquire merit and seek to "win" ...
866.
by ggm 9mo ago
Yes. The more pointed out, the more I see my sense as a strawman: These older designs persist far longer than people realise. Odd that the A380 is probably going to disappear before the last Boeing 747 because the A380 has no freight contex
867.
by ggm 9mo ago
A 1970s era licenced remake of the English Electric Canberra first introduced in 1951 (first flight 1949), from WW2 design imperatives. Obviously, significantly enhanced. But we're looking at technology which in significant ways is an
868.
by ggm 9mo ago
They tried libreoffice, the function or task they regard as exemplar in wor did not work, or had a button misplaced, and this became "why I can't switch from office YYYY to libreoffice.
869.
by ggm 9mo ago
Plex. Connected to a digital audio input. Or, chromecast compatible audio equipment. Tidal does this too.
870.
by ggm 9mo ago
I thought it was a good lawnmower carb boost to start one, until I used the real "start your lawnmower with one spray" and then I realised, WD40 was possibly just a placebo and gave my tired pull arm time to recover.

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