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by gnfargbl 7mo ago
What are the factors influencing the US Navy's position here? Not enough small/cheap ships for this work? Too hard to defend against guerilla speedboat attacks?
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by gnfargbl 7mo ago
On the scale of unacceptability, you're firmly in failing to wipe down the hand basin after using it territory. You get a pass.
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by gnfargbl 7mo ago
> Shaming individuals doesn't seem to be productive or helpful. I don't see how much support from history for that viewpoint. Some examples of positive societal change driven in part by shaming individuals: drink-driving, civil
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by gnfargbl 7mo ago
Eh, other people throw litter on the floor and rob elderly folks in their homes. Those people hardly ever get caught, but neither you nor I are are going to start copying their actions.
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by gnfargbl 7mo ago
On the other side of the coin, a wide-scale introduction of 20mph speed limits in Wales has been generally unpopular. This is despite a relatively small (but real) reduction in casualty figures that came with the change. https://
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The first transatlantic fiber-optic cable is being ripped up(tomshardware.com)
3 points by gnfargbl 8mo ago|1 comments
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by gnfargbl 8mo ago
This does not spark joy.
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by gnfargbl 8mo ago
It's how most of us are actually going to end up using AI agents for the foreseeable future, perhaps with increasing degrees of abstraction as we move to a teams-of-agents model. The industry hasn't come up with a simple meme-fo
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by gnfargbl 8mo ago
In a couple of decades of work, I have never actually met anyone like Julius. Typically, I have found that those who excel at listening and presenting are also capable of understanding the technology at an appropriate level for their role
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by gnfargbl 8mo ago
The point being made is that this argument is quite quickly going to become about as practicable as blaming Eve for all human sin.
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by gnfargbl 8mo ago
I am not sure how one even gets 250TB/mo through a 1Gbps link. In any case, completely saturating your networking for the full month is outside most people's definition of "fair use".
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by gnfargbl 8mo ago
I would use a $100/mo box with a much better CPU and more RAM, but I think the pinch point might be the 1Gbps unmetered networking that Hetzner provide. They will sell you a 10Gbps uplink however, with (very reasonably priced) metered
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by gnfargbl 8mo ago
There's more to this kind of a car the torque and straight-line speed. Take a look at this Tesla Model 3 Performance on the Nürburgring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdhYevUGwM , the brakes are overheated after a few
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by gnfargbl 8mo ago
And that's my point; it's okay to create new names for sub-disciplines, as Wolfram is doing here. Because that's what we have been doing since the days of Aristotle.
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by gnfargbl 8mo ago
By the same argument, it's mathematics because John Conway was a mathematician, and it's physics because Ulam and Von Neumann were physicists.
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by gnfargbl 8mo ago
Correct. It was never going to be a mass-market vehicle; it was an early adopter's product. Those products can still succeed, and their success proves the market and drives further innovation.
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by gnfargbl 8mo ago
Trimming the excess flush with the head is the correct way. It's not perfect, but it is much safer than leaving a sharp stub sticking out. The absolute worst thing is to trim at any angle other than 90 degrees -- doing that creates a s
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by gnfargbl 8mo ago
The EPA range of the NiMH EV-1 was 105 miles. That was, and is, sufficient for a good proportion of real-world use cases. If the EV-1 had been allowed to succeed, who says we wouldn't have had lithium batteries sooner?
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by gnfargbl 9mo ago
You're the reason why the author's assertion that there is a huge untapped market for this in the UK is probably wrong; most of the people technical enough to set this up are also going to be technical enough to pull new cables.
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by gnfargbl 9mo ago
Have you tried disabling GPU temporal dithering via BetterDisplay or StillColor? I had a similar problem with a different brand of monitor, and this has been the only reliable fix.
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by gnfargbl 9mo ago
This article is about the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, which aims to increase the security of critical assets, and to strengthen breach reporting requirements. It's puzzling to hear those steps described as "authoritarian.&
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by gnfargbl 9mo ago
No, it's more complicated than that: https://www.morganlewis.com/blogs/sourcingatmorganlewis/2022... The short answer is that scraping isn't a CFAA offence but might be a terms and conditions violation
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by gnfargbl 9mo ago
If this is about protecting third parties from being scraped, why does Google have an interest at all? Surely Google won't have the relevant third-party data itself because, as you say, Google respects robots.txt. So how can that data
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by gnfargbl 9mo ago
It's often interesting to observe the different ways that privacy is approached in the US and Europe. In Europe we often accept pretty grave restrictions of our liberty like the UK's Online Safety Act, which would never fly in the
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by gnfargbl 9mo ago
The answer lies in one of your questions: > Grocery stores closed to visitors, all shopping done online and delivered to your door In the UK at least, and I'm sure in a lot of other places, a solid proportion of groceries are no
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by gnfargbl 10mo ago
Claude tells me that there are about ~5000 theoretical high energy physicists actively publishing as tracked by INSPIRE-HEP (the de facto search engine in that field). If we estimate that about a third or half of string theorists take part
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by gnfargbl 10mo ago
Huge is a subjective term, but go and count the number of participants at Strings 2025 [1]. Then realise that is just one of many conferences [2]. It's still a very big field. [1] https://nyuad.shorthandstories.com/stri
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by gnfargbl 10mo ago
It isn't completely implausible that a future civilisation could perform the experiments to gather that data, somehow; but it is hard to envisage how we do it here on Earth. Your implicit point is a good one. Is it sensible to have a
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by gnfargbl 10mo ago
People often say that the problem with string theory is that it doesn't make any prediction, but that's not quite right: the problem is that it can make almost any prediction you want it to make. It is really less of a "theor
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by gnfargbl 10mo ago
Both you and the poster above you may be misunderstanding the point that Jonathan Hall KC appears to be making. If you take a look at what he actually writes [1], then it is pretty clear that he is presenting these hypothetical cases as exa

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