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by graemep 8d ago
and no giant.
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by graemep 8d ago
Its not the last aircraft carrier in Asia, as there are three in the Indian Ocean. It is also a failure, not a policy, and if the US is struggling in more important regions its all the more reason to pull back from Europe.
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by graemep 8d ago
> Does the US really want to be facing a Europe with multiple nuclear powers and thousands of warheads? Why not? There is no causus belli to fear, and Russia and China already have lots of weapons. Europe is not really a sleeping giant.
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by graemep 8d ago
NATO was formed to counter the threat of the Soviet Union which no longer exists. Russia is nothing like the same threat to the US that the Soviet Union was. The US is now more concerned about China. Europe was economically and militarily i
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by graemep 8d ago
"Politicians speech are not worth listening too because they have a copywriter polish them?" It often makes them less informative and a lot less sincere.
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by graemep 8d ago
> Ceinture et bretelles I do not know much French but that seems to translate literally into the common English phrase "belt and braces"
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by graemep 8d ago
and if you hand hold its not vibe coding.
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by graemep 9d ago
> Countless other mathematical curiosities were developed in the 1700s -- and forgotten. Calculus just happens to be the one that found practical applications later, so that's the one that's well known today. 1. You may not agr
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by graemep 9d ago
In that case I think its a good system. Its very similar to an incremental backup in what it achieves.
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by graemep 9d ago
Yes, but all the more reason to preserve it if you have it. There is survivorship bias in thinking that all older furniture is good, but I am thinking about old furniture that has lasted well.
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by graemep 9d ago
Its enogh for you or me. Not for someone who has never used a command line.
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by graemep 9d ago
If its falling apart its not good furniture. A lot of old furniture is better than all but very expensive new stuff. My kids like my parents' and grandparents' furniture.
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by graemep 9d ago
Its not Islam. The article mentions several Muslim majority countries as being more effective militarily than Arab countries, and many other Muslim countries seem to have competent militaries. Arab armies were historically effective. I wond
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by graemep 9d ago
What if that happens after your monthly creation of a new backup.
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by graemep 9d ago
"I chose wordpress for many reasons, but the main reason is because I wanted a fully dynamic website to so I can surface and display relationships between my content" Static site generators can do this. There is a lack of static s
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by graemep 9d ago
rsync can delete remote files with --delete or --delete-after What is missing is recovering accidentally deleted or corrupted data.
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by graemep 10d ago
IIRC it was not a refusal to allow Scotland to use the pound but to give a Scotland a say in setting interest rates, and even that was not a hard no because terms had not been agreed
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by graemep 10d ago
It definitely is a lot more specific than that. It means, at the very least means having certain views on the causes of injustices, and on the policies required to fix them, and even on how one judges whether there has been an injustice in
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by graemep 10d ago
> I believe the 4th doctor discuss what pronouns to use for an alien. An alien, not a human. > There have been several episodes essentially about slavery in the 10th and 11th doctors runs. Progressive in 1830 maybe. In the 21st centu
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by graemep 10d ago
> It's like Christian rock music its usually not good though. If it was good they would not market it as Christian. Lots of bands have Christian lyrics without Christian marketing - U2 for example. I suppose that is the equivalent o
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by graemep 10d ago
> it's also an extremely well known phenomenon that average non tech users, in the aggregate of millions of people, will click almost any "yes/I agree/continue/Next" step on a software installer or new user
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by graemep 10d ago
> "running shoes I looked at last week" / "Here's what I found in your browsing history:" Does that need an LLM at all?
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by graemep 10d ago
> You could, but it might be difficult to hear yourself over the explosive laughter of everybody around you. yes, i was just pointing out the inconsistency. > Which country would you say has a closer relationship with the King of Engl
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by graemep 10d ago
Yes, and he is also: "Charles the Third, by the Grace of God King of Canada and His other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_titles_and_honours_of_...
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by graemep 10d ago
> There is major regulation in place already. EU's Digital Markets Act forces these OS gatekeepers to allow alternative app stores So does that mean: 1. People in the EU can continue to use F-Droid etc. exactly as they have in the p
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by graemep 10d ago
> ARM doesn't just do R&D, they design full CPU cores How is design not R & D? it is literally what the D in R & D stands for!
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by graemep 10d ago
Arm is important, but for R & D. The impact of not having Arm will take a long time to be felt. The same for a lot of the others you mention. Not having a supply or Intel and AMD CPUs would be felt much faster and would be harder to fin
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by graemep 10d ago
> She should have never been in politics to begin with - the absolutely worst person for the job. A description that fits a lot of politicians!
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by graemep 10d ago
They would then have a hard border with England, and would have to untangle their economy from the UK to some extent, which would be extremely disruptive. There will also be complex issues around who gets which citizenship, who would need w
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by graemep 10d ago
It was mostly peaceful in itself. There was a lot of conflict that followed in the wake of it as borders and power structures were settled. Just in South Asia we had the partition of India, the secession of Bangladesh from Pakistan, the Sri

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