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by hengistbury 20d ago
Petro-states are destroying their trust as they try desperately to cling on to the power fossil fuels have given them. Thankfully this makes renewables even more attractive than just their lower cost.
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by hengistbury 2mo ago
> Supermarkets in the UK point cameras at your face at self-checkout. Though this is true, many supermarkets use this as a scare tactic instead of surveillance. I know a few people who work in supermarkets and when when incidents happen
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by hengistbury 4mo ago
> The other three were pretty much traits of every major traditional religion at its founding. I think this suggests that all major religions are cults, rather than that Mormonism isn't. The lines are certainly very blurry.
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by hengistbury 6mo ago
When cycling on shared use infrastructure I generally find pedestrians understand the meaning of a bell as a warning. Certainly some do become startled and move unpredictably, but if you travel at a low enough speed and bell with enough dis
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by hengistbury 8mo ago
What is the difference here between "Android" and "AOSP" (Android Open Source Project)?
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by hengistbury 9mo ago
The answer is the ultra-wealthy. Those on welfare are getting increasingly poor, while the ultra-wealthy are getting increasingly wealthy. It's clear where the money is going, and it's not to poor people.
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by hengistbury 9mo ago
The US administration is threatening to invade the territory of an EU member state, so I'm not sure the use of 'enemy' is too hyperbolic.
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by hengistbury 9mo ago
Universal Signalling are a company doing exactly this to give better train location information to signallers. https://www.universalsignalling.com/news/latest#h.12nuchpah7...
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by hengistbury 10mo ago
The city does it for the benefit of the public, the Corp does it for the benefit of the shareholders
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by hengistbury 11mo ago
This might cause issues with polarised sunglasses
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by hengistbury 1y ago
Can you trust the model when the people releasing it are using it in this way? Can you trust that they won't be training models to behave in the way that they are prompting the existing models to behave?
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by hengistbury 2y ago
I suspect many people in this thread don't believe this is genuinely about preventing OpenAI from becoming a for-profit corporation.
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by hengistbury 2y ago
For most bikes this ratcheting mechanism is in the back wheel, so when going down a hill the pedals, the chain ring, and the chain are all staying in the same position. In the demo the chain ring and chain are moving under the motors powe
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by hengistbury 2y ago
People in the US have the right to petition the Government, regardless of their eligibility to vote.
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by hengistbury 2y ago
I can't claim any expertise here either... But I can imagine that people accessing information about domestic abuse might not necessarily have regular access to internet connected devices, they might not know the best ways to act under
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by hengistbury 2y ago
I see these points as reasons why it might not be a good idea, but they don't explain why it is a bad idea. Other methods for leaving the site still work. Even if the button isn't the best way to leave the site, if it helps in mor
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by hengistbury 2y ago
Ok
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by hengistbury 2y ago
More accurately, this is a quote from the Fight Club movie
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by hengistbury 2y ago
Though interestingly there is a "Portsmouth" in West Yorkshire which is neither a port, nor at the mouth of any river or estuary.
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by hengistbury 3y ago
Governments still have budgets. At the end of the day it's just money in, money out, except private healthcare has someone siphoning money in the middle.
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by hengistbury 3y ago
I feel like DRM is a stretch, the chip in the cartridge is used to track how many washes are left so it knows if it is empty. The dishwasher can be used with regular tablets or powder. I use mine with powder and a small amount of citric aci
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by hengistbury 3y ago
This dishwasher is much smaller, so would require smaller tablets to work work efficiently. Certainly possible, and Daan Tech sell small tablets for this use. One benefit of measured detergent is that the wash cycle can dispense the correct
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by hengistbury 3y ago
Daan Tech broke their firmware update mechanism for lots of dishwashers in the field by losing their keys, more than once too. I own one such dishwasher and can't update the firmware without replacing the main board. They could certain
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by hengistbury 3y ago
No reason to allow people on the platform if you can't monetise them, especially after monetisation has been paused for a few hours
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by hengistbury 3y ago
Regardless of the moral question, digital piracy is not really "stealing"
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by hengistbury 3y ago
Some satellites do appear to flash because they are tumbling: https://www.satobs.org/tumble/tumbleintro.html The flashing of satellites will generally be gentler than the short burst strobing of an aircraft.
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by hengistbury 3y ago
Facebook might be a US tech company, but the US isn't their largest user base, that crown currently goes to India according to Statista: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-...
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by hengistbury 3y ago
This is a similar site for the UK: https://www.map.signalbox.io/
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by hengistbury 4y ago
The account was re-broadcasting publicly available information. Anyone who wanted to harm Musk would easily be able to find this information themselves without the twitter account.
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by hengistbury 4y ago
If you buy stamps from the Royal Mail directly online, perhaps they would keep a register of who bought which stamps. If you buy stamps from a shop, perhaps a register is kept of which stamps were given to which shops. I don't know how

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