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by irdc 5y ago
I don't disagree that the PRC has their own best interests in mind. However, I don't see how they can be oblivious to the fact that going to war with and occupying Taiwan would not only tie up a significant part of their military,
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by irdc 5y ago
There's an argument to be made that annexing Taiwan would actually be detrimental to the PRC: doing so would be hugely disruptive to the global supply chains that form a major source of income to China.
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by irdc 5y ago
You may be on to something: I seem to have experienced the opposite, as having grown up reading Ligne Claire-comics initially made it really difficult for me to follow what was happening in comics drawn in other styles.
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by irdc 5y ago
Shell could certainly shut down to force their will upon the Dutch people...for about 10 minutes or so; after that, the entire board will be behind bars and the company nationalised. Don’t be silly. Energy is a national interest. Secondly,
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by irdc 5y ago
This looks like a task for gorc: https://five-embeddev.com/riscv-bitmanip/draft/bext.html#gen... (granted, that’s only 32/64 bits, but still…)
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by irdc 5y ago
How hard would it be to instead generate faces with random facial features? Humans are already hardwired to be able to detect subtle differences between faces. That would obviously not make it suitable for generating avatars to identify hum
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by irdc 11y ago
Location: Netherlands (Randstad/Utrecht area) Remote: Prefer to work at an office. Willing to relocate: No. Technologies: C/C++, C#/.NET/WCF/WPF, ASP.NET/NHibernate/Lucene.NET, anything interest