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by kergonath 3mo ago
No, that’s the new status quo. Even if democrats get in power next time: 1) it’s fairly unlikely that they give up on more powers voluntarily (exactly how much of the patriot act and the post-9/11 rules were given up by Obama and Biden
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> Microsoft thought it was easier/better to rewrite minecraft in C++ than port the jvm to the xbox. I don’t think that’s quite right. IIRC, the mobile iOS version was released before the Xbox one and neither were developed by Micros
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> It's absolutely crazy that a game so popular - let alone any game - was originally written in Java. It did not start being popular :) Seriously though, I think Java helped it get so much traction initially. Writing mods was tediou
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by kergonath 3mo ago
That’s a bit over-selling it. The Panthéon and the Invalides are not really touristic attractions. The Louvre, Versailles, and the Eiffel Tower are much more effective for that purpose. They are used for culture building, not to make money.
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by kergonath 3mo ago
Why would we think that? The people in them (for the very few tombs that haven’t been visited or looted already) don’t care; they’ve been dead for millennia.
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by kergonath 3mo ago
Even if they aren’t doing it for free. It completely depends on the situation, and the pressure the employers apply to get people to accept. In an ideal wonderland, management would offer enough money so the workers find it worthwhile. In r
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by kergonath 3mo ago
They are. But it’s a rhetorical question anyway. You will always find people willing to work at any time if you offer them enough money or if they are desperate enough.
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> 1. You are intending to ask about tension (which the rebar helps with), not traction (the force your tires exert against a road). I don’t know if it is the case here, but it is a common mistake for some non-native English speakers. In
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> What changes? How has civilisation meaningfully changed in a way and scale it didn't before? It’s not that it did not happen before, civilisations rose up and disappeared several times in the past. It’s just that it is happening n
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> There isn't much evidence at all that inference is "subsidised" (and by whom?) None of the big providers are profitable. It’s subsidised by overly enthusiastic VCs. > In any case, you can go buy a MacBook Pro M5 48GB
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by kergonath 3mo ago
More than on the cards, it is already happening.
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> The left wing version of climate conspiracy is that climate change will end humanity itself. That is unrealistic, but also not what a conspiracy is. It’s also a red herring, as nobody serious is claiming that. They are talking about
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by kergonath 3mo ago
In general, yes. Spin-orbit coupling and relativistic effects in heavier elements is not new. A rather... significant elements where this was studied was uranium (and plutonium, of course). Even napkin maths show that for heavy elements, so
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> THE MATERIALS OF THE FUTURE ALREADY EXIST IN THE LAB Do they? There’s plenty of stuff in our labs, most of them are completely useless, some that were bought to be useless become fashionable again, and we get new and exciting ones ever
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by kergonath 3mo ago
It is well documented in France as well. It was seen as a revenge for 1870. There was quite a bit of enthusiasm. At least initially, before the killing started in earnest and people got stuck in the trenches.
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> Isn't he on record that his documentation was listening to techies talking shop in bars? Yeah. I don’t think he was a technophile himself. Which might have helped him because he was not trying to be realistic. But at the same time
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by kergonath 3mo ago
That’s nice in principle, but it really is not the same budget around here, even though the shops are here. Small neighbourhood supermarkets and corner shops are significantly more expensive than the big supermarket that’s a 10-minute drive
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by kergonath 4mo ago
Besieging a city is difficult and expensive. And it fixes a significant attacking army that has to monitor the whole city’s surroundings. They do fall every now and then, but the whole point is that it takes a disproportionate amount of pow
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by kergonath 4mo ago
The Maginot line gets ridiculed often enough, but it did its job: it forced the Germans to find another way. It’s too bad the Ardennes were much more porous than expected and the fortifications did not extend all the way to Dukirk, but with
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by kergonath 4mo ago
There is plenty of "high performance work" that still requires CPUs.
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by kergonath 4mo ago
The word is "fucking". We’re grown-ups, we can use grown-up words.
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by kergonath 4mo ago
When that’s the case, the preprints would be just as short. We don’t really like unnecessary pain so we write short manuscripts from the beginning, if we plan to submit in such a journal. Usually, the longer versions get published somewhere
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by kergonath 4mo ago
There’s a lot of stuff on Researchgate. And with the evolution of European grants, there are a few publicly-available repositories, like hal.science (funded by the French government and the default repository for public research in France,
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by kergonath 4mo ago
No, it’s not everywhere. Reporting is fair and accurate.
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by kergonath 4mo ago
They are social democrats and firmly left of centre. You won’t find anything remotely radical in the Grauniad.
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by kergonath 4mo ago
The American ambassadors to almost anywhere are complete clowns these days. Obnoxious, unfunny, despicable clowns.
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by kergonath 4mo ago
> I am still suspicious that this has something to do with the relationship between Springer-Verlag and the Max Plank Digital Library (MPDL) which supports open access. Why? Max Plank (the dead Physicist) has nothing to do with whatever
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by kergonath 4mo ago
If I am not mistaken, Bull's warm water cooling requires water at ~30°C, so 45°C is still an improvement.
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by kergonath 4mo ago
> Does the EU not want to spy on its citizens? You do not seem to understand what the EU is. It is not a country, it does not have a police or anything like the NSA.
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by kergonath 4mo ago
> I can't read French, but having evaluated many of these plagiarism cases in the past, a lot of them truly are witch hunts. It’s not the case here. > The plagiarism will be something like "Einstein presented a new theory: _

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