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by kmlx 5y ago
all for open source, but these are two different products. from their website: > To fully utilize Meshroom, a NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPU is recommended. The binaries are built with CUDA-10 and are compatible with compute capability 3.0 to 7
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by kmlx 5y ago
i disagree. there is nothing in common between the modernist “nice guys finish last” and the principles of the kings, emperors and PMs. the latter were driven by divine right, by imbalances in knowledge, by having massive armies, by thinkin
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by kmlx 5y ago
> "Nice guys finish last." Perhaps it is ingrained in our Western culture that we expect leaders to be aggressive and aggrandizing. one could argue that it’s mostly a feature of the US.
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by kmlx 5y ago
i think it depends at what stage the projects are at. for example the UK's High Speed railway has seen so much money (and so much digging), that I think it's impossible for the next government to simply cancel such a big project.
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by kmlx 5y ago
> would make many legal actions against Gazprom Germania harder what legal action? Gazprom is not under any sanctions…
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by kmlx 5y ago
> I imagine you're well aware of all the harm they've been causing to society. what harm to society? from where i’m standing they’re a huge net positive, they’ve enabled huge advances in society, they’ve enabled great collabora
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by kmlx 5y ago
wait. they didn't actually get hacked, and because Krebs didn't actually check his sources the stock fell 20%? and they're only suing him now?
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by kmlx 5y ago
> what Facebook is doing to the world. connecting people?
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by kmlx 5y ago
> Facebook continues to be the single greatest threat to Western society outside of Russia. this statement is both hyperbolic and naive at the same time.
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by kmlx 5y ago
oh my. are we equating Japan with China?
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by kmlx 5y ago
> The Gotthard Basis Tunnel [0] (delivered 6 months ahead of schedule after 12 years of construction) would like to have a word :) crossrail is by far the biggest european construction project. it’s the most complicated, required the mos
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by kmlx 5y ago
> it looks like even the core part will take until June or even later. > It’s hilarious this is so many years behind schedule it’s 4 years behind schedule, 2 of those were covid. not bad, not good. > It’s also why I don’t think nuc
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by kmlx 5y ago
maybe falconry as well? big business in some parts of the world…
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by kmlx 5y ago
> I wonder if the average consumer will be as disgusted and turned off by the idea of eating genetically modfied meat as I am. quite the contrary. i think this should be celebrated as a great achievement and will happily eat it if it’s d
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by kmlx 5y ago
> you can thrive on a vegetarian diet as long as you take vitamins B12, D and some iron, you should be fine. but having been meat eaters for 2.4 million years will be hard to shake off. if anything eating beef will increase in the future
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by kmlx 5y ago
> Based on how we exploit our resources and the amount of people that are wealthy enough to live a good-standard life, we are definitely too many people on earth. hi. you would be surprised to find out this is a myth that started in the
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by kmlx 5y ago
> > that's just degrading the experience... > Uhhh yes? That's the point? The alternative to this degraded experience is no experience at all. so basically it's either degraded experience but w/ interoperability
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by kmlx 5y ago
> like twitter and facebook must be mandated by law to provide access to their networks to smaller networks. makes no sense. you can already pull all your data out of those services and import it into whatever other service you want.
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by kmlx 5y ago
> On the other hand, that is exactly the point: no new feature can be used to buy the users' freedom to interact with customers of other services so the point is a degraded experience? how can that be the point?
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by kmlx 5y ago
> So keep the status quo (SMS/MMS) and build more features on top of that ? what you are describing can be called "iMessage" :)
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by kmlx 5y ago
how are they interoperable when one side uses a feature and the other doesn't support it? that's just degrading the experience... and this is just one small reason why the industry decided against moving forward with this decades
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by kmlx 5y ago
> You use Zoom, Teams, Facebook or whatever you like, I'll use my Jitsi or home grown WebRTC solution. Fairness can be that simple. that's naive. the problem is that we moved away as an industry from that model for 2 specific r
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by kmlx 5y ago
yeah, i don't think this was thought out, or at least i haven't read anything on this subject. how does the draft text deal with cryptography?
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by kmlx 5y ago
lots of confusion in this comment. > Will it be voted for in European Parliament and if yes, when? the European Parliament only votes on a text. It cannot take decisions by itself. it can only present a voted upon text to the EU Council.
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by kmlx 5y ago
it's owned by multiple parties, with the UK Gov a minority shareholder, so i don't get what's ironic about that statement.
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by kmlx 5y ago
> These are the projects that aren't commercially able to attract funding (which in this day is a bit wild) here you go: > On 3 July 2020, the Government of the United Kingdom and Sunil Mittal's Bharti Global (formerly a par
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by kmlx 5y ago
- @vue/cli - @vue/cli-ui - node-ipc@^9.2.1 - @vue/cli-shared-utils - node-ipc@^9.1.1 due to the nature of the ecosystem i feel like - pinning the dependencies - running something like renovate - merg
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by kmlx 5y ago
i find electron-based editors to be subpar compared to an IDE like intellij idea. if nova's target is a full blown IDE like idea then for sure there's a market.
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by kmlx 5y ago
> Russian propaganda is more or less banned from German viewers (with RT and others being banned). is rt.com also banned?
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by kmlx 5y ago
> According to the team, using dim, cooler, lights in the evening and bright warmer lights in the day may be more beneficial to our health. so it's actually the opposite to the current common belief. it should be blue at night, warm

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