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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
We took our children out of school for three months about twenty years ago because I had the opportunity to work for that period in the US. We asked the school to provide the targets for the period for each child and my wife ensured that t
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
> For good: LLMs could induce positive false memories That sounds almost as horrifying as the induction of negative false memories.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
Is there anyone left in any large American corporation with any virtue? The endless stream of news about corporations behaving badly lends credence to the idea that the US is purely a dog eat dog society. But surely it can't really be
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
The support doesn't have to be a financial subsidy; it can be the creation of a regulatory framework that advantages companies of this type. That is surely unexceptional, after all it's done in many countries all the time. It ju
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that there have been disk formats that only write files to consecutive sectors just like memory allocators that only return contiguous blocks of memory. Then you need frequent compaction of the space because it ends up
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
Surely it should have a leader board?
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
Perhaps the Russian supplier was more competitive or the product of better quality or just more precisely what was needed. Just the same as plenty of people in Europe now buy Japanese cars despite there being a huge car industry in Europe.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
How so? Diffuse and reflected sunlight is still orders of magnitude brighter than you can feasibly generate in a mobile phone. Perhaps the solution is eye tracking and steerable lasers lighting up the retina directly. That should cut the
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
> the reality I've observed, especially in unlimited speed sections of the Autobahn, can be quite different. My experience is that it depends on where in Germany you are. I drove from France to Norway this week so I went through no
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
Larger displacement engines are almost invariably in larger, heavier, vehicles. Axle weight determines road wear. I agree that using the axle weight would be better but displacement taxes were also a luxury tax. Some of my cars over the y
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
If your commute is only 9 km each way then every EV now sold will do a a whole week or perhaps two of commuting plus shopping, etc., on a single charge. The 16 kmiles/year quoted by the Frontier Group is not really all that much. It&#
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
> how we could ever handle everyone plugging in a 1-10kwh charger at home every night for potentially hours. The UK National Grid has published several papers on the subject and their conclusion is that already planned expansion of both
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
Because a sunny day at the equator is about a kilowatt per square metre. A typical mobile phone display is about 100 cm^2 (0.01 m^2), so you would need to emit 10 watts to match sunlight. As far as I can tell OLEDs are 20% efficient or l
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
A surge protector dimensioned for protection against lightning induced overvoltages will probably not trip at the level of overvoltage that could be produced by an ordinary inverter.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
Really? Where? That happened about twenty years ago where I live in Norway. The result was that bus drivers got severe tellings off, mostly from elderly women who had been used to arriving at the bus stop just in time. After a couple of
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
> prevents you from accidentally passing the wrong kind of value into a function, You can do this in other languages such as Pascal with subtypes and something functionally equivalent in C# and other object oriented languages.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
Read that a few years ago. It felt very modern.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
Why bother paying attention to all this legal mumbo-jumbo? Just have someone exfiltrate the file and post it on Anna's Archive. Or extract them from Open Street Map. Just bypass the Royal Mail altogether. Or just ignore the postcodes.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
> is the German postcode not used for transaction validation? No. The only time I have ever been asked for a post code was when a petrol pump in the US demanded my zip code. I have no idea what it meant, I just put some random zip cod
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
The system will not be used for efficiency in the wider sense, merely in the car centric sense of increased throughput. As another commenter has pointed out such a system makes life for other road users: cyclists, pedestrians, horses, most
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
I haven't read the article but just to answer the question in the title: Buses must always be late because a bus that leaves early is even more useless.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
> the best children's books are also fun for adults! Also Kipling's Just So stories. My eldest loved me to read them to him and it was no chore at all.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
The utility company fuse between the property and the 240 V distribution system should prevent overcurrent. If the frequency or phase of the inverter is wrong the inverter might die first unless the network is already down. There isn'
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
Why can't the children be taught to behave better?
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
I was born in 1955 in the UK and I almost never used a phone of any kind as a child.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
How can a UK school require a mobile as an educational tool? I thought primary and secondary education was supposed to be free in the UK.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
It might not make a difference to the end user but the installer would still make a more profit. Also I doubt that you can compare Australian and Canadian installations that easily. Most of Australia is a lot closer to the equator meaning
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
Why isn't there some kind of 'compiler/linker/stripper' that would collect the functions actually used and compile them into an application specific library? Yes I know that dynamic dispatch makes that difficult bu
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
The title is misleading. SpaceX launched it. The title had me wondering when the UK had suddenly developed a launcher.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
I don't think I have seen a fax in at least twenty years. It's curious how in one place or country a feature can be regarded as essential yet in others completely unnecessary.

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