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by llsf 2y ago
Everyone likes to throw the "1st amendment" in the conversation, when it suites them... but I agree given the recent retaliatory tendencies, it is difficult to criticize the current administration, and effectively leaving it in it
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by llsf 2y ago
> To be sure, don't give your heart away to a company (I did that exactly once, never again) because a company will never love you back. But your co-workers will. Yes, and that hurts that first time. Especially when you gave a lot
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by llsf 2y ago
I think Lambda Prolog, is the only language that physically hurt my brain... in a good way. But damn, it felt like an extreme muscle stretching exercise. Painful when doing it, but you feel SO good after :)
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by llsf 2y ago
You could try BlaBlaCar https://www.blablacar.co.uk/search?fn=Paris%2C%20France&tn=8...
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by llsf 2y ago
I also thought first about the 2CV in Le Corniaud (1965) :) I had no idea that explosives were involved!
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by llsf 2y ago
Funny that they had to freeze the ground to dig it, as it is one of the hottest line in Paris (at least 20 years ago).
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by llsf 2y ago
The French minitel in mid-80s was successful also thanks to online porn. It was not using the internet (not TCP-IP network), but it was pushing the ASCII art to its limits :) https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-198
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by llsf 2y ago
Yes, Pat could come back and take care of IFS, with this time a supporting CEO/board. With the China/Taiwan tensions, it might be a good move for the US to not let Intel slip further, and stir that ship in the right direction. Mus
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by llsf 2y ago
Not worrying about the worth of the company as much, but more to salvage the chip maker expertise that Intel still has (Intel has been in several rounds of layoffs, including 15,000 in 2024). According to the article, splitting Intel would
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by llsf 2y ago
Is it time for Elon Musk to step in, or is it too early ? Now with the CHIPs money coming in, it might be the right time...
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by llsf 2y ago
"...2-5% of yearly GDP until 2050" Estimate is COVID in 2020 cost 3.4% of GDP (source: https://www.statista.com/topics/6139/covid-19-impact-on-the-... ) We are talking about one new COVID (2020 style), e
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by llsf 2y ago
Same Prolog, and particularly Lambda Prolog literally blew my mind. I could (physically) feel my brain, trying to think differently about the problem to solve. It was an experience. I need to retake that course (was 20 years ago...). I a
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by llsf 2y ago
This is concerning. As I am typing on a laptop with fingerprint reader, one could make that battery explode after successful identification. What a world...
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by llsf 2y ago
I agree that huge benefits would come from electrification of residential and commercial (e.g. heat pump, induction stove, etc.), industrial (starting with the dozen of blast furnaces in US), and transportation (e.g. trains, trucks... more
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by llsf 2y ago
Correct, we can innovate and make the "transformer" (i.e. machines) more efficient (i.e. use less energy for same output). But the thing is, if energy was cheaper and more available we would just produce more. The reason why now
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by llsf 2y ago
Energy is the fuel for machines. And machines build more and faster than humans. To increase productivity, we need more machines, and so more energy. If energy was 10 times cheaper than currently and still available (no shortage) then we
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by llsf 2y ago
Perfect explanation. I did not thought about future events and changing TZ rules (which happen obviously depending on the country/government). Thanks!
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by llsf 2y ago
Is this article arguing that a timestamp should include space ? I get that timestamp can be display differently depending on the space (i.e. TZ and locale). But does it mean that we need to add the space component to a timestamp ? Feels li
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by llsf 2y ago
No AI expert here, but my first thought was that it could be an attack vector to screw lots of AI projects.
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by llsf 2y ago
This reminds me an old James Bond movie, with Sean Connery, where he picks one of his hair, licks his sticky fingers to seal his hotel room door. It later tells him that someone entered his room.
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by llsf 2y ago
Some might stretch a long way to get a phone in prison.
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by llsf 2y ago
Hopefully in the near future ( https://nfc-forum.org/news/2024-07-nfc-forum-defines-next-ge... ) you would just need to tap you phone once, and get your ID passed to the scanner, along all the tickets for that venue &amp
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by llsf 2y ago
Yes, some events are different, like the Super Bowl for instance, where everyone is screened, and a simple concert, where you just need a ticket that scans.
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by llsf 2y ago
Not sure how they do it for Olympics and World Cup, they probably compensate with more gates/scanners than a typical venue. I am not advocating either way, which is either keep a ticket anonymous, or tie a ticket to an ID. I guess Tick
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by llsf 2y ago
The issue is most likely about throughput. You want to let fans enter the venue as quick as possible. Most venues have lots of gates, but still the latency at each gate has to be a handful of seconds per ticket. Having to validate both t
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by llsf 2y ago
Really cool! Could be useful to know where to plant trees.
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by llsf 2y ago
I was not boasting. But I was echoing the sentiment that we (US) can produce more oil if we want to (as we currently do), as it was an argument against fossil fuel being a limited resource. The fact that US (Texas in particular) is produci
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by llsf 2y ago
I agree, that is a likely scenario in US and other countries. The time horizon for those issues is not compatible with electoral terms. There is no incentive for any politician to tackle such big issue. Even though it might become existen
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by llsf 2y ago
Yes, oil is a limited resource. US became recently the largest oil producer in the world (source: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61545 ) and the additional output comes from the Permian basin only. Te
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by llsf 2y ago
Energy production is national security. Each country should treat it as national security. US is lucky to have oil/gas fields, but it would not last for ever. Even ignoring the ecological impact of extracting fossil fuel, or impact o

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