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by markvdb 1y ago
> I'm not saying the tariffs are good. Only that their point is to get things made domesticly ...or to create massive stock market front-running opportunities with plausible deniability. "But, but, Hanlon's razor!". S
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by markvdb 1y ago
Bosch are nasty in many ways though. Their ebike battery and motor system in particular is extremely hostile to diy anything. Repair, generic battery with Bosch motor, using your Bosch ebike battery outside the ebike, ...
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by markvdb 1y ago
The main problem with this system: even most university educated people cannot thoroughly understand it. [0] That potentially undermines trust in the system. [0] https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2014/2014008.pdf
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by markvdb 2y ago
irrelevant != fraud
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by markvdb 2y ago
Bullish on the use. Bearish on the profit margins for the big players. If (big if!) I understand correctly, the ceiling for edge/local/offline AI has just blown off.
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by markvdb 2y ago
FOSDEM organiser here. The shoestring budget is accurate, as is the badges or registrations thing. The security thing is not. We do have proper security. Organising an 8k people conference without would be unsafe and illegal.
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by markvdb 2y ago
Thank you for your contribution to the FOSS learning space. Here's a few random suggestions: - spaced repetition. Again, anki style. - audio. Can you make it easy to record a phrase, anki style? Or maybe even make AI pronounce them cor
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by markvdb 2y ago
No worries. Thank you for your friendly reply.
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by markvdb 2y ago
FOSDEM organiser since 2001 here. I'm sure you meant to help, but a factual inaccuracy crept into your comment. FOSDEM has never ever scheduled any talk or other content in exchange for money. There is an absolute consensus within the
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by markvdb 2y ago
Throw the following at your LLM's passive income calculation: - income: tech sector salary median - spending: median spending + 25% - passive income target: median net income Now add some indie project income as a topping. If you'
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by markvdb 2y ago
Of course this is not about someone having for sole purpose to sabotage the ELT. Someone at AES could have had a run-of-the-mill business plan. They go ahead with it despite scientific objections because their profits > science. Then the
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by markvdb 2y ago
A cynic would read this as as "I can't believe our (AES) luck. There's a good chance we can squeeze the Europeans for lots of money. We'll gladly share some of the proceeds with the new US president's cronies for ha
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by markvdb 2y ago
I've witnessed many people behave towards machines in a way that would be considered very rude were it towards biological beings. Makes one wonder if "Rage Against The Machine" were visionaries...
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by markvdb 2y ago
Building and reinforcing HVDC interconnects is happening all over Europe now. Certainly part of the solution. Note that the transformer shortage makes that more difficult.
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by markvdb 2y ago
Silly related question... How much gross taxable do you need to make from your side gig to take home 500/m net from a side gig? Here, that's about 1360/m if itemising expenses, or 900€/m with the standard deduction for s
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by markvdb 2y ago
You could do worse than read "The distracted mind", by neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley. It gave me deeper insight into the human-specific additions to my monkey brain.
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by markvdb 2y ago
"In 2022, a case was opened against him for promoting individuals guilty of genocide and war crimes after various comments on interwar far-right Iron Guard leader Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and former PM and marshal Ion Antonescu."
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by markvdb 2y ago
I don't claim to know all about this situation, but I do discern a recurring pattern that many IT professionals don't (want to?) realise: Information technology is giving all kinds of actors leverage to exploit our human brain&#x2
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by markvdb 2y ago
Small scale wind would be ideal for winter in our remote northern place. We have the space. Except the energy returns aren't there, and maintaining the moving parts is not trivial.
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by markvdb 2y ago
"Your love is more important to me than all those that died producing this ring." I suppose it works for a specific kind of caveman.
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by markvdb 2y ago
OVH and reliable, in the same sentence? They're cheap, so suitable for projects you don't mind going poof. Personal anecdote. A few years ago, I lost a lot of sleep on a domain renewal at OVH. Their incompetence was mind-boggling.
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by markvdb 2y ago
The Baltics are disconnecting from the Soviet era BRELL grid with Russia and Belarus in two months [0]. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/baltic-countries-leave-...
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by markvdb 2y ago
I also heard this was partly to do with demand moving towards LiFePo4 batteries and their setup being completely unprepared for that.
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by markvdb 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belaruskali comes to mind...
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by markvdb 2y ago
NATO filter blockade on Öresund?
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by markvdb 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QksqWRqEfy0
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by markvdb 2y ago
> The flemish nationalists supported the nazis long before they invaded. s/The/Some/
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15 years after the EU.
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by markvdb 2y ago
I'm looking for something like that, but free/open source and offline. Suggestions welcome!
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Free/open source offline handwriting recognition?
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