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by mathw 1y ago
I think it's "scam everyone into giving us lots of money, then run before the bills come".
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by mathw 1y ago
They had to keep those sweet TV millions flowing in though! And keep players in condition for when the crowds could come back without too much risk of death. Those are both pretty good reasons to keep having the games.
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by mathw 1y ago
Yeah there's a lot of stuff comes off tyres, and EVs still have that. They also produce brake dust, although maybe less of it because of regenerative braking. But they do have no tailpipe emissions, so they're still kicking out a
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by mathw 1y ago
It's definitely a thing in parts of the UK - it's to do with what the ground is made of.
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by mathw 1y ago
My understanding is that more recent fission reactor designs are done in such a way that they fail in ways which cause the reaction to diminish rather than build up further, which puts you in a better place than, say, Chernobyl. You still h
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by mathw 1y ago
The author claims so, but there don't seem to be any sources. Given how the AI hype has been going though I wouldn't be at all surprised. And the article's following conclusions are also unsurprising (other than the bit where
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by mathw 1y ago
That one is fairly easy isn't it - it's because it's not very good. Or at least, it doesn't live up to its own hype. The thrashing wails of people who've spent billions on something that they should have done more d
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by mathw 1y ago
Yes, in Google Workspace it's shoving itself at me continually.
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by mathw 1y ago
And it should be fairly easy for them because they're already doing it for most of the rest of the world.
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by mathw 1y ago
Foundationally though C++ still allows a lot of implicit casts that can and will shoot you in the foot. You CAN write nice modern code in C++, but the ability to force yourself and all your colleagues to do so in perpetuity isn't reall
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by mathw 1y ago
It's all rather pointless. The technology exists, therefore criminals will use it. Banning it for everyone else doesn't really achieve anything.
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by mathw 1y ago
Hungary sadly shows us that the EU's defences against one of its own members going rogue are very poor. No doubt a relic of the idealism in which it was founded - we're all nice people, of course we're going to stay that way.
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by mathw 1y ago
And why shouldn't incitement to racial hatred be illegal?
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by mathw 1y ago
People might choose to fly somewhere else instead though, so it doesn't necessarily reduce the overall amount of carbon emissions from air travel. Especially if you see Europeans deciding to go somewhere else in the Americas instead, w
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by mathw 2y ago
Solving complex problems with simple systems is really really difficult. Most people can't do it. Even worse, most businesses are actively preventing it with the way they want their teams to work. How many people reading this can hones
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by mathw 2y ago
Absolutely. Trans people should absolutely not consider travel to the USA at the moment.
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by mathw 2y ago
Everything has changed in practice, when people are detained at the border because they posted something on social media which was critical of Trump, in a country which prides itself on having "freedom of speech" in the constituti
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by mathw 2y ago
They didn't actually change anything, they just tried to clarify what had made people panic about things they never intended to do. At least, that's how I read it. IANAL.
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by mathw 2y ago
Sure, search every outbound shipping container in case it's got a stolen car in it. Super practical. And what about the cars which are stolen and then broken up and sold as parts? That's fairly common. And the ones which are given
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by mathw 2y ago
By making tools used to commit crime illegal where they don't have a legitimate reason to be carried, you can charge people with that crime if they're found rather than having to wait for them to actually commit the crime the tool
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by mathw 2y ago
That wouldn't help people who have cars that already don't do that very sensible thing which yes should be mandatory on all new cars with keyless entry worldwide.
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by mathw 2y ago
Well of course you can. We have freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences.
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by mathw 2y ago
I'll agree with you on that, but I think there's a really important thing that we have to also say about their business model: they developed and launched a product they knew couldn't live up to its billing or its price point
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by mathw 2y ago
I've yet to see an ORM which doesn't just eventually make everything harder. Especially when it comes to automatic migrations, which seldom seem to take into account production necessities like multi-node deployment, downtime cons
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by mathw 2y ago
And if you think China and the USA and Russia wouldn't want it... hey I've got this bridge for sale.
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by mathw 2y ago
Both easy and difficult problems can have simple or complex solutions. Two different axes of measurement. Most problems in software seem to end up being harder than they look, so if I think something is easy I have to suspect I've miss
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by mathw 2y ago
I'm finding Kagi gives me relevant results much more readily than Google, where I have to wade through all those sites which take technical content from other sites and repost it for ad revenue. I'm on the lower tier plan and have
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by mathw 2y ago
This is the point where you realise the investors were, like most times, a mistake. I don't know if Kagi have any investors or not, but I am kind of hoping the subscription model means they don't need them.
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by mathw 2y ago
If they don't have clearance aren't they committing a number of offences under various acts of national security and computer misuse and thus liable for arrest?
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by mathw 2y ago
s/Fun/Excruciatingly Tedious/

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