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by mft_ 11mo ago
Any chance you could write this up and publish?
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by mft_ 11mo ago
I’ve played with this a lot in the past for similar hobby reasons, and you’re right that getting hold of the flight routing data is prohibitively difficult: it’s seen as data with value, meaning it’s guarded and, if you go to official provi
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by mft_ 11mo ago
Would you recommend o2?
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by mft_ 11mo ago
Is anyone in Germany able to recommend ISPs which aren't Vodafone or Telekom?
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by mft_ 1y ago
> What do you mean "until"? It's the core of many of European "dreams". Sorry if I was unclear; I'm not referring to the "housing ladder" here, but rather that the accumulation of wealth (accelerat
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by mft_ 1y ago
That observation is correct, but I'd challenge the implication that "therefore inheritance must be allowed to continue in its current form". Why are houses so expensive? Alongside challenges and inefficiences related to pe
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by mft_ 1y ago
Personal take: LLMs are probably part of the answer (to AGI?) but are hugely handicapped by their current architecture: the only time that long-term memories are formed is during training, and everything after that (once they're bein
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by mft_ 1y ago
I think the context is clear from what was written: > As the other global options for network hardware are Ericsson, Samsung and Huawei, Nokia is the closest to a “Made in USA” solution. Its HQ is in Finland but at least it’s a NATO coun
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by mft_ 1y ago
I agree. I’m only a hobbyist user of such libraries, and have always found Pandas a little confusing and counter-intuitive. I recently used Polars instead and found it a lot more straightforward.
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by mft_ 1y ago
Meanwhile in Europe, they've been selling FSD forever, and (until very recently?) there has been virtually no difference from the basic Autopilot package - and not the shiny FSD beta that we see on YouTube from other countries. I had a
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by mft_ 1y ago
Thanks for clarifying. Given you're in the UK, Ship of Theseus ≃ Trigger's Broom :)
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by mft_ 1y ago
I'm intrigued by this statement: The original code didn't come with an open source software licence, so I am unable to share my changes. The original blog post[0] doesn't share a link to a full codebase that I can see, and
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by mft_ 1y ago
Exactly the same story for me: right tinnitus just started one day in my 30s; examination, hearing test, MRI all normal. ENT specialist exhausted his diagnostic options then suggested ginger tablets. It rarely bothers me (although it’s alwa
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by mft_ 1y ago
They are the leader in manufacturing consumer systems with sufficient high-bandwidth memory to enable decent-sized LLMs to be run locally with reasonable performance. If you want to run something that needs >=32GB of memory (which is fr
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by mft_ 1y ago
I agree with you, based on standard business logic, but the question is whether Intel would be willing to sell a generation at break-even to disrupt, achieve a larger (and somewhat 'sticky') install base, developer engagement, a l
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by mft_ 1y ago
It struck me recently how vulnerable we are to small disrutpive attacks of the sort you mention, and more. For example, several major European airports were closed recently due to unidentified drone activity around them. I don't know
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by mft_ 1y ago
I have no idea of the likely price, but (IMO) this is the sort of disruption that Intel needs to aim at if it's going to make some sort of dent in this market. If they could release this for around the price of a 5090, it would be ver
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by mft_ 1y ago
> There’s no shortage of meaningfully free and open software to use that will do what you need, but as soon as you have to sacrifice any sort of convenience, non techies stops listening. It's often beyond just sacrificing "any
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by mft_ 1y ago
Thanks for this - de-installed an alternative and installed this. Any thoughts of some sort of equalizer feature? I like brown noise for sleeping in noisy environments, and would love to be able to add a bit more bass to your sample. (Bro
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by mft_ 1y ago
Nice project, but It's interesting how differently one's formative experiences makes this subject seem. As someone who grew up in a household in a small village, brought up by parents whose music collection was 99% classical music
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by mft_ 1y ago
Obviously an interesting test case for the US, especially in light of Vance, Musk, and Farage attacking the UK (especially) and the EU for apparently lacking free speech.
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by mft_ 1y ago
Not sure I agree, based on (more subtle?) reading comprehension. > The conservative view simply is that this correlation is causal, while the liberal view is that the causation runs in the opposite direction of the correlation. You'
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by mft_ 1y ago
It's a very odd take to think examples of insurance companies refusing life-extending treatment and instead offering assisted suicide indicates a problem with assisted suicide. Just to be clear: the insurance companies are the problem
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by mft_ 1y ago
So I’ve ranting for years that hotels and car rental places should automate check-in - it should take only seconds to get your key with pre-filled data and a QR code. This week, I had my first experience with exactly this at a car hire comp
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by mft_ 1y ago
Something I was pondering the other day, is that similarly to how dashcams are becoming a more everyday addition to cars for self-protection, so in time the personal equivalent of a dashcam might be necessary for in-person interactions. (Ba
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by mft_ 1y ago
I’d love to be able to move to Linux as Microsoft continue to find yet more ways to enshittify, but sadly there are some software areas that just aren’t ready yet. * Professional MS Office / Sharepoint use - if you need the installed a
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by mft_ 1y ago
> Besides the physical and ecological aspects, this is very libertarian. Something that is sadly not very appreciated in Germany. Genuinely interested what you mean by this - could you expand, please? (It seems like the success of this s
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by mft_ 1y ago
Hard disagree here. 1) The biggest challenge to renewables seems to be not capacity, but storage: wind and solar can't be relied upon all of the time, and often provide peak power out of sync with peak demand. Within reason, hyper-loc
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by mft_ 1y ago
I've long argued that spreadsheets are essentially a structured programming tool for people that would never imagine they could or would program. And maybe even a gateway drug in a proportion of cases?
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by mft_ 1y ago
> It's not that good for top-level chess because a Magnus or Hikaru or basically anyone in the top few hundred players can bang out a series of extremely accurate moves in a critical spot - that's why they're top chess pla

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