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Call to Action: Fediverse Media Server(shlee.fedipress.au)
63 points by mikro2nd 2y ago|20 comments
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Tesla owner says car's self-driving mode didn't see train before crash(nbcnews.com)
7 points by mikro2nd 2y ago|0 comments
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by mikro2nd 2y ago
What (if any) are the differences, advantages, disadvantages of this implementation over the Guava library's EventBus? From a fairly cursory look it seems much the same...
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by mikro2nd 2y ago
"Let it rust"? If you live near the sea, cars rust and there's not a lot you can do about it. You can attend to visible rust timeously, but there are plenty of hollow spaces where it can fester for years, all unnoticable, bef
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by mikro2nd 2y ago
Trouble with my ('95) Corolla is that it's the body that's showing its age. (Rust, and not the good kind.) The ICE is just fine and probably good for another 1/2-million km, but the whole thing has got to go soon.
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by mikro2nd 2y ago
I think that at least some of this comes about because it's still relatively early days for the form-factor. As the industry matures, as it becomes more cutthroat everything will become more comodified and therefore standardised. Loo
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NASA Unveils Game-Changing Electric Propulsion Techn for Future Space Missions(scitechdaily.com)
1 points by mikro2nd 2y ago|0 comments
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by mikro2nd 2y ago
Bizarre to me that "not having tech giants" is seen as a weakness, where I would think that "allowing giant (tech) monopolies" is the bad thing.
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Maj. Gen. Sir Nils Olav(en.wikipedia.org)
11 points by mikro2nd 2y ago|4 comments
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
For a good portion of the world I think you'd have to add, "...at a price roughly equal to [insert large percentage, in places exceeding 100%] your monthly income," to get a more realisic response.
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
Really? According to whom? I've been reading comments from astronomers that would indicate differently.
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
"after securing $19.5 billion in federal grants and loans - and it hopes to secure another $25 billion in tax breaks." But besides all that... it's an investment spree, not a spending spree. They expect to make much more mo
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
Rerouting peoples' travel to modes other than flying, so reducing the number of planes in the air, would do orders of magnitude more to cool the planet...
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
Correction: they tried colouring satellites darker, but that caused heat radiation difficulties, so they've gone back to reflective satellites. Doesn't sound like they tried very hard. Plus the satellites have gotten larger (= sti
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GitHub's cookie management links do nothing(github.com)
3 points by mikro2nd 3y ago|0 comments
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No one cares about open-source, until(blog.cryptpad.org)
185 points by mikro2nd 3y ago|52 comments
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
In favour of adding some totally unwanted "AI" instead. I find it hard to see what value a RAG/LLM would add to a browser. Removing ads and popups maybe? Oh wait, I already have plugins that do those...
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
I'd argue that CVS outlasted git by at least a couple of decades...
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
So it's better to entrust your domain rental to some possibly-sketchy corporation registered who-knows-where, rather than a registry run by a government, in the hopes that ICANN will play nice if there's a dispute? The article doe
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
Per Wikipedia, nuclear LCOE runs to $81-82/MWh, so is not cost competitive.
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
There are a couple of tricks the seed companies use to get around this: First off, a year or two before the patents on a variety expire, they simple patent some other feature of the variety. Problem solved (from their perspective). Second
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
It does, actually, because one of the big seed companies can then simply take that seed and... patent it as their own.
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
escape into the wild: You'd be up for a decade or more of litigation against one of the wealthiest corporations on Earth. There was a Canadian farmer who went exactly that route against (iirc) Monsanto, saying that their GMO Rapeseed (
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Plant patents sow fear among small growers(theguardian.com)
122 points by mikro2nd 3y ago|63 comments
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
Another Zim-Wiki user here -- been using it for something over 5 years, now, and have yet to find anything that could replace it for me. That it doesn't use (the bloody horrible) Markdown is a feature, not a deficiency.
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
Sometimes -- those times when you're breaking entirely new ground with a thing, when you're starting with just a vague vision of where the thing might go -- slow is better. Slow gives you time to understand the effects of what y
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
South Africa could learn so much from this. But won't.
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
No. Touch soil. There is good, scientific evidence that skin contact with bare soil (walking barefoot in natural surroundings, gardening without gloves) makes humans happier, and the mechanism is this: there exists a species of bacteria fou
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
Depends to some degree which search engine you're using, even with all the so-called "AI" pissing in the soup.
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
The Butlerian Jihad?

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