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by moomin 1y ago
Maybe ask the Linux Foundation how they do it?
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by moomin 1y ago
We should hold it on Jan 6.
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by moomin 1y ago
DS9 episode is worth it just for “He was more than a hero, he was a union man.”
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by moomin 1y ago
My brain ain't working, and yeah, I don't tend to notice transatlantic delays on voice and video calls.
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by moomin 1y ago
Honestly when I read the article I was, "Do you have a minute to talk about our Lord and Saviour, derive (Functor) and how her son hylo saved us all?"
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by moomin 1y ago
I feel like the real answer is "This is why trade negotiations take so long". But when you're making up policy on the fly, who knows?
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by moomin 1y ago
You’re right that it’s an easier problem, but it’s still trickier than it looks. Remember the point of this is to be listening together. To do that, you need to be able to communicate your reactions. And then you’re back to the 38ms (in pra
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by moomin 1y ago
More, the speed of light puts a hard cap on how simultaneous you can be. Wolfram Alpha reckons New York to London is 19ms in a vacuum, more using fibre. Going off on a tangent: Back in the days of Live Aid, they tried doing a transatlantic
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by moomin 1y ago
I think you've missed the point here. The question isn't whether the prices can be beaten. The question is whether the prices are low enough that enough people would want to/be able to buy.
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by moomin 1y ago
No, that was the exact point I was making: plenty of places have impressive stuff dating from the days of massive inequality/injustice, we just don’t produce it anymore. Pointing at a 300 year old building isn’t a gotcha, it was litera
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by moomin 1y ago
There's definitely a whole other conversation to be had about which administrations are actually competent, but it's very hard to have that conversation in a two party system when the dominant conversation is still at the "Sh
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by moomin 1y ago
I have a whole rant on how philanthropy is a way of distracting from fundamental societal problems that ought to be handled through taxation, but I didn't expect Mark Zuckerberg to make the exact same point in quite such a heavy-handed
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by moomin 1y ago
The thing is, we used to do this. Walk around London or Florence or Rome and you will see era-adjusted sights that are equally impressive. For that matter, go check out Blenheim Palace. It’s a reasonable question to ask: What happened? But
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by moomin 1y ago
I’m calling Frank Abnagale on this woman until proven otherwise.
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by moomin 1y ago
You’d need to, at the very least, make it into a powder or it would just fall to the ground anyway. That, in turn, would require you to crush basalt, which is pretty tough and, importantly, energy intensive. And you wouldn’t have any agricu
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by moomin 1y ago
Well, to explain that properly, I’m going to need to explain the Southern Strategy and how that and subsequent efforts helped transform the party of Lincoln into the party of Pete Hegseth and Michael Brown.
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by moomin 1y ago
We haven't created a self-sustaining human population in earth orbit yet. We need to constantly supply the space station and even when we do, the health impact of staying there is really serious. That's table stakes for a Mars mis
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by moomin 1y ago
Yeah, WSL1 was a great idea but there were so many edge cases. e.g. allocating a gig of memory you’re not actually using is fast in Linux, not so on Windows.
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by moomin 1y ago
Ironically it's had the exact opposite effect on me. So many of these things are so hard to interact with now I just... don't. Surprisingly little of value has been lost.
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by moomin 1y ago
Yes, but solar panels are cheap as a consequence of investment, partly supported by many solar promotion policies around the world, that were inspired by climate change concerns. This is actually a victory lap for political activism, we jus
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by moomin 1y ago
I’m honestly completely failing to understand the basic idea here. What does this look like for generating and shrinking random strings,
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by moomin 2y ago
Yeah, that’s me with SV. Horrible optimisation problem, so much to fit into every day. And then there’s the damn fish calendar…
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by moomin 2y ago
I enjoyed both games. My kids are obsessed with DQB2. There’s stuff I really like about the storyline in 2 e.g. the “now save the monsters as well” ending. It’s a crying shame no-one’s making anything like it since.
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by moomin 2y ago
It horribly breaks the stories of many games. The obvious modern example is Last of Us 2 where sparing a single life seems pretty meaningless given the mass murder spree you’ve been on to get there.
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by moomin 2y ago
Throw in renowned ashes and party. Or get poise breaking and the mimic tear. So many ways to absolutely stomp Elden Ring if that’s what you want to do.
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by moomin 2y ago
A lovely example of this is Starship Troopers and The Forever War. Both were written by veterans, but only one of them was written by someone who served during wartime. Unsurprisingly, it’s the anti-war one.
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by moomin 2y ago
Especially Skype, which is getting shit down. In favour of Teams, which is so much worse it’s hard to describe.
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by moomin 2y ago
So… an incident not involving a university in any way is your example of universities jumping the shark?
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by moomin 2y ago
I don’t think your “existential problem” and Churchill’s are in any way equivalent.
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by moomin 2y ago
I’m sure a much better private sector alternative will appear any day, in line with conservative dogma.

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