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by notahacker 23d ago
What does "usability" mean in the context of a prototype short haul passenger aircraft? It's got seats for people to sit in... The competition in this market segment doesn't look like Middle Eastern airlines' first
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by notahacker 23d ago
I mean, for the all-electric distances it's pretty much a given that it's cheaper: fuel consumed is the largest item on airlines' expenditure. The bigger question is at what distance you start having to burn more fuel than if
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by notahacker 23d ago
Agreed. But for related reasons, aircraft aren't really designed for either the structural robustness or balance to deal with big heavy batteries, which is what motivated the clean sheet design.
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by notahacker 23d ago
The ability to register fraser.geek so a very small number of OpenNIC users can access that new URL doesn't really solve the OP's problem with his family's long-established URLs disappearing and their emails being directed to
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by notahacker 24d ago
Those summaries (and Bing is at least as culpable) are mostly only good for comedy value. Most favourite genre: returns picture of someone you know alongside biography of completely unrelated person. Least favourite genre: useful stat supp
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by notahacker 25d ago
You're absolutely right! Honestly? It's not just a joke, it's a smoking gun.
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by notahacker 25d ago
I'd argue showing Türkiye as Türkiye was consistent; in this case it's the Turkish government that's more likely to kick up a fuss and make life difficult for Google if their preferred nomenclature isn't respected
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by notahacker 26d ago
I feel the best way of fighting immaturity is with more immaturity. Just imagine the meltdown to be induced if, for example, the Scottish government were to issue a statutory instrument formally renaming a certain international golf links c
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by notahacker 26d ago
Hey, I can go further and point out further muddles and general weird English inconsistencies. Expensively educated people might pronounce French loanwords by dropping the h in an ostentatiously French way (and maybe making homage rhyme w
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by notahacker 26d ago
I'd say "founder mode" (if we must use such silly terms) did pretty well for them to IPO at over 100 billion for a single segment of the travel market Booking Holdings could easily have done themselves (and to an extent actua
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by notahacker 1mo ago
Plenty of fonts with the same SIL open font license around already, especially if what you're after is a nice but generic modern sans serif font which 99% of users can't distinguish between. Can't think of any reason why Nebu
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by notahacker 1mo ago
> A way to summarize how Thailand resisted colonization is that it colonized itself, and successfully adapted culturally to the wave of Europeanization and modern global order of nation states. That feels true only inasmuch as adapting a
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by notahacker 1mo ago
The US wasn't, for the most part, treating them as an adversary before
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by notahacker 1mo ago
Above all the US was a predictable actor. Sure, its terms of trade were designed to favour US companies and maybe it wasn't fair that you had to be an exceptional diplomat to stay on amicable terms with them if you were at least no
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by notahacker 1mo ago
yeah, I get the workaholism for companies touting missions to save lives or put man on the moon or build AGI, but who grows up dreaming of working for Accenture but with longer hours...
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by notahacker 1mo ago
If you're the sort of person that treats trips to NYC as a perk, you want to spend some of that weekend with a day off in NYC, not flying cross country to spend quality face to face time in the office...
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by notahacker 1mo ago
Serious threats which have completely failed to persuade North Korea et al to stop pursuing nukes. The closest we've actually come to a nuclear exchange was "using serious threats" during the Cuban missile crisis, and the US
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by notahacker 1mo ago
most of humanity dead because some morons decided to try to kill everyone just in case the server farm evolved the inclination and the capacity to try to kill everyone... Trolley problem: on the left track is a class of schoolchildren.
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by notahacker 1mo ago
Per capita stats are computed based on population, not per treatment or per person eligible for treatment. The US spends more per head on giving only a fraction of them subsidised healthcare than other nations manage on universal health, [m
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by notahacker 1mo ago
More or less of an existential threat than a conflict between nuclear powers because one of them decided to launch a unilateral strike against a datacentre located outside one of their cities just in case it hosted a particularly dangerous
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by notahacker 1mo ago
Not gonna lie, the website of a remarkably ordinary frozen food supermarket found on most UK high streets is not where I'd expect to find this kind of content :)
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by notahacker 1mo ago
I believe you've just described 95% of things posted to LinkedIn...
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by notahacker 1mo ago
> I do disagree with this conclusion. Screwing around on the keyboard is fun, and I imagine people who actually make music like yourself have fun doing structured versions of that. Why deny yourself that enjoyment? It’s not like there we
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by notahacker 1mo ago
For most of human history humans weren't really certain of anything other than their own poverty. Anchors like family and nationhood disappeared with a premature death in the family or the king's family and the most constant thing
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by notahacker 1mo ago
Before LLMs, SEO content spammers used something called an "article spinner" which could rewrite lots of versions of the same article (which may or may not be someone else's article) by substituting synonyms, producing just
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by notahacker 2mo ago
I assert that Twitter censored less than X, based on the evidence provided by X of how many million more accounts it banned for non-spam policy violations and how much higher its censorship requests compliance was. And that's the forma
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by notahacker 2mo ago
> I'm baffled by the claim that tech oligarchs are bad readers, as opposed to getting the point but disagreeing. > Some authors seem to think that readers may only read Heinlein if they are prepared to join the army the next day
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by notahacker 2mo ago
I mean, exploring how people make irresponsible voting decisions in sci-fi contexts might be an interesting, but Starship Troopers is actually a story about how a structure of power dedicated to conflict with faceless aliens seeks to perp
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by notahacker 2mo ago
I saw plenty of far out posts under the previous owners too... But X banned accounts for non-spam content violations at a much higher rate than Twitter and approved content censorship requests from authoritarian states at a higher rate
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by notahacker 2mo ago
There are supply side policy arguments that make sense. But that's separate from the linked article, which was a discussion of an empirical paper that claims to find evidence that "tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich&qu

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