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by petcat 9mo ago
Apparently the first Mars Rover operated on only 5 watts of power. A common bathroom nightlight draws ~7 watts .
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by petcat 9mo ago
Sure, but that's different than not telling the local police department. Because they will show up with K9s and guns. And then it becomes a very dangerous situation.
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by petcat 9mo ago
Yeah this is more like a Pascalian Gamble [1]. If you try nothing, then you are assured to die as God wanted. If you try something , then you might live, but then God hates you. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasc
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by petcat 9mo ago
> the local cops responded Extremely dangerous and irresponsible for the county not to alert the local police and Sheriffs office that this operation was taking place. I'm glad these guys got their money.
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by petcat 9mo ago
I might be mistaken, but it sounds like these guys showed up at a facility and did the classical "breaking and entering" thing. The onsite (terrified) staff called 911, the police showed up and arrested them. The perps said that
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by petcat 9mo ago
> Some regard stories such as that of Oliver, who came to be known as her state’s “Lobster Lady”, as evidence of the growing number of Americans who extend their working days well past the typical retirement age as the cost of living in
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by petcat 9mo ago
> Every month more and more people switch to Linux We've been hearing this for decades and yet the home Linux userbase is microscopic and somehow even smaller than ever. Unless we're going to count Google's Android and
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by petcat 9mo ago
> There could be a submission fee that would be fully reimbursed if the submission is actually accepted for publication. While well-intentioned, I think this is just gate-keeping. There are mountains of research that result in nothing
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by petcat 9mo ago
Yeah it's a neat idea. Unfortunately the execution is pretty poor.
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by petcat 9mo ago
Right. I was responding to the question "do you actually need DDOS protection?". Which is an obvious Yes in the real (non-hobby) world.
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by petcat 9mo ago
> cloudflare sells fear A lot of people here don't just run trivial hobby sites. They work for companies that actually have a real need for DDOS and WAF protection. Maybe you have no experience with that, but it is extremely common
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by petcat 9mo ago
> EU alternative to Google, Microsoft, Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon This is basically just saying "we need to start by replacing 5 of the richest and most powerful companies the world has ever seen". I think the EU should s
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by petcat 9mo ago
Yikes, so it's a "TUI" app... that still requires a display server? So I can't run this TUI over SSH or a virtual terminal. Wondering what the point of a tui is that still requires a gui environment to run?
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by petcat 9mo ago
I love the resurgence of TUI apps, but I wonder what the definition of "modern TUI" means in these cases. Does it basically mean just not using curses?
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by petcat 9mo ago
I would be very surprised if they didn't still have analytics tracking on the MPEG-DASH streams directly (what yt-dlp is downloading)
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by petcat 9mo ago
I feel like there is a new one of these everyday
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by petcat 9mo ago
All great things for sure. But the French economy has been stagnant for decades. There is no growth. One option would be to allow more immigration, but not allow the immigrants to have access to the public benefits. Obviously that is a
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by petcat 9mo ago
Distinction without a difference. They're advisors.
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by petcat 9mo ago
Sure. The US military has done this for decades to prevent brain-drain around emerging technologies to the private sector.
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by petcat 9mo ago
Nobody is taking orders from these guys. They're advisors.
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by petcat 9mo ago
Yeah, they're hedging against "AI purchases". eBay has already been dealing with automated/bots for years.
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by petcat 9mo ago
I bought the dead tree version of this book back in ~2006 or so. I used to work in a business park in Seattle and the company next door to us operated a PC recycling warehouse. There were piles of old 386/486-era PCs in various stat
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by petcat 9mo ago
> The affordances of AI systems have the effect of eroding expertise I have actually seen this be a tremendously good thing. Historically, "expertise" and state of the art was reserved solely for those people with higher educat
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by petcat 9mo ago
Just glancing around, dreamwidth is hosted on AWS, and this blog looks like it's hosted on mythic-beasts.com which is a uk-based hosting provider. No idea if that's it.
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by petcat 9mo ago
> no expectation for companies to succeed or to turn in profit in the US, and hasn't been for over a decade. It's been a lot longer than a decade. The initial dot-com boom was nearly 30 years ago . It's very much institu
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by petcat 9mo ago
I always heard that the issue with startup investment in Europe was the general lack of capital investors willing to take Hail Mary risks on founders with a wild idea and maybe little experience. The market is far too risk-averse for a gra
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by petcat 10mo ago
> He's a non-technical founder building an AI-powered business. It sounds like he's building some kind of ai support chat bot. I despise these things.
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by petcat 10mo ago
Doesn't China own most of the real estate in Canada. Did USA cause that
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by petcat 10mo ago
That's regional politics. Nothing to do with the superiority of one navy over another
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by petcat 10mo ago
That would never happen until the US Navy ceases to be effective globally.

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