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by petre 2y ago
Sure. That's why Brazil fled to Bluesky instead of Threads when Twitter was blocked. It's probably successful among boomers and whoever already has another account with meta.
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by petre 2y ago
I suspect interference from European industry groups coupled with EU bureaucrats' failure to understand technology and willingness to make software 'secure' by doing paperwork.
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by petre 2y ago
They're mostly used for recreational sailing or racing and are also equipped with an engine (diesel or electric sail drive) for maneuvers and in case there's no wind. Sailing has also advanced a lot since the nineternth century, b
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by petre 2y ago
There are designs which avoid meltdowns, yes. Because the fuel is already molten. Like FliBe. It has a safety plug which if melts, the fuel flows in a contained reservoir and solidifies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by petre 2y ago
> Nuclear is absolutely necessary to complete the clean energy transition, but is it really an either-or with solar and wind? For energy we obviously need all the options available. If a major volcano goes off up and darkens the sky with
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by petre 2y ago
> Smells downright anti-competitive The EU will have fun with this when it catches up What? The EU wants to introduce certifications for all products and services, further kneecapping local innovation through regulation and costly certif
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by petre 2y ago
WIMPS are most probably not real. They'll keep searching but it's quite unlikely they'll find any. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_experiment
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by petre 2y ago
> JSON is beautiful, elegant, and minimal by comparison. True, but binary formats like CBOR or MessagePack are also that and efficient and have support for binary strings. This JSON is human readable thing is the nerverending argument of
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by petre 2y ago
> I think Microsoft should offer VSCodium themselves The instant they do that I'm moving to Theia or something else (zed?). MS is not to be trusted, as outlined by this article.
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by petre 2y ago
Who cares, it's quite enough to reason to refuse a ship to dock in port. The Beirut ship also had a Russian owner. The AN was bound to Mozambique to be used for explosives.
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by petre 2y ago
Easy. You mess up the antenna or put a big lump of metal on it.
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by petre 2y ago
Not really, they're very much pissed about Chinese EVs now but the EC is tooo slooow to act. The Biden administration already hit them with tariffs and they're now considering banning the software that phones home. No need for we
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by petre 2y ago
They're laughing their asses off when some CEO of an AI company comes out and asks investors for $7T for AI chips . Sure bro, here's 1/4 of the US GDP for your AI chips.
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> they hide behind when people get their sites exploited It's all in the GPL under "no warranty" and the license is attached to the WP source.
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by petre 2y ago
> it's possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days Sure, a few thousand days and a few trillion $ away. We'll also have full self driving next month. This is just like the fusion is the energy of the fut
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by petre 2y ago
I had a underwhelming experience with Llama translation, incompatable to Claude or GPT3.5+ which are very good. Kind of like Google translate but worse. I was using them through Perplexity.
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by petre 2y ago
Maplibre works fine, there is even a plugin so you can use it in Leaflet. And it's a well maintained project. The other one is Mapbox GL from which Maplibre was forked. But you only use that with their tiles now.
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by petre 2y ago
Interesting but not entirely accurate. Moldova has not existed as a state until 1991, after the dissolution of the USSR but it shows up on the map after WW2.
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by petre 2y ago
I guess we shall see. There's also MOND.
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by petre 2y ago
Sure. Just like ether. They will sort it out, eventually. https://www.earth.com/news/dark-matter-does-not-exist-univer... Also no WIMPs were found so far. https://www.newscientist.com/article/24450
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by petre 2y ago
The MacBook keyboard is atrocious. I always mess up the passwords a bunch of times.
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by petre 2y ago
In Europe you might end up on the long queue with the non EU residents fighting about their place in the row if you opt not to go through biometrics check or you've got a non biometric ID. Some of the machines are also badly designed b
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by petre 2y ago
Maybe this is going to shed more light on the subject? Looks like the coolant and 99% of fuel have been removed, maybe it's to also give more time to the radioactivity to subside. https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc
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by petre 2y ago
The upcoming EU regulation regarding removable batteries is hopefully going to fix this.
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by petre 2y ago
Blackburn switch tool with chain press, tire levers, patch kit, spare tube. For anything not fixable with those, you visit a shop.
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by petre 2y ago
> As long as "SWEs" do not have stamps and legal liability, they are not real (professional) engineers When and if that happens I’ll move to carpentry. Good luck. Tech is already full of *it. The only thing short of making it e
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by petre 2y ago
Sounds like an ad for passionate toilet cleaners, but people in that line of work actually do something useful.
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by petre 2y ago
Fortunately for its members, the IDF is not an amateur terrorist organization and they do check their hardware. Also the exploding hardware attack did occur on a national holiday, but during business hours on a weekday.
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by petre 2y ago
Being linked to Hezbollah carries certain occupational risks.
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by petre 2y ago
If I paid for QKEDs I want QLEDs, not some regular LEDs with beefed up brightness using higher voltage that would fail prematurely.

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