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by phaemon 6y ago
Looks like: https://fosshost.org/news/ampere-computing-fosshost-partners... Not due till December.
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by phaemon 6y ago
Very similar comments were made when a 25GB HDD was announced: http://web.archive.org/web/20001219170800/http://slashdot.or...
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by phaemon 6y ago
I like the look of the Cybertruck. It's like the truck Automan would drive!
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by phaemon 6y ago
That isn't what democratic means. It has nothing to do with which laws are passed, it's about how they're passed.
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by phaemon 6y ago
Well, they say "Our English masks this", which suggests they're talking about contemporary English and offering the lack of past division as an explanation for a lack of current division. I don't buy it. In fact, prior t
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by phaemon 6y ago
> Our English masks this because anciently it seems never to have had such a high-low division What an odd assertion. There's a massive difference between "proper English" and how it's commonly spoken. Reading somethi
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by phaemon 6y ago
I think that example just emphasises Reelin's point. Perhaps there was a temporary effect of more tellers, but now they've been entirely replaced with software - to the point there are many Internet only banks with no physical bra
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by phaemon 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that "24 hr of food deprivation on a daily basis" would leave you dead!
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by phaemon 6y ago
> £40/MWh estimate for wind included gas power generation No, they're totally separate things. It's not "wind and gas" as a single entity, it's "wind farms supply power to the grid at £40/MWh and g
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by phaemon 6y ago
It's described in the article linked above: "Some of these drinks are unfamiliar to us. “Lisbon” was probably a white wine from Carcavelos, near Lisbon. “Mountain” is a sweet and luscious wine from Malaga, in southern Spain. “Sitg
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by phaemon 6y ago
> This is why I can't take HN seriously You've had your HN account nearly twice as long as the person you're replying to. Why do you think they are HN, but you are not?
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by phaemon 6y ago
They weren't wrong at all; they were right. I suspect you are the one who is confused: the UK is on BST in the summer, and GMT in the winter. GMT is identical to UTC to the nearest second. GMT is not defined as "the current time
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by phaemon 6y ago
Or, nobody cares about fractions of a second when organising a meeting, so to all intents and purposes they are the same.
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by phaemon 6y ago
A pun that actually works better in the English translation as Dogmatix.
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by phaemon 6y ago
As has been explained in the other comments, Door A has a 1/3 chance of being the right choice and Door C (the unopened door) has a 2/3 chance of being the right choice. All true... but if you toss a coin to choose whether to swit
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by phaemon 6y ago
Paper is at https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/495/3/3403/5... (Not free I'm afraid)
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by phaemon 6y ago
Perhaps just a typo, but since I've seen this mistake before: it's "tenet" rather than "tenant".
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by phaemon 6y ago
Except it isn't. I assume you're referring to the Norway Oil Fund, but literally the entire point is that it wasn't simply spent in country, to avoid the "Dutch Disease". You can read the McCrone report to see the
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by phaemon 6y ago
The Greenland icesheet has not stopped melting. It's currently losing around 200 billion tons a year: https://files.springernature.com/getResource/Shepherd%204158...
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by phaemon 6y ago
I'm not aware of any shortage of masks in the UK now. There was at the start. You can buy a pack of 10 FFP2 masks (the EU equivalent of N95) on Amazon right now (ships from Germany): https://smile.amazon.co.uk/medisana-
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by phaemon 6y ago
But Linux Magazine still exists? I ended up with a subscription to it when Linux Voice closed and got folded into it. I get a copy once a month in the mail. EDIT: Ah, it seems it's called "Linux Pro Magazine" in the US. Maybe
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by phaemon 6y ago
Yes, that's why we only get 90% from renewable. 10% is not. Out of interest, what percentage are you at?
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by phaemon 6y ago
Interesting. I suppose "insulation effect" would be more accurate, but I guess it's too late to change it now.
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by phaemon 6y ago
Well, we don't have"randomish power cuts" so I guess someone solved that problem.
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by phaemon 6y ago
While your point is accurate, I'm not sure it's in any way relevant to this. Perhaps a different discussion on bigotry within tech would be the place for this.
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by phaemon 6y ago
No, it's opposed by people who are numerate enough to understand that nuclear is ludicrously expensive and completely unnecessary. I live in Scotland. In the past 20 years we've gone from around 12% electricity from renewable to a
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by phaemon 6y ago
We don't know the full story because the V devs deleted it. Experience tells me that people tend not to delete stories that paint them in the better light. It's vaporware until it we exists. Perhaps it would be kinder to call it &
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by phaemon 6y ago
No, the best response, if the devs truly felt the criticism was non constructive, was to ignore it. Having read the posts, it seems perfectly reasonable criticism, with enactable improvement. The dev response seems immature (at best) to me.
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by phaemon 6y ago
When given criticism, banning the critic from ever contributing is a ludicrously adolescent response. I'm going to guess (at least I hope!) that you're inexperienced in the professional world. Well, in the adult world you will fa
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by phaemon 6y ago
Fair point. I think I'll take a short break from commenting as clearly I'm getting a bit snappy.

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