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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
> I hope there will be more investment, especially in the Baltics. There is an ongoing development, Rail Baltica, European gauge, being built to join Helsinki through the Baltic states, to Poland, which will link up with Germany. The end
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
But that is entirely the point - the environmentalists as a whole are not the problem, the problem is the groups that usurp the mantle and push for policy contrary to the wider group's agenda. I'm not criticizing people who fight
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
Not just some petrol companies, by Gazprom itself: https://www.transparency.org/en/press/germany-state-governme...
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
Just like the IRA said to Thatcher: "Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always."
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
What makes an option ROM so expensive?
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
> that has gotten caught with their proverbial security pants down around the ankles So just like any other major networking provider, including opensource projects?
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
JGC is the closest possible thing to a personal incarnation of Cloudflare
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
Hackers took down some Russian military sites, including the main one (.mil) subdomain and made them return the 418 I'm a Teapot error. It has double meaning in Russian because чаиник (chaynik) - Russian for teapot is also slang for a
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
Scheduled for 2025 but I do hope it gets accelerated.
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
It's the same as with any public discourse these days. If your audience is practically infinite, you have to have an extreme and attention-grabbing viewpoint, otherwise you're just one in a sea of many. If you're only talking
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
You are not alone, there are academics who have build careers around this notion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las...
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
> Apple already gets 15 bps for all Apple Pay transactions Bits per second? Beets per sale? Blackened pieces-of-eight per scurvy-rat?
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
Thankfully, there isn't an assigned ISO 3166-1 2-letter country code for SU currently; people may have interesting reactions seeing what happens when reversing a US flag emoji if there were.
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
> But the entropy of a large system is low, because it's physically attached with the Strong Force of physics. There is a low risk to other neighbouring satellites (space junk collisions). A swarm of small satellites has high entrop
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
This is just an outside interface, the actual networks don't run on SMTP and IMAP in any way, rather, it's things like SS7 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7 ) and SMPP ( https://
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
I was listening to that episode while riding a bus and I was almost screaming internally the whole time. I knew exactly what that song was and by whom, and had a dusty old low quality mp3 still on some harddrive at home, possibly acquired t
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
As the beloved doctor Gregory House put it, "tell a surgeon it’s okay to cut a leg off and he’s going to spend the night polishing his good hacksaw" (instead of looking for other solutions).
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
> They are often taken on 35 mm film, which means a natural shallow dept off field Not to be too nitpicky but depth of field is a function of focal length and aperture size, the film itself is irrelevant. It's just as easy to achiev
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
I wonder if someone could get the Apollo source code compiled and running on this chip to finally once and for all prove that old chestnut (i.e. the musical greeting card has more computing power than the Apollo Lunar lander)
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
Downvoters: you want your elders (and not just them) to die and countless others to suffer long-term consequences of a disease not yet fully understood just to earn some money right now and keep the endless rat race going as it is; you make
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
Now inverse that statement and see where it takes you, and what it tells about you as a human being.
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
Are most aspects of life better than in 2015 right now?
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
I think you meant Wireguard; you could make a packet capture for Wireshark a long long time ago already.
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There is, however, a significant percentage of it in dry or gaseous form.
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
That'd be the actual trees themselves.
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
For the downvoter: Stephenson used to be an advisor for Bezos-owned Blue Origin for 7 years; supposedly he developed at least some of these far-out space launch and orbital mechanics ideas during that time. It's just a facetious commen
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I wouldn't be surprised if Bezos owned those ideas.
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I think they mean the emissions from generating all that electricity, which isn't always clean. You'll get a lot of hydro and renewables in some countries at some times but then also coal and gas at other times.
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
> in particular solar doesn't work in emergency situations such as volcano eruptions rendering the sky dark. I'm not familiar with this. Is this a common problem in Germany? Are southern states like Baden-Württemberg more affl
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by pilsetnieks 5y ago
Perfect is the enemy of good.

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