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by pjc50 3mo ago
Note this seems to be unrelated to the BBC Micro, and came out some time after its era in 1995! That's after the DOOM (1994) launch. Surely there must have been other computer bridge options at that point? I wonder how good the "A
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Trump, not Biden, started the war with Iran.
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> what about empires that actually survived or adapted? Really the Roman Empire did very well on this one, depending on when you date its final end to. But the pattern is there, especially if you look at the more rapid and more recent co
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Germany has its own problems of institutional capture by fossil fuels and reluctance to change. Even culture war and a local Nazi problem. Some of this has the same roots in social media and dodgy money (esp. wirecard), but not all of it.
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Signatures are terrible, and especially it's hard to automatically confirm they're correct even if you have a sample on file.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> willfully collapsing nominal GDP What on earth are you talking about? The credit risk was a very real problem; Kaupthing, Anglo Irish, RBS, Lehman etc.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Indeed. The global chain is McDonalds, which is of extremely average beef sold as hamburger rather than steak, but at vast quantities and predictable quality and low price. LLMs are going to be the McDonalds of code: "everyone knows&qu
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by pjc50 3mo ago
At this size, I think we have to start worrying about a 2008-type default risk. AI companies will have ordered all the RAM and paid some kind of deposit for that, but actually taking delivery and paying for it is still in the future and t
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Are there any of those left? The popular VMs for Java, Javascript and dotnet are all very mature heavily tuned designs.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
"Every input is hostile until proven otherwise": you said it yourself. One of those sad things that somebody new learns on the Internet every day.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> between devices that doesn't rely on online services -- no clue why we didn't solve that ages ago Airdrop is a thing, but remember that Android phones are controlled by the online services company that wants you to use online
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by pjc50 3mo ago
The power supply issue is very real, though. UK has expensive electricity and high-megawattage data centers are obviously not going to help with that. (The water issue doesn't pass the smell test for me because I expected data centers
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You can't just call corruption disagreement.
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In 1999 I was the first person I knew to get a TFT flatscreen monitor. It had the awesome capability of 1024x768 resolution at 14". Like OP I got made redundant in the winter of 2001 after the collapse, from Zeus Technology who had a h
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by pjc50 3mo ago
The power upgrades are required, yes. In some cases people have had their property taken by eminent domain just for power line upgrades. And people wonder why there is so much opposition. The change here is that the data center will pay the
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by pjc50 3mo ago
As all the cheating comments are referencing, the students don't necessarily want to get strong (that is a lot of work), but to get the qualification which unlocks the good jobs. We haven't yet got to the downstream question of wh
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> don't know what people are uploading (and have no way of knowing) Hosting CSAM is a strict liability offense in many jurisdictions.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Much of the press is pro-regime or owned by regime oligarchs.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
That's an easy one: I don't even have to look at what the facts are to be sure they're lying. Just a question of what about. Although "massive" is a subjective word. Nothing can be as massive as WW2 carpet bombing.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
"Play stupid games, win stupid prizes", international relations edition. America is not happy when it is not at war. There has to be an enemy. The old WOT had finally run out of steam; people are coming out of college who were bor
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by pjc50 3mo ago
The fault in the decision process was starting this war in the first place. Everything follows from that.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> We are already very aware that the police overreact and make plenty of mistakes This is the deeper problem. See BLM, and then the backlash against that to create a much less accountable federal paramilitary/carabinieri force, ICE,
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by pjc50 3mo ago
I think it's more accurate to say that the EU legislates labelling AI content. Enforcement is another matter, as we've already seen with things like WEEE.
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Iceland have a _geneological_ database, which is something of a sensible precaution against consanguinity in a small gene pool that was isolated before air travel. I don't think anywhere has population-wide genetic databases and I stru
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by pjc50 3mo ago
"Trust thermocline". This happens when people no longer trust that improvements are going to come from #1. Someone whose partner is about to leave them loudly proclaims "I've changed!". Should they believe them? Oft
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One possible outcome of that is the extinction of wild salmon.
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They're very bad at buying "pitchfork insurance" if so.
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Jorma Jaakko Ollila didn't seem to have that problem. (Explaining the joke: Finnish CEO of Nokia, responsible for the Symbian operating system)
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> if you start with a $3000 loss per month This is a question of access to capital. Since we're all on the VC site we should understand how that works; for things like that it's very important to get "angel" investors
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It feels like this observation should be in Marx somewhere (but in way more words badly translated from German)

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