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by pjc50 5mo ago
The Porsche SUVs deeply offend me aesthetically. The proportions are just wrong and the curve doesn't adapt across the body, so it looks like a monster truck. Far more so than things built to be that size (Land Rover and imitators).
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by pjc50 5mo ago
UK police have had various types of Jaguar over the years; there was a period where the original Mark 2 Jag could outrun the police, so they had to buy some as well. The Mark 2 became ubiquitous in police procedural TV shows, usually driven
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by pjc50 5mo ago
They're rigged.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> Not being MAGA Yes, but that should be baseline for the Democrat candidate? Are there really no better candidates in Maine? This sort of thing would be regarded as disqualifiing in the UK even for local councilors from the far right.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
I'm not sure in the Platner case why the supposed progressive cause can't find someone without a Nazi tattoo. I'm not sure what the alleged benefits of Platner are either. Mamdani has been amazing, but what is Platner for?
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Oh, I assumed they were already out there in the sea of slop like the Iran Lego propaganda tiktoks.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
The AI threat is clearly a subset of the irresponsible billionaires threat, and like that threat we basically have to wait until the first sufficiently lethal incident before there can be real action taken.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
All the other ones including the Chinese ones are still available.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Bank accounts are currently regularly ""hacked"" by phish and other types of fraud. Current models are capable of helping with that. Then there's monstrously stupid stuff like https://www.visa.com/en
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by pjc50 5mo ago
The history of the VRA suggests that several states simply cannot be trusted to do that for all their residents.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
There's a big gap between "theoretically unreliable" and courts actually recognizing that, unfortunately. Lots of forensics is much more dubious than CSI would have you believe.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
The US has made it very clear that they're going to be targeting Iranian water infrastructure. Israel have flattened most of the hospitals in Gaza along with the university. They just don't care about not targeting civilians any m
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Yes, this is the "LMAX Disruptor": https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/user-guide/index.h... You can write only-stack-alloc or limited-alloc C#, and Microsoft have put a lot of work into it (Span e
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by pjc50 5mo ago
I wonder why people are more eager to pool money to pay a corporate-owned computer to build things than to the actual humans who have been building open source for decades? Much of which has ended up in the training set?
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Is LLM output "real" or "fiction"?
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by pjc50 5mo ago
The "happiness level review" with "Node operators must participate in scheduled IRC review sessions" is almost a piece of dystopian fiction in itself. But there's a lot of things to think about in the capacity of AI
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by pjc50 5mo ago
.. only if you know what the code is doing, though. Often the requirements get scattered and lost to the winds and the code is the only record of its own idiosyncratic behavior. And yes, someone's depending on the bugs in it.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
South Korea does seem to be somewhere where the people are more acutely aware that they are a new democracy, and also that there are a number of horrific fascist incidents in recent memory ("tank day") which remind people that it
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Yes, and: these are the same picture. They're all promoted by Russian-backed influencers on US-owned social media, or indigenous US racists. We've got Elon inciting race riots in Belfast now; several people left homeless after the
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Privatization: in much of the (neo)liberal West, it is seen as better to use commercial providers. They're supposed to be cheaper and better, because they're not using (union) civil service staff. Yes, this results in enshittifi
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by pjc50 5mo ago
This is one of those things where you have to be aware of the Prisoner's Dilemma; to a certain extent you can elevate a place by better pro-social behavior, or forming a pro-social clique within it, but you need to be aware if/whe
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by pjc50 5mo ago
The UK will pay state pension if you live abroad: https://www.gov.uk/state-pension-if-you-retire-abroad .. which is a contribution based benefit. There's a lot of (deliberate) confusion between pensions and "welfa
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by pjc50 5mo ago
That was, sadly, very much an "everybody does this" thing, from Guernica to Chongqing to Coventry. But yes, there are two possible lessons from those horrors: - never again must this happen to anyone: the construction of internati
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by pjc50 5mo ago
I wonder how US-specific this phenomenon is. UK dealerships don't seem to have a problem stocking them, and have been quick to pick up BYD franchises.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Long-term reviews are available: https://driveauthority.com/is-byd-reliable-after-5-years/ https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/byd/dolphin-surf/long-t... https://www.autocar.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Some US politicians were proposing a total ban on allowing cars of Chinese origin into the US, which is rather extreme. They don't want to risk US nationals seeing them and wanting them.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Same question, but for Tesla and the proposed US invasion of Canada. (one of those things which the POTUS says that we're all told shouldn't be taken as serious or real, as if that wasn't a massive disqualification for him)
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by pjc50 5mo ago
I suspect America will continue to be weird about China until one of three things happens: - a new Great Power enemy is selected; it would make sense for this to be Russia, but India is also a candidate - some sort of face-saving moral vict
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Significant work has been done on the "dendritic" failure mode of electrodes, where crystals grow from one electrode to another and may punch through separator membranes. This has gradually increased cell lifetimes. Now it's
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by pjc50 5mo ago
??? Data quality issues usually get worse the further back you go.

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