pjc50

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961.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Four years in prison just for posting propaganda on behalf of other countries? If that was evenly enforced a whole lot of people would be in trouble.
962.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Gerrymandering seems to have broken out again.
963.
by pjc50 6mo ago
> golden opportunity to build electric infrastructure that's paid for by corporations The discussion here is precisely because it is not fully paid for by the corporation.
964.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Depending on how the Iran war continues, petrol prices may be even more critical.
965.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Some significant fraction of that NY number will already be data center.
966.
by pjc50 6mo ago
> Oncor is currently staring down a mind-boggling 350 GW in data center requests This is an absolutely insane amount of energy, given that will have a very high capacity factor. The whole UK is one tenth of that, 35GW.
967.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Given how financial services can impose silent inexplicable lifetime bans for using the wrong words in the "what is this transaction for" field, I'm wondering at what point the AI automatically reports people for sanctions vi
968.
by pjc50 6mo ago
People opt in to the panopticon and then discover they have no more secrets. I'm surprised lawyers fall for that as well.
969.
by pjc50 6mo ago
While I'm a big fan of immutable design, it makes some algorithms much more expensive and ultimately DRAM is mutable. And the example we're talking about could be a loop counter!
970.
by pjc50 6mo ago
The pitch for AI from its proponents is the destruction of all white collar and creative jobs, while simultaneously making all the content they consume worse and Internet socialization with human strangers replaced by doppelgangers? And y
971.
by pjc50 6mo ago
> ISAs other than x86 (spec. RISC designs) would win in the end They're correct: ARM won the mobile space, won Apple, and is very gradually seeping into wider availability for other operating systems. Never mind the majority of raw
972.
by pjc50 6mo ago
The 6502 is one of the most heavily preserved technologies: http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html Full die capture, full transistor level simulation. Most of the others are being emulated in proportion to their im
973.
by pjc50 6mo ago
It's a notational issue. IIRC Pascal used := for assignment and = for equality testing. Where this becomes extremely Rorsarch is the spectrum between "notation is absolutely critical: there is only one correct representation of pr
974.
by pjc50 6mo ago
You can. I've even seen intentional 4:3 used as an "80s" signifier. Quick googling suggested that square video under 3 minutes will be automatically classed as "shorts", which much of HN hates and may never have see
975.
by pjc50 6mo ago
I struggle with this too in Edinburgh; I make a point of trying to stay engaged and keep recognizing how amazing the place is from the outside. Going to the festival (and the book festival, back when that was in Charlotte Square) is improve
976.
by pjc50 6mo ago
You have to distribute a "bundle" in a particular directory layout.
977.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Poland benefited significantly from immigration (of Poles to other countries and then back).
978.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Polish people migrating to the rest of Europe, sending money back, and eventually returning is probably a big part of the success.
979.
by pjc50 6mo ago
NAFTA was pretty beneficial until people went nuts about it.
980.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Lack of oligarchy is starting to look like an absolutely critical ingredient, and it's lucky that Poland escaped from the PiS trying to turn it into an oligarchy.
981.
by pjc50 6mo ago
This is generally true about how much damage austerity has done, but it's important to note that most of the bank bailout money was loans which have been mostly repaid. (Yes, exceptions for Iceland, Ireland, Cyprus, and a few others)
982.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Also Hungarian change of government has cut off some of the "dark money".
983.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Just because something is heavily in demand doesn't mean it's not fraudulent.
984.
by pjc50 6mo ago
The thing is dependent on imported RAM. The flip side of this.. have you seen SK Hynix stock price lately?
985.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Sometimes it is very hard to recover from the offlining of essential systems: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9pdld4y81o (Jaguar Land Rover, estimated cost in the billions)
986.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Yes. The intent is not to retain them or keep them happy, it's just to prevent them from doing inventive work for anyone else.
987.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Whether or not it works on you , you are not them, and there are millions of people on whom gambling advertising works really well. I don't understand why people comment "I am not the target audience" so often. No, you'
988.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Pretty much. It's the survivability onion. You can't be destroyed if you can't be discovered.
989.
by pjc50 6mo ago
People will post appalling racism in newspapers under their own bylines and photos. Identity verification does not moderate.
990.
by pjc50 6mo ago
The IRL social network is actually the important part of the trust structure. The only one of these I've seen that really worked was the Debian developer version: you had to meet another Debian developer IRL, prove your identity, and o

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