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NA1SS Voice Contact Astronaut [video](youtube.com)
1 points by pxeger1 2y ago|0 comments
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by pxeger1 2y ago
I think Bloomberg’s at fault: “cut a deal” isn’t usually that ambiguous because it’s clear which state transition is more likely. But here it’s plausible they could’ve been ending some existing training-data-sharing agreement, or that they
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by pxeger1 2y ago
It's quite hard to write mktemp securely[1]. It would be great if POSIX didn't make people attempt to do that error-prone task themselves. [1]: There's some explanation in this recent post: https://dotat.at/@&
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by pxeger1 2y ago
Another key thing is that in many languages, you can (and will often enough in practice for it to be a concern) do I/O outside of an async function, using the equivalent blocking API. So in those languages, async does not act as a usef
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by pxeger1 2y ago
I have access - that paper says: > Such an incident has wider implications because subsea cables carry >99% of all international data traffic, including the internet and trillions of dollars per day in financial transactions and in tu
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by pxeger1 2y ago
How much moon could a moon rover rove if a moon cover could rove moon?
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by pxeger1 2y ago
What are you gonna do about all the nitrogen etc which the plants need? Are there good ways to reextract these nutrients from dead plant material without releasing loads of carbon at the same time?
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by pxeger1 2y ago
Automattic staff post suspicious “ Five for Future program” stats
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by pxeger1 2y ago
I agree it’s not moral but it seems like it’s been pretty sustainable so far. As in, we’ve had a hierarchical class system for millennia and it doesn’t look to be going anywhere that soon. So I don’t think it’s fair to say that that(‘s what
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by pxeger1 2y ago
Hate to be that guy but this is a nouning of a verb
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by pxeger1 2y ago
The reason CFC regulation succeeded is just because they turned out to be easy to replace. This is not the case for hydrocarbons and concrete
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by pxeger1 2y ago
I initially took issue with "first asymmetric proof of work", thinking that in practice any NP-complete problem would surely be fine, even if we can’t prove that it can’t be solved quickly. But is it difficult to find NP-complete
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by pxeger1 2y ago
How could you name a language after an element and then not use its chemical symbol as the file extension?? (Yes I know NCL means "Nickel configuration language" and can be pronounced like Nickel, but come on)
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by pxeger1 2y ago
Valve is in Bellevue, Washington, and Wolfram is in Champaign.
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by pxeger1 2y ago
> it can't just pass a law that says "the PAF is now free" without paying hundreds of millions of pounds in compensation to Royal Mail Why not? Parliament has the ability to make whatever laws it wants, no?
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by pxeger1 2y ago
The 2134 AD Thameslink service to Proxima Centauri is cancelled. A hypership-replacement bus service will be provided.
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Periodic reminder about how cursed Japanese wiring is(bitbang.social)
3 points by pxeger1 2y ago|0 comments
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by pxeger1 2y ago
Visa and Mastercard both have net profit margins of around 50%. So unless you think they’re taking on vast commercial risk, which I don’t, then there’s no reason we should be paying so much in fees.
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by pxeger1 2y ago
This has nothing to do with CrowdStrike
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by pxeger1 2y ago
It’s pretty hard to fit the 5 or so nearly parallel commuter lines from north London into a totally circular diagram
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Google Down(downdetector.com)
24 points by pxeger1 2y ago|12 comments
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by pxeger1 2y ago
Ah you meant the entire economy, not just the railways
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by pxeger1 2y ago
It’s hardly consolidated compared to Germany??
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by pxeger1 2y ago
Why not just do that with your window manager??
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by pxeger1 2y ago
If you start a spring batch, what letter will you use to disambiguate it from summer batches? (S24)
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by pxeger1 2y ago
I’m just not initially inclined to trust a website ending in .press or .ru as much as I would le Monde, so I posted this to demonstrate that it can be trusted.
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by pxeger1 2y ago
Potentially more trustworthy source: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/07/25/the-secr...
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by pxeger1 2y ago
It’s not really a DDoS if it’s two addresses. Just block them and move on.
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by pxeger1 2y ago
I read this as “They thought they knew their hamsters. Then their hamsters put up spy cameras”
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by pxeger1 2y ago
Anyone know why?

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