ricardo81

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by ricardo81 8mo ago
I had the same thought. I guess a lot of those keys may belong to dormant/deleted accounts and only a % of people who have enabled Gemini (presumably it required user action)
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by ricardo81 8mo ago
So basically 'Their “global network of data partners”' means once you submit that information, it's a free for all. There's so many angles of grind with this kind of thing that big tech has gradually normalised.
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by ricardo81 8mo ago
I understand where you're coming from. I wasn't meaning from the context of the pseudo-smart person portraying that (which is obviously a thing, probably more obvious nowadays), but a person that is the real article. You meet all
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by ricardo81 8mo ago
The problem with extremely smart people is not many people understand them. They're typically going to be non-conformist in any event, and may come across as arrogant if they have an intricate belief system that you may not take the ti
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
Isn't part of it that he had leverage on many people, given the amount of evidence there seems to be? I guess that would be one way to further the network via 'favours'.
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
Did you write your own summary parser for this? I wrote one in the past and found the wiki markup quirky to deal with. The wiki dumps do provide summaries but they seem to suffer similar issues.
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
It was, on both counts but perhaps it's changed. Search for "domain tasting"
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
I think (not really sure) there's still a 5 day grace period when you buy domains, at least for gTLDs.
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
I wouldn't hard recommend based on lack of solid experience of using them over time, but Gandi showed a lot of promise for me. Context: I used to run a domain-related service that used registrar api's and gandi's seemed the m
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
There's one great example of a company that did that and managed to go viral on their release, Cuil. They claimed to have a Google size of search index. Unfortunately for them their search results weren't good and so that visibili
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
Agree. It was not standard in the late 90s or early 00s. Most sites were custom built and relied on the _webmaster_ knowing and understanding how robots.txt worked. I'd heard plenty of examples where people had inadvertently blocked cr
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
Agree. It seems to be a fairly unique problem that intermittent energy sources introduce. Charging batteries definitely seems like part of the solution and electricity tariffs that adapt to wholesale costs on a shorter time basis help incen
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
3 bars? gonnae no dae that.
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
It has been a long standing problem. Ideas crop up like generating hydrogen with the curtailed energy or maybe at least in Winter, use it for heat generation. The problem would seem to be the capex and the inverse of intermittency being the
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
The social and environmental cost part is being removed in April and should save around 15-20% of the bill. I guess that is what you mean by net zero taxes?
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
Canada is blessed with cheap energy, the abundance of hydro surely helps to bridge any intermittency other renewables have. I lived there 10 years back, your energy is less than half the cost of mine in Scotland. In Scotland's case we&
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
>incentives spot on. The number of times I've came across a poorly made video where half the comments are calling out its inaccuracies. In the end Youtube (or any other platform) and the creator get paid. Any kind of negative intera
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
I like the idea, (original) content creators being credited is good for the entire ecosystem. Though if LLMs are willingly ignoring robots.txt, often hiding themselves or using third party scraped data- are they going to pay?
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
Same. Managed all 4. But the differences are tiny and I'm only 70% confident. Most of my judgement is based on human reactions to a changing situation.
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
Exactly this. Or just obfuscating the question so much that people give up asking the question.
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
My perspective, is Russia only sees other countries on how they can militarily respond to Russia's intentions. For Scottish independence- well Adam Smith, David Hume et al set up the modern world. There's a definite Scottish ident
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
Relatively sane just says how bad it is elsewhere, as in we probably wouldn't descend into civil war. As a fellow Scot, I watched the commentary unfold while I lived in Canada and to me the what would you call it, blatant, slant on thi
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
Scotland would be a net contributor to EU finances as an EU state. Its GDP/capita is very similar to the UK's. Though its notional deficit would be far higher and break EU rules IIRC (which have been broken numerous times by exist
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
which voting system? There's one for Holyrood and one for Westminster. IIRC it's been a long time since anyone has commanded a >50% of the vote share.
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
Makes sense. Russia and friends would seem to have an interest in Scottish independence as it undermines the UK. It seems to me most social platforms (not just big tech, smaller UGC sections like the BBC) have many puppet accounts that are
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
It's one of those 'invisible hand' things where killing off older sharks may be advantageous in the long run. One of many possibilities. One idea behind that is that any environment has a carrying capacity, limitations on foo
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
Reminds me of the film 'In Time' where the rich can be immortal. It does seem that nature has it 'programmed in' that we are to die due to telomere shortening and for natural selection to take place. Our modern and const
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by ricardo81 9mo ago
Are they parasites though? It may be symbiotic, especially if the relationship between the species has spanned over many years. e.g. their presence may promote the production of rhodopsin. OTOH it may be natures way of allowing natural sele
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by ricardo81 10mo ago
CC is not on the same scale as Google and not nearly as fresh. It's around 100th of the size and not much chance of having recent versions of a page. I imagine you'd get on just fine for short tail queries but the other cases (lon
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by ricardo81 10mo ago
Fetching web pages at the kind of volume needed to keep the index fresh is a problem, unless you're Googlebot. It requires manual intervention with whitelisting yourself with the likes of Cloudflare, cutting deals with the likes of Red

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