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by rjsw 7mo ago
I drive a bit more than you at 4000 miles a year but most of that is outside the UK so would like to see more details on the recent proposals to tax electric cars on annual mileage. Current petrol car is 13yo so will need replacing eventual
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by rjsw 7mo ago
The wikipedia page doesn't list Italy as one of the countries where they are produced.
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by rjsw 7mo ago
The author has been using AI for other Lisp projects.
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by rjsw 7mo ago
Can put panels on walls too.
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by rjsw 7mo ago
That engineer didn't give up for very long, he designed a different 32-bit machine for Computervision fairly soon after, it is featured in the AMD PAL book from the early 80s.
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by rjsw 7mo ago
I wrote a hypertext system that created dialog boxes on the fly and used the callback for the custom object type to implement links.
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by rjsw 7mo ago
> GEM on the PC was... ick... compared to on the Atari ST. It was fine on an Olivetti M24. Same screen resolution and colour as the ST, Logitech mouse plugged into the back of the keyboard.
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by rjsw 7mo ago
Windows were only fixed in the desktop application, you could still move and resize them in your own apps.
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by rjsw 7mo ago
I got the full set of GEM documentation when I attended the launch of it, can't remember how you could get it later. It was good enough for me to write bindings to DR C and Lisp then several applications.
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by rjsw 7mo ago
There was a RUSI paper at the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine that identified this problem. The one area of munitions supply that was in good shape was 5.56mm, the "assault rifle" culture in the US means there are enough
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by rjsw 7mo ago
The listed range of the car that I'm thinking of [0] is 186 miles, I was using 100 miles as the useful range in winter as there are reports that it drops by a lot in the cold, this vehicle gets the largest subsidy in the UK right now.
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by rjsw 7mo ago
It would be helpful for the current generation of smaller electic vehicles that are fine for daily use but would need to stop every 100 miles on a longer trip in winter.
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by rjsw 7mo ago
France can fine Parisian bars that serve alcohol to under-18s itself.
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by rjsw 7mo ago
My phone contract that does offer IPv6 is with Free, I could not work out whether it would disable IPv4 if I enabled IPv6 so have not tried changing it.
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by rjsw 7mo ago
I have has native IPv6 since 2010, from two different ISPs. It is also available for one of my phone contracts but not tried enabling it yet.
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by rjsw 7mo ago
A friend was working at Micron on a rackmount network server with a lot of flash memory, I didn't ask at the time what kind of flash it used. The project was cancelled when nearly finished.
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by rjsw 8mo ago
There is also a new UK government requirement to verify your identity if you are a director or significant shareholder in a UK company. The online route for that goes through a couple of pages then says "now switch to the app on your s
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by rjsw 8mo ago
The UK has an official system [1] for checking whether people should be allowed to work with vulnerable people. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disclosure_and_Barring_Service
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by rjsw 8mo ago
You still need a few people high enough up in a company who think that quality does matter to be able to get the job to fix things.
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by rjsw 8mo ago
The old drivers are mostly dual GPL or MIT licenced, they have been used in all the BSD variants.
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by rjsw 8mo ago
Means that other platforms need to allow Rust in the kernel too in order to use future drivers.
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by rjsw 8mo ago
If the LLM was trained on any GPL licenced code then there is an argument that all output is GPL too, legal departments should be worried.
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by rjsw 9mo ago
People used to bank with Barclays to register their support for Apartheid in South Africa.
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by rjsw 9mo ago
It stopped people asking about the Epstein files.
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by rjsw 9mo ago
You might be interested in the resources [1] on the H.P.Lovecraft Historical Society website. [1] https://www.hplhs.org/resources.php#fonts
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by rjsw 9mo ago
People that I'm currently working with are using AI to try to extract data from the text of published papers, getting access to raw data sets doesn't seem to be a priority.
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by rjsw 9mo ago
Britain (technically England) has prosecuted a monarch [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England
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by rjsw 10mo ago
There have been comments that some leading AI researchers were switching away from working on language models to do stuff with "real world data".
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by rjsw 10mo ago
The countries that the ships are registered in are not going to do anything if they are seized and scrapped.
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by rjsw 10mo ago
There is Butler's own book "War is a Racket" [1] too. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

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