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by rob74 2y ago
Well, that's kind of the point? The current administration doesn't care about cyber defense, any less than it cares about protecting the environment, protecting consumers, having top-notch universities and research, foreign aid et
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by rob74 2y ago
Cool! I hoped there would be a video showing the "levitation device" in action, but alas, the only video in the article was an ad...
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The modern equivalent of this would be a one-line change in a codebase that fixes a significant issue. If you then log three days of effort on the ticket, people may also start questioning that, but: Changing a line: 1 minute Knowing which
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by rob74 2y ago
Interesting! I was reminded of the skills of older physicians, who could make an informed diagnosis going just on the symptoms and maybe using a stethoscope, whereas younger ones immediately order a full blood test and maybe throw in an MRI
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by rob74 2y ago
Also, I would argue that ICE needs less perverse incentives, not more . It's pretty obvious that they have deportation quotas that they have to meet or exceed, hence hapless tourists get treated like dangerous criminals and locked u
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by rob74 2y ago
Actually, almost everything changes slightly - the number, shape and pattern of the chairs, the number and pattern of the pillows, the pattern of the curtains, the scene outside the window, the wooden part of the table, the pattern of the
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by rob74 2y ago
That might be true, but creating the Amiga 500 and 2000 was also a no-brainer: the original Amiga (later retconned to A1000) had a detachable keyboard (= expensive), but limited expansion capabilities, so launching two new models, a cheaper
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by rob74 2y ago
> The corporate drama has led to some speculation that Irving Gould was running Commodore as a stock scam, but I think that’s an oversimplification. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor probably applies
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by rob74 2y ago
Go uses "==" for equality checks, "=" for assignments, and ":=" for "declaration/assignment with type inference" - so it's different from both Python (you can use ":=" as part of a
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The whole list sounded a bit strange to me - it looks more like a list he compiled after the fact to explain why he chose Rust, rather than some criteria he had decided on before evaluating several languages. Of course, I can sympathize wit
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by rob74 2y ago
The Guardian has investigated further: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revea... In the case of Norfolk Island, it was apparently some mislabeled shipments from Timberland (based in
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by rob74 2y ago
If you look at the full list (available e.g. here https://www.newsweek.com/trump-reciprocal-tariff-chart-20545... ), some countries (most prominently Russia) are not on it. Whether that means anything is debatable, but Mexic
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by rob74 2y ago
According to the Guardian ( https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/donald-trump... ): > Despite this, according to export data from the World Bank, the US imported US$1.4m (A$2.23m) of product
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by rob74 2y ago
> these are all internal territories of Australia. Why they get separate tariffs is weird. Probably because they had separate entries in a "list of countries" which they picked as a base for their list? I don't really th
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Looks more like an amoeba to me...
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> Inspired by the Twitter logo, which is made from 13 perfect circles Compared to that, the new logo doesn't have a circle (segment) anywhere to be seen (unless you consider straight lines as circle segments with the center locate
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> They're completely rejecting the complexity of compromise and gradual change towards the ideal, convinced that any act that isn't absolute is a betrayal of their values. Interestingly enough, this also describes a member of
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by rob74 2y ago
Thanks, I am aware of that concept, but I'm also aware that many people's sense of humour stops when you start mixing "death" and "children"...
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Nice project, but am I the only one who thinks it's a bit cynical to first advertise it as a "death trap" and then show kids riding it? Which means you either admit that the title is complete and utter clickbait, or you dem
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by rob74 2y ago
Yes, I was arbitrarily defining the side that rotates clockwise as "top" and the other side as "bottom".
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It just occured to me that "rotation direction" is a pretty coarse measurement. Actually, you could look at the angle of a galaxy relative to ours, where (let's say) 0° is viewed exactly from "above" (rotating clo
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by rob74 2y ago
Well, that's the crux of the issue: apparently the aircraft still did respond properly to pilot inputs. Of course, it's totally understandable to get spooked by all the electronics failing and decide to rather bail out than bet on
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"Where were you then, Raymond Chen? I could have really used your advice 25 years ago!"
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Yup... well, if the research is conducted (or sponsored) by the company that develops and sells the LLM, of course there will be a temptation to present their product in a better light and make it sound like more than it actually is. I mean
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Not enough knots though...
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...or one of these things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_loop_game#/media/File:Wir...
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With me it goes so far that I switch everything that can be switched (e.g. Android on my phone) to English. It's not just the terms, it's also the frequent translation errors. One "oldie but goodie" example is a Windows
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by rob74 2y ago
Hmmm... if you are going to use only Bavarian paraphernalia to symbolize "German Rust", you might as well go all the way and use Bavarian instead of German for some extra laughs? Ok, TBF most programming keywords are rather scient
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> Designing a language for clarity and maintainability is a laudable goal, and so is choosing to use one. Chasing complexity, or reaching for the latest trendy language that lets you "express yourself" in ten different ways to
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I think it's not just about poverty, some stats about "precarious employment" - as in "I'm above the poverty line, but if I lose my job (or even one of the two jobs I have to do to get by), that will change very qui

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