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by rob74 3mo ago
I would have agreed to "you're allowed to exit the AI business" a few months ago, but now that SpaceX has had its IPO promising a total addressable market of $28.5 trillion, of which $26.5 trillion are AI, I guess they'r
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by rob74 3mo ago
Nitpick: those are (sharp) edges, not corners. Maybe the next generation of MacBooks will also actually have exactly 90° non-rounded corners? I guess that's the next logical step... Also, TIL that Bosch also makes files. I was under th
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by rob74 3mo ago
Plus people at the top level of the current administration just use Signal for discussing ongoing military operations and other classified stuff, so they don't see the need for solutions like Briar either...
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by rob74 3mo ago
Why? Nuclear has extremely serious, but very rare accidents, while fracking has less serious (as in, fewer people affected) accidents more frequently. I would say if you even it out, they're comparable...
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by rob74 3mo ago
Well, the good old LAMP stack (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP - this was the first of these acronyms as far as I'm aware of) included L for Linux so it would make a nicer acronym. Some people changed it to WAMP when running under Windows. But
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by rob74 3mo ago
Also, you could replace "looted antiquities" with any number of illicit things: ivory and other parts of endangered animals, drugs, organs etc. etc.
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by rob74 3mo ago
Humans are capable of introspection, so, if you develop a verbal tic, you might eventually notice and say to yourself "I've used the word 'load-bearing' (or whatever) a bit too often lately, maybe I should try to cut dow
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by rob74 3mo ago
The problem with that is best described by Antoine de Sain-Exupery's saying "perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." I guess the same goes for elegance and
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by rob74 3mo ago
I have to admit I skipped to the end, but the conclusion of the article seems to be: "If you really care about something, make a song and dance about it. Around a bonfire. While wearing feathers and a mask. Drugs are optional, but reco
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by rob74 3mo ago
Oh, wow, I have to admit that I didn't know that until today (although I have been living in Germany for 26 years now). I kinda just assumed that they are part of the public broadcasting system financed by the "Rundfunkbeitrag&quo
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by rob74 3mo ago
Ok, so what did they actually approve? Is this just a "declaration of intent", and the actual laws will follow later?! The article clearly says "lawmakers approved a whole series of reforms" - I was also surprised that t
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by rob74 3mo ago
First phrase in the article: "Shortly before the German parliament's summer recess, lawmakers approved a whole series of reforms." Sounds like "done and dusted" to me. The Bundesrat (the second chamber of the parlia
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by rob74 3mo ago
The things people describe as "beautiful" never cease to amaze me... ...but, as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
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by rob74 3mo ago
Also, AMX = Advanced Matrix Extensions. Now I wonder how many such "extension packages" Intel (and AMD?) have introduced since MMX (which I believe was the first, and interestingly enough didn't have an official meaning - ht
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by rob74 3mo ago
TIL - YouTrack was first released in 2009, Kotlin in 2011, so I wouldn't call it long before, but definitely before. Guess I'm more interested in programming languages than in task management tools, that's probably why I have
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by rob74 3mo ago
That's true, although, if you look at them, you wouldn't notice. The only mention of JVM you can see in the IDEs is in the About dialog, and the IDEs install and run their own OpenJDK, so no JVM has to be installed globally. Almos
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by rob74 3mo ago
I wasn't surprised that it's written in a JVM language, but I was surprised that that language is Java, not JetBrains' very own Kotlin...
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by rob74 3mo ago
Well, if your game would be one of very few AAA games written in Unity (actually, the only game written in Unity people reasonably familiar with the subject would be able to name off the top of their heads), things might look different...
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Last known US polio survivor using iron lung dies aged 78(theguardian.com)
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by rob74 3mo ago
Yes - when I read "both navigation users and non-users share the advantages of decongesting targeted segments", I wondered how long these advantages would last. It's widely accepted that less congestion will encourage people
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by rob74 3mo ago
Yup... hours of commuting time just to sit in Zoom/Teams/Slack/whatever calls while in the office instead of at home makes no sense at all, and is bad for the environment (even if you use public transportation, not going to t
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by rob74 3mo ago
> A teacher is constantly deciding how to engage a student, whether to say something, draw on the whiteboard, play a game, or change topics entirely. If it's really true that a teacher's job nowadays is to constantly try to c
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by rob74 3mo ago
Just my experience from being on planes, they take off, cruise, slow down and land, am I missing anything? ...seriously, 99%+ of the job of a conductor (and of a pilot) could be automated, the reason you still have a person (or two) in the
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by rob74 3mo ago
Well TBF OP is more or less correct, and I say this as a person who is pretty much into trains (although not train sims specifically). All a conductor can do is accelerate and brake - respect speed limits, brake in time so you don't ov
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by rob74 3mo ago
If you think about how much time a single developer has to invest to create all the assets for such a massive game, 11 years doesn't sound like a lot of time... (assuming he did all the assets himself and didn't use AI, which migh
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by rob74 3mo ago
That's just El Reg being El Reg (the Zuck-buck rhyme was apparently too good to pass up). But it's a far cry from their glory days, when they coined nicknames like "The Beast of Redmond" for Microsoft or "Chipzilla&
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by rob74 3mo ago
> You can imagine how we might want to put some social distance between ourselves and a project whose irresponsible software engineering practices invite the exact kind of criticism that people are eager to level. The other (very salie
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by rob74 3mo ago
Why not go directly to the source article that has a lot more details? https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/06/29/zuck-saves-me...
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by rob74 3mo ago
So, Terra should work for most "down-to-earth" problems, Luna is for light-weight stuff (because less gravity?), and if you really want to burn tokens like there's no tomorrow, you go for the fusion furnace at the center of o
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by rob74 3mo ago
So, Phil gets a golden parachute, and all the studios that got bough up because of him will be "set free" if they're lucky and disbanded if they're not. Yay for capitalism...

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