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by robocat 6mo ago
That report concentrates on the forensics, but it doesn't really look at any of the root causes which were failures at the regulatory or political level. The Spanish electricity network was designed such that it would fail. Working out
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by robocat 6mo ago
> the bulk of people I'd say actually have more time than they do money I always find this cliche absurd. People in developed countries are given relatively equal amounts of time (say 80 years average of up to 15 hours a day). Our t
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by robocat 6mo ago
Submarine nationalisation/communism. Just use a wealth tax until the wealthy don't own anything. Please ensure you simultaneously destroy any self-made businesses. No country requires business growth or an economy /s.
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by robocat 6mo ago
US study. From link: Patients with conditions that would indicate aspirin use for secondary prevention (such as coronary artery disease, prior stroke, or peripheral artery disease) as well as those for whom aspirin was contraindicated d
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by robocat 6mo ago
That would genetically remove altruists from the population (assuming altuism is heritable and assuming children also have to press button). The world would be a more selfish place in a generation after the experiment. Presumably parents pr
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by robocat 6mo ago
Opuses is also correct English, and clearer in non-academic contexts. Opera is the traditional plural from Latin, now perhaps for more scholarly use in English. Results from a quick search.
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by robocat 6mo ago
Talking about losses is a sign of ignorance. Generally a comment making that point can be ignored. Losses are a point that people repeat: maybe because it "makes sense". operating at median loads, transmission losses over a d
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by robocat 6mo ago
Many of us have personal experience watching good engineers become bad managers. Politics is harder than it looks. In theory an engineering background should help make better politicians. In practice it isn't the slamdunk you imply.
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by robocat 6mo ago
A new mainboard that may need new memory. From another comment in thread: I have 64GB of DDR4 in my current laptop, and replacing that with the same amount of LPCAMM2 LPDDR5X is probably more expensive than the rest of the laptop itself
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by robocat 6mo ago
> a model that will be an entire generation beyond SOTA That model would then be SOTA. Tautologically you can't be better than SOTA
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by robocat 6mo ago
No. Alcohol and Acetominophen/paracetamol should not be mixed. When alcohol enters the picture, it increases the activity of CYP2E1, so the body produces more of the NAPQI toxin. Alcohol also decreases glutathione production, the b
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by robocat 6mo ago
About 50% of overdoses are intentional (especially suicidal teenagers), with the other 50% accidental. So when pondering the issue of numbers, it matters what path people took to overdose.
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by robocat 6mo ago
Unfortunately while evocative, it doesn't really make sense. A Zamboni has a "conditioner" at the rear that contains a sharp horizontal blade that shaves the ice as the machine runs across the ice. The blade is a bit like a v
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by robocat 6mo ago
Camels are very well designed. Pick on a less useful animal.
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by robocat 6mo ago
Very smart: directly 3D prints struts onto tissue paper using a Prusa. Here's his video skipped to printing: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-4X6KYlQ7YQ&t=8m38s There's more discussion of the technique earlier in
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by robocat 6mo ago
I vividly remember the reek of a fish sauce factory in Vietnam. I highly recommend avoiding going anywhere near them.
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by robocat 6mo ago
> precisely adjusting laser light to the energy levels of particular bonds / electrons. However, the article is talking about discrete wavelengths. The device gives you a choice between a bunch of different fixed wavelengths. It isn
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by robocat 6mo ago
A home on the beach is seen as an expensive status symbol. House maintenance costs in sea air cost at least double. Appliances and aircon rusts and corrodes. Everything needs regular painting. Cars rust out. I buy second hand shitters and r
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by robocat 6mo ago
Maybe I was being too generous - jongjong seems cynical and old enough but can't read similar "humour" from others: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47426320 I previously failed to summarise HN guidelines
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by robocat 6mo ago
I think a ranking system might be easier. People are good at ranking priorities. The idea breaks down for the rich who are being taxed the most, because nobody wants them to have any say. You could maybe do it for some percentage of taxes.
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by robocat 6mo ago
I assumed they were trying to be humorous . Although I find that type of humour obnoxious enough that it would put me off the project.
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by robocat 6mo ago
Link to video from article: https://youtube.com/watch?v=j_rErbhxNFM They show a few other interesting actuators in first 20 seconds of video.
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by robocat 6mo ago
All our beef is grass fed, because we don't use grain finishing in New Zealand. Many US people apparently dislike the taste of our beef (grain finishing has a milder flavour). Cattle for beef is mostly farmed on land that is too crappy
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by robocat 6mo ago
Oh yeah. Keyboard focus and focus indication on browsers is fundamentally broken. We often notice when focus is buggy. But there are many many hidden/unobvious edge cases. Previously I created a fix for the worst focusing issues on bro
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by robocat 6mo ago
We've lost some common features: * Undo & redo * Help files & context sensitive F1 * Hints on mouse hover * Keyboard shortcuts & shortcut customisation * Main menus * Files & directories * ESC to close/back * Drag
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by robocat 6mo ago
And JavaScript is only one vector. Heaps of prior examples of buffer overruns processing image formats, or the FFmpeg mentioned by Anthropic's Mythos article. Admittedly JavaScript is often used as part of a chain to simplify attack (e
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by robocat 6mo ago
The interesting thing is that within a year we will know whether it is vapid hype or a momentous change. Scepticism means staying wary and keeping one's mind open, and not closing your eyes to a new reality.
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by robocat 6mo ago
> won't be until the last GenX retires I was part of a SaaS company of diehard GenX Windows fans. Decades of abuse by Microsoft has definitely hurt them: they have lost hope and are cynical about the future of Windows. I reckon they
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by robocat 6mo ago
Extracts from two different offers: For example, your income for the 10k users will be ~ $ 1000 per month, users 20k ~ $ 2000 per month… 100к users ~10 000 $, and so on. ARPDAU (Average Revenue Per Daily Active User) basis - In avera
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by robocat 6mo ago
God is documented as being rather keen on genocidal smiting. That is part of the exact problem. I googled two relevant examples: 1: God commands King Saul: attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare

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