roryirvine

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by roryirvine 1mo ago
I think the generosity and straightforwardness are a big part of the attraction for many subscribers. They've always respected their readers and I hope that continues to pay off.
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by roryirvine 1mo ago
Seems like only yesterday when they last increased their prices but it was, in fact, back in January 2022 - time flies! I'll have been an LWN subscriber for 22 years as of next week, and am very happy to continue to be one. It's e
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by roryirvine 1mo ago
On the contrary, most of the arguments for increased nuclear safety have actually come from the nuclear industry. The whole classification of commercial nuclear power plants into multiple generations, for instance, with the big difference b
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by roryirvine 1mo ago
Then you have the additional expense of bringing the power ashore, and of building the breakwater. Most coastal sites are environmentally sensitive - think of Trump's hatred for offshore wind turbines, and imagine how people would feel
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by roryirvine 1mo ago
It's more that servi simply weren't included in the returns from the sixth circuit (covering the East Midlands and Yorkshire) - each circuit was independent, and decided for itself what to count and how. That led to some surprisin
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by roryirvine 1mo ago
Are you saying that 1Password support ethnic cleansing in southern Africa too? Or is this just a clumsy attempt at whataboutery?
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
For anyone who was confused (I certainly was!), mklinux is not MkLinux.
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
I imagine the biggest audience is corporate IT, especially in situations where Windows users vastly outnumber Linux and they don't really want to expend too much effort on it. Set the dev team up with Ubuntu, integrate them into whatev
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
As I understand it, ethnic cleansing refers to the forcible removal of a population, where population means a broad group defined by shared race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Would you rather it was instead referred to as a wide-sca
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
He's written in favour of deporting non-white Londoners, including many of my friends and family - despite them having been born and brought up in the UK and being full UK citizens. Is "Ethnic Cleansing" really such a hyperbo
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
That's... not true. At the time Ubuntu started, Debian's old installer (boot-floppies) was legendary for its unfriendliness, and the new all-singing, all-dancing replacement was a mammoth endeavour and a long way off completion. U
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
An ironic choice of hypothetical given that SQLite's present ubiquity is a result of a very similar licensing rug-pull on the part of Berkeley DB, after Sleepycat's acquisition by Oracle. And, in turn, bdb gained prominence on th
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
With sufficient optimisation, there ought to be a tipping point beyond which local inference is good enough. And, sure, datacentre compute will still be needed for training but one of the biggest current uses will begin to taper off. The qu
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
The graph at https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_llm/ is really useful when understanding the results, too. Debian is remarkable for being such a huge project which has successfully held itself together for so l
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Baking often rewards precision. I'm also an eyeballer. I'm a decent cook but a truly lousy baker.
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
The further up the stack you go, the worse it gets - but, honestly, Cognito and API Gateway are no worse than mid-tier. The really nightmarish ones are the likes of CodeStar, AppRunner, Directory Service, CodeCatalyst, and 90% of anything u
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
This Nature article dubs TRISO fuel as "accident-tolerant", which is just as well given the lamentable history of it in actual use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_reactor for instance, which suffered so ma
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Honestly, my experience from the hiring side is that this type of app hurts much more than it helps. Typically, we get a flood of very low-quality applications that starts within an hour of a job first going live, and then a trickle of high
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Something similar is happening on the supply side, with "zombie" generation projects being dumped from the queue for grid connection. https://www.neso.energy/news/unveiling-new-project-pipeline-...
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Where "reasonably safe" in practice means "leaves the primary circuit badly contaminated with fission products", "is prone to accidents", and "impossible to safely decommission using current technology&quo
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
For anyone else wondering, it's the second video in the slideshow (I'm not sure if there's a way of linking to it directly?) Utterly horrendous. Relentless like a tsunami, but so much faster.
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
There's inevitably been quite a bit of research in using LLMs to help decipher cuneiform, but it's still at a fairly early stage. Good overview here: https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/mesopotamia&#x
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Yeah, exactly. I feel like there must have been a better way to make the town square thing work. I heard that ads on Twitter used to be much less profitable than on other platforms because the lack of a login wall meant they weren't
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Sure, this is (mostly) about direct contributions to Debian. Proposal C does discourage use more broadly but acknowledges that many upstreams take a different view and that it would be impractical to ban them from using it.
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
"The world's town square", where everyone could gather and see what was going on. And, for more than a decade, it appeared to work pretty well. Governments, media outlets, public-facing services of all kinds came to rely on i
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Debian is huge - that's why so many other distros use it as a base! So, yes, all those packages are maintained either by an individual Debian Developer or a team of them. There are third party repos, but they're (currently) neit
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Might be nice to filter it to show only those buses which are available in the next hour or two - there's no need to display night buses during the day and vice versa.
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Easiest way of doing it is to just hang a clear plastic trash bag from a simple metal hoop - that's what is commonly done at stations in London. Weirdly, bins were never removed from train stations in Northern Ireland. Bin bombs were n
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
I remember Mac fans being very excited about this in the mid 90s, dreaming that it would usable in a standard Pentium motherboard - thereby enabling every beige box PC manufacturer to easily turn out a System 7-compatible machine without ha
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Sure, and there are existing legal research tools which would help here (LexisNexis, amongst others, will happily sell you a suitable service). Constraining an agent by forcing it to pass some form of external validation is one of the best

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