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by rsynnott 6mo ago
This isn't a bank in the normal sense, it's the central bank.
602.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
I mean, have you seen the AWS management interface? I struggle to imagine it being _worse_.
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
Fortunately for them, Lidl's middle aisle deal this week happened to be cloud computing. (Tesco cloud compute will price-match the lidl cloud-compute, but only if you remember to scan your Tesco clubcard at the self-checkout while buyi
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
Inclined to agree; only real problem with the on-street ones (presuming there's enough room for them) is that visitors unfamiliar with them tend to walk in them and cause a nuisance. The first time I was in Berlin I nearly got hit by a
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
Well, also, I mean, the output is generally bad. (AI 'art' also has the fascinating, and possibly unique, property that, the more you look at it, the worse it is; it is fractally bad, in that the badness tends to crop up in small
606.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
> A typical adult won't make it to 1km (source: going back to sport and dying on a 2.5 km run) I'm... dubious of this. At 39 I started running, for the first time in my life, ran 5km, didn't actually die, and went from the
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
Your best bet is probably to attach a VCR, if you can find one; they generally have a tuner, and I think most TVs still usually have a component input and/or, in Europe, SCART. I'd be a little surprised if anyone still makes a TV
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
>That’s where researchers investigating “mushroom madness” ultimately dismissed the accounts as cultural myth after chemical tests turned up nothing. Makes sense since the species wasn’t formally described until 2015. [..] Domnauer visit
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
It likely depends how you're defining separated. Some cities go for completely separate routes, some curb separation, some bollard separation, some on-footpath separation. Some use a chaotic mix (Dublin, say, is building a 300km segreg
610.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
A lot of Berlin's is footpath-based, right? They seem to be talking about segregated bike lanes, so that arguably wouldn't qualify (though it _is_ likely much safer than on-road).
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
Particularly if you’re in a regulated industry, “not American” and “not Chinese” _do_ provide value; they reduce risk. In particular, the framework under which European companies can transfer data to US companies at all is beyond fragile.
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
> For example, there’s zero reason why NJ transit should be a different agency than NYC’s transit authority. They should be the same agency that works toward a comprehensive regional transit system focused on the metropolitan area rather
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
Slightly long-term thinking is required. Every year, the city I live in, Dublin, does a survey where people crossing the canals (rough proxy for entering/exiting the city centre) are counted for a day. Twenty years ago, 50% of crossing
614.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
Clamping is a useful deterrent there.
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
... Are you claiming that there are few or no European cities with extensive separated bike lanes or something?
616.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
This is absurd. Will they have per-jurisdiction settings? Because while this may not be enforced in SF, it very much is enforced in some places. > if(scofflaw) { .. }
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
> Can't Stop Ordering Candles Ah, I see that dril has gotten into the training data. (Honestly, the headline kind of buries the lede, in that lots of shops underpay women and/or are a bit overly candle-obsessed: all the details
618.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
A screenshot is, however, apparently good enough for _new_ subscribers.
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
Very few electricity grids (I think _none_ in Europe?) are particularly dependent on oil. Many European grids are quite _gas_ dependent, but gas prices are considerably less volatile than oil.
620.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
I mean, realistically it's only going one direction.
621.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
Imagine an AI based on jira tickets. _That's_ the torment nexus.
622.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
The actual lines would be essentially useless today; they kind of _do_ evaporate if not maintained. The important thing is whether the right of way had been preserved. Irish Rail is currently reopening an old line. The first step is ripping
623.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
It's both; more usage improves the economics and makes it easier to justify improvements and expansion.
624.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
... I mean, wait, what would you _expect_ it to look like? Overhead lines look much the same everywhere (except overhead lines for trams, which sometimes get weird).
625.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
California has a similar population density to France, which has a generally decent railway network. It's not really an excuse.
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
> how precise their stops are I'm not sure how unique that is. Many rail systems, in most stations, have platforms only just long enough for the longest train. Most commuter stations in Ireland, say, can take the longest commuter tr
627.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
To an extent, a good train service can _create_ stuff. A while back, Irish Rail increased frequency on the Dublin-Belfast intercity train service. This had the side-effect (apparently unexpected) of kind of turning Newry (which is across th
628.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
(I’m the one who originally exclaimed disbelief/horror at his attitude) I’d missed that he used to be a Protestant; I’m guessing one of the weirder American varieties. I’m not religious, but from a traditionally Catholic country, and I
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
It is, obviously, pretty embarrassing for the company, but will likely also be problematic from a regulatory POV if it continues after spacex IPOs.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
... Okay, come on, what the hell did they expect? I have limited sympathy with "oh, no, the obvious racists I lay down with turn out to be really racist", tbh. > At a Mississippi Turning Point event in October, Vance fielded a

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