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by rurounijones 6y ago
> I find this "AI-first" branding to be really off-putting Honestly my first reaction was a snarky "Well, your moderation and support channels certainly are" given all the horror stories we hear about people getting l
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by rurounijones 6y ago
And what a juicy military target those undersea power cables would be in such a situation (Unfortunately)
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by rurounijones 6y ago
> Solar + transmission lines. It’s always sunny somewhere Unless it is sunny 24/7 in a given country or even group of coutnries (e.g. the EU) this is not viable. Countries will not give up their energy security and put themselves at
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by rurounijones 6y ago
The decision to decommission the plant is political, not technical. Onagawa was closer to the epicenter than fukushima and suffered no ill effects. It can be done, the main different between Onagawa and Fukushima is that they were owned by
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by rurounijones 6y ago
> So you can build nuclear in a tsunami zone? in a seismic zone? Why not? It worked at Onagawa: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259012302...
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by rurounijones 6y ago
Having had to use a bunch of different spatial packages, each defining their own `Position` type, I would love it if there were a standard type in the standard library or a very simple minimal "type only" package that they could
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by rurounijones 6y ago
I think the point is that if you want to harm a nation you have various avenues of attack of which overt military action is only one. If the US is unbeatable militarily then you, as a poorer advesary, don't try to match it, you use one
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by rurounijones 6y ago
I haven't seen much evidence of this happening on anything approaching a wide scale. For example the piece of software in the article is used almost everywhere, governments, companies etc and yet it still cannot get the funds for yearl
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by rurounijones 6y ago
> When some open-source project has some level of reach there needs to be quality requirements and regular security audits. (like they (last?) did in 2016, https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/23/curl-s
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by rurounijones 6y ago
I mean, you haven't actually provided any reasons backing up your case. The comment is pure ad hominem with a case of appealing to self-authority. Why hasn't E-Ink display tech gone mass-market? lots of other commenters are argu
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by rurounijones 6y ago
> If they think law is dumb or unfair or anything, they can negotiate with Australian government Or they can just cut off service to that marketplace and let the electorate take up the matter with their elected officials...
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by rurounijones 6y ago
Based on the Reddit post someone got around auto-modding bots by using UTF-8 icelandic characters that look the same as the english ones to say naughty things to report the Discord. Given that it has 250,000 users i imagine individual posts
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by rurounijones 6y ago
> And what, pray tell, is the "traditional approach" in designing space stations compared to magical "approaches that yield results faster"? Well, the first thing that comes to mind is the huge amount of work done to
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by rurounijones 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/c/HoegLaw/videos has an entire video series on this (and other) cases where he goes through the filings by both sides. Recommended watching.
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by rurounijones 6y ago
I have always wanted the room in which I work to resemble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NwD7VjxZ_A but never had the time or green thumb. This simple 1 page guide is a good way to start a new year resolution to making th
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by rurounijones 6y ago
I agree wit you 100% This is the aspect that I wish was implemented in my favourite games such as Stellaris since disrupting the logistics of the enemy and protecting your own requires a much more thoughtful setup by players * Where to site
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by rurounijones 6y ago
All things aside. This is over 3,000 pages of guide to building 3D aicraft models from reference drawings. And the polish version is free. Holy hell is that a valuable resource.
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by rurounijones 6y ago
> he API is a huge set of linked JSON documents. Sounds like a HATEOAS API? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS These things were all the rage as the theoretical perfect REST API as I recall.
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by rurounijones 6y ago
> Generation doesn't have to be near consumption* * As long as the generation and consumption both take place under the same government and the transmission infrastructure is safe from disruption. So many plans about theoretical con
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by rurounijones 6y ago
> We don't need fusion for climate change; fission will do I wish it were the case, but I think we have seen that it is politically impossible.
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by rurounijones 6y ago
Firefox on windws - The first one was smooth a silk, the second, not even 30fps. more like 10.
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by rurounijones 6y ago
It is literally the title of the linked article which is supposed to be copied. For some reason it is now removed and is "The Distinguished Medieval Investigators" which removes all the context of the article. All because of the w
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by rurounijones 6y ago
We are just going to have to disagree on the wide-spread viability of the storage mechanisms and political / market reaction-time here. However I hope I at least demonstrated that it is not always a case of "So they're still
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by rurounijones 6y ago
Or that we do not believe that full renewable grids are viable yet. Every single non-carbon solution (solar, wind, tidal) I have heard hand-waves away baseload and storage as something that will be solved soon(tm) by liberal application of
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by rurounijones 6y ago
> Nuclear energy is still dangerous. For example, it is still not safe against possible natural disasters (Fukushima), I mean, if we are going to be bringing up a single datapoint then allow me to raise a counterpoint. Nuclear energy is
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by rurounijones 6y ago
It doesn't matter is I think the point. If you, as a CEO looking ot maximise personal profit, know a sale order data is coming up then you postpone or bring forwards the announcement to maximise the potential for that sale.
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by rurounijones 6y ago
My main hatred is the simple one Lat/Lon or Lon/Lat, and what about altitude? especially when libraries have parameters like x, y, z and you have to triple-check which value is going into which vaguely named, not well documented,
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by rurounijones 6y ago
>> Especially when the training has nothing to do with military matters (...) > This assertion is patently false. I am referring to the use of "Lets convince our OWN civilian population that wolves are a threat by impersonatin
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by rurounijones 6y ago
I always wonder if the US is an outlier in stuff like this with Mockingbird, MKUltra etc. or if they are the ones that get caught and publicised the most in relation to other countries.
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by rurounijones 6y ago
I know the value of propaganda but the idea that a mlitary trains to produce patently false propaganda targeted at its own civilian in the guise of the civilian government without its knowledge is disturbing. Especially when the training ha

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