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by slyall 2y ago
Amused by the early bit: "The News of Adelaide, a newspaper in southern Australia" Adelaide is the capital of the state of "South Australia". Saying Adelaide is in "Southern Australia" is not 100% wrong but obv
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There was a display at an airport I read about. Had a projector showing the average speed for a champion marathon runner. Most normal people couldn't match it over the short distance. Couldn't find the link but here is a similar v
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> This new pi value should land us on the precise nanometer on a planetary rock of a sun located about 18 trillion light years away. 40 digits or so will get you that...
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Some conferences have a "Why your employee should attended KimchiBurgerConf" page. This is designed to be forwarded to your manager rather than you personally trying to come up with a professional sounding justification.
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A few years ago there was KatieConf. Intended to highlight the lack of Women speakers at tech conferences https://2019.katieconf.xyz/
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I guess this is one of the reasons AWS uses multiple domains in different TLDs for it's customer's name servers in route53[1] A provider going rouge or a domain expiring will probably still leave 3 perfectly working. [1] eg one of
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Same. I definitely remember the "help" line from it too.
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The incoming government didn't cancel the scheme. They cancelled the investigation into the scheme which was due to report in late-2024 (I think). The investigation would have covered other options as well. They didn't save billio
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A good article is this 2006 piece in the New York Times called "Pigeon Wars" https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/magazine/15pigeons.html My take from that is the Pigeon population is a function
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Batteries can often be used twice a day. They can buy cheap power in the middle of the night and resell it in the early morning peak. YMMV depending on local supply and demand patterns
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Every single one of those chess openings has multiple books written about it. The most popular openings have hundreds of books about them. Not to mention courses, articles, blog posts, discussion and youtube videos
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I can't remember if the computer had an internal modem or it was connected by a serial port. Either way it would have been harder to just mirror the traffic. We looked into some tracing tool but it cost hundreds of dollars. Decided the
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The Contempt Factor is used by engines sometimes. "The Contempt Factor reflects the estimated superiority/inferiority of the program over its opponent. The Contempt factor is assigned as draw score to avoid (early) draws against a
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It was an interesting job. Things were evolving fast and the Internet had only really just gone mainstream. Also lots of small companies rather just just Telcos. Some wild West stuff like the time our CEO came in and demanded we block anoth
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Around 2000 I worked for an ISP. We had some customers reporting that they couldn't get to some websites. Narrowed it down customers who were: * Running Mac OS 9 (not Mac OS X) * dialed into an Ascend NAS (Not other vendors) *
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I read that a few weeks ago. Quiet good. A similar subject is: The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States by Jeffrey Lewis Note this explicitly features President Trump and various real-life pol
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Because you don't need to deploy those more complex technologies until you scale and have the money to hire an expert. It's Like building your SaaS to run with a single server and database at the start. When you get a million user
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If you are talking about Williamstown then even though it is spread out it looks fairly cyclable. At least distance-wise. There is even a big shared carpark for the built-up area so individual shops don't need to provide parking. Where
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Sounds like it isn't really a town except in name. More like a densely settle old farming area. Where I'm from (New Zealand) a 2500 person town would be 1/4 acre suburban sections with wide streets surrounding some shops. eg
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If your town has just has 2500 people then it should be 5-10 minutes walk/bike from anywhere to anywhere. No need for a car for most journeys.
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Paramount is very keen on region restrictions. I have a hobby of watching/sharing TV/Movie Trailers and 90% of the time the Paramount ones on youtube will be region locked to the USA. Hence many don't get shared to a forum th
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You are moving the goalposts here. However if you want to compare mixed freight and passenger lines then rail equals many, many lanes. Plenty of rail cars have room for luggage too or even baggage cars. Usually we are talking about people g
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That "train passing occasionally" holds the equivalent of hundreds of cars. A random crappy light rail line will do the equivalent of 5 lanes of traffic (each direction). A serious subway more like 20. https://visual.ly
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I think this is the main one I am thinking of: "I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as much money as possible" article here: https://mashable.com/article/gpt-4-hustlegpt-ai-blueprint-mo... Apolo
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FYI. For those of you not on twitter, this guy buys a lot of ads with the above story Not sure what his business model is
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The point is it doesn't have to be a "gun to their head". It just needs to be a serious of emails, calls and negotiation. I'll be they are now paying Fastly a lot closer to $10k/month than $250/month
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YouTuber Tom Scott did a video about it: This billion-euro nuclear reactor was never switched on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUVZbBBHrI4
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It's funny how the lack of ability for spies to take aliases anymore may make James Bond going under his real name everywhere more realistic.
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How much LLM training data is there from all sources in Trillions of Tokens?(educatingsilicon.com)
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by slyall 2y ago
So you are saying somebody with $500k of investments is worse off than somebody whose house just went from $500k to to $200k ?

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