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by stephen_g 4mo ago
But it’s not what anyone was talking about. Such a cable should be really quite rare because it’s unlikely to work at all in most situations, whereas devices with USB-C ports that don’t work with PD chargers (due to a cent’s worth of missin
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by stephen_g 4mo ago
> The poor man was made into a local Australian celebrity by the media. I wouldn't say that's quite what happened - I mean, he was explicitly trying to use his profile to raise awareness for brain cancer research so was very pu
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by stephen_g 4mo ago
Not to the same extent though - for example I can't remember if I ever had to take my shoes off (maybe there was a couple of months where we had to do it back after the attempt happened in December 2021?), so I was pretty shocked to go
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
It depends what your skill set is - professional engineers are qualified to make the flowcharts and sign off on designs. So it’s not about how you see yourself, it’s whether you have the experience and training to be able to follow actual
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
Unemployment (JobSeeker payment) is actually pretty brutal here, we have a thing called ‘mutual obligation requirements’ where you have to go to meetings with (very ineffective but extremely profitable) private job service providers who f
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
It’s not close to the poverty line, it’s well under it (remember this is AUD not USD) and has been for decades!
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
How much of that was terminating vs splicing for the optical fibre? I have not done the actual hands on work of splicing but have specified fibre runs a couple of times and all the guidance I have seen is that for reliability you want to al
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
That’s a false dilemma if I’ve ever seen one. As if those are the only options - that’s just silly defeatism and reductionism!
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
I was very lucky that once I'd outgrown QBasic, my father could get me a copy of Visual Studio 6.0 while it was current, because he worked at the major University in our state and could access it through their campus-wide MSDN subscrip
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
I got handed down some of these from somebody in grade three or four at school (I think they had belonged to one of my teacher's sons and since she knew I was into computers, she gave them to my mum for me to have). This was around 199
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
Not at all, no - embassies are granted special privileges but are still the territory of the country they are in.
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
Yeah I'm still using an iPhone 12 from late 2020 and it's honestly still fine in terms of its processing power, cameras, features etc. for anything I use it for. It does need a new battery but even that has degraded way slower tha
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
I like wild, it’s a fun word. No need to change if you don’t want to just on account of some grouches here!
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
Ah, the good old "I never thought leopards would eat my face" after voting for the 'leopards eating people's faces party'... Somehow I have zero hope the bill she is proposing as a replacement could be any better
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
I had a similar thing when I was gooling a few days ago, I can't remember exactly but it was like "why does [product] not support [feature]" and the AI summary was confidently wrong, saying "The product does support [fea
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
Yeah it's pretty incredible, the way they came together the plane on top came pretty close to blocking the canopy of the bottom one, if it had gone a bit differently those pilots could have had nowhere to go but into the bottom of the
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
It's not quite even that - he wanted to bail out his cousin's failing solar business with Tesla shareholders' money, but to try and justify it, they pretended that Solar Roof was a fully developed, ready to sell product that
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
Regular solar panels yes, but not the Tesla panels!
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
Yeah if you can do it cheap enough. Here in Australia a standard 6.6 kW system (but with a 5kW inverter, maximum most utilities let you export with single phase) costs around $US6000 before subsidies, but around $4500 after. The systems are
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
I’ve heard this idea but don’t believe it was actually a serious claim? Surely it’s only ever been more of a post-hoc PR kind of justification for the massive energy use that nobody genuinely believes?
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
They are in Australia, and it’s probably safe to assume this law would be pretty similar to ours. In our version, Part 52B explicitly renders these three things as being exactly the same for the purposes of the law: (a) the content is repr
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
But as I understand it, the Web Archive does respect robots.txt, while LLM scrapers absolutely do not and use all sorts of dodgy methods to get around it already... The actual root cause is that we're allowing LLM companies to comp
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
LLMs have other ways of accessing the content, they don’t need the Web Archive. Every LLM company can afford to spin up a new subscriber account every day, proxying to appear different IPs from all sorts of ASNs, do some crawling until the
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
In a leveraged buyout you actually buy out the company so you take the risk of the debt and the sellers get the cash... Trying to do a 50% cash, 50% share deal, (where the shares hold the debt that generated the cash) is asking eBay'
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
> That was the hard part of the deal: will (enough) eBay shareholders want to be GameStop shareholders. There is no upside for eBay shareholders - a leveraged buyout makes sense if it's for 100% cash, because the buyers are taking t
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
I like browsing stuff in stores too, but that's not what eBay is for - I'm in Australia, the whole point is I can buy stuff from other states in my country, or from the US or other countries if I need, and in the same way I can se
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
They did manage to ride the meme stock insanity to build up $9bn in cash (their market cap is $10bn so it's not worth much more than their cash in hand, because their business has been declining for years). They propose to borrow $20bn
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
Nobody is saying Iran is good, this war if anything has solidified the rule of the hardline ideologues in its Government, by killing off a bunch of the more moderate ones. And all this bombing is definitely going to convince the local popul
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
The 'outdoor unit that looks awful' is an interesting quirk especially with US equipment - most Japanese and European residential units actually look fine, I'm not sure why American ones have tended to look especially ugly. I
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by stephen_g 5mo ago
Yeah, I think it's overall bad for society, but on an individual I'd definitely do it too (within reason) for certain services if I had kids that age. But it feels like by making silly laws like this that aren't likely to be

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