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by stephen_g 6mo ago
That's the legal loophole that I'm sure a tiny number of people are using. In the real world, reportedly around 3/4 of kids under 16 that were using social media still are by either having changed their age during the window
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by stephen_g 6mo ago
> Because right now for mere mortal it's impossible to find out if some law or paragraph is still in effect. Where and how? Pretty sure our Federal and State Governments here in Australia publish the current in-force law (original A
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by stephen_g 6mo ago
Of course I realise that, but that’s irrelevant to my point. The point was that I’m surprised how many real 2G networks there still are, and that one still exists in Canada at all.
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by stephen_g 6mo ago
Sorry not sure what books would be good (I learnt the bits and bobs I know mostly on the job from grey-beards!) but I always like to chime in when people talk about black magic that part of learning about RF it's not that crazy - just
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by stephen_g 6mo ago
Yeah, I mean if you think about why do LLMs use this kind of phrasing so much, it's just because it was already a common sentence construction in the training data written by humans!
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by stephen_g 6mo ago
That's incredible, here in Australia they not only shut down all 2G networks almost a decade ago, but they've already shut down 3G as well! Although now looking at Wikipedia there are a lot more 2G networks sticking around than I
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by stephen_g 6mo ago
Cool hack - I have the ‘smart’ managed version of that switch (although the PoE version of it I think), and it looks exactly the same to the unmanaged one - absolutely makes sense that it’s basically identical (just a BOM change for the dif
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by stephen_g 6mo ago
Wow, I didn’t know you could kill these in the registry, will definitely do this. They are absolutely maddening in my case, which is where I only boot into my Windows SSD sporadically, so there seems to be some time out so I get it basicall
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by stephen_g 6mo ago
I don’t get how anyone thought that would work… From (medically necessitated) experience it doesn’t really make much difference in that respect!
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by stephen_g 6mo ago
I don’t know what’s going on with this kind of stuff in the US - similarly I’ve heard stories of people getting quotes in the States for anything from US$10-15K for the kind of air source mini-split heat pumps you can have supplied and inst
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by stephen_g 6mo ago
I think it’s the opposite of what you’re implying - instead I expect that a response that was boringly in line with prevailing opinions would be marked as a poor response. As would one that was counter but only controversial for controversy
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by stephen_g 6mo ago
Just upgraded to the Linea Mini after dreaming about it for almost 10 years - I actually used to have a two group ex-commercial machine in my kitchen that I got 15 years ago, so people are shocked when I tell them this machine was a big dow
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by stephen_g 6mo ago
The Super Jolly is fine, I have a used one at home that I’ve had for 15 years (which I use now with a Linea Mini that I just a couple of months ago) and get really good results. The point is that investing in such a crazy expensive machine
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by stephen_g 6mo ago
That’s ignoring a lot of other losses. Like in air travel you’re instantly losing 10-15% of your fuel generating lift, then you have to add in the fuel used for carrying the other fuel required throughout the flight. Whereas with high speed
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by stephen_g 6mo ago
Geography like that does help a lot, it’s part of the reason it’s so easy to do really good high-speed rail in Italy over somewhere like Germany that is way more spread out. But it’s only half the picture, you also need the political will t
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by stephen_g 6mo ago
I mean it’s not just that, the current administration have destroyed a bunch of the US’s oldest and most important alliances… I’m not in Europe but in another allied country, the feeling amongst people here is that the US is not able to be
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by stephen_g 6mo ago
Proxmox can do containers too and has other benefits like really good ZFS support. I only have a couple of VMs and everything else in containers on my little Proxmox server.
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by stephen_g 6mo ago
I stoped using Twitter (around when it was changing to be X) because 60-70% of the accounts I cared about left the platform. More and more people will look elsewhere as more organisations and people who aren’t into Musk’s politics leave.
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by stephen_g 7mo ago
The headline is perfectly accurate… I’d say what you’re saying is a kind of whataboutism about stuff everybody knows… Milestones like the one here are notable and interesting to most people!
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by stephen_g 7mo ago
What tripping curve do your RCDs have? That is not normal if they are the right type, really sounds like something is wrong!
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by stephen_g 7mo ago
What I’m trying to say is that with 7 slots and being more than double the size that it needed to be, it was way more machine than 95% of the market who might actually want it would buy, with a price that was correspondingly way too expensi
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by stephen_g 7mo ago
I never understood the point of the Mac Pro for the last decade or so - especially after the Mac Studio was released, Apple should have worked out what professionals actually want - basically a Mac Studio but with three or four PCIe slots a
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by stephen_g 7mo ago
That kind of thing is always the stated justification but never the real reason. Almost invariably when that excuse is trotted out, there are are usually many things that are much more common that are also far more dangerous. For example, t
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by stephen_g 7mo ago
The cable in the article is pretty much doing the same conflation of terms that Wiki is talking about - the automotive one is a proprietary cable that carries some protocol that uses LVDS as its signalling, so at the most basic level both
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by stephen_g 7mo ago
Your picture is not an accurate picture of what it's like for most people - you frame the exceptions as if it's the normal case. Most people who have a driveway or garage where they can install an EVSE (or an apartment complex whe
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by stephen_g 7mo ago
Sounds like when there was that news of " Europe is creating a social media website called 'W' to compete with X" and it just turned out it was some random tiny company.
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by stephen_g 7mo ago
I can see that happening in Australia, our tax office can be absolutely brutal on all but the big companies that can afford really good lawyers.
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by stephen_g 7mo ago
This is so much bigger than the “religious right” though, UK and Australia have far less of that and parties from both sides of politics here and in the UK seem to be competing to out-do each other with surveillance, censorship and control
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by stephen_g 7mo ago
I see this a lot too here in Australia now, and yes it used to be pretty unusual but now I see it every day. I've sometimes wondered if it's just a frequency illusion but I'm sure it has got much worse, maybe since the COVID
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by stephen_g 7mo ago
> If you use Renewable Energy Sources, it may happen there will be no wind or no sun I still find it staggering that people feel like this is something that needs to be said as if it’s surprising or a novel idea. Do you really believe sm

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