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by twic 3y ago
That is the gardens of the Alcazar, a very impressive royal palace. Well worth a visit if you're in town. https://www.flickr.com/photos/phil_masters/5169339660 https://packmeto.com/alcazar-sev
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by twic 3y ago
I was going to tease you by suggesting adding the memorial plaques on Swanage Pier, of which there are thousands, but i see someone has in fact already added the benches!
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by twic 3y ago
Aha! I was wondering what the "granitic" aspect was, thank you. These are basically cement tiles, but with the backing cement made with granite sand. These were the final (?) evolution of a line which started with medieval encaust
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by twic 3y ago
Pretty much, although i suspect quite a lot of it is crops from still images taken at leisure, rather than with a high-speed camera. The train ride is a framing device, rather than literally what happened. Visually, it's sort of (sort
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by twic 3y ago
> Normally it’s challenging to use [hafnium oxide] for memory because it has no structure at the atomic level – its hafnium and oxygen atoms are randomly mixed together. What on earth does this mean? Looks like a typically non-random cry
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by twic 3y ago
This is definitely my bet on where things are going. And not just this particular example - i believe we will identify many recurring submodules and patterns in neural networks that can be extracted into conventional code, leaving a lightwe
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by twic 3y ago
Auto-dadaism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-up_technique
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by twic 3y ago
> the body of a 12" laptop I've always owned 15" laptops, and i've never had any trouble fitting them in bags, even in a sleeve. I understand why people might want 7" or 10" netbooks, but a 12" machine
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by twic 3y ago
What is a flat-file CMS? What are CMSs that aren't flat-file? How many CMSs are there now? How come people are still making more? Why isn't this a boring, fairly stable commodity category the way web servers or something are?
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by twic 3y ago
It's hard to be precise. But I think the point here is to paint a picture of a man who has embarked on a substantial enterprise (owning beautiful white horses) with an unrealistic dream of how it would turn out (they would recognise hi
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by twic 3y ago
There's all sorts of ways it could go wrong. Perhaps the real question is where blame will fall if it does. If the big boss says "I decided to take the risk and push this through, I accept this was a consequence of that", gre
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by twic 3y ago
I'd never heard of this Budgie desktop environment before. Anyone familiar with it? What's its deal? I'm a GNOME 2 -> Cinnamon guy, but i'm always slightly nervous that Cinnamon on Fedora is a second-class citizen and
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by twic 3y ago
Or the other way round - have a thin public service to interact with users, subcontracting all the heavy lifting to competitive bidders working to a rigid specification. You set up a monopsony rather than a monopoly, letting the public rins
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by twic 3y ago
> Setting codegen-units to 1 gives even better code quality than thin local LTO, but takes longer. Some authors of binary rust crates always use that setting for release builds because they are willing to accept the extra compile times f
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by twic 3y ago
Great map! Sadly retarded.dev seems to be down, and there's no way i'm visiting cybercrime.zip at work.
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by twic 3y ago
Use of "mcg" for micrograms is common practice in medicine. I always assumed it was because it's easier to type than μg, but it seems a medical body recommends it because μg is too easily mistaken for mg: https://w
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by twic 3y ago
Have you thought about having one machine plus a hot spare, and swapping out hard drives? If it gets subpoenaed for job X, put the job X drive in and give it to the lawyers, then put the drive for the current job in the spare, order a new s
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by twic 3y ago
I once worked on a payment processing system. Files came in with about a thousand payments, in a textual format, 10-20 short lines of text each. The geniuses who led the project before me decided that the first step was to split the file in
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by twic 3y ago
Interestingly, no! For example see: https://blog.jfallen.org/2016/12/26/newport-home-of-the-mole...
920.
by twic 3y ago
No, we still use Mole wrenches over here!
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by twic 3y ago
The metaphor is that you've sold an option, which can then be exercised at the worst possible time, not that you've bought one, as described here. Thank you for demonstrating once again that ChatGPT is comprehensively useless!
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by twic 3y ago
Debt works like this: 1. you take on debt to get hold of some cash 2. at some point, you ought to repay the debt by giving up the same amount of cash 3. until you do, you have to spend a steady trickle of cash servicing the debt In the tech
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by twic 3y ago
There's a classic Steve Freeman joint, "bad code isn’t technical debt, it’s an unhedged call option": https://www.infoq.com/news/2014/12/call-options-bad-code/
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by twic 3y ago
Equally, shouldn't it be very easy to use the data to show that it isn't happening? If you can plot a line, it will either go down or not. But nobody has plotted the line!
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by twic 3y ago
- All the branches of the timeline where AI got smarter have been extinguished, so we only experience the ones where it didn't
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by twic 3y ago
When AI visionaries warned us about machines eventually reaching a point where their capabilities would change exponentially, i didn't realise they meant decay.
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by twic 3y ago
I believe prefab is also more common in Germany. I became aware of this when a UK TV show showed someone having a a Huf Haus installed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huf_Haus According to this random web page, there ar
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by twic 3y ago
I note that in Danish it is called "Svenskerhår" [1], which i think means "Swedish hair", and in Polish, "Czeski piłkarz" [2], or "Czech footballer"! Meanwhile in Swedish, it is "hockeyfrilla&quo
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by twic 3y ago
Since zip files use a directory at the end, you can make a kind of mullet file - script at the front, archive at the back. I generated single-file runnable Java binaries like that at once point.
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by twic 3y ago
Thought this was going to be about ytalk!

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