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by usrusr 9mo ago
Putin had already stopped supplying gas through the pipelines, blowing them up did not change anything for him. But it absolutely did change the moves that would be available to any post-Putin government in Moscow. Blowing up the pipelines
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by usrusr 9mo ago
Matches an observation of mine that skips the prison lingo: lack of the concept of friendship without any power gradient that would make it more like a liege/vassal relation than like an alliance between equals. I wonder if that might
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by usrusr 9mo ago
The problem with that last paragraph is that through almost all those regime changes (I guess the time between the Soviet collapse and Putin's rise may have been an exception), Russia has continued a strategy of systematic displacement
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by usrusr 9mo ago
Because the ruling gang has plenty of prosperity in their lives and "us vs the rest of the world" is the only way they know to keep the other 140+ million content with the few scraps they get. The more violent attitude they keep u
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by usrusr 9mo ago
Cooling is rarely done in any other way than compressing a gas, allowing the heat to dissipate and then allowing it to decompress again. You don't want to compress a gas to cool another gas about to be compressed. What reasonably adva
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by usrusr 9mo ago
Is that "regulatory" the problem or is it the solution? We'll know more 20 years from now, looking back at fire incident statistics. (yes, I'm leaving it open if regulation makes a difference or not - for all we know it
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by usrusr 9mo ago
GP wasn't talking about discharge, losing a little energy, they were talking about wear and tear, as in the batteries aging fast while in a highly charged state. Battery recycling still hasn't really left the "we can do it in
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by usrusr 9mo ago
I wonder how much Google is factoring in the implicit cooling cycle? Because any pressurized gas energy storage is either including some advanced heat storage or is just venting the heat created during compression (the ancient Huntorf facil
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by usrusr 10mo ago
> It will be interesting to see how they make this arrangement approachable for Arduino’s audience which generally expects ease of use to be a high priority. Would not be surprised to see both approaches to developing only for one of the
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by usrusr 10mo ago
So, even more people out on the streets desperately trying to get their slice of survival by being sexually available to the equity lords? Because what else will there be?
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by usrusr 10mo ago
Similar thoughts crossed my mind as well. But then there's the repopulation with a species that can be traced from Asia. The pre-gap felines just aren't part of the post-gap set. If some were descendants of some endemic low-fossil
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by usrusr 10mo ago
(*) certain two seater cars not included
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by usrusr 10mo ago
Yeah, the dependency graph for scheduling trouble to procreate is massive. Not comparable at all to a star topology as in France, or to a two coasts topology as in Japan. Closest thing might be Switzerland, but while that network is also ve
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by usrusr 10mo ago
No need to place it anywhere on the incompetence/malice spectrum when it can be perfectly occamed with design by committee.
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by usrusr 10mo ago
And that's exactly what's not reflected in management success metrics. They are basically incentivized to steal from their owners through systematic neglect, what could possibly go wrong.
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by usrusr 10mo ago
What they don't have is financial constructions that would leave them in nominal control when they go down that path. And they absolutely do want to stay in control, or else they would have sold a long time ago. Even if that control is
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by usrusr 10mo ago
"and the worst that would happen is the number next to their name would go down a bit." That's the thing, you can only have that kind of number for so many years before you start really not wanting it to get down. And chances
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by usrusr 10mo ago
But are there any that don't overheat when you try to funnel dual screens through the USB-C/TB4? The only setup I have that doesn't is a super minimal one that has a single DP out that feeds a daisy-chain (and a single USB ou
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by usrusr 10mo ago
> At this point, Microsoft could probably discontinue Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and still not lose many M365 customers. Yeah, just as we forgot about the "paperless office" metric we seemingly forgot about MS Office file form
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by usrusr 10mo ago
I'd imagine the dalvik part to be pretty open to static analysis? On the desktop JVM, I've seen bytecode that decompiled to a form more readable than the original source I got access to later...
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by usrusr 10mo ago
The magic sauce in terms of bubbleability is that the product is all secret and investors can't form any natural opinion beyond what's published in company performance publications. Because they aren't allowed to know anythin
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by usrusr 10mo ago
Is that supposed to be long-lived for a TV? I'm running an LG initially released in 2013 and the only thing I'm not happy with is that about a year ago Netflix ended their app for that hardware generation (likely for phasing out w
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by usrusr 10mo ago
Count me in as another one with a longstanding mostly dream project aiming for human enjoyable notation grammar. For me it was coming from tracker notation (buzz), where i was wildly underwhelmed by all that whitespace for timing (well, emp
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by usrusr 10mo ago
The US military is as clueless as any other (except those two) about combat in the age of disposable drones.
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by usrusr 10mo ago
I'd imagine insurance premiums to get quite ugly with all those 0.1c rocks passing by
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by usrusr 10mo ago
And they said five year plans struggled with predicting demand ;) I'd rather go with "for any delta in mining convenience between solar systems, there exists a level of FTL magic where shipping would become economically feasible&q
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by usrusr 10mo ago
Same project, rebranded around Oracle. Basically MySQL/MariaDB without the alliteration.
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by usrusr 10mo ago
Yeah, weird how that seems to never come up. I sometimes have trouble keeping the movies apart in memory (Silent and Dark). But Alien being barely more than a higher budget Dark Star remake that somehow got stuck in the elevator scene (and
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by usrusr 10mo ago
Other CEOs are not owner-CEOs. They may be founder-CEOs, but at the end of the day those aren't really more powerful than a CEO hired off the street by owners. For publicly traded companies, even a majority stake only makes them powerf
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by usrusr 11mo ago
Valve is rogue as in it does whatever its founder-owner wants it to do. It's neither beholden to what public shareholders want nor to what private investors want. Founder-CEOs are laughably powerless in comparison. When the company is

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