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by vablings 9mo ago
Something that does upset me is that only the monetary value of a phone is ultimately considered in sentencing but these days a phone is a lot more, it is a lifeline to the rest of the world often having your ability to pay and travel built
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by vablings 9mo ago
New labour really laid the groundwork for alot of the orwellian laws that are in place now. Its a shame nobody who has been elected since sought to roll them back...
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by vablings 9mo ago
There are good options I think for most people. I did not like labors party policy, so I voted for the Lib Dems in a large labour area, did it achieve anything for them? No, did I do my civil duty? I am sure many green voters felt the same
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by vablings 9mo ago
Average "well written" C++ program that is free of bugs.
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by vablings 9mo ago
I know bare metal programming is a learning exercise but i can say for 99% of use cases esphome is awesome. I just finished making a cat feeder a esphome smart device
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by vablings 9mo ago
RP2040 is really great experience. You can get a debug probe (either buy or make yourself with another RP2040) I cant tell you how awesome it is with minimal setup to get - Full print logging - Option to attach a debugger - cargo r will jus
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by vablings 9mo ago
Mega yachts are designed using CAD software, the prototypes are milled or even sometimes now 3d printed out of huge foam panel. Advanced hulls are constructed from a number of materials and methods. All of these things required bespoke skil
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by vablings 9mo ago
Usually in the sophisticated thieves, it's the case that they buy a VIN from a car that was exported and not recorded as such. They then get a new copy of the title for a car that is no longer in the country and can request new factory
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by vablings 9mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24283386 They did burn a crazy amount of fuel on getting up to supersonic speeds though.
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by vablings 9mo ago
I think the sad thing is its already massively overvalued and the only thing propping up the market is the ability to get more mortgages for longer creating servitude and debt bondage like you have never seen.
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by vablings 9mo ago
I disagree with this. Some of the more extravagant engineering prowess has divested from insane eccentric billionaires Like the other commenter said the larger issue is the monopolization (see groq x nvidia for a glaring example) and other
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by vablings 10mo ago
Pipewire + lowlatency kernel fixes 99% sound issues
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by vablings 10mo ago
The problem is you are exposing yourself to brain injury by trying to use Manjaro. Just Use Linux Mint. Is it the best? No! Is it the most performant? NO! is it rock solid reliable out of the box? YES! CachyOS and Fedora also looked temptin
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by vablings 10mo ago
I guess I should separate what I mean by this. If you need plumbing work usually you have to pull permits from the city, depending on where you live that could be a small portion of the cost or a large majority of the cost. I am not advocat
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by vablings 10mo ago
> Meaning they tried to skirt around the regulations, including regulatory capture by pushing self-certification because competition caught up to them while they spent money on buybacks instead of investing in R&D, perhaps even inves
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by vablings 10mo ago
When the cost of people is more than the cost of equipment, upkeep and maintenance that is arguably exactly when overregulation becomes burdensome
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by vablings 10mo ago
Yes but no. They wanted as many pilots to fly the new aircraft as possible without having to get them re-type certified which is pretty expensive. The issue is that pilots were completely unaware of the MCAS and when it malfunctioned there
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by vablings 10mo ago
Honestly not a terrible idea. Just have your reactor on a huge barge and if it goes meltdown just drag it out into international waters and let the fish deal with it /s
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by vablings 10mo ago
> The per-unit cost of nuclear power plants is extremely high, making it hard to get economies of scale in building more of them. I disagree. building big infrastructure projects always scales well. As stated by the project managers at H
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by vablings 10mo ago
> Would to prefer underregulating it? No > How would you find the exact amount of correct regulation? Difficult problem. The issue right now is that nobody wants to be seen to remove a regulation from a nuclear. One of the biggest thi
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by vablings 10mo ago
> We have seen what Boeing has become when it's effectively unregulated. I think this is vastly overstated by the media. Boeing is still heavily regulated and has a pretty good safety record compared 20 or 30 years prior. The bigges
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by vablings 10mo ago
Fuck those licensing terms. They are the exact reason I cant make a Soundcloud notification bot for discord that is within the rules of the ToS. I sent them an email asking for an API key and basically got told no, license holders rule our
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by vablings 10mo ago
Nuclear is insane levels of expensive likely due to overregulation. It is important for base load power and overnight power and should always be the backing of the grid frequency. Total loss of grid frequency is much more difficult to recov
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by vablings 10mo ago
So why make the cuts in the first place? There are so many things that could have been changed like getting rid of ALARPA for actual scientifically backed methods other than pointless gratitude's of X dollars for X industry. If the Tru
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by vablings 10mo ago
All of these gaming laptops really do suck. I feel like these days your better off having a small form factor pc or just remote into your machine from far away.
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by vablings 10mo ago
I agree but the issue is that C-suite executives think that AI can replace these things rather than enhance and you end up with lower quality trash. Look at sites like etsy etc., it's been overwhelmed with AI trash that is worth 0 valu
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by vablings 10mo ago
The other article that is directly contrary to what was stated. Actually, almost every other article covering this story mentions nothing about flock and this article in particular spends more time talking about flock and the company profi
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by vablings 10mo ago
They did not replace voice actors. They hired voice actors to train the TTS they use. Very different to say ripping someone's voice off and not paying them royalties, residuals or any form of compensation whatsoever.
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by vablings 10mo ago
Outside of speculation do you have any source or evidence that valve plans to expand the hardware ecosystem outside of gaming?
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by vablings 10mo ago
Its even better now! Launch a steam game to open another game launcher platform that you then create an account for and play on that game. A launcher launcher!

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