DrBazza

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by DrBazza 13d ago
Well, in the UK under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, with goods, you're entitled to refund, a repair, or a replacement. We're not good at class actions in the UK, so it's down to the individual, but if a one time payment for
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by DrBazza 13d ago
I despise Sony and avoid them at all costs. They started with AACS and then finally lost me when they embedded Cinavia in the Playstation.
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by DrBazza 17d ago
The definition of major is completely subjective. Adopting the Euro if the UK remained is major. What was a ‘major’ change when leaving? Everything has been mitigated by slow change. Euro migration was overnight in 1999 (I worked on it)
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by DrBazza 17d ago
That’s doesn’t make it better. You’re still rude and dismissive of part of an age group simply because their views and opinions differ to yours.
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by DrBazza 17d ago
Well, after this week, it would actually be 'The America Telescope' wouldn't it?
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by DrBazza 17d ago
I worked briefly in a satellite lab, and we did indeed have duplicate parts for most things. Any space telescope with a mirror, is a different story, e.g. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/webb/webbs-mirrors/
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by DrBazza 17d ago
Well if you're dismissive of an entire generation by calling them 'old farts', I'm not sure I can take you 'better informed 16 years old' argument seriously.
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by DrBazza 17d ago
Well there is symmetry. Based on the original comment of wanting a clear majority to 'leave', knowing the result now and the polling at the time, that would have ensured the status quo would continue, and I'm guessing there,
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by DrBazza 18d ago
You could flip that argument. The bar set to remain was too low. As for 16 years old voting, I'd argue the age to vote should be raised to 21. > Some particularly pernicious lies on the leave side too convincing Both sides lied, bo
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by DrBazza 19d ago
It's removing all the unnecessary words and fluff. FWIW I adhere to RFC-2119 when writing docs, and tell agents to do so as well.
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by DrBazza 19d ago
I think there's a 'better' picture of Antares than there is Betelgeuse, but in the best traditions of yak-shaving, I discovered Betelgeuse has an imaged companion: https://www.space.com/astronomy/stars&#x
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by DrBazza 20d ago
You're a little bit older than me - and I recall reading that 'our era' is actually pretty unusual for how quiet it has been in terms of natural disasters and their magnitudes. Last major volcanic eruption around lots of huma
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by DrBazza 20d ago
People are good at reacting to a common danger. Look at the Boxing Day Tsunami - people standing and watching the sea as they just didn't know what it was as they had never seen it before. This month a 'hunger stone' app
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by DrBazza 21d ago
The Uk could have been in 100% in the 90s and saved us decades of copper theft. https://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-lost...
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by DrBazza 22d ago
It's just another tool. Programming is/can be fun. People still hand turn wood, and make their own furniture, even though Ikea exists. Or maybe 'code' just gets pushed down a level like assembly did when C was invented
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by DrBazza 1mo ago
So Anthropic goes on the shit list with Sony Blu-ray and its cinavia watermarking.
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by DrBazza 1mo ago
I did a lazy ask google, and it thinks less than 3% of crude oil is used for energy. The vast bulk of oil being used: 'transportation (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel), heavy machinery, and non-energy uses like asphalt and plastics rather
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by DrBazza 2mo ago
Replace philosophers for mathematicians and Douglas Adams was spot on again. Whilst current models can't 'intuit' and come up with conjectures, they can certainly disprove some of them very quickly through the kind of grind t
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by DrBazza 2mo ago
> Apple have deep enough pockets that they can actually sue OpenAI but I bet OpenAI are surprised they got caught. Maybe? But more likely their 'surprise' will be that it's actually happened, because the people doing th
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by DrBazza 2mo ago
> because the populace was not asked at all about the treaty Well, the UK has only been asked about Europe twice - once to join and once to leave. Unlike many other European countries that frequently ask their populace as a way of standa
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by DrBazza 3mo ago
If I add water to a glass of whiskey and dilute it, why don't I get twice as drunk?
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by DrBazza 3mo ago
I probably did ;)
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by DrBazza 3mo ago
I said kerfuffle. I didn’t say ‘export’.
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by DrBazza 3mo ago
I guess if the new model has the capability to do 'something' that's national security threat, then this makes sense. Otherwise this move makes zero sense, and actually is a drag on innovation - who wants to invest money a
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by DrBazza 3mo ago
Back in the 90s, my post-doc piracy was photocopying and distribution at every conference, and large mail drops.
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by DrBazza 3mo ago
It would be nice if billion dollar big tech, in particular those that have R&D donate and form a not-for-profit together with universities that puts this to sleep once and for all. The small irony is that they're paying to submit
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by DrBazza 3mo ago
That's UK politics in general, which I suppose is microcosm of the UK. Everything is now a career. We have many, many, sitting MPs, that have only ever studied topics like politics with the sole aim of becoming a politician. Or neve
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by DrBazza 3mo ago
Indeed. I paraphrased this line from wikipedia - "The LTV is usually associated with Marxian economics" perhaps I should have read the next bit ", although it also appears in the theories of earlier classical economists such
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by DrBazza 3mo ago
Perhaps. Though if you strike endlessly, you have no product to sell. So people buy elsewhere and you go out of business. If you disagree, perhaps edit this line in wikipedia: > These internal issues, which were never satisfactorily s
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by DrBazza 3mo ago
In which country, the USA? In the UK, all Government bodies are unionized.

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