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by glaucon 15d ago
I don't know why but I have a different experience. My daily driver is a 13 year old Thinkpad with 16Gb memory, I use Firefox all the time, I routinely have 50+ tabs open, I really have no complaints. I also use Firefox on Android, I h
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by glaucon 2mo ago
| terrifically intelligent and obviously absurdly well-educated, he's just a liar and a sociopath. No idea how intelligent he is, I wouldn't say I've seen any obvious signs of outstanding cerebral capabilities. As to his educ
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by glaucon 2mo ago
I've just looked up the regulations. If he plans to withdraw he only has until 4pm Monday 20th July. After that he's on the ballot regardless.
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by glaucon 2mo ago
|suspend him or order a recall by-election as a result. I believe that while the Parliamentary Standards Committee can order a suspension, the prospect of a recall election is not due to the committee ordering it but rather sufficient elect
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by glaucon 2mo ago
|which isn’t going to happen I do wonder if Farage will decide to drop out before the vote. Farage, more than most people, seems to strongly dislike ridicule and to lose a good deal of his vote to a comedy candidate would significantly dama
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by glaucon 3mo ago
I appreciate that in global terms I live a life of data privilege, but I really don't think a 95mb download is any problem at all if the thing I'm downloading has utility.
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by glaucon 3mo ago
It may be getting too much traffic, it's coming back with a database error for me at least. Here's the archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20260701213459/https://escapepod... .
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by glaucon 3mo ago
As the article mentions under some circumstances trailer mounted generators are not considered stationary and that is the basis of the plaintiffs claim.
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by glaucon 3mo ago
Wasn't this move meant to be delayed until after the IPO?
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by glaucon 3mo ago
I haven't read the prospectus but I would be interested to know, when he dies, to what degree the "... control the outcome of matters requiring shareholder approval" part will be inherited. Does that facility just go along wi
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by glaucon 3mo ago
He _says_ he doesn't like renewables but secretly he loves them ;-)
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by glaucon 3mo ago
It's hilarious (or would be if it didn't involve killing people), the same dullards who wanted to "drill, baby, drill" have accelerated the move to renewables in a way they would have struggled to do if they were the mos
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by glaucon 3mo ago
Which is pretty much what Australian average price is. Average Australian domestic tariff is around AUD 0.30/kwh which is USD 0.21/kwh. None of this touches on standing charges, I don't know how that works in the USA, in Aust
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by glaucon 5mo ago
> That's not all that much May not be much in world terms but here in NZ national demand maxes out at around 5.5GW so bringing another GW on stream would be quite handy. Most of the geothermal is a lot closer to Auckland* than our h
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by glaucon 5mo ago
Stop masking passwords by default. Masked passwords were boring when passwords were typically 'goeagles' but now they're 'Justlongenough22!' they're a real barrier to anybody who doesn't type the string mu
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by glaucon 6mo ago
> What’s the counter to that? In the case of the AWS scenario someone driving by who decides to nick it? Or the courier puts the box down upside down? Just by the way is a package delivery company going to be willing to deliver a package
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by glaucon 6mo ago
Good line from the blog post ... "So what is the plan now?" - "Move a little faster and not break things"
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by glaucon 6mo ago
> He needs to either _completely_ own up to it I'm not advocating on BG's behalf but your suggestion pre-supposes that his activities exceeded those he has already admitted to. I don't know whether they did or not, but I t
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by glaucon 6mo ago
If you're not British please don't assume that "ejecting heriditary nobles" from the upper house of parliament is automatically going to increase the quality of governance. For more than a century the majority of those w
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by glaucon 6mo ago
The plan is not to "remove trial by jury" but to "remove trial by jury for some types of offense".
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by glaucon 6mo ago
The first sentence of the cited article makes clear the matter at hand is not "elimination of jury trials" but "a plan to abolish some jury trials". The proposal is an attempt to reduce the time which those who are accus
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by glaucon 7mo ago
| Congress could pass a new law requiring it, of course, but I think we all understand that this would not accomplish the administration's real goal of letting Trump prove he's the specialest boy and everyone has to give him what
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by glaucon 7mo ago
Don't bet too much, from the linked article ... They ran the exact same question with the same forced choice between "drive" and > "walk," no additional context, past 10,000 real people through their human fe
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by glaucon 7mo ago
The article is a little difficult to read so perhaps I missed this. Surely a key determinant in making your project closed source is your willingness to cut yourself off from dependencies with strong copyleft licences? And, correct me if I&
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by glaucon 7mo ago
The book that I looked at had the same blurb on odd-lots-books.netlify.app as was used in my local library catalogue, so I assume it's the standard publisher's blurb?
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by glaucon 8mo ago
What are these checks and scrutiny and how are they applied in the time available? Given the time available is not great ("I'm on the next flight") and the amount of money is modest if humans are involved I'm intrigued t
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by glaucon 8mo ago
My view may be as realistic as these architectural drawings but I've long thought that some sort of micro payment system would address a lot of problems, many more significant than tipping software developers.
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by glaucon 8mo ago
The problem isn't "to date" the problem is what might be. Sure, maybe the CloudFlare CEO seems like they "do the right thing" and then the administration gets pissed off at something CF related, they lean on the CF
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by glaucon 9mo ago
I too use pipenv unless there's a reason not to. I hope people use whatever works best for them. I feel that sometimes there's a desire on the part of those who use tool X that everyone should use tool X. For some types of technol
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by glaucon 10mo ago
FWIW the "industry sources say" line on the incident is that it occurred on 30 October[1], so further back than ten days ago but of course there may have been other CME incidents at that time. The European Agency Aviation Safety A

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