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by notahacker 3d ago
Arguing that a criticism focusing on her behaviour allegedly not being "proper to her sex" isn't gendered whilst handwaving away all the well established historical context about how women were treated to invent new context w
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by notahacker 4d ago
> A autocomplete engine will not attempt to deceive or try to copy itself over when it determines that it may be replaced or turned off. Why would an autocomplete engine never do this? In the scenario you highlight, an engine trained to
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by notahacker 5d ago
BS 1363 isn't an EU plug though. Doesn't have issues with separation of hot and neutral wires (and does have a fuse for the hot wire built in) and nor is it specified with the idea that electrocution risk is no biggie or that no
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by notahacker 5d ago
Yeah BS 1363 is a really weird British standard to pick on, especially in a discussion about our food standards! Well engineered to actually stay in the socket, sockets have safety shutters as well as the earthing which other standards biza
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by notahacker 7d ago
Yeah, regardless of other aspects of Automattic's behaviour, flagging that an identically-pronounced single letter variation of their registered company name might be a confusingly similar brand for a third party commercial service sp
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by notahacker 7d ago
Sure, but I'm failing to see how an autonomous driving system without a steering wheel or brake fitted is safer than one with a steering wheel and brake fitted but the human driver ignoring it and sitting in the back seat. The actual p
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by notahacker 7d ago
It's more of a category error to imply that robotaxis are 92% safer than human-driven taxis if it turns out that the raw accident rate they're baselining against is disproportionately caused by people who not only aren't full
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by notahacker 7d ago
A lot of the barriers are regulatory in the Western world. In rainforests you might not have to worry about that, but there aren't many shade free spots to land
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by notahacker 7d ago
Mostly they'll just add to their prices to cover the cost. Ultimately even if AI armchair lawyering is very bad companies are going to find it easier to eat the cost of more $12 refunds than dealing with inbox spam from AIs even more
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by notahacker 7d ago
Have you discussed requirements with their account managers? They can be a little more creative than their list prices when they realise you don't have the budget for the data you ideally need but are a potential source of recurring re
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by notahacker 7d ago
> The folks over at Tailwind offered curated, hand-built components that were readily adapted and tuned to your own needs. They did an excellent job making it so you could pick and choose what you wanted, then theme all of it from your t
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by notahacker 7d ago
I'm not sure why a semi autonomous system of equivalent driving capability would be more dangerous than strictly autonomous vehicles because of "over-trust" unless one assumes that the driver that overtrust the autonomous v
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by notahacker 8d ago
Religious groups other than Catholics with few plausible connections to ancient Rome have independently conceived the idea of the importance of things like relics (e.g Buddhism), but it's called the Roman Catholic Church for a reason
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by notahacker 8d ago
I distinctly remember an Indian man on a bus in Kerala striking up a conversation with me (random white obvious tourist) in which he proclaimed both that he considered Jesus his Lord and Saviour and that he considered him to be an avatar
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by notahacker 8d ago
> I heard there used to be dozens of plane-building companies when the field was unregulated, with new, more efficient models and lower prices appearing regularly. I wonder what happened. I heard that this is nonsense. There never were m
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by notahacker 8d ago
They've both been insisting that humanity's survival is contingent on regulation since the start and employ armies of lobbyists to try to shape the policies they want that hold significant sway in their own country. But of course
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by notahacker 10d ago
I think you're missing the context, which isn't musing on what it is to be human and can machines think, but the purpose of Joe Smith's LinkedIn account expressing that he has ideas about X is to convey the message that Joe S
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by notahacker 10d ago
ESA funds and has awarded commercial contracts with ISAR and numerous other launch companies/consortia. Andoya spaceport is optimised for launching to polar orbits and not a realistic competitor to the ArianeSpace spaceport in French G
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by notahacker 12d ago
And with 365 days in the year and the need to have something on in the background whilst working from home...
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by notahacker 12d ago
you know an award is actually legit when someone from a trade body contacts you the week before sounding slightly put out that nobody from your member company is flying to Europe to attend their event even though you did fill out an applica
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by notahacker 12d ago
There are plenty of legitimate criticisms of Chinese policy, but you should probably reread your arguments and check for coherence. Chinese EV trucks make no economic sense even though they're 30% of China's fleet but also they&#x
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by notahacker 13d ago
Turbine powered helicopters can appreciate in value if demand picks up because the tech doesn't move that quickly, as can GA aircraft that are already old because they're all cheap and rudimentary to start off with. (The supposed
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by notahacker 13d ago
What does "usability" mean in the context of a prototype short haul passenger aircraft? It's got seats for people to sit in... The competition in this market segment doesn't look like Middle Eastern airlines' first
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by notahacker 13d ago
I mean, for the all-electric distances it's pretty much a given that it's cheaper: fuel consumed is the largest item on airlines' expenditure. The bigger question is at what distance you start having to burn more fuel than if
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by notahacker 13d ago
Agreed. But for related reasons, aircraft aren't really designed for either the structural robustness or balance to deal with big heavy batteries, which is what motivated the clean sheet design.
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by notahacker 13d ago
The ability to register fraser.geek so a very small number of OpenNIC users can access that new URL doesn't really solve the OP's problem with his family's long-established URLs disappearing and their emails being directed to
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by notahacker 14d ago
Those summaries (and Bing is at least as culpable) are mostly only good for comedy value. Most favourite genre: returns picture of someone you know alongside biography of completely unrelated person. Least favourite genre: useful stat supp
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by notahacker 15d ago
You're absolutely right! Honestly? It's not just a joke, it's a smoking gun.
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by notahacker 16d ago
I'd argue showing Türkiye as Türkiye was consistent; in this case it's the Turkish government that's more likely to kick up a fuss and make life difficult for Google if their preferred nomenclature isn't respected
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by notahacker 16d ago
I feel the best way of fighting immaturity is with more immaturity. Just imagine the meltdown to be induced if, for example, the Scottish government were to issue a statutory instrument formally renaming a certain international golf links c

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