polemic

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by polemic 23d ago
Not just in remote locations. We just got a new public toilet in my suburb's town center. But the lack of public facilities is certainly noticeable when traveling.
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by polemic 1y ago
> from autogenlib.antigravity As a joke, that doesn't feel quite so far-fetched these days. ( https://xkcd.com/353/ )
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by polemic 2y ago
Never really understood why people like Tom Clancy, it's not as if it's enjoyable to read about a bunch of mililtary hardware. At least with Dan Brown you've got a load of interesting mysteries and locations to get off on. (m
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by polemic 2y ago
Maybe you've answered your own question. Directed-energy weapson exist - but the agencies that would have developed this particular capability have said that it isn't possible or doesn't match the reported symptoms. It would
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by polemic 2y ago
Countries with functional and affordable healthcare didn't there with startups and less regulation.
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by polemic 2y ago
Yup - in NZ the infrastrucutre and the provider were separated as part of the nation-wide fibre-to-the-door rollout. I switched provider the other week, after the old one discontinued a discount. All I had to do was sign up with the new pro
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by polemic 2y ago
A very similar thing happened here in New Zealand where we tracked right with fairly dire and predictable consequences, from a left-wing government that was shouldering the blame for a whole lot of macroeconomic issues they had little contr
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by polemic 2y ago
> We're forking Flutter. This is why. Cripes I wish people would explain who "we" is. "Flutter Foundation"? Which is "Flock" but not "Flutter"?
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by polemic 2y ago
To get an inert object through the atmostphere and do real damage it has to be very large. That's a very inefficient way to use mass that you've boosted to orbit, even if it's relatively cheap to get there. So any weaponary
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by polemic 2y ago
My favourite is PAHU! https://pahu.maori.nz/ - a lorem ipsum generator in te reo Māori.
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by polemic 2y ago
Seems a stretch to call it open source.
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by polemic 2y ago
Messenger Kids was a pragmatic effort by Meta to improve safety on the Messenger platform. It works well, and it looks to me like Instagram Teen accounts is a similar effort. You can bemoan the effects of social media or whether teens shoul
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by polemic 2y ago
My younger ones use Messenger Kids and it gives me some confidence that Meta has thought about the problem and have solutions that actually work for all parties.
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by polemic 2y ago
Python developers agree. See PEP 668 – Marking Python base environments as “externally managed” – https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/
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by polemic 2y ago
ICE31 in the air right now https://www.flightradar24.com/ICE31/36b2c5d5
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by polemic 2y ago
> one big disadvantage of using point clouds for perception is that they are not colored That depends entirely on the capture device.
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by polemic 2y ago
Yes well, inflation (actually: devaluation) isn't in the [immediate] interests of the currency holder . Terrible if you just want to speculate, which is 99% of the crypto market. I'm no economist, but inflation should reflect an
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by polemic 2y ago
They aren't "hype" technologies - but it does seem badly framed. If it were to say "the team uses version control, CI frameworks, agile tracking tools then they might be agile" it would make more sense. That would
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by polemic 2y ago
That is one of the possibilities that are highlighted in the abstract, Amoung other theories, including that lonely individuals seek friendship within conspiracy communities. Humans are very good at post-hoc rationalisation.
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by polemic 2y ago
In the wise words of Patsy, "it's only a model". The real world is resistent to clean abstractions and abstractions are distressingly subject to change. What made your row unique today is quite likely to become non-unique in
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by polemic 2y ago
The simplicity of interstellar travel really depends on how you define it. Constructing a ship of sufficient redundancy / self-repair capability that can carry embryonic life to another star seems like something we could achieve. The e
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by polemic 2y ago
Inefficiency in public infrastructure works might be a cost of a much higher degree of personal and political freedoms. Apparent efficiencies in public infrastructure works might be short-lived in a centrally directed economy and/o
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by polemic 2y ago
There's a whole wiki page for this! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_transports_of_heads_of_sta... Here in New Zealand there is a military transport option but it's always breaking down and, by all accounts,
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by polemic 2y ago
Not just the new ones - it's a very scandinavian lutheran trend. Tapiloa Church for e.g. https://www.google.com/maps/@60.1783778,24.8091179,3a,75y,15... However there's also the church in the rock which is ab
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by polemic 2y ago
Notable that this was python behaviour until Py3.
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by polemic 2y ago
Reminds me of an excellent conference talk I went to once - landslip modellers in BC, Canada spend a lot of time trying to prevent slips from damanging the railways that wind throught the mountainous terrain. There was a lot of research int
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by polemic 2y ago
I ran into this today while searching for a way to merge channels in Slack. A google search turned up this result https://www.process.st/how-to/merge-channels-in-slack/ which describes an in-app method that does
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by polemic 3y ago
This is – fairly obviously – the US working to maintain it's primacy in the control over technology (broadly) and social media (specifically). It's certainly convenient that various security and privacy concerns align, but as many
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by polemic 3y ago
I wonder if anyone has modelled the energy impact of users flocking to alternate platforms as popular websites are shutdown. Seems ripe for abuse and unintended consequences.
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by polemic 3y ago
Unproven - but yes like I say - a new type of compression

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