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by rob74 5d ago
Lockheed would still agree that it's good for them - replacing all those $4 million Patriot rockets expended in the Middle East to shoot down Shahed drones that are one or two orders of magnitude cheaper is going to fill their order bo
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by rob74 5d ago
Supply and demand? Over here in Germany, Diesel was cheaper than (any kind of) gasoline for a long time, but that has also changed recently (Gemini says since Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022, so another thing to blame Putin for), now it&#x2
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by rob74 5d ago
Thanks, that's more like it! Even includes an Art Deco mirror...
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by rob74 5d ago
In the case of the movie poster, it probably doesn't help that the image was apparently stored in a lossy format. So after a few iterations the LLM can't tell the JPEG artifacts from the relevant image details and starts adding wr
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by rob74 5d ago
Those are both very 2020s versions of Mrs. Regan, I would be more interested in the 1930s version...
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by rob74 5d ago
I don't think there's a law mandating it, but CRM ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management ) has been used and trained by all major airlines since the 1980s. The reason is simple: it doesn'
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by rob74 5d ago
One more thing worth noting is that they flew through bad weather on the approach, which led to the deviation from the glideslope. But the actual issue IMHO is not going around when they noticed that the approach was wildly unstable, or at
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by rob74 5d ago
If any of the two pilots feel uncomfortable about the approach, they are actually drilled to just order a go-around, not politely ask and hint that they would prefer to do it like this FO did (wastes time). Ideally the pilot flying should t
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by rob74 5d ago
You'd be surprised how many European power plants (not only with Russian/Soviet designs) relied and still rely on fuel from Russia ( https://www.voiceofemirates.com/en/politics/reports-and-inve... ).
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by rob74 6d ago
The plant mentioned in the article is by no means new, its two reactors began operation in 1977 and 1981, respectively ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loviisa_Nuclear_Power_Plant ). Nuclear power plants are notorious for
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by rob74 6d ago
3a. AI companies make hyperbolic projections on the future use of AI and plan building and powering data centers according to that. 5. when the AI bubble bursts, we'll be left with huge amounts of unused/half-built data center cap
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by rob74 8d ago
Don't mention the Jihad!
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by rob74 8d ago
Doesn't this just move the need to be smarter from the model to the harness - if a human sometimes can't tell whether a model has produced something correct or just mostly correct-looking BS, how can an automated harness do it? OT
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by rob74 8d ago
> We have efficient heat pumps and solar panels, but it's still a disturbing amount of energy usage and something I'm trying to debug. Perhaps we have too many windows letting in too much sunlight... External window blinds wo
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by rob74 8d ago
One hand washes the other: they buy ads from Google (I think), so Google prefers them in the indexing process, so they get more traffic, so Google prefers them even more.
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by rob74 8d ago
Well at least Wikipedia doesn't pester you with tons of ads that sometimes make it hard to even find the content (except for the occasional donation banner, but that's a minor annoyance compared to what Fandom does).
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by rob74 9d ago
More or less the same over here in Germany, except with WhatsApp, which is only slightly better than X, but at least you are likely to already have it installed because of all your contacts that refuse to use a more secure messaging app...
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by rob74 9d ago
Makes me glad I bought a Sony TV which has the microphone on the remote - and is compatible with older remotes without a microphone, so the new remote with its microphone and sponsored streaming service buttons gathers dust (without batteri
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by rob74 26d ago
Also, depending on how flexible the material is, it looks like those screws might scratch the floor on which the chair sits?
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by rob74 26d ago
Are non-coders these days aware that they should use version control (and push their code to GitHub)? Or does their agent helpfully suggest setting up a GitHub repo?
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by rob74 27d ago
Ok, the Spice Girls were formed 1994, the same year Kurt Cobain died, but Take That and lots of other boy/girl bands and other extremely commercial pop acts were contemporary with Nirvana and the whole grunge phenomenon. So it's n
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by rob74 27d ago
It was called Fleet (I almost forgot about it too) and has since been retired: https://blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/2025/12/the-future-of-fleet... (if you wanted to be snarky, you could say that Fleet dissolved i
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by rob74 27d ago
No, I'm not (a lawyer might recommend to sue, hoping for a big payout, even if the chances of it happening are small?). I looked at the GPL text, and what Google is doing is really pushing the "If you convey a covered work, knowin
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by rob74 27d ago
If you look at Google's Android phone market share (currently 1.1% according to https://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-manufacturers ), and consider that the foldable version is probably the least popular model in this
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by rob74 27d ago
Yes, I thought that too. But no, that wouldn't be realistic. Their IDEs are massive, to rewrite them in Rust they would probably also have to rewrite half of the library code in the Java ecosystem.
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by rob74 27d ago
> complete rewrites in Rust remain far more common than incremental ones, particularly when rewriting from a language other than C. Well yeah, that has obvious practical reasons: unless you're using C/C++, you can't real
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by rob74 27d ago
Sorry, I stand corrected: Despite owning a Pixel 9 Pro myself, I didn't realize Google's Android phones market share was so tiny (1.1%! according to https://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-manufacturers ). In that
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by rob74 27d ago
In the US? Under the current political and economic circumstances? Against Google's legal department? I wouldn't get my hopes up...
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by rob74 27d ago
Well, it's as you wrote: they are making the source available, albeit in a very inconvenient way, and because there is no time limit specified, they're complying with the letter of the GPL (although not with its spirit), so you
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by rob74 27d ago
Actually, you both misunderstood what I wrote: the team is spread across multiple locations in three countries. They all work from their respective offices, but for meetings we still have to use Teams. That's especially galling: my c

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