rswail

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by rswail 7d ago
I'm a 12/13 mini on my second refurbished 13 and a new battery. This is the first iPhone I've considered. Even so, the price is... impressive. I want a screen that my thumb can reach from top to bottom without stretching or d
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by rswail 9d ago
Considering there's a Unix underneath, the logical of showing "dotfiles" that are usually hidden is possibly the connection. But MacOS keyboard shortcuts have always been undiscoverable unless they were part of the menu, wh
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by rswail 14d ago
One could argue that, but with a properly designed API, it could preserve anonymity while still providing businesses with the necessary validation.
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by rswail 14d ago
The main question to government is: 1. You already know who everyone is. By definition identification as an individual is by government. 2. Why is there not a system that allows a business or other service to ask for government identificati
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by rswail 19d ago
I'm against anything secret about spending on political campaigns. Candidates should only accept funds from natural persons, that amount should be limited per person. PACs and other candidate-adjacent activities should require 100% t
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by rswail 20d ago
You said "People" a lot in your post. Corporations are not "people". Only natural persons should be able to contribute to political candidates. Corporations can lobby , as a corporate person, just like a union or other
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by rswail 25d ago
Roe v Wade and the resulting multi-decade clusterfuck is because your Congress are weak-willed pussies who are unable to actually work through a legislative process to find a consensus. Yes, it took decades, but in Australia our various sta
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by rswail 25d ago
Not necessarily the same in every nation, but any treaty ratified by Congress in the United States has the same status as any law passed by Congress. It is subject to judicial review, but has equal standing. So the US cannot "violate [
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by rswail 28d ago
Could but hasn't. What exactly is xAI's USP compared to the others?
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by rswail 28d ago
Having had to edit the documentation from native English speakers in the past, rewriting "in their own words" made it unclear, way too detailed about unnecessary options, and badly formed sentences. The average person cannot write
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by rswail 28d ago
No, if anything there will be more because some of the funds freed up can be spent on healthcare delivery. But you will lose endless billing departments at general/specialist practices, hospitals etc, because actual consumers would not
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by rswail 29d ago
Actual healthcare delivery is a growing field because boomers are getting old and dying and advances in health care mean that people that would otherwise die (eg people with cancers) are now receiving treatments that keep them alive. Note t
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by rswail 29d ago
Yes and no, evolution by natural selection is essentially relying on random mutations. Our media environment is "intelligently designed" and can be modified by concerted action. We don't need to "evolve" to meet the
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by rswail 1mo ago
I've been on the "internet" since before there was one, back in 1984-6 when bang paths were email addresses and DNS hadn't been invented yet. I was on one of the earliest BBSs (pre-FIDO) in Melbourne run by Peter Jetson
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by rswail 1mo ago
The problem of the jets on September 11 is the use of the jets themselves as weapons. Even without the jet fuel on board, the destruction would still have been substantial. Whether the Twin Towers would have fallen without the fuel is not r
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by rswail 1mo ago
Was going on memory and didn't want to google. :)
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by rswail 1mo ago
Not quite. It was already starting, but the Federal government at the time was very anti RE. South Australia had a single interconnect to the rest of the Australian Energy Market that covers the states except for WA and Northern Territory.
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by rswail 1mo ago
You could combine the best of dodgem cars with drone nets by encasing all the highways in electrified wiring. Some people drive as if they're in dodgem cars as it is.
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by rswail 1mo ago
Wholesale power is ~37% of the customer bills. The other costs are the "poles and wires" distribution network and the HV transmission network. The government is also building out the transmission network to various renewable energ
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by rswail 1mo ago
In Australia people do both. We don't have V2G yet, but EVs plugged in at home overnight with L1 charging can get charged by the home battery that was charged up during the day by the PV on the roof. The solar PV and now storage rollou
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by rswail 1mo ago
In an oligarch owned media ecosystem, with obvious corruption of the regulators (FCC, DOJ) to ensure proper use of the public radio spectrum and monopoly restrictions, having a non-partisan publicly funded independent media is vital to the
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by rswail 1mo ago
An authenticated chain similar to the crts for TLS certificates.
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by rswail 1mo ago
So we need to "prohibit to the states" the power to enforce medical procedures (or the prohibition of a medical procedure) on individuals. Which amendment protects someone's bodily autonomy or medical treatment from interfere
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by rswail 1mo ago
One of my first jobs, back in the 1980s, was a project for a government department that the supplier (Wang Computers) had bet on MS-DOS being multi-process. Of course, it wasn't but there was MP/M-86/CCP/M/CDOS&#x2F
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by rswail 2mo ago
Does this apply to Apple to have something separate to Siri in iOS?
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by rswail 2mo ago
When you are integrating to other people's stacks, then you need a test facility where people can bring systems together, sometimes there are also physical elements that are required. I work in Automatic Fare Collection (think railwa
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by rswail 2mo ago
Depends on the type of testing. If you're doing integration testing between systems, then it's not just a matter of spinning it up on a developer's local machine. You need a testing environment, especially if there are other
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by rswail 2mo ago
Corporate personhood is a common legal practice, where necessary the law distinguishes between "persons" and "natural persons". That's the same in the US/UK/AU/NZ/CA/DE/JP/IN. The
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by rswail 2mo ago
The first paragraph talking about reviewing, editing, and refining, is literally the job of a Literary Editor when working with an author on their literature. Editors do not have any IPRs over the resulting literary work. Following that sim
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by rswail 2mo ago
I've been a programmer for 40 years, I've never considered myself to be an engineer. We don't have the same level of "proven solutions" and constraints and mathematical rigor that engineering has, nor do we have the

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