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by rsynnott 4d ago
> No one wanted this war but we did it anyway. You know the big old orange guy in the White House? He did it. ... Like, come on now. What do you think, Israel is blackmailing him? He is unblackmailable; most of the country hates him, and
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by rsynnott 5d ago
... Huh. So, these seem to have totally died out in Ireland, despite us changing the rules on mixers at about the same time as the UK did (Irish plumbing and electrical rules tend to follow UK ones). You'll see them in old installation
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by rsynnott 5d ago
> I do not use any of the programming “AIs”, not even whatever is built into JetBrains IDEs The JetBrains one is particularly bad, in that it seems very clearly worse than their (excellent, arguably best-in-class) deterministic autocompl
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by rsynnott 5d ago
> It’s very hard to beat that if you have a 98% efficient boiler You do not, to be clear, have a 98% efficient gas boiler. You _may_ have a gas condenser boiler which claims 98% efficiency in absolutely ideal circumstances, but realistic
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by rsynnott 5d ago
For a _gas_ heater, 1 would actually be unrealistically good. Conventional gas boilers tend to be about 70% efficient. Condenser boilers can do better, up to about 90%, but in practice performance is highly dependent on temperature of retur
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by rsynnott 6d ago
> and also how close they were able to get ... How close they were able to get to what? What they were promising was _literally impossible_.
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by rsynnott 6d ago
> Changed the energy market across the globe ... Wait, how's that? > delivered exceptional electric vehicles I mean, I'll give you 'exceptional'. Not exceptionally _good_, though.
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by rsynnott 6d ago
So, in the US, for instance, the average person leads to the emission of 16 tonnes of co2 per year. The amount of co2 in your domestic heat pump (which… doesn’t weigh multiple tonnes) is more or less immaterial, even if it does leak.
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by rsynnott 7d ago
Apparently, in this case, the license _did_ in fact forbid this usage, which is why they changed logo in the first place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Oxley#Twitter_Bird_Logo_...
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by rsynnott 7d ago
tweet.app. Tweet.new, confusingly, is a redirect to Twitter.
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by rsynnott 7d ago
So, about 5,000 infant infantry, and maybe a few hundred infant cavalry? Seems like a lot of work. He might instead opt to adopt some baby auxiliaries.
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by rsynnott 7d ago
I think they basically did (at one point, horrifyingly, there was a lotus notes based on Eclipse of all things), but yeah, article doesn’t mention it as far as I can see. Maybe they hit publish too early…
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by rsynnott 7d ago
Pretty sure lots of people would read x post as cross post, not just influencers. ‘X’ to stand in for cross is a fairly old convention; I think I’ve seen 19th century examples.
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by rsynnott 7d ago
2009 was kind of a bizarre intermission. Don’t remember that at all, though I was certainly using Twitter at that point.
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by rsynnott 8d ago
A (rather snarky) piece about it here: https://mcmansionhell.com/post/149948821221/mcmansions-101-r... tl;dr - It's driven by internal room shape requirements (plus weak planning; in some jurisdictions "
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by rsynnott 9d ago
Bonkers roof profiles are primarily and American thing, to be honest; not that they’re totally non-existent elsewhere, but the super-complex roof on a detached house is very American.
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by rsynnott 9d ago
It's a slightly weird proposition, in that, well, pitched roofs last about 50 to 100 years, typically (at least here; I gather it _is_ somewhat different in the US due to different materials and building standards). So you probably don
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by rsynnott 9d ago
> as I can never trust the actual timers on the bus stops. Assuming these show 'live' data (as opposed to the estimated times based on the schedule), it's probably the same data that apps like this would be using.
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by rsynnott 9d ago
Got to admit, I like to see evidence that the bus actually exists and is coming.
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by rsynnott 9d ago
Lots of systems have some sort of real location data, but it can be... shaky. In Dublin, train 'realtime location' is, AIUI, based on arrival at stations plus time-based estimate. This _usually_ works okay. Buses have transponders
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by rsynnott 9d ago
… Eh? Even by the most generous possible definitions (including people who are primarily hunter gatherer but interact with the local economy to some extent), there are only on the order of tens of thousands of hunter gatherers today, worldw
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by rsynnott 9d ago
I’m not sure that it’s dominant anywhere other than Greece and the Balkans, but lamb would be quite popular in a lot of European countries. Pretty much anywhere on the Mediterranean, plus Ireland and Britain, at least. I’m not sure there’s
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by rsynnott 10d ago
Eh, honestly, "entity gets nasty legal letter, entity stops doing thing, entity resumes doing thing after its own lawyers say, 'yeah, nah'" is a fairly common pattern.
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by rsynnott 10d ago
This is more or less the approach that the EU is taking with the DMA. As with most EU regulatory projects, it proceeds, ah, _slowly_ (Twitter isn't yet subject to it, for instance, apparently largely because historically it didn't
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by rsynnott 10d ago
> It would be better for there to be a bunch of Wikis that are competing with each other evenly. Having only Wikipedia is not a healthy thing. ... I mean, there _are_ (Conservapedia, Ruwiki, Metapedia, etc). It's just that the non-w
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by rsynnott 13d ago
Seems more likely to be due to Uber failing to really penetrate the market. There are a number of markets where they’re really a distant second to Bolt or a local thing or both, and at some point they presumably have to start rationalising.
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by rsynnott 14d ago
> "Sam Altman deputizing Orion from GPT-5 to GPT-4.5 suggests that OpenAI has hit a wall with making its next model, requiring him to lower expectations" > Wrong (GPT-5 was a substantial improvement over GPT-4.5) … I mean, t
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by rsynnott 17d ago
Not to be confused with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_and_Dairy_Network_Podcast
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by rsynnott 17d ago
BUT THE FISH. (The British fisheries industry actually largely suffered due to Brexit, as British people don’t eat much fish, especially the fish available around Britain, and the industry was largely dependent on exports. But it’s the thou
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by rsynnott 17d ago
They are already for practical purposes subject to EU law; joining them would allow them to participate in making it.

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