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by scotchmi_st 3mo ago
No idea. Do you think it was pitched like that before the conflict began?
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by scotchmi_st 3mo ago
Well sure, but everything short of committing the whole country to total war will always come down to “we could do it, it’s just too politically expensive”. Even in authoritarian countries, there is a limit to what you can get away with. T
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by scotchmi_st 3mo ago
One of the better tech investments I’ve made is in a 20 metre Thunderbolt cable from Corning. It’s surprisingly useful- if you have a monitor that takes TB input then your computer can be stored in a small closet next to your router/sw
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by scotchmi_st 7mo ago
They spend plenty of time adding "pro" features and apps like Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro, which they wouldn't do unless they wanted people to use them. I'm willing to bet it's as simple as that no Apple SWEs or any
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by scotchmi_st 8mo ago
The military base there is small, and the number of troops trained in Alaska is also comparatively small. It also has little dedicated cold-weather gear, and logistical pipelines (especially if Canada refuses to let them in their airspace&#
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by scotchmi_st 8mo ago
Sure the US could para a few soldiers in and raise the flag, but then what? US equipment and training isn’t designed for a country where the average temperature is above freezing for only 3 months of the year. When it’s minus 30 Celsius, lu
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by scotchmi_st 10mo ago
Interestingly there are discussions about moving back to having the majority of the power from IC engines as soon as the end of the decade, with synthetic fuels. Personally I can’t wait.
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Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots(blog.cloudflare.com)
569 points by scotchmi_st 1y ago|302 comments
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by scotchmi_st 2y ago
This is an interesting article if you read it like a howto for constructing a neural network for performing a practical task. But if you take it at face-value, and follow a similar method the next time you need to parse some input, then, we
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by scotchmi_st 3y ago
My wife had her phone stolen recently, in Highbury and Islington tube station. Nothing to be done, by the time she noticed it gone, it was too late. However since then, she's been getting messages from the perps that appears like a mes
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Design the UK parking code system(takes.jamesomalley.co.uk)
5 points by scotchmi_st 3y ago|1 comments
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by scotchmi_st 3y ago
I mean, there’s plenty of evidence for the Big Bang, and if that’s the case then the most likely shape that falls out of the maths is a hypersphere, like inflating a balloon as others have said.
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by scotchmi_st 3y ago
The universe isn’t thought to be infinite in that sense- it’s finite but unbounded. There is a finite amount of space that did, we think, originate from an infinitesimal point. Imagine getting in a spaceship and setting off in a direction,
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by scotchmi_st 3y ago
Except he didn't say it[1], or at least no-one who was there remembers him saying it, and it seems like it's something he added in a later revision of his own memory. As John von Neumann later said, 'sometimes someone confess
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by scotchmi_st 4y ago
I don't know how the law works where you live, but in my country, 'probably did it' isn't enough for a conviction. Even then, this isn't some spurious made up court trial, and the probabilities you're working w
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by scotchmi_st 4y ago
If you click on the link in the thread, there's an editor's note clarifying that this paper is being used to prop up dodgy claims, for which there's no evidence. The main issue I have with the 'lab leak' theory is t
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by scotchmi_st 5y ago
This is really misinformed comment. Aside from the specific case here, in the UK at least, on average two women a week are killed by a current or former partner[1]. Women are at far greater chance experiencing domestic violence than men[2].
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The Problem Is Facebook(theatlantic.com)
3 points by scotchmi_st 5y ago|0 comments
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by scotchmi_st 5y ago
This story has been covered for a while by the investigative/satirical magazine Private Eye in the uk- https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/justi... There's also a podcast about it as w
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by scotchmi_st 5y ago
If the state where you live wants to know if you've been at a protest, they have more efficient ways of figuring that out than sending someone out to walk around, trying to collect AirDrop IDs. That should be the least of your worries.
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by scotchmi_st 5y ago
One explanation is that Apple has sat on this for 2 years, knowing this is a serious security bug. Another explanation is that they just don't think it's that serious. The article states- > The discovered problems are rooted in
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by scotchmi_st 5y ago
> The artist could refuse to transfer this if they don't like you Really? What if I, the person who bought an NFT, just gave my private key it's tied to, to someone else? What recourse does the artist have then?
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by scotchmi_st 5y ago
> That is: it's proof that the work is "for" you. I mean yeah, but it's all just semantics in the end, isn't it? The art (or whatever else) may have been made for you, but it doesn't matter- de facto, it&#x2
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by scotchmi_st 5y ago
The concert ticket thing is perhaps one use I hadn't thought of. But that seems like a niche solution to a problem that doesn't really exist, and doesn't really solve it anyway? People often buy tickets often in order to rese
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by scotchmi_st 5y ago
The following rant is probably obvious to a lot of people but I really have to get it off my chest. I really don't get NFTs. I feel like every article I read about them (even the critical ones) is describing them in a way which then tu
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by scotchmi_st 6y ago
A lot of people always complain about how hard it is to figure out what Urbit is, but I'm pretty sure the obfuscation is part of the plan. I've been following Urbit for a while now (maybe 6-7 years?), and over that time, it has go
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by scotchmi_st 6y ago
I agree, but there also exist papers, magazines and news sites that have capitalized on the fact that literally anyone can report the news these days, to provide news at a slower, more accurate rate. The Atlantic's Coronavirus coverage
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by scotchmi_st 7y ago
Right but I'm also weary of the kind of second-guessing about the future and the nature of 'progress' that leads to a kind of epistemological paralysis. Taking an approach of 'it's all very complicated, who knows wh
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The Satellite Sentinel Project(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by scotchmi_st 7y ago|0 comments
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by scotchmi_st 7y ago
Although it's more complicated than that, because IC engines are only have about 15% efficiency, whereas electric motors are up at about 80%.

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