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by scrumper 6d ago
This is a fun example of the cognitive switch you have to employ when first starting to program a computer. It's extremely easy for a human to pick at random one thing from a pile of things: you reach out your hand and grab it, maybe s
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by scrumper 8d ago
Author worked as a saturation diver in the '80s; this is a first-hand journal-style account of one particular job.
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The Story of a Hyperbaric Weld(medium.com)
4 points by scrumper 8d ago|1 comments
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by scrumper 8d ago
How do you keep the drinking water actually drinkable over any time period? Anything stored gets nasty.
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by scrumper 13d ago
It's probably significantly easier to machine it this way. The pipe is curved, so work holding isn't straightforward. Once the blank is installed in its place in the bearing chamber face then you can just move that larger part aro
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by scrumper 15d ago
I guess I felt richer in 2020.
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by scrumper 15d ago
What does that mean? WEF is... world economic forum? What type of messaging is that?
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by scrumper 16d ago
I doubt it was just him, there'll have been a group. I am not surprised that some VIPs got given access. It's quite common for museums to do such things after hours. This is strange language in the article, even for the Graun: &gt
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by scrumper 16d ago
I need a new little Mac for my music studio, currently an M2 MacBook Pro. I thought I'd be fun to experiment with some local models as well. Well, let's price up an M5 Pro. $3,019 with 64GB RAM and a 1TB HD. Three thousand America
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by scrumper 16d ago
> "not do significant work this at this late hour" Is this Claude code? Or your local? I assume Claude? I'm more than a little staggered by this, like, it makes no sense! It doesn't even serve Anthropic's interes
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by scrumper 21d ago
A measure of the market's perception of the threat to Meta from these lawsuits. The uncertainty is over now, so the price goes back up. I'm interested in the settlement details - yes $16bn ok fine but any behavioral or structural
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by scrumper 28d ago
Doesn't work, HID error when adding a device (which is paired with and connected to my computer. Logi Options never installed on this Mac.) Unfortunately the very obvious and quite grating LLM copy in the site and in descriptive text o
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by scrumper 29d ago
That's fascinating. I rather like your closing statement. What would we do if we made contact with an intelligent alien when we can't even have a conversation with a dolphin?
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by scrumper 1mo ago
No I'm just saying that slaying the monster has secondary effects. Yes if the whole world one day ate some mushrooms and decided that war was completely over, there would be some upheaval. We would agree that it'd be worth it. To
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by scrumper 1mo ago
Meh. Even assuming the flesh isn't toxic (which it totally is, and radioactive to boot) Godzilla weighs, what, 200,000,000lbs[1] which even at a ridiculous Wagyu price of $300/lb (and assuming every ounce of the bastard is meat) i
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by scrumper 1mo ago
Weeeelllll... I was going to just go "fair point" and stop at that but I don't think I entirely agree. Most of those 80k, perhaps all but a few hundred, would do whatever they were told to do. They are the sort of banal evil
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by scrumper 1mo ago
Put 80,000 people out of work and take a chunk of of everyone's retirement account. Not to mention the second order effect on other tech stocks. It's right there in the comment you're replying to. But that's boring. Let&
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by scrumper 1mo ago
You are not understanding a word I am writing. That is fine. I wish you luck in your Walden fantasy, constructed with the fruits of the economy you refuse to participate in. > or you can start doing the hard work of building a society wh
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by scrumper 1mo ago
Huh, I do not remember Windows 1.0 being that shade of green but screenshots confirm what's here.
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by scrumper 1mo ago
> Also, this speaks to me as someone who has never used used a screw driver to turn a screw into a board. The drill driver has made it amazingly better. You are inadvertently proving my point. Yes an impact driver makes it easier to get
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by scrumper 1mo ago
Magical wishful thinking is as misguided as even the most rabid anti-tech critique. Your - piloto_ciego - needs will never be met by the abundance of the planet. Perhaps your great great great grandchildren may begin to live in such a free
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by scrumper 1mo ago
Well this'll rightly be flagged and killed, but gets points for novelty for sure.
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by scrumper 1mo ago
Yeah they're basically fine. The hipster's main complaint, I think, was that Decathlon was very big in France and that size was causing local bike shops to close. So I have some sympathy for the argument, but certainly not the way
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by scrumper 1mo ago
I bought my wife's bike, which she'd purchased back in England while on a fitness kick, to a local shop in Manhattan for a brake service years ago. I have never forgotten the interaction: the hipster douche who greeted me launched
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by scrumper 1mo ago
Aha thanks. I'm using a different computer and I mistakenly thought I had Private Relay switched on; it's not enabled on this machine. Turning it on gives expected results. Needed the IP reminder to figure that out!
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by scrumper 1mo ago
Curious how it knows my location despite Safari not prompting and no location services indicator in my menu bar. (Mac, not iOS). I'm not suggesting anything nefarious but it is odd. Nice app/service though well done.
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by scrumper 1mo ago
The water moves the heat from the DC to some near-infinite sink (ocean, river, atmosphere if evaporative, whatever.) In space it's quite (very) hard to move the heat anywhere. So water cooled ocean DC is more realistic than an orbital
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by scrumper 1mo ago
> The heat problem has demonstrable solutions that people who are physics challenged can't seem to get themselves to accept. Go on then, what are they? Demonstrable, you said. Show us some demonstrations please.
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by scrumper 1mo ago
My fantasy is that liability for model misbehavior is extended to the ultimate beneficial owners of the models, meaning shareholders. All these externalities would stop PDQ.
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by scrumper 2mo ago
I am the last person to defend FIFA - I love the UEFA's stance here - but only Balogun's suspension can be pinned on FIFA. Those other things are down to USA politics. Bad, for sure, not really down to FIFA. Other than those awful

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