walthamstow

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by walthamstow 4d ago
> It's demonstrably the case that you can attack a nuclear power without being nuked It's demonstrably the case that attacks can take place between nuclear powers and not escalate to war. Why do you think that is?
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by walthamstow 5d ago
As an aside, I was stuck when turning on the Fulham v Crystal Palace game last week to find that Fulham have ClickHouse on their shirts this year, and Palace have Temporal AI. Talk about my worlds colliding.
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by walthamstow 5d ago
Europe contains Britain and several other countries who hardly ever protest anything. We're not all France.
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by walthamstow 6d ago
> Police, he observed, had developed ways of stopping a runaway horse, but stopping a runaway motor car was another matter entirely. I'm curious about the ways of stopping a horse
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by walthamstow 7d ago
Like I said, minor skirmishes. No war between India and Pakistan since they both got nukes in the 70s. Not bad for two states that have been hostile their entire existence.
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by walthamstow 8d ago
Minor skirmishes are not war. China and India have border skirmishes with literal wooden sticks, neither side will use live ammo because they both have nukes.
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by walthamstow 8d ago
By time you left did you work out how to pronounce the name of that bloody place?
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by walthamstow 8d ago
Agree with the numbers but you can't "switch the model" in normie ChatGPT anyway, you can only select between instant/medium/high effort.
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by walthamstow 8d ago
India is 1bn-something people and they're pretty much all on WhatsApp
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by walthamstow 8d ago
Holding 35L of water for 2 weeks drinking and 25L for 3 days flushing seems a bit out of whack
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by walthamstow 9d ago
I'm putting external shutters on my house in London this winter. This summer was crazy. I've never seen them further north than Barcelona.
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by walthamstow 9d ago
Just aim at the sweet spot where your stream smoothly swirls into the plughole. No spray, minimal sound. Most toilets and all urinals have this spot you can hit. In Amsterdam airport they even mark it for you with a crosshairs!
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by walthamstow 10d ago
Great way to go viral though
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by walthamstow 10d ago
When Linux OEMs come out with hardware as good or nearly as good as Apple, people will buy it.
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by walthamstow 13d ago
Agy has the print option so I don't see how using it is against TOS, but still I'd do that on a burner account.
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by walthamstow 13d ago
E-commerce is full of vendors claiming stuff like this. It's how Klarna sells itself to merchants
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by walthamstow 13d ago
Definitely. The cost of making and throwing spaghetti is now very low, so they're throwing a lot of it.
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by walthamstow 15d ago
Coasters are great if you have good cycle infra, don't go very fast and don't have to go up or down hills. Which explains why they're so popular in NL.
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by walthamstow 15d ago
Mate, it's been several years. They know.
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by walthamstow 15d ago
I pay for Deezer but I've never used the app. I download the music I want in FLAC using deemix.
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by walthamstow 19d ago
What do they get in security from the EU that they don't get from NATO? Is it so they can get in on the new joint EU defence funds?
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by walthamstow 21d ago
Not in the land of the free, Great Britain. You can put anything on your house, even a 25ft fibreglass shark diving into your loft.
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by walthamstow 22d ago
The state of transport outside London, even just outside London, is so bad. I remember when London got the Siemens GPS trackers in each bus that enabled the live departure screens. Amy Winehouse was in the charts, that's how long ago i
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by walthamstow 22d ago
I don't think any underestimates how powerful it would be. It's the social aspect that is difficult. I wouldn't want to be sat in a pub with you and your always-on notetaker.
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by walthamstow 22d ago
I don't think that many people here voluntarily go on Facebook either
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by walthamstow 24d ago
> Do they think just throwing out a large number without anything to compare it to is somehow proving something? Welcome to the last 20 years of UK public policy communications. Politicians know that people do not question big numbers or
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by walthamstow 24d ago
> 2% of the UK population has a PhD Citation needed. I'm guessing you're not counting children.
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by walthamstow 24d ago
I can't find the page now but yes they quietly "paused" the June 15th rollout of API pricing for -p headless. Presumably to come back again one day.
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by walthamstow 24d ago
The claude -p thing was doubly stupid because they quietly allowed it again a couple of weeks later, so they pissed off developers for nothing
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by walthamstow 25d ago
One German football team is named after a pharmaceuticals multinational. (A special case, it was the workers team for the Bayer plant, like Woolwich Arsenal or 'Locomotiv' of many Slavic cities)

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