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You can make that silly argument to justify almost any government overreach

These seem mostly like Claudeisms. I feel each model (and even generation) has their own set of these isms.

This is probably the natural conclusion but it will take some time to get there

Incidentally GSM-R problems led to a nationwide train service shutdown in Norway on December 25. Related?

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You're right, my bad

There was a controversy when Go came out about the naming due to another language also being called Go, and the top voted alternative name was Plan9, and as an homage they may have used that internally instead.

A coating for projectiles to be able to withstand the heat from laser weapons would be one with possibly significant impact, given recent announcements.

It probably does work for certain kinds of software, but groundbreaking research breakthroughs not so much.

Twitter has been rebranded as 'X'. Elon has the domain x.com and I suppose he wants to use it

That's one of the most jargon-dense sentences I've ever read

Was about to say this. Kudos to them for actually conveying the information! They seem to have learned that what they're (partially) in the business of selling is long term trust.

Considering continental drift is about 2.5cm per year (or one inch)...about 50km from where it is today.

But SF is also very chilly for California so it really helps with the perception of humidity.

This is the reason. Institutional investors (which hold the lions share) are more wary of stocks with astronomical P/E ratios when the macroeconomical forecasts are what they are today. Expect the bloodbath to continue until there is a semblance of calm waters on the horizon. I'm thinking around March.

There's very little relative trading volume on the price slope below 165-150 here, I wouldn't be surprised to see a fall to 95 and down to 30-50 in the medium term, and a cap of "only" about $100-150bn.

Well, I'd like it to be a standard size I could stack. Maybe I'm just nostalgic but I pine for the days where I had a shelf full of self-burnt CD's. Shame they're so prone to bit rot.

I've been thinking that there oughta be a human-sized cartridge for data in general. Current SD-cards are flimsy, and it's just getting worse. The Minidisc/Gameboy cartridge/MiniCD form factor was something that was tangible but not oversized. It could go in your drawer and not be lost. You could write something informative on it.

The fallout from that scenario being discovered alone would make it absolutely not worth it, so I leave that for the conspiracy bin.

I've been dreaming of a book decompiler that would some newfangled AI/ML to produce a perfectly typeset copy of an older book; in the same font or similar, recognizing multiple languages and scripts within the work.

Also rather interesting that Vladimir Putin is thought to have been involved as the RAF handler, if those sources are veritable.

How is the ventilation and air quality? I work in a passive house in and we're experiencing significant issues with the indoor air quality when the building HVAC turns low.

Not when what you write (compromises) literally mean something radically different. That’s not syntax.

It's not really worth bothering trying to convince any one country to reduce their oil production. The Saudis, Russians or Venezuelans could easily fill the supply gap, and the point is moot. Arguing for a worldwide reduction in supply is equally moot, not to mention politically hopeless.

The best way is demand reduction, which won't happen overnight. Technology exchange and helping developing countries to build renewable energy and nuclear power plants seems to be, outside of geoengineering, the only viable way forward.

Wow.

There are rumors of a backroom deal with the new government where the Nordstream 2 pipeline is going to be cancelled or unused in an event of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Perhaps not sufficient to dissuade Putin from invading, but not nothing and it would amount to significant economic sanctions.

I've been experimenting with using the UDC as a classification system for my personal electronic library, with some success. Interesting read.

JIT makes sense given his other current project: https://github.com/tenderlove/tenderjit

Major Tom: https://archive.org/details/winampskin_Major_Tom_v5

An order of magnitude above 400000 is 4 million.