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So do most “alternative” search engines, often with some of their own spice on top.

I know Startpage happens to use Google in their back-end, but Google’s policy is a lot more restrictive than Microsoft’s given their market position.

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I thought captcha’s worked in a way where they provided some known good examples, some known bad examples, and a few examples which aren’t certain yet. Then the model is trained depending on whether the user selects the uncertain examples.

Also it’s very evident what’s being trained. First it was obscured words for OCR, then Google Maps screenshots for detecting things, now you see them with clearly machine-generated images.

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In the US it tends to be the other way around 🥁

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I’m not a fan. I prefer watching in theatre mode; when opening comments it closes theatre mode.

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2024, you mean?

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We need more nuclear reactors

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They have no upsides

Except the lack of greenhouse gas emissions, once up and running.

If we actually started developing them on any sort of scale most of those negatives you mention will be negated.
Flexibility, as in the inability to quickly ramp down, can be solved with storage or with generating hydrogen.

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Sorry, I was replying to a comment about offshore wind in the EU.

Supposedly you’d set up some proper regulations, implement checks and balances but given the current US business and political climate; good question.

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Going 100% renewable is going to require an immense amount of storage, nevermind their instability. Any base load we can replace with nuclear is going to lessen that burden.

EV’s are heavy and require a ton of rare Lithium.

Using over capacity to generate hydrogen seems to me like a way to solve that. Hydrogen which in turn can be used to power cars, trucks, ships.

I don’t see how nuclear would slow the transition away from oil and gas.

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Nuclear doesn’t reduce the difference between supply and demand.

How does it not?
There’s a certain “base load” to any power grid which could easily be done by “inflexible” nuclear powerplants.

Sodium doesn’t address the problem with EV weight.

Inefficiency is fine if you have an abundance of energy.

Running a country exclusively on renewables comes with its own costs in storage and emergency solutions.
I’m not saying “go exclusively nuclear” either. Supplementing it with renewables should be done.

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It may not reduce the delta, but we gotta cover the base load somehow. Nuclear is ideal for that job.

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I don’t think 100% renewable is the way to go, given that energy output can vary.

And as long as any amount of fossil fuels are left in the energy supply chain, I’d rather they be replaced with nuclear. Even if it’s more expensive.

I’m not making the decision so it doesn’t matter.

Perhaps not directly, but assuming you live in a democracy your vote does matter.

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Or “donations”, “sponsorships”, and similar.

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Nokia doesn’t make smartphones either, they licensed their brand name to HMD Global.

(In case you might find that curious)

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I gave up after 14! Silly me.

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Add ?t=7m20s to your youtu.be links for timestamps.

youtu.be/wpJ41u9GN8Y?t=7m20s

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But regulations are bad, right? They impede the free market, right? Right?

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But they could’ve been much worse (cough Trump cough)

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Ya think?

Microsoft is scanning the inside of password-protected zip files for malware arstechnica.com/…/microsoft-is-scanning-the-insid…

There are probably more secure methods than a password protected zip file, but just so you know.

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I’unno, read the article.

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Genocide Joe that got overruled by congress when he did try to put a stop to it

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I really like Samsung’s phones and software, but I think my next phone will be a Sony.

It’s Android. It’s not Google or Chinese. It’s got a headphone jack.
The 4K screen feels overkill though.

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The 4K screen is specific to the Xperia 1 V. Though it seems the 1 VI has dropped it for 1080.

The Xperia 10 VI is a more budget version, still with a headphone jack.

I wouldn’t know about the ability to decline updates.

(The 1 is their premium model, the 10 budget. The Roman numerals are the generation.)

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Or Firefox with add-ons (on Android) instead of the browser from some crypto bro

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ublock origin

A study finds Indonesia’s deforested land is often left idle. But some see potential in that (apnews.com)

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Years after being felled, vast swathes of Indonesia’s old-growth forests are left sitting idle. And when the land is finally put to use, it’s most often for new palm oil plantations, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....

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“Some years” is a bit of an understatement for old growth forests. I still very much agree.

Trump's Camp Says It Has Nothing to Do With Project 2025 Manifesto -- Aside From Writing It (theintercept.com)

The Trump campaign attempted to distance itself from the conservative Project 2025 playbook on Friday. Despite significant overlap between Project 2025 personnel and staffers from former president Donald Trump’s administration and campaign, Trump issued a statement saying he had “no idea who is behind” the project....

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That’s also how it goes for some of the violent attacks. They drive people mad with dogma, but when one does snap they claim they couldn’t have known.

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Try rubbing the base segment of your index finger with your thumb for any length of time, it quickly becomes unpleasant.

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But giving money to starving children would be communism!

Giving it to corporations is, uh, well, you see, a good thing. Surely.

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It’s a bit unconventional, but I really like Niagara.

It’s got a pull-up gesture to search– not just apps but also shortcuts and contacts. Everything on the “main” screen still shows up in the app list too.

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I paid for lifetime years ago, it’s been worth it for me.

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shows who they are.

A corporation. And when corporations have to make a choice, profit will always come first.

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Note that the anon user is able to become root without password by default, as a development convenience.
(-) To prevent this, remove anon from the wheel group and he will no longer be able to run /bin/su.
(+) To prevent this, remove anon from the wheel group and they will no longer be able to run /bin/su.

“It” does seem like the way to go here, as it is referring to a built-in “anon” user account (best as I can tell).

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Spirit was formed when Boeing sold its Wichita division to investment firm Onex Corporation in 2005.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_AeroSystems#History

Lol

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By then it’ll be unfortunately too late, with laws and policies that might take decades to undo.

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But how does the EGS exist?

Because they are able to subsidize it with investor as well as Fortnite money. I doubt it’s turned a profit for them.

Wouldn’t exactly call that “viable competition”

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Please save, and put your money in the bank.

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I’m saying that the banks, who appear to be struggling, would like you to save your money by putting it in their system. So they may use it.

I’m not making any other judgement.

That said, no clue where the person I replied to got their apparent quote from, as it does not appear in the article itself.

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I believe the issue moreso is the lack of (funding for) maintenance.

A heatwave like this will exacerbate smaller issues, which could’ve been prevented.

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Microsoft is having its IBM moment

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How is that ironic?

You didn’t purchase a “HowToGeek” licence, I imagine. Nor was one included with your PC.

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“iT’s NoT nAtUrAL”

Prosecutors say Alec Baldwin was ‘engaged in horseplay’ with gun before fatal shooting (www.theguardian.com)

Fewer than three weeks before actor Alec Baldwin is due to go on trial in Santa Fe, New Mexico, prosecutors have said that he “engaged in horseplay with the revolver”, including firing a blank round at a crew member on the set of Rust before the tragic accident occurred....

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I mean, cool idea, but that would severely limit the available choices for types of firearms.

Dev of cancelled Life By You game shares some information, including just two weeks notice of cancellation after being given the thumbs-up a few weeks prior (www.linkedin.com)

I cannot share specific numbers, but I can say that we had an internal metric we were aiming for that had been approved, and that we exceeded that number by a significant portion. We also got a thumbs up a few weeks before launch.

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Disastrous, unoptimized launch. Paid DLC whilst the game was still full of performance issues (DLC which was later made free, after outcry. But their hand was shown).

Probably much more, but those are the two big things I remember.

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Ah yes, very interesting results when the “experiment” was rigged:

The participants in the experiment, who were male college students, didn’t just organically become abusive guards, reporter Ben Blum wrote in Medium. Rather, Philip Zimbardo, who led the experiment and is now a professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University, encouraged the guards to act “tough,” according to newfound audio from the Stanford archive.

livescience.com/62832-stanford-prison-experiment-…

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TL;DR:

Team GB long claimed Lloyd Hildebrand’s silver medal, but because the British citizen competed under French colors, his win is now being credited to France.

Some additional info:

The International Olympic Committee agreed this week to reassign credit for Lloyd Hildebrand’s silver medal in the men’s cycling 25 km race at the 1900 Olympics from Britain to France.

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A French historian recently raised Hildebrand’s case to the International Olympic Committee, saying the athlete lived nearly his entire life in France and was closely tied to a sports club there – and not to one in Britain.

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Non Google amp link: www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53212685

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Science is very much an art in and of itself; breaking ground and figuring out how to set up a new process/experiment doesn’t come from thin air.

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