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I guess there's always the risk for a rig failure. I looked a bit on doing the same, but came to the conclusion that it will be expensive to fulfil racing rules requiring the boat …

How the f are you supposed to type? Ideally I'd like full support for my arms from the elbow to the wrist. In my first job - i think it was in 1997, I had my own small room with an…

I'm actually impressed by the amount of abuse our Oracle instances are able take from our developers. Massive amounts of parallel single reads and writes with millisecond responses…

The etymology is interesting - Pebble Voting was used in the early democracies in Greece from 500 BC. Black pebbles meant 'no' and white meant 'yes'. The tradition evolved to the b…

We don't "need a global reset" It's an apocalyptical mind-bug. All times have an eschatology - ours seems to be climate collapse. It used to be nuclear war. The media is selling a …

The 150€ is a reservation on your debit card before filling up, since the banks or the station doesn't want the credit risk. It's released when the actual sum is booked. I think it…

My internet provider didn't even maintain the ip-address. They have a pool of egress routes and seems to route round-robin. Basically every new connection can be from any address i…

What's fast on Z platforms is typically IO rather than raw CPU - the platform can push a lot of parallell data. This is typically the bottleneck when compiling. The cores are in my…

It takes some of the fun out of imagining eternal digital life, doesn't it :-)

Will put it in my list :-)

In Sweden and I think Europe, there seems to be quite much product development in apples. I think one of the reasons is that storage seems to have been more or less perfected so th…

I think "MMAcevedo" basically nails it: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

I think that is Hofstadter grieving his wife, and reflecting on how we embed models or predictions of others in our own neural networks, more than anything else. We build models of…

I'm thinking that the slopocalypse is almost inevitable outside pure tech companies and can't be ruled out there either. LLMs are a force multiplier. Clueless people will be able t…

The truth is that there is a lot of hype. You need to be reasonably experienced and guide it. First, you need to know that Claude will create nonsensical code. On a macro level it'…

"... HBR found that companies are cutting [jobs] based on AI's potential, not its performance. I don't know who needs to hear this - a lot apparently - but the following three stat…

Good question. There seems to be strong lobbying for insects as human food, in particular from companies that would be happy feed us with their own shit as long as it's cheap and t…

I'm assuming they mean the old way of signing each others signatures. As a practical implementation of "six degrees of Kevin Bacon", you could get an organic trust chain to random …

Sometimes EU regulations isn't that bad. Poultry litter has been banned as cattle feed since 2001, partially due to mouth and foot disease and BSE and to some extent animal welfare…

I think that the important conclusion to make of this is that publicly available code is not created or even curated by humans anymore, and it will be fed back into data sets for t…

Old English looks more or less like old Norse to me. Or old Scandinavian as we say in Sweden...

They where supposed to do it quicker. I think there was a limit of something like 60 days. At least my bank apparently refused all transactions that were settled too late. I had a …

I once worked with translating an application to polish, and found out we had to have separate placeholders for "name" for persons (nazwisko) and for things (nazwa). Which is a sim…

I think the current estimate is that there are almost a half a billion more Christians than Muslims (in 2025.) One reason is that the number of Christians in Sub-Saharan Africa is …

This is like a really really fast VIC 20!