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The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) operates facilities in Chile because it offers good weather, good seeing, and it is in the Sout…

I was waiting for a conspiracy theory to be woven in there, and you didn’t disappoint.

Yes. That is indeed a total rumour.

I’m sure the Yuan will increase somewhat as a reserve currency, but I’m skeptical it will become dominant. China has systemic issues at the moment, with a working-age population th…

It’s the same in China. My wife’s family is from there, and they hand out antibiotics for everything. Everyone seems to have a stash of them as well. When my in-laws were visiting …

I’m not sure if this is the previous poster’s reason, but (given the implication that the poster is a vegetarian) it my simply be that many vegetarians are put off by the taste and…

I can’t even get Siri to reliably play a song or skip a track, let alone anything useful. Must be my accent. I’d hate to try to operate vehicle controls with the same hit-and-miss …

A few guys in my PhD office 15 years ago used to have a hobby of doing something similar. They’d invent a “fact”, spin up a webpage with that fact, add the fact to Wikipedia and ci…

If certain words (like “orange”) are statistically unlikely to be used in that context in that rhyme scheme, then they’re unlikely to be picked to begin with.

Previously generated words are added to the input token window. At the point it’s generating the next word, it knows what its preceding words were. With a conceptual representation…

I’m eagerly anticipating our company moving to Teams. Right now, the only approved chat solution is Skype for Business (with only plaintext messaging - rich text, files and images …

Even with double blind reviews, it’s often very clear who wrote the paper. Authors regularly cite work by themselves or their team, so a statement like “In a previous study[1] we e…

Just Rockbox. I’m using an iPod Video as well. Then I set up the bookmarking and startup settings to suit. It’s very customisable. I also generated “talk files” to voice the filena…

I have both a Walkman (for music) and an upgraded/rebuilt iPod (for audiobooks) and prefer them for a few reasons: - They don’t use any mobile data, and work when in a mobile-phone…

The pre-Android Sony Walkmans (like the NW-A55 mentioned above) have decent battery life. I typically get around 30 hours from my SONY NW-A45. In a world where many modern “audioph…

UK Consumer Contract law has a 14-day cancellation period. For digital goods, the legislation states: —— Under a contract for the supply of digital content not on a tangible medium…

That’s precisely the approach taken in studying the Mpemba effect, with wildly differing results. The article goes into the difficulties in analysing out-of-equilibrium systems (bo…

There’s definitely been a shift in tone in articles from the SCMP over the past five years. It used regularly provide highly critical coverage of both the Hong Kong and Chinese Gov…

It’s likely the FBI mentioned they had an app they could leverage, Australia noted that there was a gap in the local market after Phantom had been taken down, and the two agencies …

They covered themselves by ensuring that the devices could only be ordered after private referral from another user. All of whom were underworld figures (the devices were initially…

Europol: https://www.europol.europa.eu/

I’m sure he has no idea. This is far from the only encrypted messaging system out there.

Burnout is made worse when you take on too many complex interactions and dependencies. OSS works best when it’s a small project that does a single thing and does it well, but doesn…

It’s been running for three years. I suspect something changed recently (perhaps some imminent threat) that meant they needed to act now.

It’s bizarre, because news reports state that the entire app and monitoring system was created by the FBI and Australian Federal Police. If it’s their system, why would they need t…