direwolf20

Country-wise it's risky to block the entire internet when football is on.

What happens if the operating company can't pay the debt? The bank repossesses the facility. Now what does the bank do with a solar facility? Does it (A) let it rot, losing massive value, (B) run a bulldozer through it, destroying massive value or (C) find a way to operate it, receiving profit from doing so?

Nuclear takes a week to restart after a shutdown, due to xenon poisoning. It's not reliable base load.

Mythos was also asked to find a vulnerability in one file, in turn for each file. Maybe the small model needs to be asked about each function instead of each file. Okay, you can still automate that.

If you used a username, you wouldn't have this problem. As it stands, signing up someone else's address for a lot of sites to spam them with confirmations is already an attack vector that's used in the wild. And that's legitimate spam and should be reported as spam and sites that do this are spam amplifiers.

Cloudflare has nothing to do with it. Actually you should further insist on using Cloudflare in Spain to increase the collateral cost of this ridiculous government decision as much as possible. Make it so not a single website works during football, and see if the government changes their tune.

And after a hundred generations of this there will be no fusible material left. We can extract energy from rotating black holes until they stop, and then the universe is dead.

They are blessed with all three of hydro, geothermal, and wind.

And this is an expected problem with renewables that can be engineered around. It's unlikely the whole world has a drought at once during a calm night, so developing ways to transmit power long distances will be important.

Yeah. Because they're 14 and don't have a credit card, or they don't have any money, or the price is completely unaffordable (looking at you, IDA) or they hate your software and wish your company would DIAF but are forced to use it for various reasons anyway.

You might as well be nice to the people who will give you money, so that they'll give you money. Being hostile to people who are trying to give you money is rarely a winning business strategy.

And I would definitely mark these emails as spam. When a company sends me emails I don't want, I mark them as spam. I don't care about the technical rules or if you tricked me into wherein. If it's unwanted non-transactional email, it's spam and you deserve to be kicked off the global email network. You may think you're sending only one email a week so you're fine. Cool, well my inbox gets one "technically compliant" spam email per hour and you have equal responsibility to all the rest of them.

The most important question is how to prevent the starving workers from banding together and attacking the dragon hoards of food and other wealth. I think the plan is automated drones with machine guns, and mass surveillance from Flock and Ring to determine who to target. Requiring ID for all online interaction will also improve targeting accuracy as we'll be able to target them based on their social media posts. Robot dogs from Boston Dynamics (armed with machine guns) are a secondary enforcement mechanism indoors in places drones can't reach. So they're working on it, and they have been for a while.

I think hard drugs being legal would greatly increase the amount of responsible consumption. Methamphetamine used to be purchaseable from any pharmacy over the counter in the US, and there was not a meth crisis at that time. Now there is.

This is still routinely done to avoid ethanol taxes. It's called "denatured alcohol". Ethanol that has been poisoned is not considered drinkable alcohol, so not subject to the taxes on drinkable alcohol.

IIRC TCP/IP through localhost actually benchmarked faster than Unix sockets because it was optimized harder. Might've been fixed now. Unix sockets gives you the advantage of authentication based on the user ID of who's connecting.

My experience with sqlite for server-based apps has been that as your app grows, you almost always eventually need something bigger than sqlite and need to migrate anyway. For a server-based app, where minimizing deployment complexity isn't an extremely important concern, and with mixed reads and writes, it's rarely a bad idea to use Postgres or MariaDB from the start. Yes there are niche scenarios where sqlite on the server might be better, but they're niche.

Yes it is. It plainly meets all the criteria in the definition iff AGPL meets them too.

Or SSPL, which extends AGPL with even more sharing requirements.

Have we just forgotten that there is more to computing than LLMs?

Most big planes can land themselves now - in calm weather, at least. It's done regularly when fog is worse than a certain point, because the necessary radio signals pass through the fog. Both the airport and the plane need certain equipment. The same navigation equipment is used on many manual approaches, but with a human in the loop.

It's not - it's much simpler. Drivers move in a 2D plane densely populated with cars and things that are not cars. Planes sparsely populate the sky by themselves. (There are birds too, but not that high up, and they're largely unavoidable in real-time anyway)

There's already semi-automated collision avoidance. If two planes are on a collision course, TCAS tells one plane to climb and another to descend. This works because outside of tightly managed scenarios like a holding stack, and planes shouldn't be anywhere near each other horizontally. There are no other planes above or below you (or anywhere nearby) and by fixing the directions as up and down, TCAS doesn't even have to calculate compass bearings that would work for avoidance.

That won't work since they'll still receive their bribes. Except for the ones who don't take bribes - they'll be punished for not taking bribes. Be careful what incentives you set up.

Now, if the rule was for them to have their bank accounts drained to zero (offshore bank accounts though)...

Actually what might work is locking them inside the government building until people are getting paid again. Some countries have rules like that in some scenarios.

Another one that might work is dissolving the government and calling an election. Many countries have that. If the governance structure can't pass a budget, operations continue according to the old budget while the entire governance structure gets fired and replaced.

I think they meant a CA that acted like Microsoft would be distrusted. Not a CA that acted like WireGuard would be distrusted.

Copyright infringement is triggered by the act of copying, not by having the same bytes.

And that's not an infringement. Actual copying is the infringement, not having the same code. The most likely way to have the same code is by copying, but it's not the only way.

Because the law doesn't say it can. It's that simple.

A "large scale decorative work" is the strangest euphemism for a dormant volcano I've ever heard.

Putting employees first is socialism. Putting owners first is capitalism.

It's not really distributed. It's a centralised service that pulls some parts of 0.01% of user profiles from their own servers.

Wouldn't comply with CIA backdoor requirements, but now they do ;)

Microsoft drove a truck through a school yard at 150mph. It was not a deliberate attack, it was just the fastest route and their map says there's a highway there. Is it malice?

A certain level of recklessness is automatically malice.

Malicious people are quite good at feigning incompetence.