Can't say I'm impressed by the calibre of the reporting...
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Can't say I'm impressed by the calibre of the reporting...
How so like his hero, Donald...
Gor-ian Dray...
Not to be confused with "Little Fuzzy". The Fuzzies did themselves have a kitten when they turned up in court...
I've been using software tools that writes code for *decades*. They're called "compilers". The level of skill required to use them efficiently is high...
I think the original "Astrid" (in French) was better.
Politics today is less driven by ideological conviction and more by parties chasing votes based on a distorted picture of public opinion, one filtered through algorithms that amplify emotionally engaging content. This incentivises performance over substance and erodes democratic deliberation.
If the law allowed the court to rule perversely, the law is perverse.
The government should not be allowed to overturn a Supreme Court ruling; if it could an essential defence for all of us would be gone. What a government can and should do is ammend the law so that the courts have no option but to do the right thing. /
I wonder if a photo of my ARM2-powered computer might help demonstrate age... 👨🦳
Likewise!
Absolutely. No cellphone? No laptop or tablet? WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO HIDE!
I really don't understand why you can't buy an all-electric car with an optional petrol engine in a trailer for longer trips.
Plus the still to be discovers losses from the data theft.
Lizzie Borden at the Department of Corrections...
One of the traditional British values is "live and let live". There's a minority who no longer follow that traditional value. Their attitudes are overturning traditional social norms and those norms are worth conserving.
See Todos Santos in the SF novel "Oath of Fealty".
And the single most damning thing you can do is probably to try to enter the US *without* any electronics to search.
UK.
Yet another good reason to get our use of gas to generate electricity down to zero.
Will the searchable list include which local bookshops stock each book?
I'm a professional pessimist, so I'd predict a pact between them where Miller runs the US internally and Vance runs foreign policy and screws the rest of the world.
How many methods did they cover?
IANAL either.
a "derivative work" because this will make a big difference to any penalties. IMHO.
and used to generate the answers. In one sense at least the digested data is searched to inform the answer. But it's not searching the original texts. I think there will be a very hard fought legal case, or cases, to determine if what I've been calling the "digested" data is, in copyright terms, 2/
From how I understand most of the GenAIs work, and I am most definitely NOT an expert, the training process consists of "reading" the training data and getting it into a form that can be more easily and cheaply used to generate answers. This digested form gets matched against the user questions 1/
Yes.
You had me with the first nine words...
Shallow draught vessels intended to operate in shallow waters. It's all in the name. But why did the US want them? Where is there such an environment they might want to use such ships? I suspect the South China Sea is a front runner for this question.
I can't get rid of the feeling that the LTS designs are really intended for use in the South China Sea.
Ah. Must have been forward planning to get more water for their submarines to operate...
Reform Ltd...
Perhaps the UN should move HQ. Perhaps to somewhere where the necessary construction would be helpful. Like Gaza.
Wasn't there an incident some months ago where a US armoured vehicle on exercise in one of the Baltic States sank in a Bog, killing the crew?
...on the condition that it is displayed in the space currently occupied by the "Elgin Marbles"...
It isn't "efficient" but it is "businesslike"...
Looks like a Strandbeest...
Delete the app. If you must keep a Facebook presence to keep in touch with people who matter to you, use it via a Web browser with good isolation. Just one example, Firefox has a plugin to help with this.
Well, the captain probably is...
Reasonable to have your face/fingerprint/retina/whatever unlock your 'phone BUT NOT AS THE ONLY THING NEEDED. You need a factor that you *know* AS WELL. We use MFA for computers and our 'phones often contain *more* sensitive data than our conventional computers.
Exactly. Submarine doctrine these days is *all* about not being detected. If you're detected you can be found. If you're found you can be killed. This *is* a confrontation. But a PsyOp confrontation, not a kinetic one.
It's good practice for our crews. Sends multiple messages to the Russians, especially when their crew tells other submariners how it felt. It's a PsyOp.
But good style is acceptable very nearly everywhere.
The UK is a multi-cultural society these days, so it will depend on which sub-culture has organised the event. Then there's all the reactionaries and *their* sub-cultures (if you can use the word culture in those contexts). It really does depend a lot on the nature of the event. /
A drama is necessarily telling a story, and telling it to an audience. There has to be at least one character who acts as an interlocutor between the audience and the mind-set of the characters in the drama. This character cannot be historically accurate... Could use a narrator, but...
There were normally two Consuls in office for a year and one could contermand the other. A Dictator could not be countermanded. "What he said, happened."
The origin of the word is an office used in times of emergency in the Roman Republic. A Dictator was appointed BT the Senate *for a fixed term* and would give up the office at the end of the term. Terms were usually something like 3 to 6 months. /
I find it hard to choose between this and Cheese Rolling.
Wales recently held the 37th annual World Championship Bog Snorkling Championship.
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
Is it the Red October?
I was furious, incandescent even. All that guff about features that "changed the way we used computers" in Windows 95 that had been in British mass market computers for over 5 years.
It'll be a ship show...
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*Please* don't forget the WD40...
Especially given the dates they were written.
Interesting variant here in the "Lensman" stories by E.E.Snith. there was an inertialess drive for speed but the ISM was still a factor leading to teardrop-shaped ships to reduce drag. And you could save time by going above or below the galactic plane for thinner ISM.
*This* version might actually improve things...
And Mr Musk will sponsor it...
It'll be a ship show...
The Quakers are doing exactly what all public services are legally allowed to do even if the EHRC wants to pretend they're not: say gender-based toilets are inclusive and for anyone bothered by that as a matter of belief, there are stand-alone cubicles that they are very free to use. 1/
Exactly. But it seems very likely we've already had diplomatic pressure over the Apple order. Given the "free speech absolutism" prevelant in the US and the political alignments between the two companies and the current US administration, I expect more.
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
and the same for the majority of the UK "Media" that currently seem to be filled with nothing but Reform Ltd advertising.
And that's when it gets *really* interesting, especially with the way things are at the moment with the Apple encryption order. There's the possibility of political ("diplomatic") pressure from the US, political bitching from Reform Ltd (for restricting their "free speech") 1/
I'd had the impression that in the "Dark Ages" at least the manuscripts were Illuminated!
Yet another way of SWATting someone...
I was wondering when that would happen! 💥
Fascinating. Thank you.
Until a Rethuglican Representative’s or Senator’s child’s private school is hit by gun violence, don’t expect them to abandon their NRA A+Rating. They sucked limp cock for those donations, and will be damned if someone else’s loss is going to cost them millions.
I have a paper copy of "1066 and All That", and use it to periodically remind myself that "The Pedants are Revolting"... Thanks for the condiment.
Not even Hungarians? But perhaps Canadians, Australians, Kiwis.
Totally agree. I maintain that the importance of the education market to Acorn and the software ecosystem around them lead to clean applications, because that cleanliness helped teachers use the software in class.
Arguably the *original* OS for the ARM 2 was "Arthur". Yes, I had one... ARM processors have gradually acquired more and more features and special hardware speedups. I love the clean architecture of the originals, say ARM 2 to 6 or 7.
The EU is probably starting to feel glad about Brexit now. Means they've only got Hungary to deal with.
It's taking the opportunity to practice "Policing your brass"...
Presumably The Onion?
I'm in the UK and I don't like the law that has recently come into effect. I think it will have some benefits but considerably greater harms. I think it would have been much more productive to simply block bad actors like 4chan and Kiwi Farms directly. And especially X.
Hmmm... Is it known yet it Republicans just didn't vote, or if they positively switched sides?
And as we've seen in the US even a system that's *supposed* to have checks and balances they may not always work. OTOH we do have some constraints that may not be readily apparent. The Civil Service *might* Do the Right Thing. But given the way the "Media" have been corrupted I wouldn't bet on it.
Hmmm... Is there a known distribution for the ratio of central black hole mass to total galaxy mass against (say) total galaxy mass? (And I don't mean visible galaxy mass.) Just mildly curious...
There will be a stream of hot air moving from Downe in Kent towards Westminster.
Absolutely. Not just the company, but the individuals. Both the company and the individuals.
If it hadn't been included in Catholicism I'd have suggested the Jesuits for 'Nerd's.
Just think for a moment -- should we really be trying to add fuel to the flames?
I seem to recall Mussolini himself making a comment about this being a more appropriate description than fascism.
If this isn't stopped, and soon, many of us are gonna die in the camps. #politics #fascism
Ah, but *which* Russians? The government? If so, which part? The Oligarchs? If so, which faction?
Look like an American Football player, or maybe a Cricket batsman.
Thinking he'd like to be the magnate of magnets...
And then there's the changing uses for the red, blue, and white ensign...
Most countries would treat this history as a legitimate cause for a claim for political asylum. Not so sure about the UK. And I wouldn't recommend the UK for a trans person at the moment anyway.
Hmmm... Could all or most of the blue state govoners send National Guard detachments to DC, which isn't a state? At the same time?