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We don't like to talk about it, but wind farms also have externalities. One of them is slowing down winds. Which, in turn, can decrease precipitation by 10–12% in coastal regions and more rain over the farms (at least around the North Sea).
We still need to switch to renewables; we just need to plan and account for these effects.
Vous êtes sur un escalier roulant. Comme il peut pleuvoir, vous avez un parapluie.
L'escalier se bloque. Un type arrive et dit, " forcément, vous êtes trop lourd, j'ai la solution, donnez moi votre parapluie, vous serez plus léger"
Vous donnez le parapluie.
L'escalier ne redémarre pas, vous finissez à pied.
Et quand vous sortez, vous êtes trempés.
Librement inspiré de " Le pouvoir d'achat stagne, j'ai la solution on va baisser les cotisations salariés"
T and I were also approached by a lady who said that T looked fabulous, and wanted to take a photo for the magazine she worked for. And she was right, T *did* look fabulous.
We're about 3/4 of the way down this page:
https://www.in-common.co.uk/2026/08/31/review-southampton-pride-2026/
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@inthehands @anildash yet again, I keep waiting for a corporation with the power of Apple to declare itself a sovereign nation state. That's basically what has to happen.
@codinghorror
It won't. Running a state is a cost. Corporations have to have a state to push costs onto.
Also it would become a dictatorship day zero.
…which won't hinder global recognition.
@RandamuMaki @CoMaps That's what I use! For the last year at least.
@somebody do you know how easy it is to do a symmetric cipher that splits and shuffles the input recursively. you don't need a key schedule at all and it can be incredibly efficient with each bit of randomness
@somebody idk. this idea seems so obvious that i would hope government comms are secured with something like this and not fucking AES with its fixed 128-bit block size. if they're not going to investigate the higher derivatives of discrete sequential tokens that's just more for me
@nicklockwood When they were making great software, they were doing pretty well!
@siracusa @nicklockwood The idea I have in my mind from that time is they never truly adapted themselves to MacOS X and couldn’t really survive the transition. But maybe there were different reasons for it and the move from classic MacOS to X just happened at the same time? I (well, my father…) still bought a lot of their software, it was great!
since i tried out a smaller keyboard a couple of years ago i found out about the compose key and it's just so good for multilingual input. no more worrying about where to put those umlauts or other special characters, it gives you access to such a wide alphabet on very little space and the mapping is quite intuitive, at least for the characters i use (e.g. o + / = ø)
https://tuttle.github.io/python-useful/compose-key-cheat-sheet.html
54 people, including 3 children, embarked the Louise Michel yesterday evening.
Our crew found an overcrowded, unseaworthy metal boat in distress. The people on it had no life-saving equipment and insufficient fuel and food.
Following first aid and the distribution of basics like food and blankets, the Louise Michel is now en route to its designated port of safety, Valentia.
No one should have to put themselves in danger in their search for a self-determined life. Freedom of movement for all!
Hard to want to celebrate labor day when I know all our grandparents and great grandparents who fought and died for labor rights would think we're all maggot collaborators. Kinda feels like "okay go have a little party but make sure you're back at the office by 7 AM sharp Cratchet!"
“For four minutes, heritage conservationist Udaya Kumar P L watched an AI agent wreak havoc on his computer. The agent was testing software it was developing and clearing the cache when “a quoting error in an AI-generated command turned the instruction into ‘delete everything’”. “When it understood and tried to kill the process, its safety system blocked the kill. Twice… The safety layer permitted the destruction,” Udaya wrote on X. A former IT professional, he eventually shut down the computer to prevent further loss.”
Good stuff, this agentic thing. #AI
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If you're banning teenagers from social media, aren't you just creating early twentysomethings with no social media ettiquette cus in their mind, the internet is somewhere you go to misbehave?
Similarly if you ban people from watching porn, aren't you just creating twentysomethings that have no idea how to behave around porn cus they are still in "teenager who knows they'll get in trouble with their parents unless they can blame it on someone else"-mode.
Reminds me a little of a meme I saw about USAmerican young adults starting to drink around the time european young adults decide to quit drinking. I don't think the meme is that accurate, like, factually, but general idea that if you're banning something for young people, all you're really doing is delaying them getting to figure out a healthy relationship with the thing to a later date.
One thing with having the website overloaded with bot traffic, is that a release or any other actual project news doesn't actually change the traffic pattern... 😎
@bagder Now even the signal looks like noise 💀
@somebody unsure if this helps. personally i am incredibly glad that LLMs literally don't do recurrence at all because i care SO MUCH about data integrity i think there is a path to taking advantage of that for unstructured finite-length byte streams. the reason i was thinking about this at all was because i have never seen a literal symmetric cipher proposed that makes use of global permutations
@somebody do you know how easy it is to do a symmetric cipher that splits and shuffles the input recursively. you don't need a key schedule at all and it can be incredibly efficient with each bit of randomness
The thing I love most about the US right's obsession with the Spartans, is that the Spartans weren't even good at war. They weren't. 🤷🏿♂️
They were obsessed with *battle*. But battle is not war. When you look at their war track record? They lost as much as they won against the poets, farmers and wine drinkers.🤡
Even their battle win loss record was 50/50, and only if you count battles where they fought as part of a coalition. When you look at battles where they fought alone? They lost more than they won.🤡
Why? A silly belief that they were superior, meant they didn't change tactics. They were predictable.
@mekkaokereke for real, their most famous battle is one where they lost but bought Athens time. they were history's greatest speed bump.
People don't run independent creative venues in Aotearoa to make money. They do it for the love, and they often sacrifice far more than most people realise to keep the doors open. If you've ever performed at or enjoyed a night at The Tron's iconic Nivara Lounge, or any other independent venue, here's your chance to give back;
https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/saving-the-heart-of-nzs-underground-lets-back-ivan
One thing that keeps me up at night is the progressive certainty that we as a society are slowly but surely losing our ability to be bad at things. We are ceding that skill to AI.
"You don't understand, without AI, I couldn't have drawn this/written this/designed this." says a person, certain that surely this, this argument right here is the nail in the coffin of the anti-AI argument. Utility: "Without this thing, I would have been bad at this task."
Yes. Correct. You would have been bad at it. And that's ok. Not only because it's just... Ok to be bad at things in general. But also because being bad at a thing is the first necessary step to learning how to do a thing.
Every musician you love has spent thousands of hours first being bad at being a musician. Every artist that brings you to tears has spent thousands of hours being bad at art. Every single designer with a master's degree in design has spent thousands upon thousands of hours designing things that are utter crap.
We learn how to do a thing by first being bad at it. And then noticing what skills we need to acquire to be better at it. And then honing those skills on a million failed attempts. And THEN we are finally good at doing it.
And being bad at things isn't just about learning how to do it yourself. It also teaches you how to listen more effectively to music. How to see art with the eyes of an artist. How to study a design for design flaws before it's even built. It teaches you good taste. How to perceive the humanity in the things all around you - things built by humans, for other humans.
No, the biggest problem with AI isn't that it makes bad art - although it most assuredly does also do that. It's that it robs human beings of the legitimacy of creating bad art ourselves.
How can anyone ever be expected to learn to do a thing if we can't ever be bad at it first?
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