what is the problem with that? all major cloud providers have data centers all over the world; worst case Amazon spins their EU centres into an independently overseen sub

well, you got your answer now

that's the thing of course -- at least the bullet point version of her CV is pretty liberal

yeah; but I suppose if Die Linke insist on debt brake they are somewhat not credible

Wagenknecht 4.972%....

me hitting refresh all the time

There is still time to go to the

SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE protest in London on Saturday starting at 12 noon.

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do we have the source code? we don’t for the F35 I believe. in other words — do we believe the American if they tell us we can use our nukes as we like

the related question being — what is the value of the UK deterrent in a world where US is no longer on our side. do they have an override?

works better though when there is no path dependency of the outcome….

read it end to end presumably

Did Lime switch to bike tyres ‘less suitable for London's roads’? The company denies the change to cheaper Chinese tyres on its e-bikes was a cost-cutting measure, as more Londoners come forward with severe injuries.

Imagine a revolutionary method of transport which offers so many benefits but where the appropriate level of safety and vehicle maintenance is decided by Californian tech investors who are seeking rapid financial growth.

Let’s talk about Lime in London!

www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-ebike...

I suppose we disagree on the definition of rich. I would suggest something like “top 1pc” and your definition allows for maybe 1000 rich people in the world

if you can donate 250m to the Trump campaign you are rich. he may or may not be the richest person in the world or not even super rich, whatever that means. but he definitely is rich in any meaningful sense of the word.

pineapple missing

that means that 29% of people are stupid. because if there is one thing he definitely is it is rich.

computer was running a bit warm recently and did not have that before which is why I was checking...

What exactly is Perplexity doing on my computer? mining bitcoin? training new models?

a drawing of a usb cable being plugged into a laptop ALT: a drawing of a usb cable being plugged into a laptop

you like the miles vs kilometres discourse? you like Celsius vs Fahrenheit?

Just for you, a new discourse just dropped:

USB-C MANDATORY OR NOT

probably someone allocated the CO2 of the present production to the day….

what about Taitos? is this like the Eurodollar market?

Reason I am saying this: Substack seems to have clinched some TikTok stars. It will be a massive boost for the platform but some are saying they would rather leave than share the platform with such riff raff. 2/

Mr Eigen disagrees

> The tutor supportsively comments and inquires about the rest of the student's day,

Huh, is "supportsively" a word? This sentence is generated by ChatGPT!

How not to communicate numbers. Why use “blue whales” as your unit of weight for carbon? Why not say “roughly equivalent to driving all the way round the earth 100 times”?

that's not adjusted for working hours, no?

What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. | Quanta Magazine Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world th...

“‘The time of physics is, ultimately, the expression of our ignorance of the world,’ Rovelli wrote. Ignorance composes our reality.”

(Zack Savitsky, “What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know,” @quantamagazine.bsky.social, Dec. 13, 2024)

www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entr...

sounds like a good deal

I asked ChatGPT to make an image of two bots in conversation and it made a creepy mansplaining image. What does it tell us about its training data?