alex_duf

I'm afraid it's too late for Mozilla. It's not in their mission anymore.

Not sure if you're aware but servo is currently funded by the linux foundation Europe. Not quite tax money, but European capital.

I agree, but since you don't know which part of the data is for validation and which one is for training, and since you can assume such a system will only accept data that makes consensus, you tend to only accept data that is valid. That's the beauty of it.

Also if a captcha solving farm ends up working on a project that is benefiting the world, it's still a net improvement over clicking a box that says "I'm not a robot", and an improvement over exclusively helping google with its OCR and image recognition.

That AI generated image at the top is so unnecessary... A regular photo of a Tesla would do the job just as well.

If I recall correctly, that's one of the well documented places where I had understood the fact that the concorde wasn't profitable, and would more or less never by in its current context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBvPue70l8

Which isn't to say Boom may not succeed.

The one thing I do not like about this approach is that the functor is being created as a part of the schema.

In other words, the schema carries the logic as well as the data. And from experience with mixing data and logic, is that it's a bad idea, especially if your team size > 1. You always end up having maintenance difficulties due to the fact that your app has a part of the logic, and now your DB too. So where's the bug? in the app? in the DB? usually it's a mixture of the two. Is it possible do it properly? yes probably, but I wouldn't recommend it.

So counter proposition: We use functors, but they are just another way of executing SQL requests. And at this point there's really no difference to creating the table without the foreign key checks.

I assume the question was about the questionable economics of running a super-sonic airplane profitably.

The Concorde was notorious for bleeding money.

Maybe the premium aspect will be enough, given that we have a bigger and bigger chasm between rich and poor, or maybe the economics of running it won't compete against sub-sonic, lower fuel consumption planes.

slight error in the article

>Here on Earth, creating hot plasma requires so much energy that Tokamaks didn’t verifiably make more energy than they consumed until a 2023 experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the USA.

It wasn't a tokamak as far as I know.

I don't think a single big donation is a good idea. We're so used to seeing extreme wealth we don't event question it.

Once a big donation is given, you get to wonder what sort of influence that person (willingly or not) has had on the project. A much better model is a large amount of small donations, the incentive becomes to serve the maximum amount of these people.

See also, Nabil Islam who left France in 2023, crossed Europe, Asia, Oceania, and currently crossing America north to South in a single bicycle trip.

Mastodon: https://masto.bike/@nabili Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/113690657

that was fun! It would be nice to show my colour next to the result to compare a little more.

>Problem solved?

It depends if the problem is the insurance or the climate

Because it helped influence elections

In France since the first of October you can't spoof a French phone number anymore. (Edit: at least with the existing ways of spoofing. I'm sure it's a matter of time before someone hacks an operator and signs their calls through them.) Anecdotally, I haven't had any spam call.

French link: https://www.fftelecoms.org/nos-travaux-et-champs-dactions/ca...

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The tech looks cool but I don't understand what problem it solves

yeah I had to google it

Maybe it's because i'm distorted by my profession but I like articles that describe facts in chronological order.

Here's it's as if there was a montage for an action movie with flashbacks and scenes and you're supposed to put the story back together

I have used it more than 10 years ago, and can confirm there's some horrible stuff on there. I didn't even have to search for it.

Needless to say I've turned it off swiftly. I don't know how it is today but I can recommend to stay away from it.

The section of the article that says "Now comes the bad news" actually sounds like a good news.

More pressure from banks, insurances and legislation to limit the development and usage of coal to produce electricity? I can understand there's going to be job losses, and that's never good, but for the benefit of the rest of the world it's a pretty good news. Finally a change in attitude towards carbon intensive energy production.

Replying to myself: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/14/china_quantum_attack/

This doesn't sound as dramatic as the original article might have implied, but a pretty significant advancement nonetheless.

Anyone has any other link on the topic? I realise this is fresh but it feels significant enough that coverage should be broad pretty quickly.

> Maybe it could be in the form of a web app. We’ll see.

I think this is, (and maybe always has been) the way forward.

With more and more languages being able to either compile down to js or even wasm, I feel like the bar might be a little lower than before.

The fact this can even work is completely wild.

I assume that even if you're extremely good at it, it's half a day of work. So I'm not sure about the economics of it once you include labour, rent, machine expenses etc...

Focusing on reducing emissions is important, but it's only the first step of the plan. If we want to be anywhere near the 2°C scenario, starting from 2050, we need to be sequestering carbon directly from the atmosphere.

So I'm okay with people spending a little effort on step 2 of the plan now, especially given that we don't have yet proven technology to realise it.

The actual electricity production and consumption of the UK is declining [0] The UK is also rapidly deploying renewables, and adding more and more interconnection to mainland Europe.

So as the capacity goes up the consumption goes down (for now). It's completely fair to decommission all coal plants.

I assume the energy consumption will go up at some point, as there's only so much you can save with energy efficiency, an delocalisation, and as we shift primary energy usage onto electricity (what's currently being imported in the form of gas and petrol).

But hopefully by this point the continued growth of production means will cover the increase

0: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/energy?tab=chart&countr...

in fairness dumping tons of anything should disrupt the grass.

> once I figured out how to stop the rodents

Any tips?

I understand it more as "it turns out composting tons of organic material makes the soil more fertile"

Which is far from a breaking news. I'm just curious about how composting this much agrumes didn't unbalance the soil's pH, but that they don't mention it at all in the article.