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patall··on Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton
I see. So it is much less about 150 year old fiction books, but more about 1980s science literature that was only ever printed five times. That makes a lot more sense than what the public debate seems to be about.
patall··on Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton
Can someone explain why the old books could really be relevant. I get the pre-nuclear steel analogy, but why is this relevant given how much more modern texts exist. A few years ago, millions of yahoo groups were erased but now a few thousand books are what is needed to run a successful AI company? I mean, it can barely be about the information in those books (that would be very often outdated), but just for a little more text (with ever less marginal gain), what is the benefit?
patall··on A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found
The article seems to be free for me (with adblock?). Also, the link does not work.
patall··on An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations
Australian magpies aren't corvids either
patall··on An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations
Australian magpies are not really related to the crow familie (which includes magpie).

And, from my experience, don't atteack random people but those that got to close to their nest. Whatever their definition of close is.

patall··on Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027
The comment that I was replying to was suggesting (to me) to live in sweden without mobile bankid (centralized 'banking' 2FA app on smartphone). I have here listed services that require said mobile bankid. Mobile bankid works for me and others on graphene os, but would likely not work on an arbitrary linux smartphone.
patall··on Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027
@fsflover: and my mobile phone provider. And my insurance. And my eletricity provider. And my housing associations customer portal. Getting doctors appointments. Mortgage. Union. National retirement savings account. Some of these may have some alternative left, but far too many you will be left out.

Well, I can buy a train ticket without it, so I could still leave.

patall··on Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027
Maybe that is possible in Germany. It is impossible here in Sweden.

Or in other words: of course you can have mobile bankid without a smartphone, just use a tablet computer ;)

patall··on Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time
Who are those people that kept coal running but claim climate change is a priority? Because they are not the german green party, that much I know.
patall··on Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time
And Europe would be in even bigger black-out trouble right now as half of those 20 GW of nuclear power would not be running due to missing cooling water, just like is the case in the other European countries.

The german green part certainly isn't perfect, but they had a plan. A plan that included far more renewable energies than currently build. The ones that orchestrated the ultimate end of nuclear energy while shutting down build up of renewables are the conservatives. Blaming someone for a half executed plan is childish. Especially when it is from a party that supposedly had economic competence yet killed tens of thousands of jobs.

patall··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
The same is, as far as I can grasp it, true for butter, bread, milk and eggs. Only there, it is already established.
patall··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
I assume, ultimately western nations will have to adopt what already exists for agricultural goods for production as well. I am afraid it will end as a per-worker subsidy analog to per-area-of-land for lack of a better metric but in the end, that is what will be necessary if one wants to keep any industrial capabilities.
patall··on Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries
One might argue that this is one of the reason why the EU is getting flak: because it sets up regulations that lower some companies profit.
patall··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
Snarky answer: It's simple, they are just going to build the final storage on the border to Germany. Then it will be their problem when it starts leaking.
patall··on Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player
Do you have info on that? All the internet tells me that there is a tracking station there, no spaceport. And if one wanted to use a local spaceport, I suppose the Norwegian one would be close enough.
patall··on Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player
Other articles write that they are (the one satellite so far) launching with Falcon9 from Vandenberg.
patall··on Arena AI Model ELO History
Wouldn't it be really weird if a open-weight model dropped in performance? Because then, it would rather be the Elo ranking
patall··on Googlebook
Communication wise, the whole thing (4a in my case, but the others seemed similar) was a disaster. But they offered to fix it for free (via battery swap)
patall··on Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents
Spammers are probably not targeting you. Like the obvious comma and spelling mistakes in spam emails that are there to weed out the smart people that are much harder to scam, this also serves as a filter to get only the most vulnerable people.
patall··on Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge
People speaking languages other than English.
patall··on If America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad?
It also helps that America just made fuel more expensive, making walkability, bikeability and short distances in general more lucrative.
patall··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
My Pixel 4a would also still be fine. If Google had not killed the battery. I think by now Google has asked (=paid) people to swap batteries on at least 3 different Pixel phones.
patall··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Given that probably one in twenty people you'd meet would have between 5 and 10% of battery left: probably most of those.

(and yes, I know that power banks exist)

patall··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
I know plenty. But not among the 18-20 year olds that do not know it any different, sure. But certainly my grandpa. Just thinking that you do not need a power-bank and just bring an extra battery on a longer trip will get millions of people interested.
patall··on Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy
By that definition, hydroelectric dams are not a renewable energy source for most of the year.
patall··on Solar is winning the energy race
It depends on how much generation you expect to 'waste'. Many plans are targetting a lot more generation than demand, with numbers sometimes stated as 300% generation potential for solar plus wind.
patall··on Solar is winning the energy race
Why is that always posted without stating the magnitude of the effect? The numbers that you find online are around 15% relative loss at 60°C vs. 25°C panel temperatur (I remember a HN comment reporting 12% comparing peak April to peak July). That is significant, but not world changing, especially for AC.
patall··on Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)
I am afraid, there are far bigger confounders than that (which they supposedly correct for): you absolutely cannot be a taxi driver if you experience short term memory loss. So those people may have changed profession at a faster rate than say kindergarden teachers or bakers. Tbf. GPS somewhat changed that but with GPS, the spatial information thing makes less sense.
patall··on Treason in the Futures Markets
Maybe a naive question: those transactions are traceable. But we assume this admin will not turn itself in. However, such transactions in other nations would be investigated. Are there cases of similar transactions before the US presidents tweets in i.e. Europe?
patall··on Treason in the Futures Markets
So, who is paying the bill here? I am assuming the insider trading itself is zero-sum (its obviously different if what's happing happens only to allow insider trading) and while some (like passive investors like me that buy every month) win a bit, others lose a bit, someone loses big on the futures market. Is that the high frequency and quant traders? Because I assume, someone must be really mad? Especially since, and I again 'assume', that there must be easier and less public ways to bribe the admin
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