wewbull
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- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 4 days ago:
As a shareholder he has no say in that. The company directors say how much dividend is paid, and he is no longer one of them.
- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 4 days ago:
Only in the form of dividends, if brewdog pays them.
- Comment on Norwich restaurant charges £100 for a pineapple pizza 5 days ago:
Seems like it really should be down at number 8.
- Comment on S̵̢̡̠̣̜͍̘͍̈́̿͒̈̎̉͌͂̎̾̓Ḩ̶̡̛̯̰̤̻͖̹̝̼͍͔̰̃̅̋̍̈̆̋̋́̔͝Ǫ̴̺͔̫͈͉͎̤͎͗͂̅͒̀͒W̶̛͖̺̰̠̙̲̓͆̋̉̌̆̂͛̀̒̕͘ ̷̨̦̤̇̀̓̉́̅͒̄͝M̶͓̗͚̩̬͈͎͗̓̈́́͜͜Ẹ̵̢̢̺̞͓͓̤͙̙͖̈́̈̉͝ ̶̧̡̲̺͓̮̰̘̮͚͉̝͈̝̀͒́̎̾̓͜͝͝͠T̷̡̟̘̫͋͋̑͊̓͐̊̐̎H̸̪̋͛̓̀̍̂̐̂͐̾̈́̒̃É̵̛̾̅̀͛̃̄̏ 5 days ago:
This is particularly applicable around downed power cables. Do NOT approach.
For example: in LA right now
- Comment on Firms to raise prices due to tax and wage increases 1 week ago:
“Firms” here is very non specific. How many of those surveyed are consumer facing?
- Comment on "It seems likely Elon Musk has lost over half of the UK twitter daily audience by now" 2 weeks ago:
If you want a good example of the damage echo chambers can do, look at the democrat performance in last year’s election. To get people to vote for you you have to listen and respond to their concerns.
You may not agree with their proposed solutions, but you can’t ignore whole segments of society.
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 2 weeks ago:
I think he’s more a K man.
- Comment on IEEE 754 2 weeks ago:
No exponent, or at least a common fixed exponent. The technique is called “fixed point” as opposed to “floating point”. The rationale is always to have a known level of precision.
- Comment on IEEE 754 2 weeks ago:
Knowing not to use floating point with money is good use of that knowledge.
- Comment on Wallace & Gromit fans appalled by the AI upscaling on new 4K UHD release 4 weeks ago:
Looking at the output quality and critically assessing it to be bad is not reactionary.
Saying the output is bad for no other reason that it’s generated by AI is reactionary.
- Comment on I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 4 weeks ago:
1 is always 1. It’s $1 × b^0$ where b is the base.
10 is the base. $1 × b^1 + 0 × b^0$
- Comment on nuclear 4 weeks ago:
Yes, as I live in neither.
- Comment on nuclear 4 weeks ago:
I think you misunderstood what was written:
The Katsurao village official said about 337 square kilometers of land in seven Fukushima municipalities are deemed “difficult-to-return” zones. Of those, just 27 square kilometers in six of the same municipalities are specified reconstruction zones.
27 km² are the worst areas. The other 310km² are still “difficult-to-return”.
- Comment on nuclear 4 weeks ago:
At what point am I supporting coal? Totally irrelevant
I’m saying Fukushima was an ecological disaster. Thankfully very few people died, but to only focus on that minimises the impact of the event. If you’re going to say Fukushima wasn’t that bad, you can’t just cherry pick at the impacts.
Is nuclear better than fossil fuels? Yes. But that was an argument for the 80s. The time for nuclear was 50 years ago. It didn’t happen.
- Comment on nuclear 4 weeks ago:
They need cooling water, so “on the coast” is a reasonable location. Or do you mean “not in Japan”? A country without many great options for clean energy generation. Frankly Japan is one of the places nuclear makes sense to me. There’s not many options.
It doesn’t make sense to me in the US where there’s a sunshine belt across the country 5 timezones long, large windswept plains and shallow coastlines. The US is rich in options and nuclear falls down the list.
- Comment on nuclear 5 weeks ago:
There was still 164,000 people who needed to evacuate 230 square miles. The land is contaminated and cleanup is proving difficult. Japan will be dealing with the environmental impact for a century I’d wager.
- Comment on NatWest to hike chief's pay as bank returns to full private ownership 5 weeks ago:
If true then something is fishy.
The company was in trouble, so the initial investment should have been at a good price. The company has now recovered, and the states investment should have grown with it.
How do you make a 20% loss on that?
- Comment on NatWest to hike chief's pay as bank returns to full private ownership 5 weeks ago:
So my question is, how much did the state invest and what was the return on that investment (index linked)?
I’m sure NatWest are very happy not to be partly owned by the state.
- Comment on British Army successfully tests new drone-destroying laser 5 weeks ago:
Unlike conventional munitions, laser weapons are virtually limitless in terms of ammunition supply,
We have trucks with limitless energy!
- Comment on Percentages 1 month ago:
In a thread about being clear in mathematics…
- Comment on Percentages 1 month ago:
Convert percentage to fraction, i.e, 80% become 0.8
That’s not a fraction.
⅘ is a fraction.
- Comment on billions & billions 1 month ago:
Why would it bankrupt them when they were never going to the moon?
At least, that’s what some people seem to believe.
- Comment on billions & billions 1 month ago:
Elon on top of a super-heavy. He can be like Solomon Epstein.
- Comment on billions & billions 1 month ago:
The whole thing was about national pride on both sides. The soviets didn’t admit they were striving for the same thing because they never wanted to be seen to lose. Their pattern was always the same:
- They didn’t say they were working towards having the first satellite. They just announced it when they were successfully.
- They didn’t say they were working towards having the first living animal in space. They just announced it when they were successfully.
- They didn’t say they were working towards having the first man in space. They just announced it when they were successfully.
- They didn’t say they were working towards having the first man on the moon. They just denied it when they were unsuccessful.
However, the Soviet lunar program was confirmed many years after the fact under Gorbachev’s policy of Glastnost when the Soviet Union fell. The Soviet Lunar program is fact. Their lunar landers were built just months after the US. Some still exist. There’s one on loan for display at Disneyland in Paris. I’ve seen another at the London Science Museum. Russia loans them out to show how advanced they were at the time. To take pride in what they accomplished, and rightly so.
This is all very public, yet you’re trying to convince me that 50yo face saving propaganda is the truth?
- Comment on billions & billions 1 month ago:
Your point of view is 83 billion years out of date.
…but I like the meme.
- Comment on billions & billions 1 month ago:
You don’t need anything that powerful for earth orbit. Salut and Mir launched on much less ambitious rockets. They became the focus after the moon race was decided.
The N1-L3 version was designed to compete with the United States Apollo program to land a person on the Moon, using a similar lunar orbit rendezvous method. The basic N1 launch vehicle had three stages, which were to carry the L3 lunar payload into low Earth orbit with two cosmonauts. The L3 contained one stage for trans-lunar injection; another stage used for mid-course corrections, lunar orbit insertion, and the first part of the descent to the lunar surface; a single-pilot LK Lander spacecraft; and a two-pilot Soyuz 7K-LOK lunar orbital spacecraft for return to Earth.
You build an N1 or Saturn V to go to the moon.
Had the N1 launched without incident, the Soviets were on target to get a man on the moon first. When the Soviet Union fell all the details of the program became available.
- Comment on billions & billions 1 month ago:
They are not moving faster than light.
The distance between us and them is increasing at a rate than means light leaving earth now could not ever reach them. Such is the impact of an expanding universe.
- Comment on billions & billions 1 month ago:
Impressive rewriting of history.
I guess the N1 was never built, right?
- Comment on Introducing Amuse 2.2 Beta: With Stable Diffusion 3.5 Support and AMD Ryzen™ AI Image Quality Update 1 month ago:
Following links, 3 websites later, Windows exe. RX 7900 XTX only (from the consumer card line).
Come on AMD
- You need to support developers. This field is moving too fast for binary blobs in partnership with some other company.
- You need to support them on your whole consumer line. Developers don’t have arrays of “professional” GPUs waiting to spin up whilst they bash out code. They’re on a machine with a single consumer GPU that they can trial code on. Might not even be a high end one.
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 2 months ago:
Not so much that period, but the late 30s - early 40s.
