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It depends what you are trying to do.

This maxim doesn't work for government, because they have to justify what they do because they are the ones trying to steer a country though very slack and unconnected reins.

The odd bit about the royals is that they are meant to be largely apolitical. They are supposed to be focused on charitable works, opening infrastructure and generally promoting togetherness.

This kinda worked because it meant that we don't have to pretend to like politicians. Great Britain (yes, not UK because its complex) gets to detach the pomp and circumstance from a political movement, allowing honours, events and occasions to largely be free of politics (despite honours being entirely political) This is why flag shaggers are so weird, its fine to like your country, but getting dressed up in a flag for anything other than sports or getting shitfaced is not the done thing. If you're gonna have a fight, at least do it over something tangible, like which ever football club your dad grew up near.

The bit that worked about the royals is that they were a mystery. We don't know who they really are (you rarely want to know everything about a person, because people are generally messy and ugly close up)

Frankly I don't want to know that harry and william fell out. I have no opinions on kate and megan. I am sure they are nice people, and moreover I couldnt give a fuck about what race one of them is, I'm not american, so why do I fucking care?

I just want posh grandad to say nice words to me at state occasions.

I also want that nonce andrew in jail.

ANYWAY

don't complain don't explain only works if you are only ever trying to bring people together. as soon as you trying to divide and conquer you have to explain.

We used them all the time for work.

If you get the crap ones, they will look crap.

However any of the midrange ones will be brighter than the equivalent consumer (they have to operate in full sun 24/7)

You will not find an oled though, because they have yet to be full duty cycle (well I've not looked, but if they do exist, they will be many monies.)

Get yourself a nice NEC 4k, you'll be happy. unless you want 8k (good luck finding a source for the 8k) or you really like the motion smoothing of poorly setup consumer TVs.

I used to work in VFX, and for our big bright displays in the office we used digital signage displays.

I started using them at home in about 2018, after my nice medium budget sony TV died in a way that I couldn't repair.

I currently have an old HD NEC 48" display attached to an apple TV, and a freeview recorder for broadcast (although 98% of TV is done via apple TV)

Pros:

the screen is bright and adjustable. You can, if you wish fiddle with the colours and brightness

The screen is designed for 24/7 duty cycle, so is built like a fucking tank

It has all the HDMI you would ever need, plus displayport compute module ports (if that floats your boat) you can also get an ethernet remote control module (never tried it so it might be shit)

Second hand, they are dirt cheap. on ebay there are a couple of them in various sizes for <£400

If you don't have a compute module, the screen isn't going to spy on you.

Cons:

they are just screens. you will need speakers

They are built like tanks, so are heavy and thick (they are not the 15mm thick OLED jobbies)

Second hand, they generally don't come with stands or remotes

On ebay at least, they are generally pickup only.

In terms of driving it, Apple TV >> anything else I have used, apart from maybe a humax. Amazon firestick is frustratingly slow/unreliable. They also break after a year or so. Yes the apple TV is probably 5x the price, but the time to playing a show is about 7 seconds, from first pressing the remote to wake everything, to navigating to the show I want.

everything else I have used is horribly slow in comparison.

I assume its because of the change in the official name from GB & UK to just UK only.

UK, but its the register, who's headline comes from a long tradition of taking the piss out of/mirroring the use of, puns from uk tabloids.

I'm not sure what the laws are like in the USA I assume they are similar to elsewhere.

However I think there are two problems here that have to be solved:

1) you need to island your house, that is, physically disconnect your house from the grid

2) once you have disconnected the grid, you then need to provide some sort of pilot sine wave to allow the plug to function.

I have an islanding system for my (house) battery and solar, so in theory, I could have a bidirectional charger whilst being off grid. However both my car and charger don't support that (my charger is also deeply shit, and has no local API access.)

The bigger problem, which is tangentially touched on, is that vanishingly few chargers can actually support islanding. It makes the installation harder, and drives up the compliance and installation cost[1]. this means that you are taping together two disparate systems together (or going all in on enphase, which also has a limited local API)

There isn't a spec for a household systems to talk together to do energy management. currently I use homeassistant to monitor the variable electricity prices, car plug status and how happy the fucking powerwall is, so that I can make sure the car charges from solar, without draining the house battery to 0, or only charge at night when the price us uber cheap (and also not drain the house battery).

The amount of sysadminig to make that work reliably means that no normal person is able to achieve it. The problem for consumers is that there isn't any motivation for manufactures to work together on this. because they want to vertically integrate.

[1] The installation cost for what is effectively a very thin software wrapper around a local contactor is egregious.

I hear Ass is difficult to milk

it only really worked as part of a team.

Where it worked well is the "devops" or sre/sysadmin would sit in the same team and take away the rough edges of the infra.

conversly they would also keep an eye on the web people and see what they are doing and why, learning the tooling they use and try and rationalise it so they don't install 50 messaging queues.

other tits are available

milk comes from cow tits.

most firewalls limit ICMP across their boundaries, hence why ping doesn't work for a lot of places from the outside in.

This exploit is a unicast packet, which is unsolicited. For NAT, you probably don't need to do much. for ipv6 you'll need to make sure that your firewall doesn't blindly pass on ICMP ie make sure its a stateful firewall.

wait, IPA in an ultrasonic bath? isn't that asking for fire? normally ultrasonic baths are warmed, so you are heating a liquid and causing cavitation in something that has a flashpoint of 11c.

Resin is much more precise, but its still plastic.

The stepup to CNC will allow aluminium and brass parts, but depth will be a challenge. Making anything deeper than a few cm on a desktop CNC is possible but has limitations.

Just to add to this post, the resin isn't great to handle, but crucially for the end user, you need to post process the part quite a bit before its "usable"

The part needs to be washed, and then stuck in a UV bath to do a final curing.

Having said that, you get higher precision parts and can print in optically transparent materials.

I mean yeah, but who is letting unfiltered ICMP onto a production network?

I mean I get the appeal, but that does mean that your agents also have the same level of access as you, and no way to limit actions to agents.

For us, most of our MCPs have non-undoable actions disabled. This is to stop agents writing a tool that recursively doing something silly.

The way they captured the actual spray whilst printing was really clever.

The print head is in a fixed location, as is the camera. The paper is moved under the print head. BUT! the clever bit is having the printhead driven by the rotatry encoder attached to the moveable platform

This means that the head is always in focus, and perfectly lit, plus you can experiment with speed trivially.

I think we broadly agree. I wasn't precise in what I meant by parental training. As you pointed out, in modern british cities, outside of the immigrant communities, parental duties are rarely communal. Moreover they are happening later and as you point out, away from family and other support groups.

This is a change that has accelerated in the last 25 years, and we do all need to do something about it. I suspect the first step is making housing mor affordable, which means building more homes. (both "private" and social, [council housing] we can't just cater to one part of the market.)

> Worth noting that the British and American definitions of middle class are quite different.

hooooboy yes.

> No, Jan 6th wasn’t part of the political process.

You and I might not _like_ jan the 6th, but it was part of the process, it started out as a rally for their candidate, and then dissolved into a riot.

The consequences for the rioters, and the pardoning of them subsequently signalled where the country was going. (Biden trying very hard to not ever be seen as partisan, at the expense of justice, and Trump asserting that loyalty to him is the only currency that matters.)

Not all rallies are for the good of the country, or move the country forward. But they are part of the process, legitimate or not.

The civil rights protest were widely seen as illegitimate, and they were brutally put down. It was only through persistence and a wide base of political action from peaceful marches right up to armed resistance, did laws change.

Its a mix.

Some of them think its safe, others think the risk is overblown, and a lot just don't want to deal with their kid having a shit fit.

In the UK, unless you are adopting a kid with needs, you will not get any parenting training. so you're on your own on how to deal with children. TV was safe when I was a kid, and younger parents who grew up with digital TV also had safe watching, why would youtube kids be any different?

With my kids (and yes this is a boast, I'm middle class, this is how we assert dominance) I was lucky enough to be able to enforce time limits of TV/netflix etc. They also aren't allowed youtube on their own, so never got onto the conversion ladder from crap to exploitative crap.

crucially they don't have tablets/phones whilst bored. TV is a treat, so boredom requires them to sit there and fucking day dream like the rest of us.

> being civil and participating in the political process.

This _is_ the part of the political process.

For example in the USA jan6th was part of the democratic process there. Not a good part, but its still part of it.

> Kyle Rittenhouse, etc. are examples of the counterweight ready to reign in protests gone feral.

I mean yes, but that's exactly down to country "personality" and conventions which I was hinting at. France values the right to protest almost above the right to shrug. However its not like the french police are going to be nice to you because you're protesting, french police are _bastards_.

If you wander around with a gun in france, and you're not hunting, the police _will_ shoot you, and more importantly, in the spirit of Liberté, égalité, fraternité, they'll shoot you even if you're white.

> The way French people protest is mental

I mean yes, but then france is on the 5th republic now, so unlike the USA where they just sit and take it, they riot until something happens.

Because:

1) its france, Rioting is a national sport

2) even by french standards, this is getting out of hand

3) peaceful protest is being facilitated, the problem is, not everyone is peaceful and there isn't enough police to arrest everyone.

If you are american you have to remember that france _likes_ to protest, not in a cutesy way where you all line up and make a message out of people. No they blockade roads, factories, shopping centres and generally bring cities to a grinding halt. Spontaneously. Put it this way, the No kings protest had they been run by the french would have been visible from space.

Sometimes workers take company execs hostage (see good year 2014 and air france 2015, where execs had to literally run away)

Or more generally the yellow vest movement had rolling blockades that fucked with everything.

outsourcing is part of the thing, but efficiency is also a bigger factor.

I joined the VFX industry in 2007(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Compass_(film)), where a film like the golden compass required a large number of people to just make the fur look realistic (there were groomers who's job was to literally style hair.)

The huge increase in CPU power, and latterly GPU power meant that a few number of people could do a lot more. (software RnD was also crucial to this)

to hammer that home, the BBC version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials_(TV_series) had way more furry animals, much more extensive digital sets, and with a combined run time of > 480 minutes vs 110. It was also done much cheaper.

TLDR its not just AI thats doing this. although it will be more and more now. as world models really kick into gear.

No I don't like it, but what am I to do?

I mean why wouldn't he?

If he's telling the truth, then I would do the same.

If he's lying, then it might work, I would also probably do the same.

The interesting thing here is that two publications allowed the journalist to call Kushner "corrupt". This means that the lawyers would have seen compelling evidence that would mean one of two things:

1) Kushner wouldn't take them to court, because he would have to settle out of court in an expensive way

2) Kushner, if he were to take court action, would not win civil case.

This leads me to think that there is more than a shred of evidence, but an awful lot of evidence that he didn't declare what he was supposed to (at best) and at worse laundered foreign cash for his own purposes

I would also point to no secrets primitive.

K8s requires some sort of tool to have any hope of storing secrets in a way that isn't trivallly findable from the rest of the cluster.

But, perhaps I am being too harsh, its not like there are secrets primitives in linux that are easily deployable to namespaces/cgroups.

Bruno has a spectacular range.

Now was there autotune? dunno. its not like some people who've obviously been tuned. There are some people who are really that good. Michael bauble is one of them

Its about musical production. This isn't the first time someone has done analysis of timing in modern music. I think I first saw an article on slashdot in around 2010.

Recording "live" can be hard. it requires a bigger studio, more equipment, better engineers and crucially, everyone to be there at the same time.

you can, if you have a click track, record everything separately, and then marry it up later. once you have the drums lined up, you can just replay the tracks you have without the click track.

this means that you can record separately, at different times, in different locations. or if its your bedroom, you can move stuff around to the microphone you have.

But if you record a track as parts, you can then edit it. You want it to sound good right? laptop power has increased significantly, so any plugin can be run in realtime on multiple tracks.

SOme music suits it, others doesn't.

I _love_ the sound of a live band who are playing well. I don't love the sound of a live band who aren't.

Its hard to play together well all the time, so click track gives you a better bang for buck.

I think its the difference between playing live, playing in parts and playing to a click track.

again these are not exclusive, Even though I fucking hate it, I can drum live to a click track. I hate it because everytime I am slightly off I can fucking hear it like being hit over the head with a frying pan.