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In the case of Elizabeth, it was likely just so common at one time that many variants were needed. Also Mary (you mightn't think there are many variants of Mary, but, for instance, Polly is a variant of Mary. Figure that one out.) At one time, pretty much every family in Ireland had at _least_ one child called Mary. Sometimes more than one. This ultimately resulted in Ireland having two consecutive presidents called Mary (and in the 2011 election, which lead to Ireland's first non-Mary president in 20 years, two of the candidates were also called Mary or variants thereof). The Marys have now largely aged out, and there were no candidates called Mary at all in the most recent election.
On this here orange website?! What a suggestion! Accepted etiquette is to real the _title_, and imagine what the content of the article might be.
I'd assume that no-one who works there really knows anything about databases; they may genuinely have thought that it worked. A lot of super-AI-pilled people seem to be deep into this "expertise doesn't matter any more" belief system.
I mean I assume that that's where, say, 3.3.2 came from; the database grows _new_ bizarre brokenness as stuff is fixed.
I'm genuinely kind of fascinated whether there was a _design_ here, or if someone just said "claude, postgres but faster pls". Some of the issues are truly incredible.
You know how some people think that LLMs are magic? I assume that's more or less what happened here; the database was a result of prompting the finest LLMs, so how could it _not_ be perfect?
Yeah, wouldn't touch anything this company makes with a ten foot pole.
> I won't push back on it being garbage, but I would suggest that if enough people did it that way it would be the new normal, and apologists would fall out of the woodwork
No. No-one would ever accept a database with _this_ level of brokenness. Like, this makes early Mongo and noughties-era mysql look _amazing_.
> I complain that mainstream SQL engines have no problem returning less than the total number of rows if you first query WHERE column = NULL and then query WHERE column <> NULL.
You may not like it, but that is entirely deliberate and internally consistent. Blame the people who came up with SQL in the 70s; far too late to change it now.
Finland?
(I assume you mean Russia, but given that it’s only barely holding it together in Ukraine, it probably won’t be invading _Norway_ anytime soon).
I mean clearly Trump, right? Nixon’s behaviour seems fairly minor by comparison, though at that time the Republicans had some residual sense of shame so he had to resign.
Fox News will absolutely have told minihands that it is; they’ve been pushing an “everyone in Scandinavia is a communist trans Muslim” narrative for a decade or so now.
Of course you can. Your handlers have to know what they’re doing, of course, but the candidate themselves? They don’t even have to be able to speak coherently (Bush II had some issues in that direction, and of course Trump pretty much just babbles nonsense, for hours, and people put up with it).
> Since a fine could be 2% of revenue, ie 200M€ max here
Could be in theory, but has it ever been? I think about the biggest was a 1.2bn fine on Meta by the Irish regulator, but that's only about 0.5% revenue.
EDIT: Oh, actually, looks like Uber was fined close to 2% by the Dutch regulator recently.
> Consumer spending is being held up by stock market gains
Wait, really? Is this just a vibes thing, or have you seen data supporting that? It _seems_ fairly unlikely.
Also, seems counterproductive. If you work for proton, you’re probably realistically updating your LinkedIn profile about now.
... I mean, if I were Zuckerberg, I'd be waiting to see what happens on Tuesday.
Musk, granted, is probably beyond the point of no return in association with the Trump cult, but if there's a wave election one assumes that Big Tech will be scrambling to distance themselves from Trump.
This would be roughly equivalent to 5,000 of them catching fire at once, scaled for the number which exist, so, yeah, might draw some comment.
This is the second one of these to have blown up. It looks like about 200 exist. It is _notable_ that 1% of the entire installed base has caught fire.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
I'm _amazed_ they didn't change that after WW2.
Very cool, and very Soviet.
> Having criticised the hit movie in the summer, the tycoon said he would use Grok Imagine to make a “historically accurate” adaptation.
So Helen of Troy will be a nightmarish half-swan?
(Canonically, she _hatched out of an egg_!)
US safety standards are _different_. Car standards are particularly messy in that a car that's road-legal in the EU probably isn't in the US and vice versa. Mostly small stuff; for instance they'll have different side mirrors.
Producing a version of these cars for US standards likely would not be difficult (every car manufacturer has to deal with about four standards regimes); it's just that they're no reason to do so currently.
I’ve got a 32” 4k monitor at work, and a 27” 5k at home (the rather problematic LG one; got it just as it was being taken off the market in Europe over emissions rules). The 27” is so much nicer.
I think they at least used to be literally the same panels (though potentially a downrated version with higher dead pixel tolerance etc)
They are, in fairness, quite nice monitors.
> but it must be a good case of the sunken cost fallacy by now, given how long it's taken to build
No, for nuclear plants generally sunk cost is not a fallacy :) Most of the cost for a nuclear plant is upfront, so once you've spent that you may as well use it.
Generally the fix is to either have the inverter shut down if the grid fails, or automatically isolate the premises if the grid fails.
You've misremembered/misunderstood this, I think. You can certainly use self-generated electricity directly, pretty much everywhere. In many places you will need some sort of permit/inspection if you're self-generating and connected to the grid, though, because if done incorrectly that's potentially dangerous (in particular, in a power cut either you need to self-isolate or switch off your self-generation, because otherwise lines will unexpectedly have current.)
> Solar, a mature technology for some 15 years now, became the cheapest electricity in history in 2020.
I mean, the article kind of self-contradicts the idea that it's mature technology. A mature technology would not be halving in cost every couple of years. 15 years ago solar cells cost about $2.50/watt; in 2024 it was about $0.27/watt.
I mean, my assumption would be that there is a way to write such a law such that it is constitutional.