benjhm

joined 2 years ago
[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Ayayay. I'm tempted to write - how are they so stuck in a past worldview ? Yet Cyrillic script and orthodox church developed in Bulgaria and then in Kyiv, not in Moscow, and even back in the days of Tito, Yugoslavs understood that Stalin was not their friend.
Anyway, at least he attended - halfway progress ?

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

I always liked trolleybuses - quiet, good acceleration - remember them from Ukraine as well as Switzerland. Although the wires are complicated (remarkable how the switches work) - they also tell a stranger to a city which way the route passes - an assurance similar to tram tracks.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

There are more specific ad-server / tracker IPs that can be blocked at DNS level, tools like Pi-hole work that way (although if big countries did this, I suppose they'd quickly find workarounds to blend those addresses with useful ones).

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, it's designed for a big desktop screen, although it just happens to work on mobile devices too - their compute power is enough, but to understand the interactions of complex systems, we need space.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For many of them it’s still far away. But I note the ukrainian counter of russian casualties is about to pass a million. While there is 'fog of war' it's easier to say people are missing, so friends and relatives can keep hoping that theirs is the special case. During any prolonged ceasefire, it would become clearer who's gone forever - which is one reason why P avoids this situation (and also bans NGOs like soldier's mothers, who used to help connect these dots).

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Huh. There are some good use-cases for super-computers, but promising that massive application of AI is going to "make air travel more sustainable" - could hardly choose a worse example.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Indeed, here's an example - my climate-system model web-app, written in scala running (mainly) in wasm
(note: that was compiled with scala-js 1.17, they say latest 1.19 does wasm faster, I didn't yet compare).
[ Edit: note wasm variant only works with most recent browsers, maybe with experimental options set - if not try without ?wasm ]

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Je suppose la problème fondamentale c'est qu'il faudrait de la coordination avec d'autres pays vers lesquels ces milliardaires pourrait se déménager, mais actuellement la politique de certains de ces pays est capturé par ces mêmes milliardaires. Néanmoins, il faut préparer, pour qu'on puisse saisir le meilleur moment des oscillations politiques mondiales, quand cela s'aligne.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe eventually they should build several smaller dams instead of one big one, just enough for irrigation and water supply, considering the potential ecological balance of the whole region, rather than of just a narrow potential 'reserve'.
It's naturally a dry area, the south bank opposite Kherson is already almost a 'desert' with dunes, although with a long history - they say such 'Pontic Steppe' grasslands were where indo-european tribes originated.
Anyway, before grand plans, Ukraine has to control both sides of the river, so I suppose they'll keep watching how hard the mud bakes this summer.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, technically the internet backbone is already controlled locally, it's the web services - software - that are dominated by US big-tech. And for such services to be safe we need a diversity of providers, not only local ones maybe easily coerced by our own national governments, some of which might also try to turn authoritarian in future. So the problem is not that US big-tech participates, rather that we let them become almost a monopoly.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This seems highly significant (at least as a precedent that others may follow), to me great news, but if that's so why did I only see it reported here, on a 'local' community in Lemmy?

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Erm ... if in such a scenario sea-level drops 100m below current shoreline at low tide, wouldn't it rise nearly 100m at high tide - assuming the total volume of the ocean being the same ? In which case the dry-land coastline would be much further inland.

view more: ‹ prev next ›