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  • I can still see it.

  • I think ICQ, AIM and MSN messenger are all dead now. WhatsApp works on Matrix via a bridge. Not sure about other platforms.

  • Kanata is an alternative (like KMonad) that I've heard good things about.

    I just use qmk on my split keyboard.

  • It's important for objects that can be dereferenced. Smart pointers have methods that can be accessed with dot syntax like swap(). You can still dereference through a smart pointer using arrow syntax to access methods on the referenced type since they overload the operator->() method.

  • Or even zcat -f /usr/bin/zcat

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           -f --force
                  If the input data is not in a format recognized by gzip, and if the option --stdout is also given,
                  copy the input data without change to the standard output: let zcat behave as cat.
    
    
      

    I don't know why this isn't the top comment. I guess there might be some scenario where you'd want to know about non-gzip files where you don't expect them so changing the defaults would probably cause some subtle breakage. For shell use though, just an alias could be used; alias zcat=gzip -cdf

  • The full ten months of the year?

  • That's the BBC criticising Apple for indiscriminately mangling all notifications with AI, like news headlines. The BBC could boycott the Apple platform, but that's basically their only lever to stop Apple doing this besides asking nicely.

  • Well read the BBC article on this then: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0elzk24dno

    It's an iPhone 'feature' that summarises a bunch of notifications into one. It took a set of BBC headlines and turned them into "Luigi Mangione shoots himself..." They don't list the article that was being summarised so I don't know what the original headline was.

  • Are we talking Adobe Flash ancient or Macromedia Flash ancient?

  • Itch.io games site taken down

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  • BBC article mentioning this flight. A tweet from FR24 says that the aircraft "was old with an older transponder generation, so some data might be bad or missing", that it was "flying in an area of GPS jamming, so some data might be bad", and that there was not aware of any airports in the area where the signal was lost.

  • 7km altitude give or take

    The ADS-B data puts it as descending between 23 and 22 thousand feet. That's below 7km.

  • We heard it here first, comrade.

  • I didn't recognise the '10 seconds of human consideration' claim. I found this ProPublica report on it: How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them

    There a former Cigna doctor says “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.” They claim to have seen documents for a two month period that put the average at 1.2 seconds per review. That's using a specific review system that processed 300,000 claims over that period.

    They don't mention if there were other claims processed with different methods but still, the OP article seemed to be generous with that claim.

    I don't know what the "90%-error-rate AI" claim is about though. It'd be nice if the sources were actually cited.

  • Yeah, they're a burgers & spies joint.

  • The Phénix reactor shut down in 2009 so I think that was the end of France's breeder reactors. India, China and Russia still have operating breeder reactors.

    Breeding from non-fissile material is different to reprocessing though. Reprocessing is a chemical process, not a nuclear one. The UK had an operational reprocessing capability - though it is being decommissioned now because it wasn't cost effective with such a small fleet. Japan is still trying to bring its reprocessing plant online (after years of trouble). However France is doing it routinely for their domestic fleet and some foreign reactors IIRC. The USA made reprocessing illegal back in 1977 due to proliferation concerns. Despite that ban being repealed, they haven't set up the regulatory infrastructure to be able to do it so no one has bothered. Maybe the new nuclear industry will shake that up a bit.