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Womble

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  • America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster

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  • The thinking isnt that that you putting money on a horse to win increases it's odds of winning, its that by signalling your belief that you think it will happen by a costly signal (you lose the money if you are wrong) you are updating the overall odds to be closer to the true probability by the power of crowds. if 200 people are betting something will happen and only 10 are betting it wont then that is evidence that the thing is more likely than not to happen.

    There are flaws in this thinking, it doesnt take into account manipulation of events to win bets is a particularly big one, and it also gets worse the more removed the thing being bet on is from everyday life as people make less informed choices.

  • Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension

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  • Those are how to install Linux inside windows.

  • Trump threatens tariffs on nations that don’t back US takeover of Greenland

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  • Typical trash tier journalism from the canary, apparently no comment to an on the spot question about military matters (US using UK bases) to a minister who isnt in charge of that (she's minister for development in Africa) is somehow "UK backs US powerplay for Greenland"

    Edit: Especially funny now that the UK is on Trumps list for retaliatory tariffs for blocking his annexation of Greenland

  • Greenland Doesn’t Belong to Denmark Either - Left Voice

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  • I'm on PieFed, it combines posts cross posted to multiple communities into one, I'm not a member of that comm but I am for c/actualsocialism which the author cross posted this to.

    I do believe that all people deserve the right to self determination, and while actions should be taken to try and to redress colonial wrongdoings; blood and soil nationalism is bad even when its coming from/in favour of a marginalised group.

  • Greenland Doesn’t Belong to Denmark Either - Left Voice

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  • To be clear, you think that some people born in a place should have no say in how that place is governed based on what ethnicity they are?

  • Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t

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  • And those people who think LLMs will replace software engineers any time in the near future are wrong. But it can still be the case that LLMs are democratizing coding ability to those who otherwise wouldnt have it while at the same software engineering as a discipline isnt going anywhere.

    Its not just basic scripting either, often when people start coding in earnest their programs are just a huge pile of statements connected together with if statements and mutating global variables. and LLM can help show best practices like encapsulating logic into functions and isolating side effects.

  • Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t

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  • But at the same time everyone having a CAD machine (or 3D printer) allows a lot of people to solve engineering type problems they have without an engineer, which is the article's point.

  • Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t

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  • I think you are vastly overestimating the level that statement is pitched at. The overwhelming majority of people dont even know how a for loop works. However they can ask an LLM to write a script to change this list of files with inconsistent numbering conventions and put them in a consistent order. That's the level of spreading out the ability to program that we are dealing with.

  • Former chemical plant in North Wales, UK, could become AI data center

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  • The UK does not have regional electricity pricing. This is actually an issue as it means energy intensive businesses arent attracted to places close to large sources of renewable power (the North East and Scotland) and instead crowd into the overheated South East.

    But it also means that the locals wont be helping with the leccy bill any more than someone in Aberdeen is.

  • NHS England quietly removes open source policy web pages

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  • It should be pointed out that NHS England is a management layer and is in the process of being dismantled so that NHS services in England are managed directly by the NHS and not a third layer between hospitals/doctors and the Department of health.

  • It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"

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  • The number of people suggesting that the appropriate responce to an optional feature for the standard bearer foss browser is to jump to a chrome based browser and further cement google's dominance is depressing.

  • Rachel Reeves Says Progressive People Should Be Zionists

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  • Outsourcing your critical thinking to someone maintaining a list of personae non gratae sounds like a terrible idea.

  • World map with countries real sizes

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  • Mercator is not garbage, it just has a specific use: straight lines on the map correspond to the direction you travel if you maintain a constant bearing. Its still used for naval and avation charts for that exact reason, but it not a good general purpose map.

  • Rich People Are Becoming Less Willing to Help With the World’s Problems

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  • The wealth of the USA compared to other devoloped countries has shot away over the past 10-15 years, it's not entirely clear why.

  • Channel Tunnel says UK investment 'non-viable' as it halts projects

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  • No they're more like business property taxes, they're complicated but usually defined as a fraction of what the market rate rent would be on the property the business is using.

  • Russia Starts Selling Off Its Gold Reserves to Fund the War Budget, Breaking a Long-Held Taboo

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  • Yes, but also to use as collateral to borrow against. This is burning the furniture to stave off the cold.

  • Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"

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  • Users of consumer Windows are not Microsoft's customers in any real sense. Microsoft's customers are huge enterprises who want this stuff and smaller companies who are trapped into using the MS ecosystem by needing to have interoperability with other people/businesses who use MS products.

  • 'I heat my Essex home with a data centre in the shed'

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  • Its eco-friendly because the waste heat is being used to heat the home methane isnt being burnt to provide that heat. Data centres are needed unless you want to scrap the internet entirely.

  • Is the FOSS world in danger of a corporate takeover, thanks to pushover licenses?

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  • I'm not an expert on licences by any means, but my understanding was that LGPL explicitly allows you to link it to other binaries without needing to licence them with the same licence. Does rust really only support static linking and not dynamic?

    Per the Gnu wiki:

    Does the LGPL have different requirements for statically vs dynamically linked modules with a covered work? (#LGPLStaticVsDynamic)

    For the purpose of complying with the LGPL (any extant version: v2, v2.1 or v3): 

     
               (1) If you statically link against an LGPLed library, you must also provide your application in an object (not necessarily source) format, so that a user has the opportunity to modify the library and relink the application.  
  

     
               (2) If you dynamically link against an LGPLed library already present on the user's computer, you need not convey the library's source. On the other hand, if you yourself convey the executable LGPLed library along with your application, whether linked with statically or dynamically, you must also convey the library's sources, in one of the ways for which the LGPL provides.

    So as long as you also provide your application with an LGPL library shaped hole you can release a static-linked binary with LGPL components.