Womble

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[–] Womble@piefed.world 10 points 10 hours ago

If the tax is on fuel then it wouldnt matter where they are registered, they'd be getting refueled in the EU and so would pay the tax.

wouldn't this result in airlines dumping the extra cost on customers

yes, partially. If the increase in tax results in a particular flight being £50 more expensive for example they will rise prices by an amount. But it likely wont be the full 50 as airlines are already charging what they think the optimum price is, the price going up is likely to result in less sales.

It also incentivises the airlines to be more fuel efficient (and so less damaging to the climate), and punishes worse offenders like private jets more as the use more fuel per passenger mile.

[–] Womble@piefed.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The most annoying thing is there is a trivial to implement way to close to halve these stupidly inflated sizes: make the highest resolution of textures a free DLC that you optionally install

[–] Womble@piefed.world 4 points 2 days ago

Yes, i find it difficult to believe that they mess up a dozen line algo that is in their training set in a prominant place with no complicating factors. Despite what a lot of people here think, LLMs do have value for coding. Even if the companies selling them make ridiculous claims about what they can do.

[–] Womble@piefed.world 3 points 2 days ago

Presumably the devs have to agree to it. I dont think gog cn just decide "were going to give away this game we dont own for free"

[–] Womble@piefed.world 2 points 2 days ago

I mean, they already are, just for recruitment to the army rather than factories. There's plenty of stories of people being rounded up by police, put on trumped up charges and being given the option of jail and abuse there or signing up to go to the front line.

[–] Womble@piefed.world 7 points 2 days ago

Thats pretty funny given the current "save the children" censorship in the uk that is going on.

[–] Womble@piefed.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

I find that very difficult to believe. If for no other reason that there is an implementation in the wiki page for Levenshtein distance (and wiki is known to be very prominant in the training sets used for foundational models), and that trying it just now and it gave a perfectly functional implementation.

[–] Womble@piefed.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yep, and when you click a button that liteally says "make this discoverable on search engines" which is off by defualt, its the later.

[–] Womble@piefed.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It would be nice to see a price/GWh of this (along with running costs, it says they save 1 Million per GWh, how much were the running costs before!?), but any improvement in battery tech is definitely a good thing.

[–] Womble@piefed.world 6 points 3 days ago

"AI helped me make this graph" Could just mean they got AI to write some matplotlib to plot real data. Though it is pretty slapdash to just state that with no further explaination.

[–] Womble@piefed.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How long they can do it for is a significant open question, the Russian economy is already showing serious warning signs and most of the forcasts that I've seen show 2026 as the year where things start to become very bad for them. It's not an all or nothing thing either, its not that it is about to implode and all of a sudden Russia cant do anything, but that the economy degrades to the point where it becomes difficult for them to maintain funnelling sufficient resources into their invasion.

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