Tom
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Tom
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There's already a bounty out for precisely that www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaWp...
We'll pay you $10,000 to DE-shitify this Samsung refrigerator
YouTube video by Louis Rossmann
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It is. The error is roughly 7E-16 or 7*10^(-16). The negative power shows that the number is really small. 10^(-x) is the same as 1/(10^x), so in this case it's like dividing by 10^16. 7E-16 = 0.0000000000000007
August 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
In the UK the wholesale price of electricity is set by the most expensive method of production - not the actual cost of production. Renewable energy *is* cheaper to produce - but we're charged as if it were produced by burning gas.

See: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/why-is-cheap...
Why is cheap renewable electricity so expensive on the wholesale market?
Under the ‘marginal cost pricing system’, the wholesale price of electricity is set by the most expensive method needed to meet demand (usually burning gas).
commonslibrary.parliament.uk
June 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
It's not really going to be possible to keep bots out long-term if it's possible for humans to sign up without verification of their humanity - and even if there was verification that the account was being created by a human, what's to say the human isn't creating the account on behalf on an AI? 6/6
April 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
But eventually CAPTCHAs will become so hard that many people will give up, locking legitimate users out. Bots could also exploit humans to get access - I read in a paper about a bot which reasoned that it could pretend to be a visually-impaired person on fiverr to get a person to solve CAPTCHAS. 5/n
April 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
at which point a bot masquerading as a person can copy it. AI-powered bots are only going to become more and more able to act like humans as the technology develops, so technologies like CAPTCHAs will have to keep getting harder to be effective at keeping bots out. 4/n
April 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The content could be sent over https to prevent interception, and requests could be tied to an individual account via a session cookie.

Fundamentally I don't think it's possible to completely bot-proof sites like this because at some point the content has to be visible to legitimate users, 3/n
April 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
They'd only need to download each piece of content once since once it's decrypted on their end they can make copies and send them to a central repository free of any restrictions forever. Also I'm not quite sure what the purpose of encrypting the data with the requesting user's public key is? 2/n
April 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It's a nice idea but wouldn't deter a sufficiently-motivated company from scraping the data. They could just spin up thousands of bots with different IPs, randomised user agents, randomised delays between requests etc., make accounts for them and have each scrape a modest amount of data per day. 1/n
April 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
March 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I've been learning a bit of CSS to create personalised dark modes on websites that I frequent
January 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
There would have been people well over 100m above ground level thousands of years ago while they were topping Khufu's pyramid.
January 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I think the graph counts people standing on fixed structures as being on the ground. We've had multi-storey buildings for thousands of years so clearly there would always be people >10m above ground level for all of this graph.
January 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The enmity graph is bipartite. [Exercise for the reader: prove that the graph is a complete bipartite graph.]
January 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM