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New comment by sjbzbeiks in "French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time"

sjbzbeiks — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:00:33 +0000

During the press conference describing this the speaker claims they’re working with meteorologists from France Météo supporting the term at 6:30 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xas3lw2

Technical details in the video link start around 3:34 for those interested

Excuse the French for the non Francophones but trying to be detailed and exacting here on why this isn’t bad journalism to use that term

New comment by sjbzbeiks in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

sjbzbeiks — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:43:07 +0000

You’re not totally wrong but I think the motivations are varied. Using myself as an example, I have paid huge sums for software, films, news, and yes open source software, but I hate paying 5 bucks for a sub or buying certain products because the deal just isn’t a fair trade. I’d say most modern software is a bad deal.

That said I am a cheap bastard.

New comment by sjbzbeiks in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

sjbzbeiks — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:57:08 +0000

I would guess so, they seem interested in the ring cameras https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/09/30/ring-police-partn...

New comment by sjbzbeiks in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

sjbzbeiks — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:03:14 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Golden_Age Read the section on social structure (pre 18th century)

Then consider the role of the clergy in the Middle Ages, and say nothing of Rome and large bureaucracy (Roman engineering alone).

On top of this you need to ignore very large bureaucracies and trading networks in Asia to go far with your narrative (Persian, Turkish, Mongol, Indian and Chinese).

There were a good deal of powerful nerds before the 1700s.