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by 13of40 3y ago
I was using the Google Photos map search via BlueStacks on my Windows machine briefly, but that's only because Google made the perplexing decision to not put that on desktop.
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by 13of40 3y ago
I think a real-life example that might illustrate the difference is a car that's been in an accident. A good body shop can do a lot as far as straightening components, doing new spot-welding, etc. in a car that's made with contem
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by 13of40 3y ago
Thanks for clearing that up for me. When I was a kid we had the bumbly non-spider ones in the garden, but now we've got the sinister spider ones in every corner of the basement and garage. I guess the leg thing is convergent evolutio
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by 13of40 3y ago
When you start on a team, you produce negative value. On day one, you've already cost the company a significant amount just in recruiting, signing bonuses, and randomizing the other engineers who had to interview people for your posit
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by 13of40 3y ago
I've heard this a lot over the years, but honestly, as a hiring manager, I'm not going to waste my time with a candidate whose resume shows them hopping companies every year or two.
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by 13of40 3y ago
Where I live, you get a discount if you just mail them a check, so if you go to court you risk losing significantly more.
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by 13of40 3y ago
"we have taken and continue to take reasonable steps to prevent the misuse of Stable Diffusion 3 by bad actors" It's kind of a testament to our times that the person who chooses to look at synthetic porn instead of supporting
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by 13of40 3y ago
That's something I've noticed in general with 5G - basically five bars means you've got a good connection to the tower, but you could have bad service due to a bottleneck upstream of that. (At least for data - for voice that
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by 13of40 3y ago
I don't know you're old enough to remember this (or if you swung in those circles) but 30 years ago if you went to the pub you were swimming in a sea of unverifiable half-baked facts. If someone asserted, for example, that kangar
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by 13of40 3y ago
When I was in high school (early 90s) my friend's dad had an original script for Star Wars, and it looked basically like the linked one and what you described - a stack of xeroxed, typed, 8.5x11 pages stapled together. One thing that
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by 13of40 3y ago
If you want to see something trippy, take a look at the land just west of Magnolia and Discovery Park on the King County Parcel Viewer. They were planning to fill that in back in the day and on the map you can still see all of the streets
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by 13of40 3y ago
I smoked on and off for about ten years, and eventually stopped because I realized that no matter how nice the anticipation of it was, immediately afterwards I felt dirty and depressed. I quit for good almost twenty years ago, and the inte
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by 13of40 3y ago
Back in the day, the blue screen and unhandled exception messages in Windows had some actual useful information in them, like the memory address where it happened, some arguments passed to the bugcheck routine, etc. Back then the I-cannot-p
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by 13of40 3y ago
Yeah (and apologies if I get this wrong after 30 years) with a rolling airframe, you can have two fins on the same axis that "wiggle" back and forth at the same frequency as the rotation of the missile. Direction control comes fr
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by 13of40 3y ago
In the open source world, I think the equivalent here would be to export an internal function in the desktop environment so you can call it with a third party extension. Open source might help you choose the function, but that's not a
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by 13of40 3y ago
The person who invents a refrigerator compressor that isn't a sealed unit that requires special training and equipment to replace when the motor starts sticking is going to get a horse's head in their bed.
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by 13of40 3y ago
> it blue screened four times just trying to mount a simple USB flash drive With Linux these problems can typically be solved by googling it on your phone then appending a text file with some nonsense string you found on a 10 year old fo
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by 13of40 3y ago
My two cents on that last bit: I have a team of people working in the US, more than half of them from India, and another team actually in India. Culturally there's a fair amount of overlap, but the real ball buster is the timezone di
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by 13of40 3y ago
> unethical If this is based on the possibility that one or more of the ads is harmful, how is it less ethical than the time-honored alternative, which is skipping the study and just running the ads?
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by 13of40 3y ago
It reminds me of someone I read about from the early web who defended their website against email address harvesting crawlers by adding a dynamic page that threw up some random emails and links, where the links just led back to the dynamic
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by 13of40 3y ago
Or dissolve plastics and rubber, maybe delaminate circuit boards, destroy any tape and glue...
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by 13of40 3y ago
This is something that comes to mind whenever I hear about a local government doing a monoboly-busting effort to provide internet connectivity to their city, county, etc. I know their heart's probably in the right place, but I don&#x2
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by 13of40 3y ago
This lists 10,912,502 and 10,945,648 as the patents, but if you get into the details the original complaint lists several more: https://www.usitc.gov/system/files?file=secretary/fed_reg_no...
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by 13of40 3y ago
I was in Korea several years back, and they had an innovation that anyone with working experience in fast food could appreciate: Built into the garbage cans at places like KFC was a hole to pour the remains of your soda into, so later on s
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by 13of40 3y ago
Did it look like this by any chance? https://newatlas.com/schiebel-next-generation-uav-camcopter/...
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by 13of40 3y ago
> I'd be pretty astonished if a credit card company didn't cancel someone's credit card if someone was tried a handful of transactions with random security codes, let alone enough to guess one number in a thousand. If you
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by 13of40 3y ago
Some email providers navigate to every URL you receive to check them for phishing and malware. That doesn't play well with one-click unsubscribe links.
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by 13of40 3y ago
There are about 250 million adults in the US. If we give each of them $1000 a month, that's 3 trillion dollars per year. For comparison, the US government collected 2.6 trillion dollars in federal income tax in 2022.
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by 13of40 3y ago
If you filter by status, there's nothing in that feedback channel that's had its status changed for several months, and none of the issues there are marked fixed, so there's probably some other way this sort of thing is meant
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by 13of40 3y ago
Is firefox blacklisted or are chrome and edge whitelisted?

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