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I’m not Islamic, but my understanding is that Islamic aniconism is generally restricted to representational art in religious contexts. Outside of that context there isn’t generally considered to be a prohibition. https://en.m.wik
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I’m very very skeptical of that number… If all the US currency was evenly divided amongst the US’s population, each person would hold about $6600. But almost nobody actually holds that much cash in the US - that cash is mostly held by crimi
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I appreciate the thought behind this, but I don’t see how it would work when India would not saddle their own social media with the same antitrust restrictions. Imagine the Indian equivalent to TikTok or whatever, which would be (by virtue
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This doesn’t really make sense to me from a game theory POV. As a company, laying off productive employees of my own has an insignificant impact on the total sector’s compensation, but reduces my output and therefore profitability. Why woul
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Most content on most users’ screens doesn’t use pure black/white for UI. Most users will (assuming they even know or care how to adjust their monitor, which is far from a given!) adjust their monitor to make most content look good, w
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I think that the idea that most users will adjust their monitor to make my website look good is unrealistic.
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Not an academic paper, but this is a good summary of the history: https://www.alberta.ca/history-of-rat-control-in-alberta.asp... The wikipedia article is good too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_r
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While your main point is philosophical, you mentioned the practical concern of rats - for what it’s worth, Alberta, a Canadian province the size of France, has completely eradicated rats despite being land-bordered on all sides by provinces
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80/20 has been around since the late 80s, and are kinda the “classic” brand-name in aluminum extrusions. Popular for trade shows and the like. They tend to be on the more expensive side compared to Misumi or other brands, but you can s
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The ashtray is actually mandatory even in new planes per FAA rules. Modern aircraft still have ashtrays in the washrooms because they’d much prefer that somebody choosing to sneak a smoke puts their cigarette somewhere other than the wash
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Lee Valley tools traditionally “announces” a new fake tool on April first, but will sell it if there’s enough interest. Most have been discontinued by now, but one is still available for sale: a blank tape measure so you can make up your ow
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This has been studied a lot in design. Most people prefer line lengths in the 50-60 character region. Some studies show lengths up to 75 to be appropriate, but that’s about the limit. Past that people have a hard time keeping track of where
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Strange - you can connect an iPhone directly to a windows computer with no iTunes around. I wonder why that doesn’t work on Linux. In any case, I think there are apps around that make the iPhone serve a web interface to your files on your l
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I agree. It also makes it harder to compare companies because it moves an explicit benefit “X days PTO per year” to a vague one “well, it’s whatever days your manager feels like approving”. As a manager I’d also hate this - it’s another thi
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Electricity is a funny comparison to pick. True, we didn’t ban electricity, but we did (effectively) ban certain “types” of particularly dangerous in-home electricity, like knob-and-tube. And like the cited passage, knob-and-tube can theore
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Agreed. I work for a privately held company and am a bit less jaded about it. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think the company is my friend or anything… but I know how much the owner hates layoffs on an emotional level and have seen the compan
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IANAL. I don’t think you can prevent scraping or use in ML corpuses in this way. Copyright prevents the creation of non-transformative copies of a work other than some protected use cases (parody, education, etc). All OSS licenses do is pro
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Even Ubuntu desktop can be pretty daunting. I remember the App Store (or whatever they call it) falling apart when trying to install Discord and having to resort to command line magic to fix it. That’s sort of the pattern in my experience -
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Yes, the post you’re replying to was recounting a joke :)
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I work in a news-adjacent industry. As far as I can tell nobody on the news side is “scared out of their mind”. There is concern over the whole “rich guy takes over town square” aspect, a bit of concern over the “increasingly arbitrary ban
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This whole “Elon Musk polls Elon Musk’s followers and acts like it’s a) representative of the Twitter userbase in general and that b) the results of the poll are an infallible measure of which option is best” thing is just bizarre to me. Th
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What secondary indicators are you referring to? And yeah Twitter ad targeting has always been confusing to me. Some people here are saying it’s because they fired that team, but it’s been weird for years. The automatically determined intere
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Video showing the lenses in question: https://youtu.be/Bd6V61EAIbk (Sorry if these were in the OP link and I didn’t see them - the site is unusable on mobile) I have no idea how this would work in a practical sense - the im
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A lot of PTZ cameras have fairly large sensors compared to webcams or phones, and unlike a phone or DSLR they’re designed to be operated continuously so they shouldn’t overheat.
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Wasn’t try to slag HoW at all[*]! Just a lot of cheap broadcast PTZs are built with more price sensitive customers in mind, who often come from legislative, corporate or house of worship. You can absolutely find high-end sophisticated produ
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There is another option: You can buy relatively high quality PTZ cameras designed for low-end broadcast (HoW and legislative mostly). Some will output to USB, at the higher end you’ll need to capture SDI, NDI, or 2110. I have a coworker wit
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Twitter was profitable! They made a profit in 2018 and 2019 and would have been profitable in 2021 were it not for a one-time legal settlement. Or if you prefer to do it by quarters, they’ve been profitable for 16 of the last 20 quarters. T
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I’m not quite sure what you’re getting at. It’s not a sin to comment on a security issue while the issue still exists. Furthermore, correcting a security issue doesn’t render somebody immune to all complaints on future security issues.
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> I am nobody not worth attacking. You’re probably not worth individually attacking, but a brief look at the failed ssh login logs of any insignificant server shows that you probably are worth automated attacks… so I suppose the question
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I don’t believe that Firefox going from N paid devs to 0 would be positive. As much as I didn’t care for Pocket + etc, I doubt they consume anywhere near 100% of the paid developer time. As a result, zero paid devs would almost certainly le

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