Aloisius

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by Aloisius 11mo ago
A RAM 1500 can haul 1.3x the weight and tow 4.7x the weight of a Vito. And a RAM can go off-road. They are, ultimately, made for different workloads.
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
The US limit is typically 80,000 lbs, so 36.29 megagrams (aka "metric" tons). The EU countries have limits of 40 Mg or higher (except Albania). Netherlands allows vehicles up to 50 Mg. Of course this is all for 5+ axle vehicles. A
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
The primary reason Japan's healthcare is affordable is because the government institutes strict price controls on healthcare providers. Every procedure, every service, every medical device and every drug has a price fixed nationally an
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
No, it's the model license. There's a second license for the code. Of course, model weights almost certainly are not copyrightable so the license isn't enforceable anyway, at least in the US. The EU and the UK are a different
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
I mean, that sounds like a win from the point of view of copyright. The whole purpose of copyright is to promote the creation of new works after all. In GRRM's case, the more successful his works became, the less he wrote which is ki
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
Corporations can't create copyrighted works, only people can. The date of copyright expires is based on when the actual humans authors die.
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
The cable was described in the news as thin. It isn't that high off the ground and with or without the drone in view, it looks thin. Maybe it's an RG6 drop, but it could also be ethernet or a fiber drop. They're all thin wire
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
Considering manned aircraft, including billion dollar military aircraft, crash into stuff? I'm not sure that's a realistic expectation.
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
So presumably Iran has a reverse proxy in front of the entire internet for HTTP? I really want to know what's on the webpage for the iframe.
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
People voting with their wallet are why Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Frito-Lay, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Monsanto and Boeing are still in business. And people voting with their wallet have led to literally hundreds of thousands of
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
> The USB-C thing just made everything better. It cost Apple basically nothing It made all the iPhone docks/speakers/etc. obsolete. The last time that happened, when Apple swapped the old 30 pin connector for lightning, it pi
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
Yeah, people have confirmed it works with iOS 15, so it seems more likely that Google implemented AWDL.
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
The problem isn't E2E encrypted group video calls. FaceTime supports that. The issue is interoperability with E2E encryption. If Apple says sure, implement this FaceTime spec. Facebook does the same thing, go ahead and implement Mess
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
Yeah, hyperrealistic beans. They don't look real at all. The inside of an actual burrito is messy after you bite into it (and usually before). That burrito has a couple of nearly dry, yet for some reason speckled, beans that look mor
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
There's something about how this article was written that reads like grave robbing, especially the bit about them hoping to discover "more treasures."
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
The NBP looks like a mock of food to me - the unwrapped burrito on a single piece of intact tinfoil, a table where the grain goes all wonky, an almost pastry looking tortilla, hyperrealistic beans and there's something wrong with the f
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
> A person with dyslexia, for example, will perform worse on these tests irrespective of their learning speed, learned knowledge, intellectual curiosity, or creativity. This is a form of bias. No, it's what they were designed to d
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
Isn't the whole point of IQ that it is a single number? Or I suppose potentially two numbers if the quotient was expressed as a fraction.
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
You can apply through the ACCESS HRA Mobile app in NYC.
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
SF's budget doesn't contain $15B of money it can use for whatever it wants. Most of it isn't discretionary, either because of voter mandates or by federal/state government requirements and has to go to specific programs.
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
Minimum wage in NYC is $16.50/hour and there's a 50% discount on fares for low income people.
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
Someone made a JavaScript version of Glassner's 55 segment design along with a dozen others that's fun to play with: https://aresluna.org/segmented-type/
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
NJ Transit uses 105-segment displays. Not only do they include lowercase letters, but the uppercase and numbers are noticeably different from MUNI's 38-segment displays.
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
The Penn Station passenger display was, according to the NYT, segmented LCD glass made by Signature Technologies in Arizona. It had 43 segments (each character had a 13 segment column, 17 segments column, then another 13 segment column that
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
Can they convert $1K outlay into $1.1K of tax revenue the same month? Given New Mexico's tax rates, it seems like it would be difficult to do so. It looks like the program will cost about $600M next year. In order to generate more tax
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
Are immigrants privileged then?
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
Em. "Improper payments" includes mistaken payments, overpayments and under payments. It is a measure of payment (or non-payment) errors, not fraud.
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
Why is the production, distribution, trade and consumption of goods and services (aka, the economy) the highest priority? Well, mostly because it's required to keep the vast majority of people in society alive and the effects of disrup
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
New Zealand effective taxes rates are generally higher than the US, not lower unless you're doing something odd like comparing based on average local wage. Switzerland, the Netherlands and Japan all use the Bismark model (contributions
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
https://github.com/andrekassis/ai-watermark

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