JackCh

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by JackCh 8y ago
No way, that's not good enough. We can't trust adults to read. The packaging needs vivid color photographs of autopsies for maximum emotional impact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cigarettes_brazil.JPG
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by JackCh 8y ago
~100,000 narratives to classify and they couldn't even be bothered to have a couple interns spend a few weeks reviewing suspected narratives? All it would take is to present the suspected narrative to a human with the instances of &qu
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by JackCh 8y ago
You say "almost no one" heeds the warnings, but it's certainly not true that almost everyone gives tiny magnets to toddlers.
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by JackCh 8y ago
They're not that easy to lose, on account of being incredibly magnetic. Even if you throw a handful across the room, they'll stay stuck to each other. If you pick them off one by one and throw them then you'll lose them,
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by JackCh 8y ago
The FDA banned pure caffeine powder but as far as I can tell caffeine pills are still legal and widely available. I go easy on the stuff these days, but when I was younger I once took way too many (10 pills equivalent to 20 cups of coffee
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by JackCh 8y ago
It doesn't even work well on desktop, look at this: https://i.imgur.com/i2NdHfR.png A tiny sliver of the trailing 'e' on "influence" was sliced off, so in response to that minor readability issue a
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "It would be nice if Hacker News had a better way to quote text." Consider doing it like this.
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "If users refuse to pay for subscriptions and keep blocking ads for reasons that have nothing to do with privacy or security, pretty soon as-blockers will become illegal." When an embattled government tries to kill a single
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by JackCh 8y ago
You need a lesson in common sense. Throwing more of your money at Alphabet is not going to make them a nicer company. You're deluding yourself if you honestly think that. You're in a wildly asymmetric relationship with a multi-
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by JackCh 8y ago
I believe they have a financial incentive to not do this. If buying a second-hand switch is perceived as risky, then sales of new switches will be encouraged. Of course this would cause a switch to depreciate even more when you buy it sin
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by JackCh 8y ago
I've found that OsmAnd's directions are high quality, but it's UX needs some more TLC. It's something I can use because I found poking around at it somehow enjoyable, but it's not something I can yet recommend to p
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by JackCh 8y ago
People who reward companies like Alphabet are the reason we don't have nice things.
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by JackCh 8y ago
The deterrent against this is serious prison time. That's mail fraud, a federal crime that could hypothetically get you 20 years in prison. Standard sentencing guidelines mean you would almost certainly not get that 20 years, but it&
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by JackCh 8y ago
The hope for many, perhaps a vain one, is that negatively impacting technical organizations (open source projects or MIT's ability to host computer science course videos) will have a disproportionate effect on the developers of youtube
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "Are they being unreasonable? Maybe, but it's not my, or your, place to decide that." What a ridiculous statement. It's everybody's right and place to decide for themselves whether or not they think youtub
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by JackCh 8y ago
The 1986 6.001 videos are available here: https://archive.org/details/MIT_Structure_of_Computer_Progra...
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by JackCh 8y ago
To be clear, that 500mm number is referring to rolled homogeneous armor (RHA) equivalency. Modern tanks use fancy composite and reactive armor to provide incredible protection. It's not actually 500mm thick, but is apparently equival
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by JackCh 8y ago
That's right, the GAU-8 is inadequate for killing modern MBTs, but is complete overkill for any other sort of armored vehicle. It might get lucky and disable a MBT with the autocannon (it may not get through the tanks armor but cou
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by JackCh 8y ago
Sure. But it could carry even more bombs if it had an autocannon that wasn't oversized. The fully loaded GAU-8 weighs something like 1/4th the A-10s maximum bomb load.
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "The F-18 was "good enough" for low intensity combat, but is inadequate for many other deployments." In other words it's been adequate in reality but inadequate in fantasy scenarios.
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by JackCh 8y ago
The GAU-8, everybody's favorite reason to love the A-10; the autocannon the A-10 was built around, is obsolete. 30x173mm can no longer kill what it was meant for killing, and what it's actually killing in practice today can be
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by JackCh 8y ago
I'm sure they could pitch down her voice in post. Or maybe give her a tank of sulfur hexafluoride...
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by JackCh 8y ago
I've received a company wide email like that before, but it never made the news.
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by JackCh 8y ago
Semi-autonomous systems like this have the effect of reducing 'driver' attentiveness.
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by JackCh 8y ago
A few years ago I hit a deer. Had the deer been waiting to jump into the road from on a sidewalk instead of behind a bush, I would not have hit it. The reason I hit the deer is because I didn't know the deer was there. When people hi
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by JackCh 8y ago
Easier to just not put anything worthwhile on bitchute to be frank. youtube-dl needs constant vigalent updates to keep it working, maintaining a fork of it is a serious long-term commitment.
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by JackCh 8y ago
The third-party lab machines Theranos was secretly using will often dilute samples during their general operation. This is a known factor engineered into their design and accounted for in their certification/regulation. Theranos was
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by JackCh 8y ago
As I understand it MindGeek is pretty big but still only a small fraction the size of Youtube in terms of traffic. And they've yet to create a non-porn version of their site. I've heard rumors that they've at least consider
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by JackCh 8y ago
Very annoyingly youtube-dl refuses to support bitchute for reasons that aren't exactly clear: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/14052 If I can't get data off bitchute easily using de facto st
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by JackCh 8y ago
Basic gun safety is like basic shop safety. "Don't touch this machine, you could hurt yourself" . Learning how to use it comes later, if at all.

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