NL807

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by NL807 5y ago
Google Talk was great, the only thing I miss from google.
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by NL807 5y ago
Or keep your own wild yeast starter. We make a lot of sour dough bread, so we maintain our own pet yeast.
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by NL807 5y ago
I'd wager all they need to do is get some proper CSS happening and they can visually change things without intrusively changing the HTML content itself. The may need to strip away some deprecated attributes for HTML elements, and add c
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by NL807 5y ago
John Carmack paints an interesting picture on what kind of man Jobs was. https://www.facebook.com/SteveJobsFeed/posts/john-carmack-re... Sorry about the facebook link
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by NL807 5y ago
I think it's worse! Social media creates a bubble effect where nonsense gets amplified more efficiently and reaches a wider audience. It's having quite a detrimental effect on society right now.
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by NL807 5y ago
My first instinct would be collecting seeds.
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by NL807 5y ago
> Even H.R. Giger was boring and unimaginative with regards to how he envisioned the Alien. That's clearly a creature influenced by Earth-ism - a quadruped, with a single head and mouth and a flexible spine and claws, it's basi
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by NL807 5y ago
Isn't the second paragraph not self explanatory?
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by NL807 5y ago
Completely miss the point there. The basic principle behind entropy is that any ordered system will eventually become disordered over time and reaches equilibrium. Some systems go easily disordered within within a human lifetime, or even in
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by NL807 5y ago
Yes, because of entropy. edit: I don't understand why my comment is so controversial. We are all subject to the laws of thermodynamics. DNA, proteins, cells, and body structe is basically matter in low entropic state. Its interaction w
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by NL807 5y ago
And that's the secret sauce for every species that made it so far.
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by NL807 5y ago
There are emergent relationships from a system that is indeed chaotic, but ultimately this is all subject to entropy. Everything is converging towards maximum diffusion.
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by NL807 5y ago
> Could you give an example for "meaning" which is not "human-created"? There is none, and that is the point. "Human-created" is just an emphasis that meaning is a fabricated construct by the human mind.
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by NL807 5y ago
I think I'm cool with that. There is no meaning to any of this chaos, but I make an effort to make my life feel meaningful, and that's all that matters. Like clay, on its own has no purpose, but you can fashion it into bricks and
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by NL807 5y ago
I own a pair of those in RAID-1 mode, now retired. I upgraded the array start of this year, as one of the drives developed a fault. In all honesty, they operated continuously for 8 years without much of an issue, despite the reported flaws.
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by NL807 5y ago
> Does anyone know what fraction of jpegs in the real world are 4:2:0? Most of them. Pretty much the default subsampling for libjpeg(-turbo).
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by NL807 5y ago
In some cases compute trade-off is still cheaper than memory latency.
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by NL807 5y ago
Love the actor programming model. Wish other languages had native support for it.
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by NL807 5y ago
Pretty much what happened to an email address of mine. I'm migrating away from google.
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by NL807 5y ago
Keep in mind, this is out of a population of 7.6 billion. Yes, lot of people die from terrible things. But the chance of someone suffering in the worst possible way (as depicted in those videos) is unlikely for most humans. That said, we co
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by NL807 5y ago
Individuals suffer in many ways, so the "OK" part is all relative. Living in environment where you can get a paycheck is still OK compared to the extreme violence and destruction depicted on Liveleak. In other words, looking throu
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by NL807 5y ago
Alive with smoke sometimes. fml
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by NL807 6y ago
Facebook needs to take down itself.
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by NL807 6y ago
Basically the change of momentum for the electron sheds some of energy used to accelerate it.
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by NL807 6y ago
If the greys figured out how to achieve FTL, then they probably also have the means to be covert as well - assuming passive observation is their goal in the first place.
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by NL807 6y ago
> It's the dictionary's job to have the definition as it's used by society, not to create definitions itself. Yes in some respects, but correct definition is also important.
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by NL807 6y ago
The post on Arstechnica forum is related to Loquat trees, which is different from Medlars.
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by NL807 6y ago
I always wondered how 3blue1brown made his animation clips. They are very good.
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by NL807 6y ago
Why? Because missions like these contribute to our understanding of extraterrestrial worlds, like Mars. The data collected will help with future space travel and potential settlement.
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by NL807 6y ago
I'm speculating here, but I think these images are transmitted in some kind of raw format, or close to it, making them more resilient to data corruption. Compressed images will incur greater data loss when compressed, compared to raw i

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