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by NamTaf 5y ago
How is it insane? Do you think factories don't have 2000 total pieces of equipment that go into manufacturing widgets? Quantity of moving parts is a nearly worthless metric on its own without describing the scale and complexity of thos
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by NamTaf 5y ago
It is in fact the opposite, because it sets the bar at that level understanding that people treat Tesla’s autopilot in the same way . Tesla just hide their relatively lower capability behind a legal out. People do not care what “level” the
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by NamTaf 5y ago
The million-dollar question now is how it managed to recover after plummeting 2/3 its altitude, only to do so again shortly after? That shows that it was still operable and could aviate, and opens up many more questions. https:/&
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by NamTaf 5y ago
tl;dr about 5%, if you take very conservative values. I decided to do the maths at a very basic level. Nimitz class carriers produce about 1100MWth between their two reactors. Gerald R. Ford classes put out about 1400. There's 10 of th
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by NamTaf 5y ago
Given that the latest version of Chrome is 98.0.4758, if yours is reporting a strange version number like that then it could well fall outside the bounds of whatever check they put in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goog
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by NamTaf 5y ago
In breeding season, magpies are notoriously territorial. To the point where cyclists all over Australia have zip ties tied to their helmets to act as spike-like deterrants to swooping magpies. They would absolutely ruin a drone in about 3 s
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by NamTaf 5y ago
Teams is moving away from electron in v2.0, which may go some way towards slimming down the client but won't solve any of the architectural issues that come with a lack of focus. https://office365itpros.com/2021/06
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by NamTaf 5y ago
Are you implying that these two things are somehow possibly related?
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by NamTaf 5y ago
The change I made was to change my facebook bookmark to messenger, and thus I can still chat to all of my mates who use it to talk but otherwise have to consciously decide to visit facebook itself. I find myself doomscrolling WAY less, and
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by NamTaf 5y ago
A quick search indicates that a 'puffin crossing' is defined by having smart sensors to detect the presence of pedestrians, rather than a pelican's timer-based system. So you may scurry across the crossing and then sensors im
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by NamTaf 5y ago
What platform? I found no battery change wtih WeChat on my iPhone, though I can force-kill it and as I understand it does nothing.
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by NamTaf 5y ago
I noticed this most vividly when seeing Van Gogh's Sunflowers (the 4th, from the National Gallery in London). A high-res scan such as on Wikipedia [1] does no justice to just how textured the painting is. He's clearly applied quit
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by NamTaf 5y ago
That's from 2009. I can't figure out how to navigate the site so as to find the 2022 event.
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by NamTaf 5y ago
Disclaimer: Not an academic, and my whilst undergrad thesis included code it was so broken that when others saw it I had nothing to lose except my pride. Personally, I would. Open source is a form of peer review, and if you're wanting
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by NamTaf 5y ago
You're perhaps overstating how easy it is target a certain design life when constrained by other parameters. It's entirely possible that targetting '15 minutes' is actually meaningless for many of the parts because all o
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by NamTaf 5y ago
As other posts have said, the GFW isn’t just a whole heap of blocked IPs. There’s some of that (Google, FB, etc.), but a lot more of it is DPI and other inspection techniques that also have the effect of slowing overseas data to a crawl. In
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by NamTaf 5y ago
Foreign SIM cards on globs roaming are not passed through the GFW as traffic is carried back to the ‘origin country’ before being sent to the internet writ large. So IP lookups still think you’re in your original country. I used global roam
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by NamTaf 5y ago
I think it's folly to try to cater for the type of person who buys a product, has it identify an issue, then blames the product for identifying the issue.
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by NamTaf 5y ago
Same from my limited experience in China. You use the horn as you approach to overtake someone, change lanes into traffic, etc. to say 'I am here'. It in effect replaces the indicators in many situations.
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by NamTaf 5y ago
We have used "AI" to denote the computer player in games for as long as I've been alive, and I'm pushing my late 30s. This is not new ground, and I'm a bit surprised you're choosing this hill to make your stand
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by NamTaf 5y ago
Wait, I thought WHO's on first.
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by NamTaf 5y ago
Viruses select only for transmissibility, nothing else. They do not select for virulence any more than any other number of factors that may or may not overall have an impact on transmissibility. To think a virus naturally becomes less virul
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by NamTaf 5y ago
I absolutely agree with your comments regarding teaching the underlying approach to digesting a paper. You definitely raise good points, especially the 'one true meaning' comment. I should state that I'm not discounting the v
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by NamTaf 5y ago
I feel you're coming at this without appreciating your body of prior knowledge. Intended or not, your statment "But that can't be it, because just two lines above it we have..." assumes a whole lot of knowledge. You and
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by NamTaf 5y ago
What you're looking at is calculus, specifically differentiation. This is pretty core to understanding physics, because so much of physics depends on the time-evolving state of things. That's fundamentally what's happening he
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by NamTaf 5y ago
Fair points all round, but if you specify something as 500 kg/m² I know that you mean 500 kg of mass per m² and so know to multiply by 9.81 to get a force and thus pressure. I know it can’t already be a force, because that’s a newton.
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by NamTaf 5y ago
The rest of the world can't due to the reverse issue, notwithstanding also not knowing intuitiviely whether that's pounds-force or pounds-mass (I am guessing the former and the acceleration is factored in). These conventions that
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by NamTaf 5y ago
In Australia, each electorate has a big book of names and addresses of voters registered there (the 'electoral roll'). You show up, say your name and address, and they strike off the line next to your details. Being struck off thi
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by NamTaf 5y ago
Seconding this recommendation. Spend a day each at both Sinsheim and Speyer; I spent about 4 hours at each and I was practically jogging around the place to see things.
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by NamTaf 5y ago
Fair point. Unfortunately, there's no helping some people :)

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