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by Nzen 4y ago
People keep citing $50, but sometimes he pays more. This video with Exotic [0] mentions that he paid for her apartment and lifestyle expenses, to the tune of several hundred dollars a day, for a time. I have no idea how common that was, but
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by Nzen 4y ago
Here, consider watching MIT's edx course on game design [0]. I found it a good overview of many aspects and a reminder that board games (paper prototypes) can play a role in designing a game. I'm assuming you've already watch
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by Nzen 4y ago
Ah, thanks. You've reminded me about the 2016 debacle [0] wherein github rate limited the cocoapods repository because their practice of using a shallow clone and later fetches impacted github's performance. I'm going to warc
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by Nzen 4y ago
The author uses 'embedded', given that SahAssar didn't explain it either, in the same sense as an 'embedded reporter', That is to say, as a member with a distinct role in an otherwise homogeneous team. The author ta
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by Nzen 4y ago
I used to use chronolapse, a python program to take screenshots, including picture in picture with a webcam. It can use mencoder to create a video. I found I preferred using ffmpeg for my use case.
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by Nzen 4y ago
While desalination requires disposing of all the waterborne particulate, the water can sometimes be precious enough that we bear it. I heard a radio report yesterday [0] about how investing in desalination helped mitigate USA CA Catalina Is
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by Nzen 4y ago
I'm curious how other posters formed an opinion about this framework: the site sends an invalid (premature end of file) https certificate and forbids plain http. That's despite trying firefox, ms edge, internet explorer, and wget.
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by Nzen 4y ago
Github requires [0] the first 2FA mechanism to be totp or sms. Thereafter, you can add a webauthn compatible hardware key. [0] https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/securing-your-acco...
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by Nzen 4y ago
Dan Olsen published a video [0], last year, outlining his experiment on Minnewanka Curve and the ideology driving people who deny his, and similar results, demonstrating the curvature of the earth. While there is no artificial structure, he
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by Nzen 4y ago
In the last three hours [0], they removed it from their git repository, and replaced it with separate html pages [1]. [0] https://github.com/abseil/abseil.github.io/commit/a69a63ec3f... [1] https:/&#x2F
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by Nzen 4y ago
This twitter post points at the pdf rendering [0] of the communal log book that facebook researchers kept while training opt-175. [0] https://github.com/facebookresearch/metaseq/tree/main/projec...
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by Nzen 4y ago
Thanks for suggesting this game. I can definitely see Townsend's influence, though I prefer his A Dark Room . How did you make headway with the research project subsystem ? I've tried submitting just algorithm responses with lot
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by Nzen 4y ago
tl;dr An unfolding game about getting information from qubits. This initially involves wafting away heat and clicking qubits to get their information, to involving other mechanisms to automate that and prioritize them with quantum algorithm
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by Nzen 5y ago
You could also try playing the community translation of 本屋物語 [0], a bookstore simulation game. I wasn't able to, given the hex edit hacking used to insert the translated text without recompiling, but maybe your copy of windows will mat
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by Nzen 5y ago
I don't know if there are tutorials, but I enjoyed Ben Cox's writeup [0] about making a driver for a vga / webcam he had bought. The osdev wiki links to this 2006 [1] sample driver project. Maybe you can find more, depending
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by Nzen 5y ago
tl;dr This is a USA map to visualize average or min-max temperatures for areas roughly the diameter of Chicago. It colors the tiles based on the proportion of the selected interval (annual or a specific month). The data is from a US agency
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by Nzen 5y ago
The sandboxing restriction is one that merits care for (or not supporting) some use cases. Tup requires declaring all outputs (but not all inputs), which can be inconvenient when a build process creates intermediate or derived files that ar
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by Nzen 5y ago
While the famous experiment is over, they've not stopped entirely. Three months ago [0], they announced they'd reopen a small portion of it to investigate how they can winnow down from scrubbers to plant based oxygen replenishment
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by Nzen 5y ago
I have a friend who works for an insurance firm. This company enforces HIPPA requirements of not saving any personally identifiable information by prohibiting any means of saving information. They aren't allowed their phones, nor paper
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by Nzen 5y ago
I'll second the first paragraph here. The demonstration I've come up with involves holding a hand closely in front of only my left eye. My brain lets me see both things, but my hand also has a 'transparent' characteristi
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by Nzen 5y ago
tl;dr describes a reimplementaton [0] of the Common Lisp Object Library System for emacs lisp. This allows using object-oriented strategies in emacs lisp scripts that might otherwise involve more abstract / lower level work over primit
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by Nzen 5y ago
I don't doubt someone has built something like that for testing, though perhaps not as a library. I'm reminded of a networking service that does the same at a higher level, given its easy to remember name : https://gith
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by Nzen 5y ago
Also, the title is Why we choose profit. tl;dr basecamp made profit a requirement of their company to prioritize self-direction. They gesture at alternatives like accepting investment or loans that would come with satisfying non customer
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by Nzen 5y ago
It's no substitute for a librarian, but I am interested in eventually trying out the Johnny.Decimal system [0] to build my own taxonomy based on what I use most often. (Basically choose 10 categories, and then subdivide those ten more
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by Nzen 5y ago
tl;dr a narration of a specific chess game, usually one sentence per move. The board guides the reader to make white's moves. Winning enables a mode that lets the reader perform both white and black's moves of the same match. This
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Oh. I didn't think I would need to ever point to the 'is it a meteorite?' [0] flowchart. I guess how hard you have to fake depends on who you are convincing. Slag can fool your friends, but anyone who studies or collects mete
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by Nzen 5y ago
I'll guess that this simulates moving quickly through the inside of a donut with a bend in it that follows the mouse. That would explain why the pattern repeats and why the far end always curves down.
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by Nzen 5y ago
tl;dr a team including David Bustos published a paper describing their analysis of the age of fossilized footprints in NM White Sands National Park by carbon dating seeds above and below the footprints. This pegs the footprints left in form
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by Nzen 5y ago
tl;dr University of Arizona has restored a test greenhouse as the centerpiece for closed ecosystem research [0]. They plan to connect several other closed units to serve as housing and labs. The 'simulation' involves stepping down
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by Nzen 5y ago
Sure, it feels like that to the victim of the forgery. But, the state isn't denying [0] that some human is alive. The evidence available to it asserts that the human is an impostor attempting to adopt an indefensible identity, as in th

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