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by SaberTail 2y ago
> Only in December of 2022 did scientists at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announce that they had achieved the first recorded fusion reaction with a net energy gain We've been achieving
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by SaberTail 2y ago
San Jose has this same problem with abandoned vehicles. They will only do something if they can be classified as "blight". In practice that means the vehicle has to be so extensively damaged as to be inoperable. When I last looked
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by SaberTail 2y ago
When I did SMS-banking for a candidate, there was always a real person behind the messages. However, that consisted of queuing up a big list of numbers and a templated message and clicking "send". Likewise, if someone responded, t
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by SaberTail 2y ago
If you're in the USA, don't donate more than $200 to any political campaign. If you donate more than $200, then those contributions have to be reported to the FEC (Federal Election Commission). Those reports are publicly available
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by SaberTail 2y ago
It's not the flashiest thing, but I lost a bunch of weight (over 50 lbs) using a spreadsheet. The way I did it, I had one sheet with the macronutrients (including calories) and serving sizes of food I encountered, or recipes I made. Th
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by SaberTail 2y ago
The article only touches lightly on this, but I wonder how much of this is pushback from communities that are tired of Walmart outsourcing their loss prevention to the local police and courts. Walmart has all of the self-checkouts under con
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by SaberTail 2y ago
It's a common misunderstanding of the Dunning-Kruger effect. In actuality, there's a direct relationship between how good a person thinks they are and how good they actually are. Not inverse. The Dunning-Kruger effect is that the
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by SaberTail 2y ago
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40085565
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by SaberTail 3y ago
Yeah, this was a project of the SomethingAwful forums. There are more pieces than in the linked YTMND. My contribution had the balls teleporting Star Trek -style, but I'm not sure I kept a copy anywhere.
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by SaberTail 3y ago
Tarence Ray coined the term "the Devil's Milkshake" for this type of stunt, and offered up some speculation about why it's become common (at least in the USA): https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-devil
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by SaberTail 3y ago
I had a professor who was fond of saying "the proton is a garbage can". This is why the LHC (and other hadron colliders) has to run at such a high luminosity (collision rate). Most of the time, when it collides two protons, the pa
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by SaberTail 3y ago
Apple wouldn't even exist if not for this type of hacking. One of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak's first projects was selling blue boxes[1] to play around on AT&T's telephone system. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by SaberTail 3y ago
> Precision landing of large amount of troops, anywhere > Ability to lift 250 tons -> precision landing of tanks and artillery, anywhere How does a foe distinguish one of these launches from an ICBM carrying nuclear warheads, so th
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by SaberTail 3y ago
That would explain how they got so much data with a probably small number of compromised accounts. Ashkenazi Jewish people were relatively genetically isolated from the rest of Europe and started from a relatively small founder population.
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by SaberTail 3y ago
I don't want to be a photorealistic version of my human self. That seems so limited and boring.
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by SaberTail 3y ago
otpauth:// is a de-facto standard, since Google Authenticator uses it: https://github.com/google/google-authenticator/wiki/Key-Uri-... The TOTP QR codes decode to one of these URIs
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by SaberTail 3y ago
M:TG wasn't immune to the collectibles glut in the 90s. The Fallen Empires set, which came out in 1994, was so overproduced that you can still get factory sealed booster packs for the same price as current expansions.
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by SaberTail 3y ago
So what's going to happen when we get a big earthquake? It sounds like the streets could end up clogged with driverless cars confused by the debris and unable to communicate, blocking emergency vehicles.
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by SaberTail 3y ago
If half the population were chemically poisoned throughout their lives in a way that negatively affected their physical health, we'd call that a toxic environment. Why is it a disorder, and not a symptom of a toxic environment, when it
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by SaberTail 3y ago
Specifically 42 CFR 493.1105. Because 23andMe is returning information about genetic diseases, they have to retain records for 10 years. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-42/chapter-IV/subchapter-...
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by SaberTail 3y ago
The way I interpret burnout is a disconnect between how much effort you're putting in and what you're getting out of it. When your brain catches on to this disconnect, it gets less and less willing to put in the effort. If your jo
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by SaberTail 3y ago
https://www.ntlite.com/ It lets you customize the installer to install only the components you want, and to set the settings how you want. You can have a completely automated installation that has all the ads and other garb
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by SaberTail 3y ago
They ultimately do come from MS. It's easier to navigate, in my experience, and you usually get a more recent build than the MS tools start with.
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by SaberTail 3y ago
If you can stand to wipe the system and install from scratch, grab a recent ISO from https://uupdump.net/ and then use NTLite to remove all the junk and add WSL. There are some decent built-in presets, but you may want to p
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by SaberTail 4y ago
If anyone does it, it will be financial firms putting them under stock exchanges to get milliseconds of advantage over anyone following the curvature of the earth.
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by SaberTail 4y ago
I haven't read the paper yet, but I can give a general idea based on my experience working on similar experiments. The W boson doesn't live long enough to make it to the detector. All they can see are the decay products. The detec
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by SaberTail 4y ago
For centuries, people have advocated for systems where workers keep the fruits of their labors rather than have them appropriated by those with the ownership. They're called "communists" and "socialists".
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by SaberTail 4y ago
For every card I've had, it builds up in a separate pool, and every so often you either have it deposited to a bank account or applied as credit toward the bill.
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by SaberTail 4y ago
There's nothing stopping companies from giving out shares, plus cash to cover the taxes on those shares. Companies don't do that because it costs them more. Options expiring and returning to the pool is a feature, not a bug, to th
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by SaberTail 4y ago
You say MOND is better because it's simpler. We already have examples of particles that do not interact electromagnetically but have mass, and therefore interact gravitationally. They're neutrinos. How is a new theory of gravity s

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