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by Tagbert 2y ago
And my niece is still using my 2014 MBP that I gave her a couple of years ago.
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by Tagbert 2y ago
They do support two external displays now in clamshell mode.
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by Tagbert 2y ago
The question may have come off as implying that people do not made buying decisions based on the country of origin label. I imagine that many people’s own buying habits show them that the label does have an impact.
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by Tagbert 2y ago
I do wonder how much impact those door handles really have on drag vs the ergonomic problems.
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by Tagbert 2y ago
I rented a Tesla from Hertz last summer. They sent me several emails before the trip explaining about an EV, how to find a charger, and how to charge. There were also videos showing the processes. When I picked up the car, the desk person a
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by Tagbert 2y ago
Won’t help for tweaking a logo for an app or adjusting a diagram for a presentation. AI generated images do not have direct control. It’s like trying to do tech support with an elderly relative over the phone.
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by Tagbert 2y ago
Oh I know that the supporters are willing participants in the big lie meant to undermine the elections and democracy in general.
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by Tagbert 2y ago
those are not the risks to fair elections. politicians who deny the election results and use lies and misdirection to convince their followers that the election was "stolen" are the true risks.
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by Tagbert 2y ago
We Americans may need to take notes on this depending on the results of this fall's election.
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by Tagbert 2y ago
why don't we just build giant Arcologies and move everyone into them. easy. /s
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by Tagbert 2y ago
I'll think about that while I'm sitting at a stop light and skip a chapter in a podcast.
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by Tagbert 2y ago
it also seems to be a roughly proportional change in density so why would it be unhelpful? Just because you can't point to a specific feature and say that is 1.6nm, doesn't make the label meaningless as so many try to assert. It i
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by Tagbert 2y ago
Rivian originally planned to put tank turns on their vehicles but then cancelled those plans. They found that the tank turns were turning up the soil to a destructive amount and did not provide much actual functionality beyond just looking
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by Tagbert 2y ago
I think hallucination is pretty close. It represents what happens when you give an answer based on what you think you remember even if that memory is not correct. How many people would agree that P.T. Barnum said “There’s a sucker born ever
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by Tagbert 2y ago
I’ve found that most algorithms tend to reinforce a taste by trying to provide more of the same. They rarely try to bring in something that diverges from the pattern. Of course, the libraries have limits and the algorithms will often match
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by Tagbert 2y ago
The person I was replying to was arguing for a Bluetooth connection to their phone instead of CarPlay. CarPlay is much better from a safety standpoint than a phone screen.
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by Tagbert 2y ago
So you want them to Sherlock Homebrew?
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by Tagbert 2y ago
If find the Bluetooth interface too limited because it requires interacting with the touchscreen on the phone. I want to use the large screen on the car with an interface that is optimized to work while in the car not small controls on a s
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by Tagbert 2y ago
A few years ago I was interested in a Tesla, but have written them off, primarily because of Musk. He is not amusing. My next EV will be a non-Tesla.
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by Tagbert 2y ago
On its own, this is not definitive. This is how you generate the hypothesis for the next round of research that looks for the visual data and tries to follow it to see if it can be predictive or not.
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by Tagbert 2y ago
Diatoms generate a silicon dioxide skeleton and they look like little space probes. https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/an-introductio... https://www.mediastorehouse.com/science-phot
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by Tagbert 2y ago
This makes Ruby a modern-day, Mary Anning, combing the beach and discovering ichthyosaur fossils. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anning
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by Tagbert 2y ago
The second is how I have normally seen dark matter presented. The first is only used as ridicule.
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by Tagbert 2y ago
Compare that to $97B profit for Apple in 2023.
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by Tagbert 2y ago
I had no problems with the Mac OS upgrade but then I didn't have custom partitions setup and Time Machine on an external drive has always worked for me.
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by Tagbert 2y ago
'But when people talk about "mental maps," I'm not entirely sure what they're talking about. ' For me, knowing where things are in the space around me or in the larger navigation zone is like knowing where the
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by Tagbert 2y ago
just bring it up in an editor and drop the saturation to zero. That will take it back to a luminance map image.
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by Tagbert 2y ago
The IR may be in a very narrow band. The visible wavelengths have different colors because there are a range of wavelengths that correspond to different cones in our eyes that roughly match red:green:blue sensors. If you shift the IR freque
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by Tagbert 2y ago
If you liked that, you should check out the History of English podcast. It is a great and long running podcast that looks at the history and other factors that gave us this language. https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/
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by Tagbert 2y ago
my grandfather only lost one finger tip to a joiner. My father had two fingers pretty well mangled by a table saw. I used to do some carpentry but have lost interest in the last couple of decades. What really scares me are band saws!

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