XzAeRosho

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by XzAeRosho 3y ago
I'm from Chile and seatbelt culture is very strong and policed. Most people in the backseats are very used to use their seatbelts, even more so in the front. Intercity buses also have mandatory seatbelts.
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by XzAeRosho 3y ago
One could argue that large reactor plants make for easier targets since the surface area of attack vectors is much larger.
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by XzAeRosho 3y ago
Pressurization problems are not uncommon in aviation. Most planes will drop to a safer altitude or divert to "safer" routes in case something goes wrong. They did what they are supposed to do in those circumstances. I'm findi
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by XzAeRosho 3y ago
TBH it's difficult to take serious any campaign running through these crowdfunding platforms. My "scam alert" sirens start to go off any time I see these kind of links.
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by XzAeRosho 3y ago
>“We didn’t expect there to be so much iron density at that altitude. It comes from meteors that enter the atmosphere at high speed, burn up and [then] the metal atoms are left suspended. The iron layer is normally a little bit higher. I
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by XzAeRosho 3y ago
Numberphile published an hour long video [1] about the Langland program, which dives a bit into this "grand unified theory of mathematics". I'm not a mathematician, but I find these topics fascinating. [1] https://
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by XzAeRosho 3y ago
The rate of acceleration is slowing down, but still is accelerating.
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by XzAeRosho 3y ago
The problem is that this feature can and will be used to restrict the users, it doesn't offer any real benefit to you. This will not increase security for the user either, it's just a new barrier at the risk of higher fingerprinti
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by XzAeRosho 3y ago
Is that even possible in Grub? Last time I checked there was a tool called "Burg" that would animate backgrounds like a gif, but otherwise it was very clunky and not a great experience.
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by XzAeRosho 3y ago
The only thing that Google Sheets has in their favor, is their JavaScript API to interact with the sheets. But even that is fairly slow compared to any scripting done in Excel.
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by XzAeRosho 3y ago
That was a fascinating read. Thanks for sharing! That seal video chasing the squid was so captivating given the context of the article.
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
>What AI is already capable of should be celebrated. It's amazing. It can save so much time and enable so much more productivity. But we should all share in that collective productivity increase as it continues to improve. It should
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
Most of those techniques and machinery is behind company secrecy, but yes, you need highly precise and specialized machinery to build that kind of things. Linus Tech Tips did a tour of the Intel fab factory a few months ago: https:/&#
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
How do captchas work for blind people behind screen readers? I usually use a lot of keyboard strokes which seems to trigger a lot of captcha systems So far, the play audio option are kind of weird, specially if you're hard of hearing.
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
I think this is the big take away from all this ChatGPT vs. Google. Non-tech people could experiment first hand how scaringly powerful a well crafted AI can be.
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
I remember when Flash was phased out and these kind of tech demos from Google started to show up to demonstrate native rendering on the browser, and while still being impressed at the time, the render quality was abysmal, even in good PCs,
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
When you work in multiple projects with different requirements this kind of tools are a godsend.
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
I've been working professionally with PHP for the last decade or so, and the last few years have been so good. The changes are very welcomed, and the performance improvements are amazing in general. The codebases that you can create no
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
Both are basically dead. The draft for TACK was made in 2013[1] and their mailing list doesn't even work[2]. [1]: http://tack.io/draft.html [2]: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/tack
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
We installed hundreds of RPi for energy monitoring in a huge project, and after 3 years of operation, we only had like 3 or 4 SD corruption errors which only killed the GUI, but the rest of the system kept chugging as usual (I wonder if the
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
Those are pictures. Not actual demos.
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
Not a corporation, but recently I worked with a Swiss company that opted to use Hetzner due to their "green" initiatives, because for them it's relevant to maintain a low carbon footprint, even in the server space. Call it a
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
I don't follow the .NET ecosystem closely enough, but it feels that releasing a mayor version every year feels like kind of unnecessary? Or if they intend to keep doing this, they should release LTS versions of some kind. It feels kind
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
Most content heavy websites that tend to be scrapped, usually use server side rendering for this exact same reason, and put many obstacles in the way to make sure that data doesn't get scrapped easily. See: product price, stock, delive
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
Also product information updates/mistakes. Some companies like to make sure that the data that is being shown out there is accurate.
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
ScrappingBee is a fantastic paid solution that makes most of the pain of modern web scraping go away. The prices are not very friendly though...
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
Location: Chile (UTC -3/-4) Remote: yes Willing to relocate: yes, only if relocation assistance is provided Technologies: Go, Python, PHP 7+, Docker, Javascript (React, Vue, Bootstrap) Résumé/CV: https://www
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
I had a colleague that liked to hear Christmas songs while programming, ANY type of music as long as it was Christmas-y. Very odd, but the dude was amazing at programming, so...
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
It's absolutely amazing to me that so many people find research-funding a crazy thing to do, almost equivalent to throwing money down the drain.
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by XzAeRosho 4y ago
The code seems to suggest they have a 200ms throttle between each keystroke, which should explain the delay.

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