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by adolph 5d ago
What a world we live in that hot air reworking RAM on a SBC makes any sense. I can kind of understand shanzhai GPUs to get around export restrictions, but RPis?
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by adolph 7d ago
While many comments are about brain lateralization, which this research does not address, an interesting aspect is how much it would lend credence to the "Triune Model" of the brain [0], which is generally described as discredited
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by adolph 7d ago
And Iam McGilchrist in The Master and His Emissary nearly 20 years after Stephenson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_His_Emissary
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by adolph 8d ago
I think the author really missed by failing to integrate Hayek's ideas. Hayek argued that market prices thus allow agents—all of whom operate with limited information—to coordinate their activities. By contrast, the full info
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by adolph 9d ago
In the S&P article linked by another comment, there is an interesting note about storing other materials: The [Early Storage Reserve] caverns at the Bryan Mound site were originally used by Dow Chemical to store magnesium. http
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by adolph 9d ago
And not related to Safire's "nattering nabobs of negativism," the originals of whom SF's Nob Hill eponymizes.
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by adolph 10d ago
Perfect error message when opening the cockpit door: "You must play a different flight simulator if you want to go in there." And: "No way! Opening the cabin door during flight is a federal offense!"
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by adolph 11d ago
> unless you actually believe the Greeks were amongst the first humans to truly emerge with consciousness which seems farfetched to me To the extent that human consciousness can be described from within itself as something distinct from
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by adolph 12d ago
Love how the inserts' "MAGNET POLARITY FOR EACH MAGNET" calls out polarity for top side and bottom side in separate columns as if each one could be a wee horseshoe magnet with the poles pointed in the same direction. I moment
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by adolph 13d ago
Oh yeah, I forgot what the table layout stuff used to be like. Since the back has a shine gradient across the back, each position would need all the possible characters. iirc, in that period an article on A List Apart [0] proposed something
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by adolph 13d ago
It is interesting to think about the socio-technical reasons to make a serverside roundtrip for each keypress. Another approach might be to load up the dictionary client-side and use javascript to swap letterforms in various pre-determined
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by adolph 15d ago
There is/was an X-Prize for that. Looks like finals were last June. https://www.xprize.org/competitions/wildfire
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by adolph 15d ago
To clarify, Red Adair and company did take part in the remediation effort in post Gulf War Kuwait: Many consider his crowning achievement to be his central role in containing the Kuwaiti oil field fires of 1991 that threatened planetary
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by adolph 15d ago
This done to enhance light gathering, right? Normal color CCDs have per-pixel filters so lose some light in order to gather the light at the same time? The most common method is to blanket the CCD pixel array with an alternating mask of
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by adolph 16d ago
The paper doesn't seem to mention Canada anywhere. Columbia has coastlines on the Pacific and Caribbean. I can see how the adjective stack could lead a person astray tho. In the 1970’s this species was common in the Bay of Panama,
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by adolph 16d ago
For your consideration, a cephalopod joke I made while stopped in traffic considering the name of an SUV: Q: What do you call a mischievous mollusk? A: A Naughty-lus
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by adolph 16d ago
You might find the recent Theories of Everything podcast interview [0] with Peter Godfrey-Smith interesting. 0. https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/peter-godfrey-smith-thi...
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by adolph 16d ago
I don't think it is bizarre since a panel of lab tests are physiological indicators that may result from the various health and fitness metrics currently measured/collected by iPhone. There are lots of tie-ins from Apple products
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by adolph 16d ago
Is anyone else intrigued by the $129 "panel of over 50 biomarkers, aimed at enhancing preventive health insights?" This was mentioned in the Apple Health segment. [0] I checked out Quest's website and there wasn't an obv
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by adolph 17d ago
I took the tethering demand as Apple chickening out from Watch doing to iPhone what iPhone did to iPod. Having used a cell plan watch for a while, I can almost do away with the full phone aside from it being a requirement to manage the watc
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by adolph 17d ago
One might say the same of newyorker.com: The company, which has six trackers monitoring access to a single web page, frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off for reading an article for free, echoing the language of the social media industr
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by adolph 18d ago
> wish cameras rolled constantly in cars and on body As I understand it, there is a tough balance. Given presumptive release, always-on cams might disincline vulnerable populations whose cooperation is socially useful. > large stickin
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by adolph 18d ago
From the article, page 3: I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with what happened. The reply was, “Why would you ruin your career?” I replied that I am an academic, and asked why he thought goi
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by adolph 18d ago
The article isn't an explicit claim that these Christians were the Buddha, but that the story told about them is an apparent retelling of the Sidhartha story. It closes with: All this tells me that there’s something about our relat
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by adolph 18d ago
Article specifically mentions the term "pervert glasses" US police and federal agents are not alone in their fear. Concern among the public and privacy experts over Meta’s smart glasses, widely dubbed “pervert glasses”, is gro
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by adolph 18d ago
Here is an interesting quick read about the Australian experience with body worn cameras (BWC). I selected it from the search results since many of the US-centric results are sourced from DoJ or similar which may be seen as less than object
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by adolph 20d ago
Interesting: Just south of the launchpad lies Bukkekjerka, a protected Sami cultural monument. Prior to Christianity, sacrifices were made within a cave facing the sea. In most recent times, for the past half-century, there has been an
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by adolph 21d ago
I think I mis-spoke when I wrote "blame-free" because while I come from a psychological-safety inquiry perspective, the term isn't quite descriptive. The purpose of dropping "blame" is that stopping inquiry there wi
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by adolph 21d ago
This is a interesting point. I gave some thought to the nature of what was being processed. In some ways another New World agricultural product gone industrial, cocoa, brought about some companies that at a minimum rival the tobacco compani
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by adolph 21d ago
Reading through this and thinking about the problem in a blame-free way leads me to see the tobacco companies as a through-line for product packaging optimization that transcends any specific use. "The first patented cigarette-making m

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