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by adolph 11mo ago
Seems like it would make sense to mandate a specific height for headlamps. I wonder why this hasn’t been done.
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by adolph 11mo ago
I read a recent observation that people subject to discovery are often making purposeful typos in key names in order for the communication to remain under the radar.
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by adolph 11mo ago
I think using AI to adjust the salience landscape of a web page (aka ad blocking) would be welcomed.
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by adolph 11mo ago
Cynicism aside, this seems like an attempt to prune back a potentially excessive legal discovery demand by appealing to public opinion. The New York Times is demanding that we turn over 20 million of your private ChatGPT conversation
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by adolph 11mo ago
Is captcha solving on yt-dlp's roadmap? This seems to be a natural next step. Maybe there is an external library they could integrate?
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by adolph 1y ago
Is there an irony in this? The negativity cognitive bias often used by news media to increase the salience of their output now affects the perception of their product.
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by adolph 1y ago
File under “nominative determinism” Google “sumobot;” ai summary says: A sumobot is a robot designed to push an opponent out of a circular arena, similar to human sumo wrestling.
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by adolph 1y ago
Hanselman famously said “URLs are UI” and he’s absolutely right A challenge for this is that the URL is the most visible part of an HTTP request but there are many other submerged parts that are not available as UI yet are significant to
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by adolph 1y ago
I suspect the root of democracy’s success lies in Galton’s observation
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by adolph 1y ago
Factcheckers are QA. If there is anything for them to do, then the publisher has failed by not providing the writer with tooling for establishing unit and integration tests for all information within an article.
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by adolph 1y ago
That'd be an interesting channel, the "LockMakingLawyer" where the lock is highly lawsuit resistant, "Press the NDA button to always be informed when the next video comes out"
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by adolph 1y ago
For sure, my kids' school was AMI and still had a few ancillary adults. It can still be a bummer most of the day.
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by adolph 1y ago
Sure, sometimes short term spending enables long term savings. And on an even longer time scale, how do improved outcomes figure in? The significant factor is how a change like this is implemented in context. Within a public school system t
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by adolph 1y ago
Costs aren't exactly lower. The study noted that the cost savings came from higher student to teacher ratios in 1st-3rd offsetting higher costs of teacher training and classroom materials over a hypothetical amortization period. This i
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by adolph 1y ago
> it is actually very rigid, with kids being able to play with just a small set of toys that don't really exercise their creativity There exist various implementations of Montessori. AMI was founded by Dr. Montessori [0] and certifi
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by adolph 1y ago
> - high likelihood you lose money Loss aversion is a cognitive bias that has to be worked on like any other. Poker might be a good method to address it.
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by adolph 1y ago
> > GE owning a TV network > Ever watched any NBC IP in the 2000s and early 2010s? Sure, recalling 30Rock's continual references to it brought it to mind as a relatively politically neutral US equivalent. Granting th
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by adolph 1y ago
Dassault (major newspaper owner) Is that like Lockheed Martin owning a major newspaper or GE owning a TV network?
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by adolph 1y ago
I've read a little about Novo Nordisk's history and it is a pretty interesting story about aligning financial success with human flourishing. The pharmaco is a subsidiary of a anti-diabetes foundation started from proceeds from ge
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by adolph 1y ago
. . . once in a [news media financial analyst] generation financial crisis. Its like fruit fly generations, not 20-30 year human cohort generations.
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by adolph 1y ago
yeah, kinda sorta epitomizes "strong options weakly held" > certainly haven’t reevaluated their stance on anything Brings to mind the idea of "simulated thinking:" We have so many different schema that have been l
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by adolph 1y ago
. . . famous for their wood-and-steel staircase that seemed to float in mid-air . . . But what did this staircase look like? Jobs found office space in Palo Alto, California, at 3475 Deer Creek Road, occupying a glass-and-concrete bu
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by adolph 1y ago
> but may not arrest/fine until such criminal trespassers get off the ferry in UK Many entities assert extraterritorial jurisdiction [0] for a broad range of activities. The critical question is if the offense would be categorized u
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by adolph 1y ago
Kinda: ESPARGOS: ESP32-based WiFi sensing array https://espargos.net/
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by adolph 1y ago
Another strange hole over Havana https://adsb.exposed/?dataset=Planes&zoom=10&lat=23.0304&lng... And interesting spotted patterns around some air force training bases (Vance and Sheppard): https://ads
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by adolph 1y ago
Here is a large installation over surface parking at a VA medical center. I think it is just a matter of time before this becomes the standard everywhere. Lat, Lon: 29.701864, -95.388646 https://maps.app.goo.gl/N7U4EmUVQsFG6
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by adolph 1y ago
If you had a window seat you could make bank with a starlink mini and undercut the Air Canada by a small amount, like $40 Canadian. Just use pfSense Captive Portal and make sure you forward any port 53 or 853 to the external interface to th
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by adolph 1y ago
@patio11, I realize "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" [0] does disclaim comprehensiveness, but gendered last names seem a worthwhile inclusion. 0. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/fals
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Honoring the Legacy of Robert Murray-Smith(hackaday.com)
2 points by adolph 1y ago|1 comments
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by adolph 1y ago
Because of this, Robert’s family has partnered with the suicide prevention charity CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) to try and raise awareness about men’s mental health.

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