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by adolph 1y ago
The 1878 one is fascinating: When the plug is inserted, the jack "breaks its normal connection." Like they didn't want to leave the audio output like a floating pin to reduce stray voltage? Scribner calls the switch "spr
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by adolph 1y ago
For pbpaste/pbcopy and xclip? I've considered it and haven't decided how to do it yet given differences in how they work. Do you have one? https://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip https://ss64.c
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by adolph 1y ago
Same but less instead of cat so my fingers stay in the keyboard. Vet, vite, etc are kind of like kitchen single-taskers like avocado slicer-scoopers. Surely some people get great value out of them but a table-knife works just fine for me an
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by adolph 1y ago
There are a few models for community data collection/distribution that appear reasonably successful in ADS-B and bird tracking with commercial, non-commercial and academic examples. The challenge is that there are hard costs to collect
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by adolph 1y ago
One of the great thing about that book was how he described checklist failure, when best practices checklists from one institution didn't generate the same results because the people in the receiving institution weren't bought int
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by adolph 1y ago
The semantics of list types is an underrated problem that probably holds back the market of software tutorials. A todo list is typically a set of unrelated things to be performed once and annotated as "done." Something may be perf
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by adolph 1y ago
I haven't watched the one about the dog, but the one with the initial explication of capstan drives [0] was excellent. I've been dreaming about it for the last year, especially since about the same time another person started work
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by adolph 1y ago
I recommend a Brachiograph build. It will introduce you to some fundamentals of PWM and inverse kinematics. It is well documented but not cookie-cutter. Using a Raspberry Pi will give you more direct access to running the servos than the mi
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by adolph 1y ago
Agreed and out of monotony I'm glad they aren't recycling Pro, Air or Extreme for this financial product, although "AppleCare Extreme" does sound kinda cool in a "Snap into a Slim Jim" kind of way.
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by adolph 1y ago
That seems to be a pretty normal state of affairs. Have you found "getting torn apart" to be a reliable way of changing a mind?
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by adolph 1y ago
From the mind of Tom Clancy: The Campus operates under the cover of Hendley Associates, a financial trading institution. Hendley Associates is a trader in stocks, bonds, and international currencies, though, it does little in the
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by adolph 1y ago
Agreed, Replit's CEO apologized for that lawsuit threat incident too. Well worth reading if you read the root comment's complaint. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27429234
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by adolph 1y ago
The human ability to pattern match is the ultimate hallucination: sometimes it sees Jesus in toast, sometimes the sentience of an LLM compares favorably to oneself.
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by adolph 1y ago
The real story here is that breakaway connectors exist and yet are still not used. While the MRI angle makes it "newsworthy," there are many ways in which a chain might be caught and cause injury if it does not disconnect at a low
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by adolph 1y ago
Additionally from the article the data seems limited to identification information and not medical information. Language in the agreement says it will allow ICE to access personal information such as home addresses, phone numbers, IP
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by adolph 1y ago
This is pretty fascinating. Where did the PFAS come from? How long has it existed in the drinking water? Yet here, just half an hour from Sedan, the region's second-biggest town, there is no chemical plant. Only fields of corn a
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by adolph 1y ago
Your reasoning is well taken and haven recently read Hofstadter's "Surfaces and Essences" the idea of what is a thing and what is not is fascinating. Some of the criteria are questionable to me. For example, some monuments
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by adolph 1y ago
Why does it “stretch the limits of what it means to be a building?” As far as I understand, the Giza pyramid was built block by block like any other building. Both building probably didn’t many people going to the office every day in them,
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by adolph 1y ago
Is the rise of GLPs yet another case of Neal Stephenson called it again? I'm rereading Anathem and struck by similarities of Allswell and the psychoactive components of GLPs. In the book, Allswell is a drug that gives people a sense of
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by adolph 1y ago
What is the purpose of a "power tool" that cuts cardboard? Is it for kids with dexterity challenges? Ex: blunt safety scissors to difficult
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by adolph 1y ago
This stems from the fact that if a landowner successfully discovers a valuable resource or identifies a creative way to utilize their land more productively, the government will increase their tax burden accordingly. One of the diffic
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by adolph 1y ago
@patio11's podcast, Complex Systems has two great episodes that discuss much of the context about land value tax and property tax systems in general (from a US perspective). How we tax property, with Lars Doucet: https://www
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by adolph 1y ago
The announcement organizations are different from the funding org, Lead Exposure Action Fund, which is funded by Gates Fnd and others. https://www.leadexposureactionfund.org/about-us/
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by adolph 1y ago
GeoPublish was part of GEOS which is an also-ran OS from early days of graphical computing. I personally used it for home compute as a kid; coming from a Kaypro it was pretty wild. Former CEO of GeoWorks claims that GEOS faded away "b
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by adolph 1y ago
The article links to a photographer of the phenomena which arguably has better info than the article. https://paulmsmithphotography.com/pages/what-are-red-sprites... Sprites get their characteristic red color from
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by adolph 1y ago
Is there something new unveiled that was missed in translation? The quoted researchers Shady and Machacuay doen't seem to have any new publications about Peñico listed in Google Scholar. Eight years of research at the site unearthe
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by adolph 1y ago
Which given the nature of democracy are many of the same as the people who elected the last one and the one before, etc. Are we not all snowflake-unique kinds of stupid? My point of gratitude for today is that my level of stupid is not near
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by adolph 1y ago
For the record, Wikipedia states they are diacritics. I'm leaning toward agreeing due to this observation: "In most Latin-based orthographies, the lowercase letter i conventionally has its dot replaced when a diacritical mark atop
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by adolph 1y ago
Marx wrote The tradition of all dead generations weighs like an Alp on the brains of the living. and that would be true if one were obligated to pay the full freight of one's antecedents. The more positive truth is that the brains of
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by adolph 1y ago
It can't be "unauthorized" if no authorization was needed.

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