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by adolph 4mo ago
> Do you think they keep dossiers on everyone who complains about concession prices? That would be not unexpected. How else would an organization be able to tell the difference between someone who makes frequent and spurious complaints f
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by adolph 4mo ago
> I'm excited that EVs get to avoid CAFE standards, so we get to have small vehicles again. I don't see evidence for EVs stimulating small vehicle production (but it would be awesome if it were the case). The one smaller vehicl
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by adolph 4mo ago
The USPS Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City examined 841,260,847 images of poorly written addresses in fiscal year 2025. [0] Unfortunately the page does not have a base rate--the total number of mail pieces that were not prepared fo
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by adolph 4mo ago
> As pointed in another post by John Gruber, Apple kept selling the trash can Mac Pro for a very high price for years without any updates. So it can certainly afford to bear this pain for a couple of more months and bundle all the price
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by adolph 4mo ago
> The DMN seems to fall into a similar area as meditation I'm curious about the relationship between mind wandering as exploration leading to insight and mind wandering as rumination. It seems like DMN is more associated with the la
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by adolph 4mo ago
> Are they claiming that electrophoretic materials (meaning the panels) can actually switch (meaning move pigments) faster than say x.y micrometers per second? No, I think the claim is that the controllers are slower that what the panels
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by adolph 4mo ago
It isn't clear to me that eink's underlying display technology isn't good at the interactive computing use case so much as the implementations aren't optimized for it. There could be a position where more power than an e
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by adolph 4mo ago
Wow, I'm glad to see that person is getting some more recognition for this work. A claim in the video that I can't verify but makes economic/logistic sense is that the speed problem isn't the panels but the controllers.
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by adolph 4mo ago
> scrape pricing data for used cars Time was you could get lovely json feeds from every site by iterating the inspector curl statement. Now-a-days you can't even use Selenium without Cloudflare getting grouchy. Last fall had to make
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by adolph 4mo ago
> removing code Cue link to Negative 2,000 LoC [0]: He recently was working on optimizing Quickdraw's region calculation machinery, and had completely rewritten the region engine using a simpler, more general algorithm whi
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by adolph 4mo ago
It is on my to-read list, but be sure to take some claims of common mycorrhizal networks (aka "wood wide web") with a grain of salt. A later review paper [0] found that evidence for some claims is weak. 0. https://www.n
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by adolph 4mo ago
Yes, there is something about the photos totally reminds me of recent photos from Pyongyang. True atrocities like the Holodomor aside, I'm sympathetic to the idea that the bright capital sucking rural resources and capricious political
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by adolph 4mo ago
It does arrow left/right or a/d for tiller and arrow up/down or w/s for sail trim. If you can manage using wasd, then r will [un]furl sails. I haven't figured out the cannon button yet if there is one. Edit: r for [
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by adolph 4mo ago
It unveils the stark contrast between the carefully constructed façade presented by the Soviet authorities and the harsh realities experienced by ordinary citizens. I guess without examples of the "carefully constructed
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by adolph 4mo ago
Reading this line in Lopp's article: "FCC even asks whether providers should consult lists of terrorists, terrorist organizations, and “criminal persons” maintained by law enforcement entities," brings to mind McKenzie's
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by adolph 4mo ago
In this case a broader reading is an exhortation to guard against intellectual hubris. Through its various trials NASA seems like a good organization for learning from error and not accepting easy answers (except when they have to terrible
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by adolph 4mo ago
For background on KYC in the banking context @patio11's podcasts and essays are worth consuming: Patrick: Yes, so "Know Your Customer" (KYC) and "Anti-Money Laundering" (AML) are mandatory elements of the int
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by adolph 4mo ago
what, they keep no records, or as lege branch they aren't foi-able so you won't ever know if they do or not?
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by adolph 4mo ago
An interesting substory that is simultaneously reminiscent of the Fogbank story and how Hayek's "curious task" is much more broadly applicable: There is a good cautionary tale here from the Space Shuttle era. That vehicle
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by adolph 4mo ago
There are existing free textbook publishing organizations. From a satisfied consumer point of view: https://openintro.org/ and https://openstax.org/ . > I first came into contact with this high-cost/
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by adolph 4mo ago
Enforcement is right of boom, essentially a safety net for the negative external affects of a person having already made a series of choices that resulted in an enforceable outcome. My impression from the thread is a query to identify the t
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by adolph 4mo ago
My kid is using a webcam based head tracker with a combat flight sim of some sort. You don't want to move your head too far since you are looking at the monitor right? It works kind of like mouse acceleration where if you move your hea
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by adolph 5mo ago
There are broadly available third party RP2350 boards with subc and a variety of additional capabilities if that is important for you. https://shop.pimoroni.com/en-us/collections/rp2350 https://www.spar
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by adolph 5mo ago
Memorizing binary would certainly revamp the A in STEAM. STEAM takes STEM education a step further by integrating “Arts” into the acronym, encompassing language arts, drama, graphic design, visual arts, music, and new media. h
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by adolph 5mo ago
> If a local district starts losing funding, then it would have to close / shrink schools, and people from outside the educational system would be allowed to establish independent (secular) charter schools within the district. K-12
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by adolph 5mo ago
Thank you kind person for posting this. I've just started my Pandoc journey formatting books for reading in a secondhand Sony DPT-RP1.
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by adolph 5mo ago
An interesting aspect of this story is that America has an idiosyncratic approach toward firefighting vehicles that demands very large bespoke vehicles from a limited set of vendors [0] that are primarily used to bring a set of first respon
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Thanks, sounds reasonable
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Aside from rising seas, there is regional destruction of protective barrier islands from poor resource management and sedimentary processes that should have moved the agriculture transshipment activities of BR/NO to the Atchafalaya Riv
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> more trustworthy than all of our current top politicians of both parties. Big if true. Has he addressed the previous rug sweeps about clerical child abuse?

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