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by adolph 5mo ago
If one considers a firm to be a non-human entity that exhibits cognition, then yes. Various religions also exhibit those characteristics, which would fortify the Roman pope’s position with irony. See Joscha Bach’s claim about religions not
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by adolph 5mo ago
This is really sad. I was hopeful the Lone Star Flight Museum would take it over. I spent a few afternoons there with my then much smaller kids. It was a not overdone museum where you could explore around inside the vehicles like a Sikorsky
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by adolph 5mo ago
Yes, an example is "Local stellar kinematics from Hipparcos data" [0]. Afaict: stars have color (red or blue shift) which represents relative motion; Hipparcos is a large large dataset from an eponymous satellite; fancy math deter
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by adolph 5mo ago
Thank you for posting this. I wonder if anyone has made a physical galactic orrery. It seems that the concept is used in the video game Warhammer. Something implicit in the diagrams of the galactic plane but not explicitly stated is that th
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by adolph 5mo ago
The author's cited phenomena may be AI assisted plagiarism but is just plain plagiarism that could have been done the old fashioned way, and someone who is willing to plagiarize has the ethics to do SEO really well.
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by adolph 5mo ago
> aren't actually datable, because it's rock To add to the methods shared by others, one way I think is really cool is optically stimulated luminescence. So, a grain of quartz destined someday to become the perfect OSL samp
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by adolph 5mo ago
Also dinosaur bones. As Mayor shows, the Greeks and Romans were well aware that a different breed of creatures once inhabited their lands. They frequently encountered the fossilized bones of these primeval beings, and they develop
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by adolph 5mo ago
This appears to be "free as in beer" in that they do not mention any changes to intellectual property considerations. In 2019, The Tribune became the first legacy publication to transition to a nonprofit. This move changed
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by adolph 5mo ago
> click through EULAs Every year "don't agree to things on behalf of the company" Every day "click here to agree that ..."
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by adolph 5mo ago
The ambiguity is part of the charm. Something that reveals more about the beholders than the artist makes for stimulating conversation and discovery. Even the new positioning of the art on a plinth in some open space is enigmatic. If it wer
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by adolph 5mo ago
Yeah, nuclear provides a steady base load, so the percentage goes up or down depending on overall grid utilization. Right now its doing 2.28 MW [0], which is more than what Wikipedia claims as its "Nameplace capacity" of 2.256 MW
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by adolph 5mo ago
> At least in Germany, you are legally allowed to make patented things for yourself or science to some capacity. Yeah, it has always amazed me that Ruf could market their own versions of the 911 without there being a design patent legal
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by adolph 6mo ago
Yeah, Google has MuJoCo so it seems natural to get hooks into Blender. MuBlE: MuJoCo and Blender simulation Environment and Benchmark for Task Planning in Robot Manipulation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02834
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by adolph 6mo ago
> It will exclude the poorer from astronomical research, except within the limits enabled by whatever cooperation the richer will be willing to do with them. Isn't it the case that most astronomical research uses source data from la
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by adolph 6mo ago
How is a 10 minute continuous exposure functionally different from 10 minutes of video with every frame stacked? In the former, each photodiode acts as a compositor for each pixel instead of whatever algorithm is chosen to combine frames in
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by adolph 6mo ago
> True meditation, . . . takes intense willpower. This seems counterintuitive. Maybe I'm doing it wrong but in my newbie practice it seems to be like resistance or cardiovascular training where there is effort in the moment and a se
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by adolph 6mo ago
> Flickr was the coolest thing Yahoo had From my point of view Yahoo destroyed Flickr. I was a happy user for many years and lost access to my photos due to authentication changes. At least Google had the decency to just shut down Reader
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by adolph 6mo ago
As I read through the distinctions between "class" and "caste" helpfully provided by search engine AI, a sensation that formal caste systems are more honest than inexplicit "class" systems grew in my mind. The
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by adolph 6mo ago
I wonder what the cost/benefit analysis is for different addressable health outcomes. For example, under this justification could a government mandate a restricted calorie diet or enforce daily resistance training?
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by adolph 6mo ago
I suppose what is "reasonable" might be different for different people. I already had pentalob bits although a fresh spudger is always welcome. But these are not exotic tools. The "glue" under the battery was a bit like
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by adolph 6mo ago
I was curious if a newly naturalized citizen gets a new number when transferring from Individual Taxpayer Identification Number to a Social Security Number–apparently yes, that is the case, and it makes taxes on your year of naturalization
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by adolph 6mo ago
> The live update would add an extra element of terror to the system, of course. Yes, I think I didn't do a good job of placing the question as from the perspective of someone who is not aware of the silos and firewalls within what
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by adolph 6mo ago
> the lobbyists managed to get a loophole in the law - exempting Apple & Co But Apple batteries are already user replaceable? I've replaced my own and batteries come with kits that have all the tools and disposable glue strips a
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by adolph 6mo ago
An interesting aspect to changes like this is that they demonstrate the silos and fissures between various government functions. There isn't already a standard intra-government API that for an identify returns the relationship person h
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by adolph 6mo ago
I'm consistently impressed by Seeed Studio's support for various levels of DIY in their products. I realize that many of the products are not totally original, but what I find interesting and original about the company is their in
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by adolph 6mo ago
just slap some tpms sensors inside the bags and bobs your uncle https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicAdvice/comments/11iau0t/tpm...
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by adolph 6mo ago
> Cars became a self-reinforcing driver of individualism, especially in net new geographies. The negative effects are resisted better in societies/regions that were built long before them. (For both the cultural reasons and plain ph
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by adolph 6mo ago
> weight distribuiton. The truck has nothing for this Could this be inferred from the air suspension controls? https://www.airliftcompany.com/workshop/finding-correct-air-...
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by adolph 6mo ago
> A small number of jobs for tradesmen (electricians, plumbers, etc.). Its no car dealership but probably a reliable source of work-orders. Seems like a "gigascale" datacenter would be a large job for a tradesman to be a subcon
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by adolph 6mo ago
> If I want to find duplicates, it will be impossible if the filename changes. Depends on what is meant by a "duplicate." It would be a good idea to get a checksum of the file, which can detect exact data duplicates, but not so

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