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by adolph 6mo ago
The article is about browsers filtering EXIF metadata from image uploads and not about advising users when observable sun angle or other distinctive features may disclose the photograph's location. Suncalc models the relationship b
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by adolph 6mo ago
Was it the protective packaging of Dodge sports cars that people thought looked cool and thus retained? https://www.hellcat.org/threads/this-is-what-happens-when-th...
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by adolph 6mo ago
Seems like a reasonable temporary measure for a state with poor infrastructure. ...temporarily blocking permits for any new data center requiring more than 20 megawatts. The measure runs until November 2027, buying time for a new Dat
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by adolph 6mo ago
It is a surprise to me that anyone summiting has access to insurance at all. I suppose that if the fraud rate is as low as 3.5% and insurance is contracted specifically for the trip, then a rational payor will raise rates and carry on. On t
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by adolph 6mo ago
I wonder how this relates to Linaro, a joint venture of ARM, IBM, and others started in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linaro
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by adolph 6mo ago
> Without that impact, it is assumed that almost no platinum-group metals and gold would have remained in the crust. Wow, its wild to think of a counterfactual world without gold. Would those metals have emerged to the crust from volcani
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by adolph 7mo ago
And a landing! S Padre is great for kids and rockets. For the more adventurous and/or bilingual the beaches on the Mexican side seem to have awesome views too.
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by adolph 7mo ago
The video [0] that has a transcript provides a little more context. A. Andreessen, I'd bet, enjoys a degree of controversy and nothing gets people activated so much as "being wrong on the Internet." [1] B. In context, Andrees
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by adolph 7mo ago
There is a nice Feynman children's lecture about this [0] from the series "Fun to Imagine" [1] 0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITpDrdtGAmo 1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0198zc1
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by adolph 7mo ago
This is a great read and unironically I want to subscribe to the substack, which is titled "Mars for the Rest of Us." The author is that Ceglowski of Pinboard and occasional space essays at idlewords.com, both of which make this s
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by adolph 7mo ago
Much of the discussion here is local versus remote. I like seeing things as "and" and "or." There will be small things I don't want to burn my Claude tokens on and other things that I want to access larger compute
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by adolph 7mo ago
> entire backend for iTunes (Jingle) was written in Java Wasn't that because iTunes started out as a NextStep WebObjects application? WebObjects started on Objective C, transitioned to a framework for Java in early 2000's, came
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by adolph 7mo ago
I don't get this pov, maybe b/c I'm not a heavy Claude Code user, just a dabbler. Any LLM tool that can selectively use part of a code base as part of the input prompt will be useful as an augmentation tool. Note the word &qu
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by adolph 7mo ago
> The USA is either going for force a regime change or it's going to ruin Iran. Where will China get oil from then? A positive story for China might be: a.) building port complexes and other industrial facilities is something China
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by adolph 7mo ago
OpenWRT is great if it fits your use case. If one has reason to stray from the happy path a disadvantage is that the OpenWRT uses a single binary like Busybox and doesn't use glibc. This is great for embedded/low power machines li
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by adolph 7mo ago
That is really neat: “By irradiating the paper with a CO laser, we create refusible, sugar-like reaction products that we use instead of the synthetic materials or adhesives that would otherwise be required to seal the paper by th
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by adolph 7mo ago
See also earthworms facilitating spread of invasives: Invasive species of earthworms from the suborder Lumbricina have been expanding their range in North America. . . . Their introduction to North America has had marked effects o
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by adolph 7mo ago
In other news, the Mac Pro Wheels Kit was also discontinued. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/26/mac-pro-wheels-kit-disc...
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by adolph 7mo ago
I'd like to track down this sound for my sisters and me: Old Library Card Punch Machine. Finding the old library smell too would be a plus. https://www.reddit.com/r/Library/comments/unek0c/old_librar
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by adolph 7mo ago
It is surprising to me that airports do not use an interlock system for deconflicting the various paths segments that may be occupied by a vehicle. Trains have used mechanical ones since the 1800s [0]. The story and comments seem to indicat
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by adolph 7mo ago
Yes, from the article: The chief who set up the WiFi network, dubbed “STINKY,” definitely knew better. Then-Command Senior Chief Grisel Marrero’s “background is in Navy intelligence, and she earned a master’s degree in business ad
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by adolph 7mo ago
Or you come home from that Juggalo reunion concert: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47438675 Edit: and while the parent comment and this are made in at least part jest, the discovery of bugs and emergence of adversaria
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by adolph 7mo ago
Along with the Strava secret base location leak, another interesting one was the ship with a contraband Starlink: As the Independence class Littoral Combat Ship USS Manchester plied the waters of the West Pacific in 2023, it had a to
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by adolph 7mo ago
Yeah, I never got into DN3D, maybe b/c it was Windows only? I might be misremembering, but I played UT on Mac with friends by setting up AppleTalk using rj11 adapters. My now-spouse called it the game before the game and it was perhaps
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by adolph 7mo ago
Question is, will the 15-minute wait time be replaced by a rubber duck? https://rubberduckdebugging.com/
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by adolph 7mo ago
I'm glad to have opend that link. Brought back memories. head-shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKgyH9k1CSM
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by adolph 7mo ago
> This is a serious risk for the open source ecosystem and particularly the scientific ecosystem that over the last years has adopted many of these technologies. At worst, it's just Anaconda II AI Boogaloo. The ecosystems will evolv
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by adolph 7mo ago
From BBC: The officials say it could have been created to redistribute the pyramid's weight around the entrance or another as yet undiscovered chamber. From TFA: Specialists have linked the corridor to the pyramid’s inter
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by adolph 7mo ago
Yes, iirc the concept wasn't to decouple content and presentation but to decouple semantics from presentation in order to re-present content in different media in that medium's native representation of a particular semantic. Howev
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by adolph 7mo ago
Need an ack aside from the system since the response might take a few moments, maybe a "share and enjoy" in a voice that sounds like it is smiling.

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