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by aemreunal 6y ago
Wow that link has been super informative, thank you! I knew that the transmission risk was actually lower than commonly thought but wasn't aware that it was direction- and sexual act-dependent, nor that condoms were of great but still
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by aemreunal 6y ago
Hah, an interesting question and certainly not stupid at all! A quick Google search [1] suggests that a (standard?) solar panel absorbs ~2/3s of the light, so it probably reflects enough to make out the car on the road. But the questio
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by aemreunal 6y ago
Microsoft acted pretty sleazy (IMHO) on the Australian law situation but it's rich for Google to attack them since they caved first and paid. I'm all for taxing companies (tech or otherwise) in sensible ways but the Australian new
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by aemreunal 6y ago
I clear the screen a lot, but I use Cmd+K to clear the whole Terminal.app screen or Cmd+L to clear the last command (and its output) on Mac, rather than using the `clear` command. I use Bash, not sure if it works on other terminal emulators
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by aemreunal 6y ago
A cynical person would say "Through smartly-targeted ads for devices claiming to use less power than the ones you have" but I'm totally not one of those people.
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by aemreunal 6y ago
> Both major Australian parties are far too captured by corporate interests [...] Someone said "as if Rupert Murdoch himself wrote this law", which I think is quite apt.
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by aemreunal 6y ago
That's totally true. What I was trying to say was that Facebook's interests became aligned with the open web's interests and their "triumph" (i.e. stopping this law) would've also benefitted the open web.
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by aemreunal 6y ago
This makes me so angry, not just because of Australia's clear attack on open web and a completely inverted value flow illusion, but also because it made me agree with Facebook on an issue (when they initially showed opposition and call
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by aemreunal 6y ago
> I don't see tangible value in crypto. Crypto is worth what other people are willing to pay for it. That's pretty much true for anything that has financial value, though. Setting aside the chemical properties of gold (conducti
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by aemreunal 6y ago
I agree with your assessment of Intel's role in US national security, though Texas Instruments also owns and operates chip fabs in the US [1]. They most likely aren't as sophisticated as Intel or able to create similar chips, but
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by aemreunal 6y ago
Veritasium recently published a video [1] on why the speed of light can't be measured one way, only two ways (i.e. the speed it travels from point A to point B then back to point A). While I'm not privy to all the physics details
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by aemreunal 6y ago
In the undying words of Bender from Futurama: Oh wait, you're serious. Let me laugh even harder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0
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by aemreunal 6y ago
I think Gruber's analysis is quite correct: Full-page issue messaging ads are about reaching very specific demographics in a conspicuous way. But in today’s world, it’s kind of transparent whom Facebook is targeting her
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by aemreunal 6y ago
> Having had Covid-19 should confer at least as much immunity as a vaccine does. [If I'm understanding what you're saying correctly] Not necessarily. There are vaccines, such as those for HPV and Tetanus that provide better imm
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by aemreunal 6y ago
Now if only they had ladders to climb out of bathtubs, they'd be unstoppable.
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by aemreunal 6y ago
While I'm a fan of having a choice (as I consider myself a "power user"), I do think Apple is making the right decision in making certain things (like this OCSP check) default-on. It is true that the overwhelming majority of
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by aemreunal 6y ago
Are you talking about aux? Because Sonos Move supports plain bluetooth audio connections; I use it all the time.
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by aemreunal 6y ago
Reminds of an exchange, potentially misattributed ([1]) to Picasso: A woman approaches Picasso in a restaurant, asks him to scribble something on a napkin and says she would be happy to pay whatever he felt it was worth. Picasso complie
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by aemreunal 6y ago
Started using NextDNS a week ago and it's quite good so far. One of my concerns was how hard it would be to debug websites/services that stop working but it their logging being instant made it superbly easy. I can turn on logging,
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by aemreunal 6y ago
When the browser tries to load an ad, let's say from "ads.com", the DNS service responds to that domain with 0.0.0.0, which prevents the ad from loading. You enable lists to customize which domains should be considered ad dom
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by aemreunal 7y ago
The YouTube comments suggest it's Argentina. They also suggested Google'ing "Argentina Cargo Hold Bribe".
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by aemreunal 7y ago
> [...] antibodies might make subsequent reinfections easier. That happened with some previous coronavirus. I never read about this, can you point me to a source, please?
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by aemreunal 7y ago
Zapp Brannigan said it best: "Come back when it's a catastrophe" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW6xTkivmto
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by aemreunal 7y ago
It would be more correct to say that Turkish language doesn't have 'genders' in the way that English and German has them. Turkish refers to a 'being' instead of 'he/she/they/it'. I love that
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by aemreunal 9y ago
> I do not understand the consistent assumption that life on other planets must take a chemical and physical form similar to our own. I always pondered about this as well. I came to the conclusion that, given the sheer number of celestia
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by aemreunal 9y ago
> I usually have to try and think of a non-HTTP site before I can get through. http://neverssl.com/ is built for that problem; it's what I use
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by aemreunal 10y ago
I understand that George Hotz (a very talented person) is frustrated with regulation but those regulations are in there for a reason. No one should be allowed to turn their car in to an autonomous machine (that has the potential to wreck ha
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by aemreunal 10y ago
I also underwent SMILE about 1.5 years ago. I had ~3.5 myopia in both eyes with ~1 astigmatism. Prior, I was using contacts for about 4 years, as well as glasses on off days and nights (after I came back home). My eyes were a tad bit drier