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by aimor 4y ago
I was looking through old (1900 - 1940) census records recently, they were all hand written then. Some people had beautifully legible writing, others chicken scratch, and occasionally I'd see something like what the average 30-somethin
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by aimor 4y ago
The new Hell I'm experiencing is everyone wanting to validate my identity through my phone. Email does it, banking does it, I suspect by the end of the year Windows will probably be sending me a code before I can log in. I'm sick
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by aimor 4y ago
Yes, I linked that video because I'd like something like that, but attempting to make all paths cancel completely and showing why it can't be done.
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by aimor 4y ago
I'd like to see a video showing the experiment with some of the more complex interferometer setups so that it's easier to understand the coherent effect. I've seen series like this before: https://www.youtube.com&#
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by aimor 4y ago
"You might think that you could devise an interferometer or other device which combines two beams in such a way as to cancel completely, without having observation points for which the wave crests align. In fact, I tried my best before
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by aimor 4y ago
I still can't believe they're able to disable "Hibernate", now "Sleep" is at risk? And of course with all the bloat booting takes forever.
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by aimor 4y ago
I have a disposable electric toothbrush. The bottom just screws off to reveal the bottom half of a AAA battery. (An O-ring keeps it dry) I'm pretty sure with a little finagling I could swap out the battery. Now if only someone could fi
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by aimor 4y ago
So when I buy a 600 lumen LED bulb that burns 7 W, I'm not only getting hosed because they're overdriving the LEDs but I'm also using over twice as much electricity as I could be?
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by aimor 4y ago
Recently my credit card has been validating my purchases via SMS OTPs. I'm not thrilled by that, but after reading the article it sounds like an effective way to cut back on a lot of the credit card fraud.
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by aimor 4y ago
This happened to me once, but it was a beetle and it flew out of a sealed package of spinach from the grocery store. They doubled my refund which was nice.
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by aimor 4y ago
I felt the same way the first time I saw the new BSoD. It did at least have an error code displayed. But I couldn't agree with the article more, after a bug just ruined my day the last thing I want to see is an insincere cartoon trivia
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by aimor 4y ago
Yes, I've been looking at using decision trees for explaining models that are difficult to understand. Currently seeing useful results on real data sets. If you're interested, I've implemented parts of TREPAN [1] and it'
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by aimor 4y ago
This really got me too when I went from film to digital. I still really miss having so much range in the highlights.
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by aimor 4y ago
What are some projects where people use Bevy for simulations (as opposed to gaming)? It’s something I’m going to do, and I’d love to see how it’s worked out for others.
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by aimor 4y ago
I thought that was so high, so I ran the numbers using some median and average values and I got pretty close. The average vehicle costs $40k, is owned for 11 years, gets driven 13k miles per year, burns 25 mpg, gas costs $3/gal, insura
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by aimor 4y ago
So does the Alphabet song end "X, Y, &, Z"?
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by aimor 4y ago
I’ve been making a conscious effort to buy things manufactured in the USA. Made in USA still exists for a lot of things and the quality and design is superb compared to all the Chinese junk. What really surprises me is the prices are also v
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by aimor 4y ago
I still run into arbitrary password limitations (no special characters, 20 character max, etc). I go through the “reset password” process just to see what arcane rules I had to follow, which is enough to help me remember my password so I ca
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by aimor 4y ago
Is there anything in there about increasing the minimum throttled "unlimited" mobile data speed?
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by aimor 4y ago
The Windows 95 icons were so good. I'm comparing those to what I see in Windows 10 and it's kind of funny. Examples I think are much worse: Keyboard, Mouse, Accessibility Options/Ease Of Access, Network, Passwords/Creden
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by aimor 4y ago
Thank you! I was going to ask before I saw this.
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by aimor 4y ago
Thanks for sharing your writeup, I enjoyed reading that. It's nice you had printouts of the pages, old sites just don't render correctly on archive.org. I also think v6 was something special, that one really came together and has
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by aimor 4y ago
I remember sites used to incorporate a lot of on-theme graphics in fun (also inaccessible) ways. It sounds backwards because of limited connection speeds, but it was pretty common to have titles and navigation buttons and borders and bullet
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by aimor 4y ago
I use width measured in characters for a breakpoint. I still wish there was a media feature to declare "mobile phone".
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by aimor 4y ago
It doesn't stop there. There's still no good way to validate information on the internet. The internet, much like the real world, is full of untrue information, bad advice, and outright lies. Things that don't overcome this:
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by aimor 4y ago
The article hits on it here: "Plan to plant 15 crops, and expect that maybe 1 will succeed, and you won’t know in advance which one." We only get about 50 gardening seasons in a lifetime. It's better to find what works, what&
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by aimor 4y ago
It's really frustrating that media types are deprecated and I'd like to see it revived as a media feature. I understand the impossibility of picking the perfect layout for a website based on a broad category like "desktop|pho
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by aimor 4y ago
I never understood it (third party cookies getting external information) either. Same thing with the referer request header, or user agents, or disabling the right-click menu, or editing the browser history, or opening new windows, or chang
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by aimor 4y ago
I mistyped my SSN this year and I wound up doing something similar: I had to take off my glasses and hold my face exactly in the center of the camera, while repeatedly squinting (hopelessly) to try and read the error messages as they altern
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by aimor 4y ago
Here’s my Amazon purchase count by year. Each * is 5 items, nearest neighbor rounding. I’m not a big consumer, I peaked at buying a few items every month in 2016, then scaled back and haven’t bought anything in 2022. 2009 2010 201

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