aliasEli

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by aliasEli 5y ago
This is about the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. It is probably doomed to "Live fast, die young" but it is still amazing. (Also, AFAIK it is the only installation of Linux on another planet)
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by aliasEli 5y ago
The automobile industry can do some amazing engineering. Examples: lowering emissions, increasing safety, and switching to electric engines. The main thing they need is some pressure from the public. Accessibility for disabled people is an
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It is a noble goal, but will it have any real effect? > It also noted that an unintended consequence of the law could be that influencers feel more pressure to undergo cosmetic surgery “in order to live up to beauty ideals.” I am afraid
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It is an interesting article, but unfortunately its ideas do not appear to be very popular in the US. Also, it seems that the article is from 2008.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It is probably not so very surprising that combinations of different vaccines might produce better results, they probably trigger different parts of our immune system. We are very lucky that we have multiple very good vaccines that are base
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Sometimes it is a mixed blessing. But with regards to privacy regulations it tries to do some good (but difficult) work.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
There are also some interesting comments in this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27709408
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by aliasEli 5y ago
The Vaccines journal is retracting the article, that had attracted many negative comments from scientists[0]. [0] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/scientists-quit-jour...
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It sounds very much like winning a battle, but still losing the war. In the EU we have at least some legal framework for protecting privacy (probably due to our experiences in WWII). Unfortunately, it seems there is not really something sim
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by aliasEli 5y ago
When you are working in a team, please try to find some common conventions for naming things. There is no global best solution for a name, it all depends on the other people you are working with. When I first read Design Patterns by the GoF
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by aliasEli 5y ago
There were some other submissions about Kaseya, but this one is the first one that describes the problem for us outsiders.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
What I especially like about his approach that he selects local species. This helps other local species like plants and animals.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This site would definitely be illegal in the EU. GDPR certainly prohibits showing details like phone or email info. I can understand that people want to hold police accountable for their actions but I don't think this is the way to do
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by aliasEli 5y ago
I am surprised that they intended to use these in satellites. I would expect that they would be more vulnerable to cosmic radiation.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
> At a speed of Mach 1.7, journeys times are supposed to be cut in half, with a flight form London to New York lasting 3:30 Hours (instead of 6:30)! Add the time at the departure airport, 3 hours for international travel, and the time at
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by aliasEli 5y ago
With written text, you would expect that at least some the letters from one shred would continue on its neighbors. I don't see why the similarity metric would not work. Also normally you have a pretty high contrast between the letter a
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by aliasEli 5y ago
When I look in my spam folder, I am always pleasantly surprised at how effective my ISP is in spam detection.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
But how does the car know what the local speed limit is? Also how does it handle temporary speed limits due to road works?
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Lisp machines were an interesting idea. Unfortunately they were very expensive and fairly slow compared to other machines at the time.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This article is about using AI to generate images from a description. I liked the Tim Burton one.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Pretty good description of the problem and its causes.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
The article gives a nice overview of the possible solutions for regulating Facebook, but it is not very optimistic. I guess the EU is still our best hope here.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It's forcing developers into the Google Play store. More details in [0]. [0] https://www.slashgear.com/android-app-bundles-are-replacing-...
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Someone else did that already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmail
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by aliasEli 5y ago
The authors appear to make some valid arguments. However, there is an argument for vaccinating children that I have never heard. It is simply the standard epidemiological argument that it will reduce the fraction of the population that is s
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by aliasEli 5y ago
If you add a better subject line to this submission you will probably get more reactions.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It is a very interesting idea. However, there are some big corporations for which harvesting personal data is the main business model, and I don't expect they will cooperate.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It is a real problem, but I really don't think these solutions will work. I don't think the rhyme is catchy, also you will need versions in many languages. The cats might also have the opposite effect, these places have magical ef
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by aliasEli 5y ago
In most cases what data scientists do has nothing to do with real science. So the earlier this job title disappears the better.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This might even have an application for real documents. There are police cases where some suspects have tried to destroy evidence. Manually reconstructing the original takes a lot of effort. I expect that the CIA and NSA already have softwa

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