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by alister 2y ago
Looking at the graph in the study, it looks like 0.972 fraction of the very regular sleepers are alive after 7.8 years and 0.945 of the highly irregular sleepers. The difference is 0.027, or in other words 2.7% more of the highly irregular
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by alister 2y ago
What's bizarre to me is that when I try to block an SMS short code number[1], my iPhone claims that it's blocked, but I continue getting SMS messages from the same number. In case it's pertinent to why blocking doesn't
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by alister 2y ago
> if you know about tokenization, you know why this is definitely not a good job for ChatGPT Why are other LLMs able to do it? (Other comments show images successfully generated with grok and flux.1)
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by alister 2y ago
Definitions: Chiptune, also called 8-bit music, is a style of electronic music made using the programmable sound generator (PSG) sound chips or synthesizers in vintage arcade machines, computers and video game consoles. The term is commonly
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by alister 2y ago
> When you send me an email, please provide at least two SNS [social networking service] addresses (e.g. LinkedIn, Twitter) for verification purposes. ... I no longer accept contact from anonymous individuals. It's pretty sad to s
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by alister 2y ago
> Why Are Locals Eating Beef From Brazil? To directly answer the question in the headline, it seems that almost all locally produced beef in Montana becomes an “anonymous commodity crisscrossing the country”, so the origin of the produ
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by alister 2y ago
> Getting a new, out of state number The problem with that idea is that when you make local calls, people think that you are the spammer. I too have an out-of-state number after having moved, and I can definitely confirm that when
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by alister 2y ago
I tried 2 different IP addresses from Brazil and they got blocked. I tried an IP address from the USA and another from Canada, and both worked correctly. The message you get when you're blocked is: Sorry, you have been blocked Yo
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by alister 3y ago
A Tesla used to be called the "best car ever made" — eleven years ago. In 2013 Consumer Reports called the Tesla Model S the best car it had ever tested. The Model S earned a score of 99 out of a possible 100 in the magazine&#x2
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by alister 3y ago
That's a pretty cool product IMO. Even more interesting than throwing it into a fire is how it can be mounted above stoves, junction boxes, or inside a car's engine compartment to put out fires where they start.
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Devices that connect brains to computers are increasingly sophisticated(undark.org)
72 points by alister 3y ago|42 comments
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by alister 3y ago
> Unless the difference actually contains significantly different meaning and can lead to misunderstanding, I don't see why that'd an issue The following are some of the reasons why it's very desirable that audio and sub
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by alister 3y ago
His explanation about why subtitles don't match dubbing is not convincing. Basically he says that subtitling and dubbing are done by different teams with different goals. The dubbing crew tries to match lip movement. OK, so why not use
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by alister 3y ago
I love the Wikipedia animations -- they are usually extremely helpful -- but when I'm trying to read the article, I find them distracting. I usually move another window on top to obscure the animations so I can concentrate on the artic
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by alister 3y ago
The New York Times says: The choice was given among these answers: (a) 3 over 2. (b) 3. (c) 6. (d) 9 over 2. (e) 9. ''The answer to this question should have been 4, not 3. Daniel B. Taylor, the College Board's executive vic
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Ask HN: Why do half of Internet users think we are living in a simulation?
27 points by alister 3y ago|113 comments
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by alister 3y ago
> Cosmic rays with energies of more than 100 EeV are rarely spotted — fewer than one of these particles arrives on each square kilometre of Earth each century. How do they explain detecting such a particle at all? I would assume that t
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by alister 3y ago
Another useful site for hearing pronunciations is Forvo: https://forvo.com/ Those are user contributed pronunciations, so there was an effort to say the word clearly. Although Youglish might be more authentic in a sense, I
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by alister 3y ago
The DIY cube air filter even has its own Wikipedia entry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi–Rosenthal_Box
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by alister 3y ago
That hilarious reference to a defunct standard from decades ago is worth a quick explanation for those who've never heard of it: PCMCIA stands for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, the group of companies that de
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by alister 3y ago
I'd also like to know if it works on the 4S.
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by alister 3y ago
> many car telematics Well that's awesome in my opinion. Your older model car can no longer spy on you.
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by alister 3y ago
I've been using an Epson Expression ET-2550 EcoTank since 2017. I've printed thousands of color pages in those 6 years and bought refills (four EcoTank ink bottles) twice, the first time in 2020 and the second time just a few week
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by alister 3y ago
> eBay just doesn't care and they really have no incentive to care either. Your credit card company works for you and they will always care. So why does your credit card care? The only reason is because you might cancel your can
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by alister 3y ago
I get an infinite series of captchas with vanilla Firefox with no extensions or plugins at all . However, the archive site loads instantly on Vivaldi, a Chromium-based browser, on the same system. I wonder if their security setup has a bia
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by alister 3y ago
Thank you for that answer. Also for anyone who didn’t know, MDM is mobile device management.
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Ask HN: What is the real reason for activating an iPhone?
2 points by alister 3y ago|3 comments
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by alister 3y ago
What vets are selling is not the $100 dental cleaning people get. They do the procedure under general anesthesia and all the associated procedures brings the cost well over $1000. But the worst part is the huge risk to animal: something lik
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by alister 3y ago
The explanation as published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry: "As an alkaline battery is discharged, the anode undergoes oxidation from Zn to ZnO. ... The battery most likely begins to bounce because of displacement of water by
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by alister 3y ago
This is the web site of John Walker, founder of Autodesk and co-author of AutoCAD, living in Switzerland for a long time now, and still a hacker (in the good sense) despite being very wealthy.

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