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by andirk 2y ago
A crypto mining farm is a bunch of electricity running a bunch of ASIC chips that try to guess a number between 1 and some huge number. What does this have to do with physical espionage? Are we implying the spies built their spy school next
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by andirk 2y ago
And several analytics type of tracking pixels on the page as well. Not a big deal nor likely controllable by the author.
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by andirk 3y ago
One can't search by smell.
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by andirk 3y ago
A black mirror? Much like a black Google blackle.com , without hard evidence, my guess is the energy savings is almost none. Since my first phone with a background c. 2010, I have never changed the background from whatever the default is. I
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by andirk 3y ago
Tidal supposedly pays artists out the most of the big names. Only beat out by Napster!
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by andirk 3y ago
Or watch them after staying up way too late with a couple libations. I remember my opinions of the film but not the content.
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by andirk 3y ago
The Y29K Bug. That would fix the current "Don't Get Paid for A Day" trick that Leap Years do to salaried people.
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by andirk 3y ago
Lol those orbs! Oddly, Worldcoin's main exchange is Binance which stopped doing business in USA so I couldn't get a bag. Up almost 10x. Not bad for a sphere that proves "personhood". With AI making actual people vs machi
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by andirk 3y ago
Is it super heavy? I've noticed weight often equals how long something will last in good condition, and old furniture is often way heavier and bulkier.
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by andirk 3y ago
Glad to hear everyone agrees that most couches are pretty subpar. I bought $10,000 worth of stuff from a high end furniture place because the French girl started working there. Then that boat got stuck in the Suez Canal, the shipping contai
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by andirk 3y ago
Is the UC Berkeley case a good example of the importance of normalizing data before analyzing? Where things need to be put on a level playing field and handicaps applied to remove auxiliary noise.
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by andirk 3y ago
Loc: San Francisco Remote: Sure Relocate: Sure Tech: Javascript, quick learner, studying Tensorflow Mail: aupusher+hn at g
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by andirk 3y ago
Year was mid 2008. Targeted via geo, gender, and then finally interests. It got down to like "less than 100" which I think was more like 1. She lived in a rural area which probably made it easier.
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by andirk 3y ago
I did this once too and it worked. The targeting is much less specific than it was years ago though.
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by andirk 3y ago
Odysseus is acting out the fictional short story "A Walk in the Sun" [0] where a girl crash lands on the moon and has to keep walking west to stay in the sunlight so she doesn't freeze to death. [0] https://en.wiki
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by andirk 3y ago
The article is almost the opposite of that title, but let's discuss that title. Having children is absolutely inherently selfish. There is no good reason besides ones own self fulfillment to overpopulate a world that is on the verge of
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by andirk 3y ago
Looking again, he _mentions_ what he told his children, but it's written on Bitcoin Talk. > "My bitcoins are stored in our safe deposit box, and my son and daughter are tech savvy. I think they're safe enough. I'm com
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by andirk 3y ago
Hal's final words to his family lead me to believe that he was not the creator of bitcoin.
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by andirk 3y ago
Brainscan was especially perplexing in that it played with possible, impossible, and fantasy at the same time. And the main character lived in an attic sans parental oversight with an OK Google.
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by andirk 3y ago
Common Internet discourse is often pure emotion to the point where the author doesn't even agree with it in person. With all the beauty that being connected has given us, we're about to see what the consequence of all of this is.
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by andirk 3y ago
Because plastic isn't very recyclable, recycling is therefore a government scam to control the masses, according to John Stossel https://youtu.be/NLkfpjJoNkA?si=C-PEyGnk4M109WuP&t=333 . He clowns the idea of reusin
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by andirk 3y ago
Can I please get some codes to do further levels?
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by andirk 3y ago
> Comfort is among the most cited reasons for returns I predict the next Vision Pro will not be worn at all and will be on a rectangle in front of the person and they can have several rectangles if they'd like.
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by andirk 3y ago
They kind of didn't name their OK Google assistant anything other than "Assistant". What about ChatGooglePT?
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by andirk 3y ago
Wow! I'm embarrassed I didn't know this since 2020. Too bad we can't allow certain super popular libraries of whose project maintainers we trust to still be cached across domains.
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by andirk 3y ago
I like Vue's reactive nature the best (specifically `v-if`, `v-for`), but jQuery was the one that got me over the hump before I actually knew Javascript. And I encourage most projects that use a lot of jQuery to consider using jQuery&#
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by andirk 3y ago
With an American SSN, one could dump 1,000 queries of numbers with only 1 of them being the client's actual SSN so the logs don't reveal as much. Still, though, it's a Catch 22 to find the thing you don't want found by u
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by andirk 3y ago
There's a "Dead Man's Switch" that gets triggered in the absence of you fulfilling some action to keep it from triggering. Once you for whatever reason cannot suppress the trigger, the switch is activated and whatever ac
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by andirk 3y ago
One of my favorite websites! I do similar with just THOUGHTS. I send my future self a thought, often a question, and I get the answer albeit vague and difficult to decipher. Then when that time eventually comes, I answer my past self becaus
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by andirk 3y ago
That was a super useful way of seeing a website if the website's server was down. Ouch. So what does `<meta name="robots" content="noarchive">` do for Google search now?

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