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by ano-ther 2y ago
Is that good or bad? In any compliance function, you will find things that have been handled wrongly or are borderline cases. And compliance nowadays encourages to speak up and report, which also increases the number. There is also a range
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by ano-ther 2y ago
> can't imagine how they managed to make a context menu open in almost a full second. In Windows 9x on a 200Mhz it was instant. A useless one too, because all the options that matter are in the old one. And the system sounds now tak
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Rotterdam speed trap quickly catches drivers(nltimes.nl)
4 points by ano-ther 2y ago|1 comments
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by ano-ther 2y ago
The headline doesn’t do it justice. Here is the crucial bit: > On May 1, the OM installed the speed camera to enforce the new speed limit. A few days later, it had to be turned off again because it couldn’t process the thousands of viola
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by ano-ther 2y ago
Antenna behaviour has been a mystery to me. Wouldn’t the ground plane in the wrong place (“above”) also have an influence for this setup?
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by ano-ther 2y ago
Thanks for the test. They also use 100W of ultrasonic power: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135041772... and a cursory search says this is the domain of more expensive ultrasonic cleaners
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Investigating Charlotte the Stingray(theassemblync.com)
1 points by ano-ther 2y ago|1 comments
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by ano-ther 2y ago
The original title was a bit too clickbaity: “What Is Really Going On With Charlotte the Stingray?”
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by ano-ther 2y ago
Here is how they experienced that in Hiroshima: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
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by ano-ther 2y ago
Good article. It depends on the definition of “beautiful”. If you care about the looks and want to make it clean, calm, uncomplicated etc - then you end up with user interfaces that are sparse and visually pleasing in an easy way. This work
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by ano-ther 2y ago
Why is it that MS only gets every second version of Windows right? Vista, 8 and 11 were all a step back for usability and stability, while 7 and 10 were solid with a decent user interface. Perhaps they just get bored with something that’s
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by ano-ther 2y ago
Are we seeing 1 A random mutation that is “testing the waters” if this brings some evolutionary benefits? 2 A mutation that already provides a benefit? (Which one would that be?) 3 A mutation that is neutral and is neither beneficial nor de
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by ano-ther 2y ago
Very interesting that this works. And great to see experiments like this which open their methodology. Looking at the status page, https://www.gptinvestor.co/the-gpt-investor/ - GPT version has been better than benchma
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by ano-ther 2y ago
Is this more than a timer that counts 4 times 4 minutes? Would have hoped for a little more on what to do in that time (other than “high-intensity workout”).
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by ano-ther 2y ago
Thank you!
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by ano-ther 2y ago
Agree. It’s a little embarrassing, but when booking flights, I do spend some time finding out which seat may be the best for my taste and seatguru.com isn’t always enough. So this could be helpful. Also, we need experiments with new tech to
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by ano-ther 2y ago
Do you still have to stir to keep the milk from sticking to the bottom of the pot?
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MS recall: "opposing counsel will request the recall data as part of e-discovery(infosec.exchange)
3 points by ano-ther 2y ago|0 comments
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by ano-ther 2y ago
Good idea. Sometime back, you could hear from the sound of your floppy if something was hung. Or from the HDD LED. (Of course only for processes involving the disk). > So I saw a lot of animated "progress" bars in software that
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by ano-ther 2y ago
> But where does the 1978 year in the title come from? Was curious about that too — it’s a slightly unfortunate headline: > Our search, spanning the years 1978 to 2023, identified 83 MMWR published studies on PubMed, all of which were
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Never use a warning when you mean undo (2007)(alistapart.com)
52 points by ano-ther 2y ago|28 comments
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by ano-ther 2y ago
> Note that the Johansson issue is playing out only in the court of public opinion It takes a while to get a lawsuit going. According to the article, Waits learned about the ad on October 3, 1988, filed a suit in November 1988, and the c
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Why Some Songs Make Everyone Want to Dance(scientificamerican.com)
3 points by ano-ther 2y ago|1 comments
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by ano-ther 2y ago
I know a few champions of marking data with colors instead of using a new column. But this one tops it all :-) > Using text color (and nothing else) to indicate units. (Example: black in pounds, green in kilograms).
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by ano-ther 2y ago
The FBI has a maritime security program and this is quite literally a hit to critical infrastructure. https://oig.justice.gov/reports/FBI/a0626/exec.htm (2006)
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by ano-ther 2y ago
Given Microsoft‘s track record to only make every second Windows version decent, Win 12 would actually be good news. Vista < 7 > 8 < 10 > 11 ? 12
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by ano-ther 2y ago
I am still amazed about how the internet enabled such small-scale production runs from the other side of the world.
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by ano-ther 2y ago
I guess restaurants avoid it because of its long-range effects. > In 1981, a German landlord evicted a tenant without notice after the tenant spread surströmming brine in the apartment building's stairwell. When the landlord was tak
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by ano-ther 2y ago
It’s astonishing how emotional this topic gets on HN. First, when the original saga happened and now when people leave OpenAI, apparently with a non-disparagement / NDA clause in their severance agreement. Such an agreement seems very
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by ano-ther 2y ago
https://archive.ph/8pnUZ

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