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by apcragg 7y ago
Privacy concerns aside, I can't wait to read the "Facial Recognition let me on the wrong flight when I got in the wrong line by accident" articles that are going to come out of this. Unless these systems have some fantastic (
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by apcragg 7y ago
Did you see the chart of browser usage correlated with this incident? The only precipitous drop in any browser usage occurred when they launched this banner. It was already on a downward trend, but an immediate drop like that is pretty hard
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by apcragg 7y ago
Very active on Twitter, actually.
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by apcragg 7y ago
Huh that's weird. It's been my experience that I see far,far more comments from people like you who are upset over "manufactured outrage" than people who are actually outraged. It's odd how much people feel the need
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by apcragg 7y ago
A big problem with increasing the clock speed is that your processor still needs to wait for the DRAM to respond. Modern processors are crazy smart about prefetching, caching, and running instructions in parallel, but at some point Memory b
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by apcragg 7y ago
Can you not make a coherent quadrature detector? I was under the impression that those were pretty common in optical communication systems. Edit: nevermind, 230GHz, so millimeter wave but mixers and oscillators exist at that frequency, are
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by apcragg 8y ago
I mean, yeah it makes them less profound. Individual identity is not entirely defined by place of employment. I'd imagine the vast majority of people see their employer as the means to pay bills rather than a political entity whose goa
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by apcragg 8y ago
Wow. Your post is so misleading it borders on outright lying. Those $31k contributions come entirely from individuals. Comcast the company did not donate any money to her. Conflating individual contributions with Corporate contributions is
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by apcragg 8y ago
The government cannot compel speech. I don't think that using the power of the government to require some types of speech against the wishes of private entities solves the problem you think it's solving...
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by apcragg 8y ago
The difference is that none of those examples dominate their market. The problem isn't "Amazon uses their platform to promote their own products" it's "Amazon uses their market dominance to promote their own product
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by apcragg 8y ago
That's true for IIR filters but not FIR filters, which modern (This century) signal processing uses. A 1024-point windowed sinc will have linear phase across the entire passband, that's one of the main reasons we use FIR filters.
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by apcragg 8y ago
The thing is that small changes in the mean affect the long tail of the distribution in a very visible way. How is it biased to point out extreme weather events like this which are happening more frequently now than in the past? The NYT has
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by apcragg 8y ago
That doesn't create a uniform distribution over a disk. Heres a quick image ( https://imgur.com/a/xHEpVB9 ) I generated using that method.
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by apcragg 8y ago
I've had a similar experience making an FM transmitter. I used a small air coil inductor that wasn't well secured to the PCB as part of the resonating circuit. My FM tuner would pick up ambient noise since the small sound vibratio
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by apcragg 8y ago
Yeah that's the problem. 2x is too big and 1x is too small on 3200x1800. Luckily there's a workaround to scale text to 1.5x which for most purposes is fine.
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by apcragg 8y ago
I have the older 13" 3200x1800 screen and it is amazing. I put Ubuntu 18.04 on it since it wasn't available as a developer edition. The display scaling is my only problem but that's more a gnome thing. Running it with Windows
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by apcragg 8y ago
I've noticed the best "online" teachers excel in predicting what questions students will have and addressing them preemptively. I think the person behind 3Brown1Blue on YouTube does a fantastic job doing this. Throughout thei
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by apcragg 8y ago
It's not arguing by appealing to authority when they are the experts in a field...
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by apcragg 8y ago
I mean, you can make a RADAR with a single transistor, 2 diodes, an exotic but off the shelf VCO, and clever transmission lines. I doubt the R&D cost is very high for for the MMIC here.
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by apcragg 8y ago
[1] does not say that it works, don't misrepresent the study. It found that certain markers were increased/changed by the supplement and that a few of the observed physiological functions appear to have improved a merit further st
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by apcragg 8y ago
Or groups of people live in certain geographic areas and are not served by public transit or near government offices like a DMV. That can have the effect of making it generally harder one one group despite equal competence.
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by apcragg 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN
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by apcragg 8y ago
How elastic is the price of that olivine?
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by apcragg 8y ago
Adding to that, the word "bitch" is more contextually associated with certain power structures in office environments. Pretending that words are just words is completely naïve and it usually signals that someone is upset that they
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by apcragg 8y ago
I'm curious, is that only non-point-to-point personal transportation or does it include all forms (e.g. ocean shipping, rail, public transport)?
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by apcragg 8y ago
Your libertarian fantasy would be fine if it wasn't for the fact that you 2 tonne steel box can kill /other/ people when you drive excessively fast and crash.
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by apcragg 8y ago
Yup. And in order to get a pulse of T you need, at best, a sinc window. Resolution is intrinsically linked to bandwidth.
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by apcragg 8y ago
Small nitpick. The range resolution improves with increasing pulse/chirp/waveform bandwidth, not increasing carrier frequency. It's true that at higher carrier frequencies there is more bandwidth available and thus better ran
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by apcragg 8y ago
What the hell are you talking about. That has never been my experience nor the experience of people I know that have been there within the past 2 years. Don't fearmonger about crime.
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by apcragg 8y ago
I'm similarly skeptical that replacing 70 watt bulbs with 15 watt bulbs with poor power factors would end up being a wash. IR loses from the increase in reactive current would not cover the 55 watt gap.

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