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by araes 3y ago
Wall of text, yet this part is interesting. > TikTok version in China serves more STEM content to kids while the non-Chinese version shows entertainment mostly This portion is rarely discussed. The algorithm that serves content, should
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by araes 3y ago
There are responses to every single one of these. Similar to Radioshack (3D printers, drones, Arduino, Raspberry PI), and Intel's (mobile, GPUs, foundries, AI) bankruptcies or "lost decades". Distribute Books - They could ha
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by araes 3y ago
Then FB/Meta's throwing money out the door on people who demonstrably do not deserve $1M+/yr. And on that topic, same with Wikipedia, why "must" you have your development base in the most expensive place on the West
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by araes 3y ago
How does any company burn $36 billion on a headset they got handed a prototype for? At a reasonable $100k/yr and 50% overhead, that's 240,000 years of labor. ~5000 human lifetimes. At a .gov labor rate of 2080 hrs/yr, that&
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by araes 3y ago
Trying this emoji thing out inline. Had not even heard of the auto-symbol translation As a test, looked for (star).com [might show up with .com, or %E2%98%85.com ?](EDIT: nope) Long form is: https://www.xn--p3h.com/ Source
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by araes 3y ago
Other info: This reauthorization of FISA includes the Turner-Himes amendment introduced by Reps. Mike Turner (R-OH) and Jim Himes (D-CT). (introduced House, passed Senate) The Turner-Himes amendment expands the definition of “electronic co
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by araes 3y ago
Unfortunately, that appears to be America these days. Do something illegal, and then write a law to legalize the illegal behavior.
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by araes 3y ago
Translation: "We're attempting to preserve our moat, and this is the correct PR blurb. We'll release an API once we're far enough ahead and extracted enough money." Like somebody on Ars noted "anybody notice i
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by araes 3y ago
Mid-flight, "Hi, this is the captain. We're terribly sorry, but the plane will now be going into a 5 hour reboot mode. We flew through a rain cloud in the sun. Do not be alarmed when the lights turn off and the engines cease.&q
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by araes 3y ago
Not here. Would much prefer something like evolved bookmarks, yet still very much separate from a bookmark I specifically chose. Evolved would be more like the browser just hangs onto History longer if you go there more. Tabs, I donno, I&
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by araes 3y ago
Had the same thought when I read the title. Then "Ah, the old non-profit that's really a for-profit in disguise." A tale as old as dimes (and nickels). Bricks also (the gold variety). Notably, article written by: Marty
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by araes 3y ago
We're almost getting back to the .com era of the 2000's with some of these "public cloud" company demos. Enough frenzy, that if your app really starts grinding compute cycles you can quickly DDOS yourself with server co
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by araes 3y ago
That kind of surprises me, since then I'd figure that somebody would be making the equivalent of a reprap that puts out glass filament like this 3D glass printer [1] or various glass resin methods ([2] and [3]) Just with some kind of i
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by araes 3y ago
Reading about them, the main reason is because you have to manufacture regularly repeating slices of glass in a column over large distances whose thicknesses are usually on the order of the wavelength you're dealing with. So visible l
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by araes 3y ago
> maze vs. labyrinth And from a math perspective, they don't need to be any different. A simplistic 2D line maze / labyrinth like those shown can have all the same features, just shaped differently. Secondary false routes, me
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by araes 3y ago
Having never read this, current Texas anti-trust lawsuit. [1] Alleges quite a bit, yet the main four in the article are. 1) Google says it runs a Second Price auction, but really runs a Third Price auction, ignores the 2nd bid, and takes th
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by araes 3y ago
Generally in the same place, just not for the same reasons. A lot of journalist writing is inherently sensationalistic, because the metric has become an ambulance chasing and gross out horror metric. Personally, have more issue with the au
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by araes 3y ago
Mostly, I tend to put the RTS' into ideas about "real-time strategy." Dune II: One of the first, one of the best. 3 factions, all very different, story mode with scope. Interesting units when "harvesters" was a
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by araes 3y ago
> And they searched his grief > But could only find his prison > And they searched his prison > But could only see themselves in chains The full poem's pretty great. One of the better finds in visiting Palest
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by araes 3y ago
Per the chain above, if you also exist in some state where you are effectively, permanently downhill in computation, then entities which exist at some state upward are "effectively" indistinguishable, no matter their relative &quo
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by araes 3y ago
She was dressed in “a decorous and delicate crimson.” (Virgil) 'Were you listening to me, Alighieri? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?'
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by araes 3y ago
Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane is pretty funny and very similar. "Hexanitro? Say what? I'd call for all the chemists who've ever worked with a hexanitro compound to raise their hands, but that might be assuming too much about
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by araes 3y ago
Excellent description, and further additions for the cynicism. (opinion) Human society large rewards narcissism. Diligence is usually rewarded with exploitation. There's actually academic supporting the 2nd. Therefore, most politici
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by araes 3y ago
Thanks. It's neat being able to visualize them, and the 3D display's actually pretty cool looking for all the different functions. The Fractional DFT part though, doesn't seem to do anything no matter the function chosen. F
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by araes 3y ago
Had thoughts on this the other day, about going to the office after the weekend always feeling bad, and waiting for the weekend always being the main thought during work. Yet, the weekend? Not actually that great. Feels totally artificia
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by araes 3y ago
BS: "Well just a second there, professor. We uh, we fixed the glitch . So he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it will just work itself out naturally." BP: 'We always like to avoid confrontation, whenever possib
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by araes 3y ago
Having never heard of this for the Fourier Transform, needed to read. F0: original signal F1: frequency domain signal F2: reverse time signal F3: inverse fourier signal F4: original signal Also, has further weird applications I've neve
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by araes 3y ago
Appears to time release additional parts to use. Good Job trophy and cup as interactive objects, with rabbit and cat as decoration (although they do hide objects). Been interesting to see the technique development over the release. People
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by araes 3y ago
This article is mostly about Jedi Knight, yet Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game is mentioned. (uses d6's with +1,+2 pips, effect scales, and rerolling successes) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Rolepla
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by araes 3y ago
That is almost exactly the wholesale price of cocaine. $2000-10000 / kg. https://www.drugpolicyfacts.org/node/327

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