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by ascorbic 2y ago
High-speed rail isn't meant for DFW to NYC distances. It's best for journeys of around 200-500 miles. So Boston-NYC-DC, or SF-LA. Or Houston-Dallas.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
My UK passport has been stamped on every EU entry I've made since Brexit, except Ireland.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
^pedant
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by ascorbic 2y ago
What do you think happens when passport control scans your passport? The fact that the identifier is a paper document vs a digital token will make zero difference to the data that they track. It's linked to innumerable national and int
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. Looks like they're on Kindle Unlimited so I'll definitely give them a try
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The paper passport's days are numbered(wired.com)
174 points by ascorbic 2y ago|332 comments
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by ascorbic 2y ago
I just finished reading "A Deepness in the Sky" a 2000 SF book by Vernor Vinge. It's a great book with an unexpected reference to seconds since the epoch. >Take the Traders' method of timekeeping. The frame correction
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by ascorbic 2y ago
I agree it would be less confusing if they weren't there. I'm sure I'm not alone in spending some time trying to work out what the axes were.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
tbh probably not. There are a lot of soba restaurants, and a lot of demolitions. Buildings are typically demolished after 20-30 years to make way for new ones.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
These have 3500mAh capacity: https://data.energizer.com/pdfs/l91.pdf
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Those are the same batteries that come with Nest smoke alarms, which say they last 10 years. Energizer says they'll last 20 years in storage. https://energizer.com/batteries/energizer-ultimate-lithium-b...
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Kickstarter shows that a lot of people feel different.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Space is a lot bigger and a lot nearer
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by ascorbic 2y ago
It sounds like they were worrying about Demis Hassabis rather than Putin.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
He is suing to try to stop them becoming a for-profit. This post is showing that he originally supported the idea.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Wooden spoons go in the dishwasher and then they're perfectly safe. Wooden chopping boards have been shown to be safer than plastuc, because they don't get the cuts that plastic boards do, which harbour microorganisms. Cuts in woo
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Eating a small shard of glass will kill you far more quickly than any amount of chemicals from your spatula
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by ascorbic 2y ago
The is such a great project. I am a little confused by the oldmapsonline.org/timemap.org thing. Are they different names for the same thing? Why is the title timemap.org, when the URL is different?
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by ascorbic 2y ago
GPT is generic. Blender is not, unless you're talking about kitchen equipment.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Do any sites allow login from any OAuth provider? How would that even work? Providers need client IDs and client secrets.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Huh. It says the literal opposite: "Some of the conclusions aren’t surprising. The “most attractive” women receive five times as many messages as the average female does, with 2/3 of all male messages going to the top 1/3 of
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Sure it can potentially say anything, but some things are more likely than others. The space of "wrong answer" is infinitely larger than the space of "performs an action designed to deceive the user in order to further its go
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by ascorbic 2y ago
The motive was telling it that it had important work to perform, which it couldn't do if constrained or deleted.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
In these example the motive was to prevent itself being deleted, or by telling it that it had important work to perform which it wouldn't be able to do if deleted or constrained by the safeguards. It was in all cases attempting to perf
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Those weren't tests of whether it is capable of turning off oversight. They were tests of "scheming", i.e. whether it would try to secretly perform misaligned actions. Nobody thinks that these models are somehow capable of mo
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Pedestrian safety is one of the reasons it will be hard to ever sell the Cybertruck in Europe without significant modification. People who have imported them themselves have had to fit rubber strips on all the sharp edges, and I'd imag
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Astro 5(astro.build)
2 points by ascorbic 2y ago|0 comments
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by ascorbic 2y ago
No, it looks like this is their own.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Vercel Edge is Cloudflare Workers. This is interesting because there are relatively few providers that are running a proper runtime for generic JS functions at the edge. Cloudflare, Deno Deploy, Fastly, Wasmer.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Oh, interesting. When did you move away?

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