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by avidiax 1y ago
There was a time before we knew about climate change. Were those government and university researchers paid to cook up "climate change" from nothing? Who is twirling their mustache hoping to damage the fossil fuel industry, and ho
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." I fully believe that climate denialists can ignore anything. It could be 55 degrees C outside and they'll say that
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Police allege 'evil twin' of in-flight Wi-Fi used to steal credentials (2024)(theregister.com)
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I have heard that people often forget that this is on their keys, and it is very rare that it is noticed: https://www.swisstechtools.com/product/detail.html?id=111 You could bring the Swiss Army Jetsetter, but the prob
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I used to work for Uber, but not on this feature or anything related. Apropos to the article, as a programmer for this feature, what you are actually asked to do is write a greybanning engine. It can take various features (geofence, denylis
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So they are basically detecting bots that indiscriminately try to download any detected infohash, right? That's not detecting "announcers", but maybe more like detecting "indexers".
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Louis Rossmann posted a video to commend the FCC chair on defending the right to repair by publishing these schematics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TlgrIAI8x4
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by avidiax 1y ago
> Many crawlers and indexers continuously pick random or sequential infohashes and announce themselves so they can later detect other announcers I can't follow the logic here. How does this detect other announcers?
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Wouldn't that just mean that the detector needs to be increasingly sensitive to detect a late-1940's forgery?
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You might think that the voltage rise could be too fast for most protective technologies to save the downstream electronics, but the general case is that the temperature slowly drops and the sun slowly rises. So the voltage should slowly ap
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The compensation is only measured in terms of salary (and maybe bonus). Stock compensation is completely ignored. Since stock compensation can be a large fraction if not the majority of the compensation, this means that many H1-Bs may be un
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by avidiax 1y ago
Every time I drive in SF, I pay for parking, and then get a parking ticket. Apparently I'm supposed to know that a red parking meter is for trucks. The "trucks-only sign", if there was even supposed to be one, wasn't att
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> Likewise, the mixing of blending of food with a defect at or above the current defect action level with another lot of the same or another food is not permitted. That practice renders the final food unlawful regardless of the defect le
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How does any other media personality know that it's "kayfabe"? The chilling effect is not "kayfabe".
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Since Newsom doesn't like the program ending, I have a suspicion that the enforcement will be lax.
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If tone needs to be adjusted according to listening volume, why not have psychometric EQ that achieves that adjustment automatically?
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That is dystopian, but to be fair, this is China. They are literally rolling out facial ID tech to prevent paper thieves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj2bZCwJeVc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foT2kCByO
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Yes, especially do not google the number that you were given on the phone. That is completely certain to turn up the scammer's official looking page and "confirm" the phone number. I have seen Microsoft support forum articles
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What happens if you say "yes"?
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> $400 iPhone. A $600 plastic MacBook air with 4x usb-c. A $300 cross between the Mac Mini and an Apple TV A fairly priced computer monitor.
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Would would buy an Apple Cinema Display if you could buy a color-accurate TV?
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I want that speculation to be true, but I also don't think that the Air is a stepping stone towards that. The risky parts on a folding phone are the bending screen and the hinge and the software features. The iPhone Air tests none of t
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by avidiax 1y ago
Apple is a hostage of its own marketing. A modular iphone that has an easy to replace battery, easy to replace screen and is maybe 2mm thicker to account for it? That would be a sellout. A convertible Macbook Air with a touch screen? It wou
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This really shows how limited the effect of this bill is, but it's still much better than nothing.
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by avidiax 1y ago
My napkin math is that the $2.5B in profits accounts for about $0.14/kWH. This is based on total electrical energy production of 17,301 GWh, since PG&E doesn't seem to publish their total distributed energy. https:/&#x2F
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I have heard it claimed, at least for US construction, that a nuclear plant under construction has to implement new safety measures even if those measures were adopted after the design approval or construction start date. This means that th
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> My impression is that this guy is a typical bureaucrat who has power based on his ability to gatekeep access to information; he’s upset someone went around him. Gatekeepers exist for a reason. Sometimes the stuff inside the gates is im
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How did you learn the math used to speed up your implementation?
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Pilots use iPads for all of the charts and checklists. Even having two iPads (one as a backup) is much lighter and thinner (and easier to update) than the paper copies it replaces.
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My mistake extrapolating from the Swiss :)

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