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by bdamm 7mo ago
Canada also uses hand counted paper ballots and it works great. There's no need to make large-scale voting electronic, and I'd never trust it without major social institutions in place that can provide the kind of oversight we hav
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by bdamm 7mo ago
Ah, but you see, soon TikTok will allow parents to spy on their children's DMs, and parents will love this.
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by bdamm 8mo ago
Hopefully not used as packaging for Oreos, because unless the fungus has been highly adapted to the substrate, the mycelium will try to grow into the food. Oyster mycelium won't be toxic, but I don't want my Oreos to taste like mu
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by bdamm 8mo ago
Looks fairly idiomatic. What specifically do you dislike about it?
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by bdamm 8mo ago
It is absolutely revealing that the Instagram boss can’t openly admit that 16 hours of daily use is a problem. Name one thing that is okay to do for 16 hours a day. One.
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by bdamm 8mo ago
A friend of mine bought one. It ended up being kind of awful. 53mi of range for a 40kwH battery? That's abysmal. Where's all the power going? He traded it in for a used 2023 Model Y. Does 9-hr road trips all the time. I don't
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by bdamm 8mo ago
Body work is expensive no matter what car you're working on. The presence of paint ensures it. The OP was talking about "maintenance" and body work doesn't fall under that category.
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by bdamm 8mo ago
Well, offshore launches are already a thing. Or he could just buy a small island in the Carribean. There's one in particular that is available.
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by bdamm 8mo ago
Water is not needed to move heat. Heat pipes do it just fine. There's one in your laptop and one in your phone too. It does scale up.
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by bdamm 8mo ago
Not so. Look at the construction of JWST. One side is "hot", the other side is very, very cold. I am highly skeptical about data centers in space, but radiators don't need to be unshaded. In fact, they benefit from the shade.
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by bdamm 8mo ago
I've done plenty of work on my own Tesla. It's not hard to work on at all. Parts are not even very difficult. There are plenty of 3rd party shops (such as one I went to when I needed to replace my windshield.) I really wonder why
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by bdamm 8mo ago
As a male this turned me off too. I didn't like it, and it really distracted from the overall very cool thing.
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by bdamm 8mo ago
2008/09 was the worst this xennial ever saw so I think you're as qualified as most of us.
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by bdamm 9mo ago
While some lumber production happens in the United States, most lumber is imported from Canada. That's because while the USA does have good tracts of land on which lumber is grown, Canada has much, much more. This is why you see "
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by bdamm 9mo ago
It would be quite fascinating to see what kind of structure we could produce if we decided to make the longest lasting cement structures we could create with modern technology, and assuming minimal maintenance over the lifetime of the build
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by bdamm 9mo ago
You'd probably need to make a determination of the skill of the players. A very strong player vs a novice could be scholar's mate most of the time.
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by bdamm 9mo ago
Not typically. An airliner can and often does stall just above the runway and then falls the very small distance that remains. So the formula would be more like the airplane falling from a few feet up. The tail is still generating downforce
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by bdamm 9mo ago
There are entire subway systems built with tire-on-concrete where the trains ride precisely the same routes down to the millimeter. Montreal’s is a famous one. These systems are not as efficient as rail, but they are quieter and gentler tha
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by bdamm 9mo ago
Without knowing how LLM's personality tuning works, I'd just hazard a guess that the excitability (tendency to use excided phrases) is turned up. "smoking gun" must be highly rated as a term of excitability. This should
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by bdamm 9mo ago
California has already invested a lot into reservoirs. In fact, as a pilot, I recall noticing that nearly all lakes in California are actually man-made reservoirs. I doubt there is much room left for economically building more; all the easy
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by bdamm 9mo ago
It wasn't one of the "Ziply" or "PayByPhone" machines - with which I have no problem, generally. These are much more common. It was "Parkedin" at 745 Thurlow St, underground lot. I haven't encountered
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by bdamm 9mo ago
Interesting story; I went to park at a downtown lot in my local city (Vancouver BC) and the machine had an unusual UI. So I skipped the machine and scanned the QR code for the app. By the time I had taken the elevator up to the lobby of the
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by bdamm 9mo ago
Some day we might fly on the same airplane!
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by bdamm 10mo ago
I've used Grok for legal work (falsely accused, and also in a divorce) and it is very good. I've used ChatGPT also and it is not bad, but not as good as Grok. This is just my own personal experience but I suspect others who have d
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by bdamm 10mo ago
Can we solve the poisoning of fish while we're at it?
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by bdamm 10mo ago
So basically any non-diner non-fastfood.
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by bdamm 10mo ago
This is why insurance companies pay cloud seeders to move thunderstorms and reduce the probability of massive hail claims.
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by bdamm 10mo ago
Tesla certainly does it this way today. This is also the norm for IoT that I'm aware of. Nobody wants fleet-wide flag days anyway.
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by bdamm 10mo ago
Can you explain the link?
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by bdamm 11mo ago
You got further than I did. Visiting the site with Safari 16.6 results in "406 Your browser is not supported. Please upgrade your browser to continue." Not what I'd expect from an informative page about a lightweight editor.

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