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by bhickey 8mo ago
Cambridge, MA. After the city deactivated the existing cameras, Flock got caught putting more up. The city terminated their contract with Flock for material breach.
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by bhickey 9mo ago
They wrote a memo saying they could.
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Fair is Better than Sensational:Man is to Doctor as Woman is to Doctor (2019)(arxiv.org)
1 points by bhickey 9mo ago|0 comments
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by bhickey 9mo ago
> passive thermal management I lived in an almost passive house for about a year. When the HVAC system stopped working* in July, I didn't notice until the middle of November. * Air handler was running, compressor was off.
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by bhickey 9mo ago
Those are all windows binaries.
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by bhickey 9mo ago
> It is insufficient to simply state that previous versions are not supported, they are aggressively not supported but I was not to be deterred. Amen. The time I've spent building old versions of MAME. I have a mountain of Donkey Ko
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by bhickey 9mo ago
I was messing around with one of the old RNGs, trying to kill off a few thousand tests that depended on its exact output sequence.
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by bhickey 9mo ago
I once mailed a CL to Sanjay. He replied, "This is outside of my expertise. Can you send it to Jeff?"
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by bhickey 10mo ago
And the Glock switch is useful for home defense.
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by bhickey 10mo ago
I can't actually tell if you're touting monkey jpegs or making a really funny joke.
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by bhickey 10mo ago
> I want to buy subversive literature from someone I already trust not to rip me off Subversive literature printed on blotter paper. Outside of buying sex and drugs the only uses for cryptocoins are, and always has been, ransoms, scams a
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by bhickey 11mo ago
Denying people lifesaving medical care is, and will always be, "playing god."
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by bhickey 11mo ago
Mullis was a nutcase. He got banned from at least one conference for including porn in his slides.
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by bhickey 11mo ago
You might be thinking of Kary Mullis, who supposedly came up with PCR while riding his motorcycle on LSD.
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by bhickey 1y ago
Reminds me of phage work. For growing up phage you start by mixing different dilutions of phage with the host and a thin top agar, then plate it. On those plates with a countable number of plaques you work backwards to your plaque forming u
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by bhickey 1y ago
I remember that. Wasn't the scoreboard painted on the main ramp leading up to the stands? This is 30+ years ago so my memory is hazy.
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by bhickey 1y ago
Nail on the head. Housing can be affordable or it can be a good investment. The two functions are incompatible.
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Show HN: Photon Sieve Tool(gitlab.com)
1 points by bhickey 1y ago|0 comments
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by bhickey 1y ago
I find it fascinating that this paper cites the work of William Morton Wheeler, a myrmecologist who was last alive nearly 90 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morton_Wheeler
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by bhickey 1y ago
> Space age lenses were significantly lower resolution than the film. Can you say a little more about this? Modern lenses boast about 7-elements or aspherics, but does that actually matter in prime lenses? You can get an achromat with tw
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by bhickey 1y ago
Probably the latter.
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by bhickey 1y ago
I don't think he ever released it as a feature. Here's some footage he shot on an expedition earlier the same year: https://youtu.be/ZN8a-pP60wk?feature=shared
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by bhickey 1y ago
One of my college friends is a documentary filmmaker. He dragged me along as he followed a group of glaciologists up to a high-risk melt lake in the Himalayas. Somewhere above 16,000 feet I got altitude sickness and headed back to Kathmandu
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by bhickey 1y ago
The corruption is simply incredible. About fifteen years ago I found myself in Kathmandu after getting altitude sickness. The team's fixer brought me to lunch with some government officials. The topic of discussion? How to steal from a
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Darwinian evolution can follow only few paths(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
4 points by bhickey 1y ago|0 comments
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by bhickey 1y ago
This is a blast from the past. I hadn't thought of elliptic in years. At some point I should write up my roguelike recollections... maybe ten years ago, Ken Arnold was stopping by Boston. Haran, one of the other crawl devs, found out a
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by bhickey 1y ago
I just switched from Canon to Fujifilm due to enshitification. Canon started charging $5/mo to get clean video out of their cameras. We're plenty screwed if manufacturers decide that cameras are subscriptions and not glass.
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by bhickey 1y ago
That's pretty funny. I might need to pilfer it.
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by bhickey 1y ago
Brain death without cardiac death.
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by bhickey 1y ago
As an em dash appreciator—and there are dozens of us!—I have mixed feelings on ChatGPT embracing our little guy. My suspicion is that it's a quirk of their RLHF tuning where the em dash—which is definitely distinct from the en dash and

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