blakesterz

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by blakesterz 2y ago
We have a Quest 2 and it's decent enough. Games look good, things look "good enough" for the most part. I did an in-store demo of the Vision Pro the other day and things look great for the most part. It's impressive, and
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by blakesterz 2y ago
"Dutch Roll is a coupled out of phase movement of the aircraft as result of weakened directional stability (provided by the vertical tail and rudder), in which the aircraft oscillates around its vertical as well as longitudinal ax
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by blakesterz 2y ago
I love reading through old newspapers and magazines. Even the ads! There's just something very VERY different about the ads in old print. The design and the prices are interesting to check out.
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by blakesterz 2y ago
I love that A List Apart is still going strong after all these years! I learned so much from them in the late 90s, early 2000s.
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by blakesterz 2y ago
The numbers country wide: According to Pew [0] The numbers vary from month to month. But in April 2023, the most recent month with available figures, 41.9 million people in 22.2 million households received SNAP benefits. That translates
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by blakesterz 2y ago
Maybe a dumb question, but I think anyone reading this question would know a good answer for me. If I have a big pile of PDFs and wanted to get an LLM to be really good at answering questions about what's in all those PDFs, would it be
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by blakesterz 2y ago
I like the point made way down at the bottom, especially about libraries: For readers looking to find Third Places the good news is that for now they do still exist throughout the city. However, without regular patrons that could always
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by blakesterz 2y ago
There's a great episode of the Ongoing History of New Music on this topic What A Drag It Is Getting Old (Musically) https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/what-a-drag-it-is-gett... "Ah…there it was ag
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by blakesterz 2y ago
Maybe a dumb question, but, is OTP "Open Telecom Platform" in this case?
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by blakesterz 2y ago
The best part of that comment now is Tim Bray responded to it!
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by blakesterz 2y ago
I'm not sure I would've even noticed it if you hadn't pointed that out, I'd expect red is harder too.
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by blakesterz 3y ago
You can sort their announcements by CVSS here: https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/?sort=-cvss This is their 3rd CVSS 10 in the past 5 years and they've had quite a few more over 9s in the past 5-10 years. I have no
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by blakesterz 3y ago
If I got a message that said: “Apple detected that you are being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack that is trying to remotely compromise the iPhone associated with your Apple ID -xxx-,” it wrote in the warning to affected customers
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by blakesterz 3y ago
> And then the increase in local taxes to try to compensate for the mass costs I don't know if it's like this everywhere, but our local taxes have gone up by a big percentage over the past several years. They say they haven&#x2
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by blakesterz 3y ago
Barbados is working on something similar "Reclaiming Our Atlantic Destiny (ROAD) Project" ... "it includes a massive digitization project, the creation of a memorial to enslaved people by Adjaye Associates, and the planning f
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by blakesterz 3y ago
It's funny, I have one kid in college now who wants to go into some kind of health thing. I feel like that's long term safe. I have another about to start this fall who wants to major in computer stuff. I have no idea if that&#x27
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by blakesterz 3y ago
It's quite a long paper, I think the solution is on page 30: "I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF [FAN:FUN] IN TRYING TO CATCH ME THAT WASN’T ME ON THE TV SHOW WHICH [BRINGO:BRINGS] UP A POINT ABOUT ME I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE GAS CHA
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by blakesterz 3y ago
This closes with an interesting quote that I agree with: "But if you’re a Google Podcasts user, should you use YouTube Music for podcasts? No, you shouldn’t. Because Google has made it clear over and over and over again that it can
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by blakesterz 3y ago
This reminded me of The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, Over the course of several months between 2011 and 2012, the contents of 9,571 barrels, valued at C$18.7M, were stolen in a suspected insider job from a FPAQ facility in Saint-Louis-
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by blakesterz 3y ago
In 2022, Ballad reported a median ER time for admitted patients of about six hours. In 2023, it reported the same statistic at seven hours and 40 minutes. In the latest report, ER time for admitted patients had reached 10 hours and 45 minut
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by blakesterz 3y ago
That was pretty much the point of Onavo: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/facebook-removes-onavo/
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by blakesterz 3y ago
The AP was disappointed, considering there had been productive discussions with both news organizations, spokeswoman Lauren Easton said. The news cooperative remains hopeful that both chains would continue to support AP beyond their cu
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by blakesterz 3y ago
The following are examples of the grading of the job: Light: filler (tooth brushes), rotary-machine operator, polisher. What was a filler of tooth brushes? I assume that was just someone who made tooth brushes? Was that really a
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by blakesterz 3y ago
Apparently I keep YoutTube on? Though when they started blocking adblockers I stopped going to YT, but the past few times someone's sent me a YT link, it just worked, so maybe they backed off? I wish I could step away from Google like
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A Close Up Look at the Consumer Data Broker Radaris(krebsonsecurity.com)
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I believe this is the actual study, though it's not Open Access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00029...
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by blakesterz 3y ago
I was curious about what "ultra processed" is exactly. They used this definition: https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/4867253/mod_resou... Ultra-processed foods are formulations of ingredients
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by blakesterz 3y ago
"Dynamic pricing can allow Wendy's to be competitive and flexible with pricing, motivate customers to visit and provide them with the food they love at a great value. We will test a number of features that we think will prov
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by blakesterz 3y ago
Rochester MN has a mini version too: https://www.experiencerochestermn.com/planning-tools/getting...
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by blakesterz 3y ago
I might suggest a link to the Wikipedia entry instead? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pedway I've never heard of this, and it's interesting, but the Wikipedia page has way more info than the PDF there.

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