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by blendo 2y ago
The average person has the same recourse to a cop’s injustice as the average slave had to a slave catcher.
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by blendo 2y ago
> Covered with burns, the truck driver walked nearly a mile along the freeway before reaching a gas station and getting into a cab. A gasoline truck, surely going too fast, hit a freeway hazard in Oakland and burnt up the road while, iro
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by blendo 2y ago
> Hardliners have grown worried that the experiment with capitalism could threaten the government’s tight grip on power, and the Cuban military, which used to control most foreign currency coming into the island, is viewing these compani
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And if I’m reading the Orbital Tonnage chart right, then 80-90% of every ton now being launched is a Starlink satellites. Maybe the biggest hurdle for everyone except Starlink (with their standardized design) is spacecraft design and engine
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by blendo 2y ago
killed it
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“ The lowest rate of long Covid in the study, 3.5 percent, was among vaccinated people who were infected during the latest period in the study, between mid-December 2021 and January 2022. That compares with a rate of 7.8 percent for unvacci
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Put Up or Shut Up(fastcompany.com)
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by blendo 2y ago
The data comes from the Polaris hotline. Criticism from the Polaris wiki page: “Reason magazine editor Elizabeth Nolan Brown referred to Polaris as "one of the biggest purveyors of bad statistics dressed up as 'human trafficking a
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by blendo 2y ago
In my 50s, I started drinking coffee in the afternoon. It helped a bit.
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by blendo 2y ago
And Elon Musk would improve on these 5,000 lb Waymo SUVs carrying 1-2 passengers in favor of 7,000 lb Cybertrucks carrying 1-2 passengers. The improved 0-60 times alone will prove Elon the more effective accellerationist.
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by blendo 2y ago
“Social scientists have shown — for as long as we have been collecting data — that conservatives have better mental health than liberals, and religious people have better mental health than their secular peers.” My gut tells me social scien
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Notable to me is it uses Java’s nee vector API: https://openjdk.org/jeps/469
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by blendo 2y ago
OT: carbuzz.com estimated its curb weight as about 5,500 lbs. That’s good when you’re driving 80mph on the freeway, but way too big around town. I’d like to see drivers in US cities have the option for something smaller, like Renault’s new
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by blendo 2y ago
“running quantum chemistry computations on the inputs provided by the Georgia Tech team. These calculations used about 400 million CPU hours” Not sure bragging about high energy consumption helps their argument as much as they think.
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by blendo 2y ago
I think MITRE did a very good job in writing up the details here. If I were a system or security engineer, these seem to be immediate actionable items laid out for me. Such transparency should serve as a model.
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From 2004. Anything new on this since?
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by blendo 2y ago
He emailed the evidence to the police: “Waite emailed his recording of the call to the sheriff's office records department and requested an internal investigation. A month later, Waite was accused of five counts of illegal wiretapping
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by blendo 3y ago
> It's nice when the 60 year old grandparent thinks you’re attractive. Or step-grandparent.
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by blendo 3y ago
Thus sparking the engineer’s natural distrust of authority figures.
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by blendo 3y ago
No, groundwater is renewable in a lot of places, like in much if the Sacramento Valley, where it rain 20-30” a year. But in the Fresno/Bakersfield area of California, with only 5-10” if rain per year, over pumping is making farming une
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by blendo 3y ago
I don’t think solar powered irrigation is practical. To water 10 acres of orchard in northern California, where our water levels are “good” (wells are 100-150 ft deep), we need about a 25 hp (20 kW) well pump. That’s ~2 kW per acre. A typic
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by blendo 3y ago
cat should be the command you learn second, after ls, because you need to know what you’re dealing with.
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by blendo 3y ago
Mazda CX-30 has buttons. As do Subaru BRZ/Toyota 86/Toyota GR86.
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by blendo 3y ago
btw, I'm just throwing out that "Sign in with Apple" is "best" only to challenge "Sign in with Facebook" or "Sign in with Google" folks to explain why not. At the very least, it's nice to ha
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by blendo 3y ago
" Once, Underhill says, there was so much water that a steamship could carry "agricultural supplies from the Bakersfield area up to Fresno and then up to San Francisco" — a distance of nearly 300 miles. " It'd be ni
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by blendo 3y ago
For a straight male, you’ll see a surprisingly large number of fake profiles. Anecdotally, women seem to report this too. (Reddit has MANY such posts!) So identity verification is a real problem. As an iPhone user, I’d seriously consider u
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by blendo 3y ago
Reminds me of my one devious professional hack. Back in the 1990s I supported a website whose users were all in our local business group. It was mostly html tables, with black text on a jarringly bright yellow background. Asked my users if
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by blendo 3y ago
I expect that hundreds of years ago there was also much gnashing of teeth about people overusing the new technology of literacy.
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GRAHAM> … It’s all because Ed Lee died To believe that Ed Lee is some kind of political white knight instead of merely a Willie Brown/Gavin Newsom/London Breed/Kamala Harris machine politician seems historically n
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by blendo 3y ago
A bit off topic, but do Apple Airpod Pro provide benefits to those with mild hearing loss? I find Transparency mode with Conversation Awareness helps me hear words more clearly among groups of people, even though my hearing is fine.

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