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by bscphil 4y ago
> modern OSes will delete trashed items on a rolling 30-day basis, without any further action. Hmm, the best I can find, no OS does this by default although all of them are capable of doing it.
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> As far as I know nobody (other than bs "news" outlets) ever claimed covid-19 vaccinations would diminish the risk of getting covid-19. > Nor vaccine manufacturers, nor virologists, nor doctors. I... what?? The CDC literall
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Possibly, but it could also be one of your neighbors, or a nearby AP enabling channels that are not supposed to be enabled in the US. The issue is that when Intel's drivers make the wrong decision about the regulatory domain, you don&#
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by bscphil 4y ago
I was confused by this too. 5 GHz channels with 40/80 MHz width definitely work for me, without having to set a regulatory domain. It appears that this problem is related to Intel's WiFi firmware automatic detection of the regul
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> She used Wikipedia to find and categorize each episode. This is a really clever use of an existing dataset. I clicked through before reading this and was stunned by how thorough the tag set was. Even more obscure things like "Alum
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"If one simply becomes wealthier than the Earth can even potentially sustain for more than a tiny portion of the population at once, living within visual distance of any other person becomes undesirable."
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by bscphil 4y ago
I have a i7 laptop of the same generation that I'm using to type this. I've replaced the screen, bezel, keyboard, touchpad, WiFi board, charger (3 or 4 times, thanks a lot Dell), battery. Upgraded the memory and added an SSD. Reap
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by bscphil 4y ago
The property tax you pay doesn't cover the externalities of the landfill - it pays for trash pickup and (roughly) opportunity cost for the land being used as landfill, as well as landfill maintenance required by regulations. Probably t
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by bscphil 4y ago
> I suspect that zero waste is a weak/negative value proposition. This is probably because the social / environmental cost of leaving all the trash you create in a landfill forever is an externality - you don't pay for it
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> I wrote up exactly this in a short email to the company that made the Yahtzee game. They did not reply and just silently fixed the bug, right after my email. I was disappointed and stopped playing. I love this. It's one of those t
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by bscphil 4y ago
From a quick search it looks like it was S10E06 of Saturday Night Live. The skit is at 53:45. https://archive.org/details/saturday-night-live-s-10-e-06-ed...
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I'm fairly confident by "the left" they mean "wealthy California liberals", so basically, not the left. If you think that by virtue of being the most "left leaning" cities, San Francisco and Los Angeles mu
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> to repair any defects or conditions which may cause injury to persons or damage to property This is a remarkably strong requirement. I wonder if the same holds in Los Angeles, and if so, how every property owner has not been sued out o
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> low pass filtering The grain baked into the negative is widely considered a visually desirable property of shooting with these high end analog cameras.
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by bscphil 4y ago
Yep, it really makes me curious what the best DPI you can get on a consumer negative scanner is. It's pretty obvious from that comparison that it's a low-dpi scan upscaled to the same size for the sake of comparing them. But surel
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by bscphil 4y ago
You can just post the hash portion of it. For a public torrent like this the trackers are effectively interchangeable and it makes for a messy, hard to copy URL.
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by bscphil 4y ago
Seems like a them problem and not a me problem. Do they have an option to avoid these deliveries anyway? Where I live they're all employees (basically) of e.g. Grubhub, and Grubhub promises me delivery within e.g. 45 minutes. I had a
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by bscphil 4y ago
Yeah, it's certainly an unfortunate situation all around - mostly for the restaurant staff who are dependent on the tips - but probably doesn't change much from the consumer's point of view. FWIW I've not had significant
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by bscphil 4y ago
Most places allow you to give specific instructions to the driver. It's intended for things like "gate locked, text ### when you arrive" or something to that effect. But I bet you could say something like "will tip cash
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by bscphil 4y ago
I mean, "require businesses to pay their employees minimum wage" is really not too big an ask in most countries. Edit: to give you credit, I think that may have been your point. I lost track of context in the thread.
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by bscphil 4y ago
> When I delivered food A "token amount" is pretty reasonable if you take tipping at face value, no? It's supposed to be a reward for good service. Waitstaff engage with you many times over the course of about an hour, and
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by bscphil 4y ago
Moreover, just a few years ago I was in a position where none of the free services I tried would allow me to report a specific form of taxable income I received (a stipend paid by a university in the form of a reimbursement that wasn't
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by bscphil 4y ago
The "we lobbied for our people" is also weird. If at the end of the day $x million in salary has to be cut, and it's meritorious for a company to do it randomly rather than pruning the bottom whatever percent, it's extre
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by bscphil 4y ago
Not to mention the fact that in some places in America, $80k is barely above the cost of living for a family of four. Plenty of Americans in the "global 1%" in terms of income have seen almost nothing of the new wealth created sin
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by bscphil 4y ago
I don't know how accurate the various videos are, but if they are, the Delta pilot was probably able to visually see the plane on the runway ahead, perhaps even before the tower noticed it. The plane seems to begin decelerating very ea
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by bscphil 4y ago
IMO it's purely a question of perspective. From the point of view of individual health, you need to think like a doctor. The important question is "what can this individual do to improve their health?" From that perspective i
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> Modern nutrition science has found that each person, at any given time, has a "metabolic setpoint". This is basically a target weight that their endocrine system is trying to keep them at. Citation? This goes against everythi
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by bscphil 4y ago
I think it would be most accurate to say that people's bodies have a natural size given a particular food and social environment. That's a crucial bit of context that's very often neglected. Resisting one's environment
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> Assume reproduction such that population doubles every 25 years. Fast, but not insane. This is already completely implausible given everything we know about human behavior, but it reaches impossibility very quickly when you consider th
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by bscphil 4y ago
If that's the case, then providing the answers should be pretty easy. Can you tell us what they are?

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