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by bscphil 3y ago
I was in New Mexico a while back, and being outside walking around in 35 C heat was completely comfortable because of how dry it was. Relative humidity less than 20%. It's so dry that the heat index (by the National Weather Service&#x2
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> "The Book" in which God keeps the most elegant proof of each mathematical theorem > The proofs include: Six proofs of the infinitude of the primes ironic
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And the overwhelming majority of people, including thieves, don't do this, because the raised barrier to entry makes gun crimes vastly less attractive. Combine that with a broad social safety net that reduces poverty, and you miraculou
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> it's intended to work with many other options like controlling indicators or wipers I think you're asking exactly the right question though - how is all this not just a more complex, less secure, shittier version of a keypad
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> Nuclear has a useful role to play. But it is in decline. And that decline is cost driven. This does not appear to be correct. The 2018 chart shows a total energy generation of 101.2 quads. The 2021 chart shows only 97.3 quads, a reduct
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Yes, it is literally the case that you will be fully reimbursed (after a $50 maximum) in the event of cash fraud, and that is one of the things that makes banking in America so powerful and safe. See for example, consumerfinance.gov: >
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Segoe was introduced with Vista, you might be thinking of the refreshed version that came with Windows 10? I'm actually a big fan of the Windows 11 Segoe refresh, really makes what used to be a bland font (to my tastes) quite nice.
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Correct me if this is wrong, but I've read somewhere that Zelle gives you no recourse in the event of fraudulent transfers. This makes me extremely reticent to use it, or even use a bank that provides access to it without a signup proc
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The vast majority of "malware" on phones isn't software that exploits security bugs in the system software. Instead it's software that effectively asks the user nicely to give up their information, using mechanisms provi
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Linux security best practices are to (a) only run open source software with all code changes publicly visible on a version control website, and (b) rely on an expert maintainer to have performed at least minimal review on the software. Gran
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> Your vote only matters as much as the likelihood that at least one result is decided by exactly one vote This is entirely wrong. The value of your vote is the relative ratio of the fraction of alternate universes in which you vote in t
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Right - I did end up doing basically this. In this case, though, it was a massive pain to figure out what version of a web browser (a) supported enough cipher suites, and (b) would run on the system in question. And then I had to figure out
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Fair use is generally understood to be more flexible when it comes to educational purposes, but it doesn't extend as far as communicating a complete copy of a work. For example, you can't upload a PDF version of a textbook to your
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Right, it's not a proper fork. It's actually just a static set of patches that improve the compression ratio in libjpeg-turbo but can't be upstreamed, for reasons.
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Upvoted simply because this claim is so astonishing. If you can back this up I implore you to provide as much technical information and proof as possible, because the PKI managers for the major browser vendors would certainly revoke certifi
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Usually supporting HTTPS is combined with requiring relatively recent versions of TLS and cipher suites, for security reasons. I've been in a position where I needed to use a computer from ~2007 or so briefly and found that I couldn&#x
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That the US should not be the focal point of an argument about phones in schools is exactly the point that the parent comment was making.
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The implication of the first paragraph was that this behavior applied to users by default. If it's effectively opt-in, it's hard to argue that this is Mozilla "willing to sacrifice their user's privacy and security"
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Not that this isn't nice, but won't it inevitably be the case for 99.999% of users (if they actually get to be large enough) that they reply on some other service (or BlueSky itself) to provide their @domain? I can't imagine
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> If people are fine with telling Pocket what they read I don't believe the ads shown in Firefox require sending any browsing history to the web (whether to Firefox or anyone else). The mechanism used here is different. I do agree w
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This is an interesting question (which I don't know the answer to) because the Raspberry Pi hardware does not itself come with a license for Mathematica or the software in question. Rather, it's part of the Raspbian distribution.
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Or if you and your partner are traveling together, you might lose your only set of house keys that way. I can't imagine getting home after a traumatic experience only to have to effectively break into your own house and then have new k
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A broken car is still a car! If I pushed a broken down Honda Civic into the park with the gear shift set to neutral and left it there, surely that would break the rule?
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> I think some people would call a wheelchair a vehicle I think, just being overly annoying and literal, that the game shouldn't be answered by asking whether anyone would call a wheelchair a vehicle, but whether a wheelchair is
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> even if they are allowed to break the rule they are still breaking the rule. This is exactly right, I think, and in fact those who are focusing on the "intent" of the rule or on whether a violation of the rule is justified se
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It clearly spooks the driver - he pulls the wheel hard manually to the right to get back in the correct lane after FSD veers around the truck.
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I'd be curious to hear anyone report how many hours of battery life they get with Asahi under typical web browsing conditions (no video). I've seen plenty of folks use words like "decent" to describe it under Asahi, but
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Wouldn't that be an example of what the comment you're replying to calls a misallocation of resources?
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Just upthread someone pointed out that after the Homelab subreddit set up a Lemmy instance, only 18 people joined it. I think this undermines the idea that Reddit communities care about this. What we know is that people who spoke up about t
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The difference is one of justification: we accord "natural" rights to human beings on the basis of the belief that every person is valuable and deserves certain protections and opportunities (e.g. a right to life, a right to educa

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