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by buescher 3y ago
I wonder how illegal lotteries compare to legal ones in terms of the expected return on a ticket and the frequency/size of winnings. I would expect legal ones can pay out less overall, and that less frequently, with larger (but rarer)
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by buescher 3y ago
It doesn't add up. The average income in the poorest 1% of zip codes in the US is over $12000. Now, that's two different averages so you could have one of those statistical paradox things going on, but it's at least very po
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by buescher 3y ago
UL has, or had, a whole house in Fremont (maybe Milpitas) associated with their Fremont lab location for testing Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/etc interoperability in a "real-world" setting. They're not the only test lab to do s
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by buescher 3y ago
ib4 Betteridge tldr: rich kids are nuttier, nobody knows why, I'm sure you have an opinion
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by buescher 3y ago
I recall the same but the Picasa user experience has not been surpassed.
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by buescher 3y ago
No one else misses Picasa?
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by buescher 3y ago
ImageJ has roots (NIH Image) that predate Photoshop.
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by buescher 3y ago
It's weird and paradoxical isn't it? I have no idea what this lady was writing, but smutty romance novels and horror novels with weird sex scenes have been sufficiently acceptable to "community standards" all over the U
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by buescher 3y ago
From the article: "think: a million devices per square kilometer". Range of DECT-2020 NR+ is comparable to Bluetooth Low Energy Long Range, which is plenty for a lot of applications but not in the same class as LoRa. But it'
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by buescher 3y ago
It isn't, except when it is, and WiFi is established already. Sure, for a big industrial IoT rollout, you'd have to set up dedicated networks anyway, so you can choose them on their peculiar merits. For consumer IoT, requiring a
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by buescher 3y ago
AFAICT the upside here is the same as the downside, and similar to LoRa: you get to have your own infrastructure, but you also pretty much have to have your own infrastructure.
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by buescher 3y ago
Lively is very impressive in its scope and beyond what I imagined anyone might have done already. Thanks! It seems a little brittle - the examples threw errors for me. It’s also a bit less coupled to the browser that what I was picturing
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by buescher 3y ago
As an aside, is there anything like the Smalltalk/Pharo object browser and IDE for javascript in a web browser?
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by buescher 3y ago
Or, for that matter, the original 70's K&R compiler, right? It's probably at the right size for exploring some language ideas.
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by buescher 3y ago
People have come up with S-expression syntaxes for C, basically to be able to write C macros in lisp. Here's one: https://voodoo-slide.blogspot.com/2010/01/amplifying-c.html
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by buescher 3y ago
Do any of the media server solutions retrieve metadata (that someone has made, if they have) for you? I would happily rip discs while I do other things so I can have the convenience of playing from a server and the ability to pick up where
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by buescher 3y ago
I am an unabashed nanochess fanboy but it’s not really Logo without lists and functions.
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by buescher 3y ago
They typically fail when wound (closed), not unwound (open), because that's when they're stressed. Cables can fail when winding the drum (open), but you have two.
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by buescher 3y ago
I'm sorry to hear that. His columns and books were a big influence.
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by buescher 3y ago
Looks like it. A.K. Dewdney did a computer recreations column in Scientific American back in the eighties with a nice exposition of how to do a basic star cluster simulation. Only practical with a lot fewer “stars” on the gear I had avail
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by buescher 3y ago
For the really damming stuff, they either claim they have documentation or imply it exists. Still, it’s barely news and a defamation lawsuit would be a nuisance at least, right? I wonder who he ripped off that has pull at the Times.
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by buescher 3y ago
For foraged mushrooms. Alcohol can exacerbate reactions to mushroom toxins. There are particular wild mushrooms like ink caps that experts recommend you should not eat if you have had a drink within 48 hours, and you should not have a dri
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by buescher 3y ago
OpenSesame is really cool. It depends on the receiver using a shift register and the protocol not having stop bits (or equivalent), otherwise running a DeBruijn sequence that contains all the possible codes won't work.
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by buescher 3y ago
Your animus is showing. Bozeman is an affluent college town near a ski resort with real estate prices at California levels. Besides, it's 2024 and for about two decades now even dirtbags in the US have eaten sushi. You can buy sushi
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by buescher 3y ago
I've merrily eaten raw white mushrooms like everyone else but some people have sensitivities, and like any other raw vegetable they can be contaminated with bacteria or other pathogens.
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by buescher 3y ago
And this is an academic paper so even though the reported number is given as an "average" it is not necessarily going to be typical for application and it is fair to expect that "average" means "best average".
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by buescher 3y ago
Automatic watches, crystal radios, dippy birds, and solar calculators! What will they think of next???
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by buescher 3y ago
There were also so-called "learning codes" that overlapped substantially with the introduction of rolling codes. Think fixed-code remotes with a random preprogrammed code instead of dip switches. Chamberlain's "billion
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by buescher 3y ago
Oh gosh, I have this recollection of a line like "investment opportunities so good they only get offered to dentists, like ostrich farming" in something I read a long time ago, probably the nineties, possibly the eighties. I wish
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by buescher 3y ago
Altium has only recenty started adding the features it needs to compete with Allegro and Xpedition. It's historically been oriented towards small-team efforts in the same niche as OrCAD and PADS. The argument I see for Flux is the &qu

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