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by buran77 2y ago
> I have no problem spotting them while driving a large SUV That's the bias. It could very well mean "no problem spotting the ones I had no problems spotting". By definition you can't know how many you never spotted a
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> I've not seen anywhere how this figure of 20% is determined. A lot of people are probably just repeating a number that is big enough to impress management but not so big it sounds far fetched. Otherwise evaluating Copilot should b
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> Lots of institutional checks You're right but given enough time of the "right" type of people entrenching their power (which of course may not be "one term" but that could be enough to put things on a path), an
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by buran77 2y ago
Unfortunately many sites don't care about your consent either way. The cookie is saved before you get to click anything so blocking the banner blocks only the annoyance unless you go further than just blocking the banner.
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by buran77 2y ago
> rm -rf ~* I'm more curious about the ~* part. Is the behavior triggered by a tcsh peculiarity that no longer works that way these days? Why would ~* trigger he behavior of deleting every home directory? And aren't Emacs backu
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That's assuming the development of the two civilizations starts simultaneously and is predictable to the point the signal reaches the other side. That side of the lenses may never see a civilization developing at all, or at least not o
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by buran77 2y ago
> a structural break for Musk's metrics around July 13, 2024" following which his view counts increased by 138.27% and retweets increased by 237.94%, with a similarly large increase for favourites I can't judge how legitim
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> I have very low expectations from a site that is called serve the home and deals too often with enterprise level hardware that will never get into someone's home That's an uncharitable interpretation of a site's name. Is
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Even assuming a civilization can predict the alignment of the lenses (galaxies), they'd still need quite a powerful signal just to reach the first lens, let alone the second, and then a potential civilization who may be listening at ju
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by buran77 2y ago
In the case of transfer of ownership there's little GOG can do (legally) except lobby. But from a technical standpoint access to the games is guaranteed by the DRM-free part. You can have the binaries free of encumbrances, effectivel
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by buran77 2y ago
The most common ways to remove flesh from the skeleton avoiding bone degradation as much as possible are maceration (bacterial, enzymatic), or flesh-decomposing bacteria (edit: and beetles). There's not much left for cremation. Mechani
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Wet sponges [0] for people counting money were a very common sight some decades ago before money counting machines and mostly electronic payments. Probably still being used just not so obvious anymore. Regardless of age fingertips will even
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by buran77 2y ago
Eevblog forum is the original source for most of the Github projects around these thermal cams. So that's a good place to start. https://www.eevblog.com/forum/thermal-imaging/new-software-f... https:/&#
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by buran77 2y ago
There are a few open projects to support a lot of these thermal cams like the more popular Topdon or InfiRay models. PyThermalCamera [0] or Thermal-Camera-Redux [1] are good ones, I got my thermal cam working on my Linux laptop just fine. [
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> the arbitrary nature "Sci-fi" already tells you what's the fictional part of the story: the science/tech, and maybe some fundamental rules around those. Fantasy is where you get to rewrite the basic rules of the uni
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Your weekend project was probably very creative but not "you're pulling my leg, this can't be for real". Technology is complicated and only getting more so. Even a tech savvy person can be surprised by something new in t
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> Apparently, kids these days know little about the hardships of life. Everyone's a kid to someone else. I remember being told some stories when my beard was already white and genuinely wondering if they were true or not just becaus
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> Sure, we make a ton of freedom noises. As I said, the hypocrisy of the speech and perhaps the expectation that people will always swallow it (which sets a low bar for the opinion about those people) are what stands out, not that a coun
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by buran77 2y ago
Your unrelated question is posed as a challenge to what I said, without actually challenging anything I said. Worse, it suggests banning Kaspersky from the Google Play Store is "a suggestion for the situation", whatever that might
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> doing something you don't like I think people mostly aren't surprised that a country is taking action against an enemy, that's expected in general. What might raise an eyebrow here and there is when they're doing i
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Can? Anything that a mighty military, economic, and political power allows. Should? Maybe walk their talk? Too many times the US is criticizing countries like China for doing something only to turn around and do the very same thing but spri
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> None of the major TV manufacturers is based in the US, so I guess we won't have to worry about the EU regulating The EU tries to regulate things that get too dangerous to its citizens. The important part though is enforcement whic
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> Don't associate with terrorists. Do not shelter terrorists. Do not eat dinner with terrorists. Don't get car rides from terrorists. That's impossible to achieve in practice as you probably knew before spending time to wr
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> That's not obvious here The method of delivery is too imprecise to guarantee only (or even mostly) the combatants are targeted. A targeting system that was "blind" by design (intention) was almost guaranteed to harm civi
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> “These attacks represent a new development in warfare, where communication tools become weapons, simultaneously exploding across marketplaces, on street corners, and in homes as daily life unfolds,” UN human rights chief Volker Türk to
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> I was absolutely blown away. All my acquaintances who have Teslas and FSD were insisting on the same. But every time I hitched a ride as a passenger, most of the times with the explicit goal of seeing this miracle in action, I mainly g
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by buran77 2y ago
Isn't it exactly the opposite of how you describe it? > That's really why "miles" is a poor measure. It implies going faster is safer. A mile is a mile no matter how fast you drive. It means that in a 13mi trip statis
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As it happens with every discussion touching on sufficiently sensitive skin ("offending" some people, countries, etc.). One can't imagine that an article trashing a former president of Y Combinator will survive well especiall
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It's still of value to have companies that have different incentives even if they will still try to prey on you, if only because you get to spread your digital footprint among competing companies rather than allies. Going back to Apple
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> push the envelope of fidelity Almost without exception the simple trick of turning the "vivid" dial to 11 makes people swear that's the "better" picture. > Your laptop analogy doesn't really work here;

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