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by burkaman 2y ago
You might have some custom styling applied somehow, I'm also in Firefox on Windows and the text is quite close to black. It's defined as #403d39 in the CSS. Edit: Sorry I see, I missed the word "highlighted". Looks like
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by burkaman 2y ago
ChatGPT just read that on Wikipedia ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Use_in_the_Mi... , https://samplecontents.library.ph/wikipedia/wp/r/Roman_numer... ). Notably, Wikipedia
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by burkaman 2y ago
Go to https://aihorde.net/api/ , scroll down to /v2/status/models, and click Try it out and then Execute. It's an enormous list and I think it can be dynamically updated, so that's probably why
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by burkaman 2y ago
More expensive is an understatement, I think it costs like 10x more to put them underground. It's also very difficult and disruptive in dense areas where there's all sorts of pipes and cables already there. That doesn't mean
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by burkaman 2y ago
Yes, Edge has it enabled. If you open Google Meet troubleshooting in Edge you can see your system CPU. If you try it in Firefox it says "Try Google Chrome to see your CPU usage".
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by burkaman 2y ago
Linked from the article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31769799/ . The summary is that noise causes stress and stress is very bad for you. It is commonly stated that the only two innate fears that all humans are born
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by burkaman 2y ago
It is disabled: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blo... If this flag is true then the extension is added: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+&
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by burkaman 2y ago
Fair, I was looking at the Ikon Base Pass but yeah if you want the big one it's a lot more
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by burkaman 2y ago
> Suleyman called content protected by robots.txt a "gray area ... that's going to work its way through the courts." robots.txt is not and has not ever been a matter for the courts. It's a social convention, and if yo
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Policy Statement on Onshore Wind(gov.uk)
2 points by burkaman 2y ago|1 comments
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by burkaman 2y ago
The UK government is "immediately removing the de facto ban on onshore wind in England, in place since 2015."
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by burkaman 2y ago
FYI, $1500 is very expensive for a pass and $150 for a day trip is incredibly cheap these days. You can get an Ikon/Epic pass for under $1000, and you should if you're going to ski more than a few days because even east coast moun
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by burkaman 2y ago
When a company fails, its employees and factories don't all explode or something. It's just a financial issue, everything still exists. So one possible universe is that Boeing the corporation fails, and the government rescues it a
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by burkaman 2y ago
I think that's good, because it helps you realize that categorizing art by century is kind of arbitrary and meaningless, and if possible it would be more useful to say something like "neoclassical art from the 1700s". "1
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by burkaman 2y ago
From the New York Times: > The Supreme Court on Friday reduced the authority of executive agencies, sweeping aside a longstanding legal precedent that required courts to defer to the expertise of federal administrators in carrying out la
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by burkaman 2y ago
For anyone else wondering, a gymnasium is a type of school in a lot of European countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(school) .
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by burkaman 2y ago
No, but the average consumer does Google "what laptop should I get" when they want a new one, and I think at least some of the people writing those lists do consider the downsides of Windows. When I Google that the first result is
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by burkaman 2y ago
Yes, opening a bank account is not trivial but it is doable, and if you don't have a social security number you can get one of these to pay income taxes: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/individual-taxpayer-identifi
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by burkaman 2y ago
You are being too cynical, there are ongoing global negotiations over a UN plastics treaty that will govern plastic production: https://www.unep.org/inc-plastic-pollution . It is slow and difficult but it is moving. There&#x
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by burkaman 2y ago
Here's one effort, unfortunately it looks like it never got off the ground: http://rescience.org/x . Here's their motivation in a Nature letter to the editor: https://media.nature.com/original/
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by burkaman 2y ago
Building new coal plants is bad, but it could be worse in that they seem to be running those plants less often and using them as peakers rather than baseload: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-coal-plants
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by burkaman 2y ago
Agreed, this seems like a positive outcome for everyone except maybe the private equity people who own Westinghouse.
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by burkaman 2y ago
You can use the sort of official HN search engine like this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by burkaman 2y ago
Oh I agree it probably inferred the joke. I was actually more surprised that it knew the real meaning of the phrase because I as a human did not, until I looked it up and saw how common it is.
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by burkaman 2y ago
This is referring to IBT Media ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBT_Media ), whose CEO currently owns 50% of Newsweek. They've also started heavily encouraging their reporters to use generative AI, so maybe that line
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by burkaman 2y ago
It's actually a very common phrase on forums, I think because it's an actual error that Linux will report: https://askubuntu.com/questions/868321/gpu-has-fallen-off-th... . I've also never heard of i
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by burkaman 2y ago
I don't know why he stopped updating his site, but I believe he is fine and posts to this forum sometimes: http://perryscanlon.com/MSJinfo_phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=... . His latest post is from a year ago:
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by burkaman 2y ago
Has it been edited? I don't see anything in the article about a volatile stock or a "wild ride".
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by burkaman 2y ago
There is no official policy document of the entire political party, the last "official" one is from 2016. This platform is as you say written and endorsed by more than 80 organizations that represent the full breadth of the Republ
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by burkaman 2y ago
There is no scenario where climate change causes an apocalypse quickly enough to get you out of your job. I'm sorry but even if you're ok with sacrificing the rest of humanity to get out of work sooner, you are not powerful enough

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