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by calibas 5y ago
Ahem: >In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 22 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.
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by calibas 5y ago
Two species from California (Sequoiadendron giganteum & Sequoia sempervirens), one from China (Metasequoia glyptostroboides).
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by calibas 5y ago
If you want to save space and only plan on doing minor editing, use JPG. If you're planning on doing more than minor editing, use RAW. The reason is simple, JPG is optimized for human sight, and too much post-processing makes previousl
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by calibas 5y ago
"We feel pain because we have specific types of receptors called nociceptors which are programmed to respond to pain, not to touch." I assume he meant we feel pain as a response to damage. Saying we feel pain because of a response
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by calibas 5y ago
This is the most interesting part to me: > On Steam Deck, your games run on a different operating system than the one on your desktop PC. It's a new version of SteamOS, built with Steam Deck in mind and optimized for a handheld gami
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by calibas 5y ago
Do you actually get unlimited data? In the US, we have "unlimited" plans that are only "unlimited" until you hit the limit of a few GB per month. After that, I can still technically get data, but at extremely limited spe
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by calibas 5y ago
In my experience, Homebrew is usually the simplest route and should be the first choice for people just starting out. It's one simple "extra" step at the beginning that saves you from multiple, more complex steps later on.
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by calibas 5y ago
It's generally the military that's interested in this kind of research, which implies something about the intended use.
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by calibas 5y ago
> Why do you think I’m implying something nefarious? Maybe because you literally just said: > a political tool whose value is to divide society and leverage ignorance for political gain No offense, but I can't take your arguments
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by calibas 5y ago
So economic processes and analysis create the illusion of a wealthy elite who run everything, but there's not really a ruling class... I disagree, and the fact that "wealth tends to remain with the wealthy" combined with some
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by calibas 5y ago
It's odd, because when I suggest that money and power stays within a handful of wealthy families, nobody seems to disagree. When I call that a "class-based system" or use words like aristocracy, then people disagree... There&
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by calibas 5y ago
It's kind of the "American dream" that if you're responsible and work hard, then anybody can achieve a reasonable level of success. There's an appeal to believing being wealthy is a choice, then you can believe the
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by calibas 5y ago
It's quite easy to be "psychic", any clever person can do it. It's kind of like a poker game, you can't see the person's cards, but you watch for the "tells" that reveal which cards they're holdi
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by calibas 5y ago
I dream of a golden age where scientific knowledge is freely available to everyone. Unfortunately, the "people in charge" seem hellbent on a different path...
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by calibas 5y ago
"You made a mistake, but look at the positive side. If all those Ph.D.’s were wrong, the country would be in some very serious trouble."
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by calibas 5y ago
When you're new to freelancing, you generally have a lot of free time and it's better to take any job, even unpaid, than do nothing at all. It's more out of desperation than someone actually believing unpaid work is fair. Ed
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by calibas 5y ago
>The "pay" comes in the exposure and authority the photographer will build after doing this. This is the line every questionable business uses when trying to get freelancers to work for free. It's well-known and despised.
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by calibas 5y ago
I have an air quality monitoring device and I live in a place with clean air, so I just open a window. A PM2.5 of 2.318 (ug/m3) inside my room at the moment.
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by calibas 5y ago
Various scientists and organizations have been yelling for years that air pollution is one of the leading causes heart disease and cancer. It's not "hidden", it's being ignored... https://www.iarc.who.int&#x2F
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by calibas 6y ago
FYI, this post about weaponized abuse reports is being downvoted/flagged. It very quickly disappeared from the front page of HN. And I'm well aware it's against guidelines to even comment about this on HN, but it's direc
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by calibas 6y ago
I don't like the term "high art", to me it's the same kind of elitism that resisted even considering video games as art originally.
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by calibas 6y ago
There's a remarkable spectrum of subtle differences in the way water tastes. Plastic bottles, metal pipes, using a straw, city tap water, spring water, well water, chlorine, filters, they all add a little flavor. In certain cases and d
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by calibas 6y ago
This isn't a good thing or a bad thing, it's all in how we respond. This could lead to greater transparency, openness, and accountability, or it can be abused by a small group of people for their own power and profit. Nothing hypo
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by calibas 6y ago
I know a professional artist and this isn't unusual. He'll make 15k in 6 days, then 2k over the next 6 months. It's incredibly inconsistent.
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by calibas 6y ago
>NIST’s initial rules include today’s best practices, such as having an over-the-air device update program Weren't these kinds of automated updates the basis for the SolarWinds attacks?
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by calibas 6y ago
I present the Dictionary.com definition from 5 years ago, back before it was whitewashed: https://web.archive.org/web/20160314100133/http://www.dictio... Now I guarantee you that people don't consci
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by calibas 6y ago
>you/they don't see us as equals that can be bothered by the exact same things that other Americans can be bothered by: being told what to think To switch things around for perspective: "There's nothing wrong with bei
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by calibas 6y ago
With computers there is often a master/slave relationship, there is one system that's in near absolute control of another. It's practical and there's no ethical issues, the slave computer doesn't feel anything. Of c
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by calibas 6y ago
Looks like there's also two Redis servers with half a TB of RAM sitting in between web and SQL. I'm sure that's a huge load off the SQL server. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/306604/2489265
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by calibas 6y ago
> When a new trends starts organically, it's all impulsive and genuine, then people start to profit on it and the game is over. What you describe is simply the nature of a trend, it's happened with everything from modern Occupy

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