codewench

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by codewench 3y ago
Japanese customs is a special thing. I had a plastic Christmas tree held in quarantine for 9 months because the box said "tree", and all attempts to point out that the tree was in fact fake, and probably not of serious biological
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by codewench 3y ago
>Only when I search for them do they show up. That's the goal. You're assuming their metrics are tied into being a 'map' or 'useful to end users', but this is Google. Their metrics are 100% focused on ad rev
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by codewench 3y ago
There's a marked difference in having an author spend a week crapping out a cheap pulp novel vs having a text generator spit out 5000 in the same time period. Coupled with self publishing and automated stores, the market can be flooded
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by codewench 3y ago
That's why you took a marker and drew a diagonal line along the side of the stack, so you could visually line then back up if anything happened. I mean, it wasn't great, but it was better than nothing
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by codewench 3y ago
See for example the failure of the Cape wind project, which was stuck in NIMBY hell for years because a few rich assholes were worried they would see the tips of the blades over the horizon
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by codewench 4y ago
Jellyfin doesn't have an official native app, but there's a quasi-official version [1] you can run. That said, it does require putting the TV into dev mode so you can sideload the app. I've been running it for a while now and
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by codewench 4y ago
As compared to now, with a thriving black market, and aggressive prosecution of all parties?
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by codewench 4y ago
The salts issue was actually mentioned in a follow up video [0], with the note that only homes with specific water types (excessively hard water if I remember correctly) will require them. [0] https://youtu.be/Ll6-eGDpimU?t=
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by codewench 4y ago
Yes, but that is still going to happen. Only now we also have this "extra" amount being burned.
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by codewench 4y ago
I feel like it's almost a requirement to take this opportunity to share Technology Connections great video [1] on the topic. Personally, I've used a heat pump as the sole heating unit for my house for the past 6 years or so. There
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by codewench 4y ago
Also, a DMCA claim has (in theory at least) some recourse for filing false claims. Google's ContentID system however doesn't, at least not in any material sense, so why not file false claims? There is no legal repercussions, and t
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by codewench 4y ago
Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
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by codewench 5y ago
Isn't that literally every major university ever?
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by codewench 5y ago
There will (usually) be something called a Blank Firing Adapter used, which is really nothing more than a small plug which blocks the barrel enough for the gasses from the blank to build up, and provide enough pressure to properly cycle the
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by codewench 5y ago
Serious question then. Replace stocks with "rich aunt, who has me in her will". Should i be taxed on that? It's unrealized income, which will be taxed when transferred, but until then it's just theoretical. Obviously the
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by codewench 5y ago
I don't have evidence to prove it, but I was always pretty sure one of the main reasons was to keep Russian engineers working, and not selling their services to North Korea or Iran or something.
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by codewench 5y ago
Not coming down on either side of this, bit Iraq's use of chemical weapons against their Kurdish population [0] is well documented. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_weapons_program
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by codewench 5y ago
I believe it's worth continued study, however my understanding is that the Chinese government has been somewhat reluctant to allow these sorts of studies to occur. Personally I'm suspecting an accidental leak of non-engineered (eg
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by codewench 5y ago
There's a quote I quite like from Peter Watts which I think encapsulates this "technology implies belligerence". He expanded this to "Tools exist for only one reason: to force the universe into unnatural shapes. They tre
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by codewench 5y ago
It's worth noting that the paper this article is based on is somewhat contested. For example "There are several serious flaws with their findings and interpretation." [1] "The authors’ misinterpretation of MJNs fosters m
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by codewench 6y ago
Much like Panamax being the largest ship size which can traverse the Panama canal, there's a corresponding Suezmax[1]. Sort of like the old story of the Space Shuttle's SRB size being dictated by old Roman road design, it's i
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by codewench 7y ago
Even Tesla's marketing copy describes it that way, so I don't think you are to far off. >Autopilot enables your car to steer, accelerate and brake automatically within its lane. >Current Autopilot features require active dri
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by codewench 7y ago
Because actually doing their job in a competent fashion would significantly reduce the chances for graft.
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by codewench 7y ago
The idea that they should stay on a fraternal basis was big at NASA: out of the 1,348 pages of the tome NASA had compiled called Human Relations in Transit to Mars , only a single page was devoted to the subject of sex; and that page advis