crashingintoyou

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by crashingintoyou 3y ago
> I think solar flare risk is overblown though. What you'll find on the insurance side of thing is this sort of claim from Lloyds of London ( https://assets.lloyds.com/assets/pdf-solar-storm-risk-to-the... ): &gt
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
Why I've generally liked substack: they export RSS feeds ( https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038239391-... ). Thus far I have little to no interest in getting substack content through anyt
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
Tried switching countries around. For their "free" shipping, if I switch countries from mine to the US the cost of the book drops to a third of what I was originally seeing. Goes from quite expensive to fairly cheap. When shippi
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
Yup. I think that omni-directional treadmills are what's needed to make a lot of possible games feel great, but I'm not very optimistic that they'll become commonplace anytime soon. 2m x 2m is probably an overestimate ( https
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
> the most obvious target audience to drive meaningful usage is harcore gamers. And the novelty of Beat Saber will only go so far; you really need AAA titles and publishers. I really feel like what you need is omni-directional treadmills
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
It might seems pretty American, but if you want the Canadian version you can find it here: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/only-white-people-can-b... see, e.g., "Characteristics of White Supremacy Cultur
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
And https://darcy.is/code-of-conduct/ makes it sound like their moderation would likely result in an environmental something along the lines of LinkedIn as far as the range of conversation goes.
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
I'll admit to having a soft spot for Russ George's work re: iron fertilization: https://russgeorge.net/2022/10/02/open-letter-to-academia-an... It seems to have in earlier stage testing helped reinv
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
The quality of regulation seems extremely negligent - e.g. https://theintercept.com/2021/11/03/coronavirus-research-eco...
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
I'm an aeropress fan, but that hasn't stopped me from pairing it with a grinder and a milk frother. Still a lot more space-compact than a full-blown espresso machine though.
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
Best news for me is that based on https://uploadvr.com/quest-touch-pro-controllers-quest-2/ it looks like the controllers are Quest-2 compatible and will be sold separately. I'd consider the Quest Pro too expensiv
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
Mine came from https://www.geewiz.co.za/ups/124927-acconet-poe-48v-24v-smar... Looks like this may be a South African domestic brand though (and you probably don't want to order from a South African site unless yo
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
Sure the "DC UPS" are basically "simple dumb batteries", but the sort of loads that you'd probably run off them and the expected runtime of each tends to be quite different. Guessing the average AC UPS that someone
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
Not really a market gap. Hit Amazon.com and search for "raspberry pi UPS" and you'll find plenty of options. Or more generically try search terms like "mini ups" or "router ups" or "dc ups" - lo
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
"Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman -He is the only psychologist ever to recieve the Nobel Prize if I remember correctly. This book scientifically digests human biases and errors and how they influence our every day lives and de
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
> I'm not aware yet of any way of capturing facial expressions, like a video chat would. I haven't personally used it but https://www.vive.com/us/accessory/facial-tracker/ is already available.
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
> It also sounds like it would make me less active... The funny thing here is that my typical cardio workout for the past year or two has involved VR, and I've found that it's been great for getting the heart rate up. That said
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
> Also it will hopefully support at least some extensions. Does it not already? Pretty sure that I had a bunch of extensions installed before on my Firefox Reality install and, if this is just a fork of that I'd guess it also would.
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
> Australia would still need to import nuclear fuel No they wouldn't. To quote https://globalroadtechnology.com/uranium-mining-australia-hi... > Australia is home to 31% of the world’s recoverable uranium. Austr
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by crashingintoyou 4y ago
Some other Dunning-Kruger critiques aggregated by Andrew Gelman: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/10/12/can-the-du...
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by crashingintoyou 5y ago
Going to assume that your use of "briefly" there is preceding your attempt at a short synopsis, rather than that your views have shifted again. Personally I'm depressingly cynical when it comes to Pinker's views, looking
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by crashingintoyou 5y ago
What worked for me to avoid fogging is to wear the headset kind of like a visor for a few minutes before starting your workout, which warms it such that I haven't worried about fogging much since (which initially was a problem). There