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cwmma
5mo ago
Shapefiles, the legacy multifile file format for geospatial stuff that is still an incredibly important interchange format since it has basically universal support is built around DBF files. So despite it being an incredibly old file format
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5mo ago
my understanding is that there are a few MOND champions who are still holding on to the idea while everyone else has moved on.
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6mo ago
What are you talking about, the only use of meat is in "Meat Shield", a phrase that's been around a long time now.
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6mo ago
he pretty explicitly states that AES 128 is not in any imminent danger and mandating a switch to 256 would distract from the actual thing he thinks needs to happen.
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6mo ago
The page isn't allowed to know what extensions you have, instead LinkedIn is looking for various evidence that extensions are installed, like if an extension was to create a specific html element, LinkedIn could look for evidence of th
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7mo ago
I have had to repeatedly attest to my insurance that treatments and meds for my 6 year old son with a genetic condition is not work related. My 6 year old who I will point out is unemployed. Usually it's just a popup screen but occa
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7mo ago
In theory you only need to trust the hardware to be correct, since it doesn't have the decryption key the worst it can do is give you a wrong answer. In theory.
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8mo ago
American microwaves almost always have a fairly easy way to change the power level, it's just nobody bothers to use it.
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9mo ago
Usually the 'look' is not the issue as much as the geocoder (which you are only allowed to use with a google basemap, no that clever idea you have isn't going to work), like clients are often excited to use a more customizabl
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9mo ago
not OP but the google maps API doesn't actually support other vector tiles (and other map libraries are not allowed to use the google map basemap) which means it's not easy to just have two versions of the site that differ only in
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10mo ago
Actual payment fees are hitting a couple % max, all the rest is platform fees which are orthogonal to how you are paying. If you sell something through airbnb, they will get a cut no matter how you pay. Credit card fees are a great deal fo
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10mo ago
In your example crypto would only replace the visa network. Most of the fee you are playing is to Airbnb for getting you the client in the first place.
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10mo ago
A Veteran health ID card is a government issued photo id card used to prove your identity with the government to get health care, why wouldn't it be allowed for proving your identity with the TSA. 1. https://www.tsa.gov/
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11mo ago
It's because technically the dollar is divided into Dimes, Cents, and Mil. (this is why dimes say 'One Dime' on them instead of 'Ten Cents'. So while the mil isn't really used anywhere else that regular people
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11mo ago
Any time you have to divide up a range of things into distinct buckets you get weird corner cases. Many states tax restaurant meals different from groceries and thus must decide on where the exact difference between buying a single donut (t
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11mo ago
You are confusing "democracy as used colloquially for government" and "democracy as used by computer scientists to design systems that still work on failure prone networks"
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11mo ago
So first off, no shit the college board things the SAT measures good stuff, it's their test. Second nobody said the SATs don't measure something, but that something is ability to take an SAT test which is highly predictive of how
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11mo ago
That's like saying: "Even if there was small differences in honesty caused by being a Spaniard, it never tells you something about the individual before you." When there is no actual evidence of Spaniards being dishonest and
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11mo ago
No your the one that's being misleading, genetics isn't height and race isn't a coherent genetic category. It should be noted that Watson knew this hence why he was focused on the one thing you can say very definitely about b
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1y ago
The actual regression might be with githup pages where firefox was sending the same ambiguous headers the whole time but something in github's stack started interpreting them differently.
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1y ago
my understanding is that technically only gzipped content is supported, not gzipped transport of arbitrary content. Due to ambiguity around the word 'append' [1] in the spec, firefox adds 'identity' (aka don't com
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1y ago
works fine on safari desktop for me
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1y ago
I'm assuming your using firefox, if so it's this bug[1] that basically prevents range requests from working. Basically firefox says it will accept gziped data even though it's a range request and github pages dudifly sends ba
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1y ago
During WW2 the entire country was geared up to fight the war so any death in the military anywhere was by definition related to the war so I'd assume it did make sense then.
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1y ago
If you read the about page it lists the open source tools it used to make it, primarily turf.js so a library for others to do it already exists.
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1y ago
The problem with this is it ends up being a signal in of itself, so when you say, the cap is X you end up having everyone immediately set their profits to X and never budge from there
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1y ago
but much like AI hype quantum hype is also way over played, yeah modern asymmetric encryption will be less secure, but even after you have quantum computers that can do Shor's algorithm it might be a while before there are quantum comp
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1y ago
Hm wonder why the chart of for Hungary cuts off at 2000, going off the other chart it would seem they wanted to avoid any data that got in the way of their point
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1y ago
It should be pointed out that the free market and capitalism are not the same thing and accumulations of capital can distort the free market without government intervention, in other words you need a larger government if you want an actual
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1y ago
In America (well in my state, everywhere does it slightly differently) you can't really give people multiple middle names, all you really do is give them a single middle name with a space in it. source: gave my children fancy names
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