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by daggersandscars 19d ago
You may be interested in Ongka's Big Maca (1974)[0]. It is a documentary that shows how the Big Man system and gift based economy work in PNG by following a specific Big Man's (Ongka) effort to put together a huge gift to increase
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by daggersandscars 4mo ago
If you have a sudden increase in floaters or start seeing flashes of light, this is a medical emergency. If you’re unlucky, it’s a retinal detachment and you need medical attention to keep your vision. If you’re very lucky, it was only flas
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by daggersandscars 8mo ago
There is a setting that turns off many of the notifications that irritate people. Settings -> System -> Notifications. Scroll to the bottom, expand Additional settings. Uncheck "Suggest ways to get the most out of Windows and fin
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by daggersandscars 10mo ago
If you have a router you control, many routers allow you to take away internet access from a device while keeping it on your local network. Some (all?) Asus routers can do this from their UI. This won’t help with devices that require 24x7 i
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by daggersandscars 1y ago
The limit (in the US?) is 100 Wh. If this is the right battery, the specs page says it's 90 Wh. https://www.ugreen.com/products/ugreen-nexode-power-bank-250...
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
It's similar-ish. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell and https://www.powermag.com/fuel-cells-vs-batteries-whats-the-d... , tho the latter may be biased.
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
DNS query type AXFR allows for subdomain querying. There are security restrictions around who can do it on what DNS servers. Given the number of places online one can run a subdomain query, I suspect it's mostly a matter of paying the
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
> There's still no good window manager for macOS. Rectangle is as close as it gets, but it's not good IMO because it only works on non full size windows. (the solution is just get ninja-like with three finger swipe, and endure
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
Both of those officers appear to be located in the UK. It is common to pay people located in a different place than the company HQ using a local entity. Whether this is mandatory or merely advantageous for tax or bureaucratic reasons depend
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
Rounding is generally done only for cash transactions (“cash rounding”). For all other payment types, the unrounded price is used. I wrote code for this a long time ago when cash was still a major form of payment in a country that got rid o
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
Totally agree it could get us there faster. My issue is more with the things general purpose LLMs train on. Maybe train a custom one on known good sources specific to a language?
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
I continue to use traditional methods. Why? Because I, the person learning a new language, cannot validate the information the LLM presents to me. For me, the risk of learning bad ways (inefficient, not language appropriate, or insecure) of
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
They're not being dumped. Putting them on YT lets WB make passive money while maintaining control of their rights with little effort on their part. If WB makes a better deal down the road, they can hide or delete the movies from YT. Th
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
> and reduce your cooling costs as much as possible with outside air when temperatures are cool To add to this: University of Texas' supercomputers have used a variation of this for a while. I don't recall which cluster was the
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
While most analog clocks' minute hands sweep from minute to minute, jumping minute clocks have the issue the article brings up. Depending on when / where you went to school, you may have had analog jumping minute clocks. The ones
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
It says both. The 1 in 3 refers to those under 23. > One in three U.S. adults has been arrested by age 23. The has a criminal record refers to the population as a whole. > [...] between 70 million and 100 million—or as many as one in
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
This is a naming coincidence and has nothing to do with the Matrix protocol (which also happens to be used by the French government). https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/04/eurocop_crack_matrix/
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
The CDC does not "recommend" vaccinations over 45, mostly due to previous exposure. I suspect one can find doctors willing to do the vaccination for those over 45, though one may need to convince them. Whether this is useful depen
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
I skateboard "regular" but snowboard "goofy". Not that I'm amazing at either, but that's just what felt natural to me for each.
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
I was diagnosed and successfully treated for HPV+ oropharyngeal cancer in 2023. My treatment results were almost perfect, from a clinical perspective. I had transoral robotic surgery to remove the tumors in my mouth / throat, neck diss
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
This article is correct and sould be unflagged. With the release of 18.1, custom audio setup (to create an audiogram-based profile) is only available for “supported Apple and Beats headphones”.
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
Not specific to Alpine: Cummins has a 2022 article addressing their view[0] of internal combustion hydrogen vs fuel cell. Short version: fuel cell + battery works well for peaky loads. Hydrogen internal combustion works better for heavy, co
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
> 8.5-foot-long (2.6 meters) 8.5’ is 102”. There aren’t any current, mainstream cars sold in the US that are shorter than 150”. A Messerschmitt KR200 was 111”, a Toyota iQ 118”. Original Minis were 120”+. The width wasn’t listed in the a
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
Are you using Brother's Linux printer driver for your device? If not, I'd start there. https://support.brother.com/g/b/midlink_productcategory.aspx...
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
For those in a city / apartment / burn ban / etc, there are publicly accessible kilns in most major (and some minor) cities. Look for places that offer pottery lessons. Depending on the kiln, you can rent a specific fraction
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
“There were 930,000 UK chargers at the end of June, according to ChargeUK, a lobby group, but the majority of these have been installed in homes and business premises, with only about 65,000 public chargers available.” The article does not
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
No. The depositor has a relationship with Mercury. Mercury has relationships (directly or indirectly) with FDIC insured banks. Even if one could prove a direct link between the depositor and the FDIC insured bank (making the insurance relev
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
The cabel.com article linked to in many comments has the copy that explains it. [1] One of the DAK signatures was buying other company's production line "mistakes", "fixing" them, and selling the result. In this cas
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by daggersandscars 2y ago
For basic stuff (I'm the only one changing files, I'm not expecting to change a file on my laptop and have it on my desktop seconds later, I'm only mirroring files between Apple devices), iCloud has worked fine for me for a v

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