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> The present study’s findings significantly advance our understanding of the brain basis of one of the most unusual and intense altered states of consciousness known – previously likened to dreaming... This study does not "find tha
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> I can't recommend watching HBO's Watchmen enough. Fair warning though: Damon Lindelof is responsible for Lost and The Leftovers, which had notoriously unsatisfying conclusions. Some of the plot arcs are starting to terminate
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Most services don't do that. I have had my personal email account DDoSed before and requiring access to that inbox to change my email address would have been impossible for over a month.
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by deckar01 7y ago
It's easy: You submit a bullshit patent application, wait to find out what criteria it was rejected for, add more meaningless technical bullshit related to that topic, then repeat the process until the patent office feels they have ext
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I have done it and will never do it again. The search options were terrible. When I finally settled on a product and ordered it, I received a product that was clearly a much cheaper knockoff of the shoe that was pictured. I contacted the se
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This feature is a little different though. You have no way of immediately gaining control of the vehicle. Your only possible action is top summoning, which may not stop the chain of events that lead to an accident. They have argued that peo
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The car stopped for a pedestrian who was hesitating to cross. I have seen human drivers in my area do much worse than this on average.
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During the "Autonomy Day" announcements, I believe Elon Musk said he assumed the company would be liable for any damage caused by driverless vehicles. When the cause of an accident is a manufacturing flaw, the manufacturer is liab
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Its point structure supports 4 dimensions, but I'm not sure if the Z and M components are part of the distance calculation. https://postgis.net/docs/manual-3.0/ST_MakePoint.html Edit: The distance operations
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by deckar01 7y ago
Daydream didn't support 2:1 ratio displays for some reason. Most of Google's own flagship phones moved to that ratio. All they had to do was add black bars to the side to simulate 16:9, but they never did. I actually got Daydream
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by deckar01 7y ago
Two downvotes and no replies. Set your system time several years in the past and see what happens to secure sites. I encountered this issue several times as a PC repair technician. We would turn a computer on after summer break and find its
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by deckar01 7y ago
They served the full article, the JS is just getting in the way. You can pop the console open and read the text in the article tag. console.log(document.querySelector('article').innerText.replace(/(.{80}\w*)\s*/g,
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by deckar01 7y ago
> January 1, 2018 If your system clock is too far behind, SSL certificates will fail validation. I suspect during QA the certificates were valid for the reset date, but the current certificate is not.
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My organization recently adopted Office 365. One of the new apps was "PowerApps", a web-based GUI app builder. I popped open an example app inspected a button and, to my horror, I found the program logic was Excel syntax one-liner
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by deckar01 7y ago
They removed the forward facing obstacle avoidance system. It might not hurt as bad when it drops on your head, but it seems a lot more likely to fly into your face with the props still spinning.
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krof
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If that were the motivation, the publisher would sell on both platforms and just charge more on Steam due to the markup. That is never what happens. Epic is locking content creators into exclusive contracts, because their business model req
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They hyped up this game for over a year, promoted it on Steam, then sold out to the Epic store at the last minute claiming the decision was for "financial stability due to the uncertain nature of the game's popularity". They
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Adding icons to color coded information helps with identification, but it is not a good source of notification. If the status icons are a field of green blobs with white checkmarks and there is one red blob with a white X, it is much less l
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Waiting for a Haskell programmer to explain why this is an artifact of procedural languages and that making coffee should be abstracted as the death of coffee caused by hot water.
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It has a drive shaft, worm gears, and a single motor. Seems like an odd design. I wonder if I can build similar device using a 6mm DC motor for each string and some gears to crank up the torque?
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by deckar01 7y ago
OP changed their comment to clarify they were referring to HN discussions historically and not just this thread. I can't edit my comment now, and I apologize for the confusion. I would encourage you to review the YC comment guidelines
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No one has claimed porting to python 3 is easy in this thread. That said, if you start by "search and replace", then you are probably doing it wrong [0]. [0]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/2to3.html
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Python 2 Removal (All): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=py2removal;... No Python 3 Port: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=py3noport;...
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That is the same link I posted without the path to the readme.
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> This is a raytracing engine contained in a single Mysql SELECT statement. In the beginning of the code there are a few parameters that can be modified. The scene can be specified using the @triangles and @squares parameters, but everyt
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Extremely wealthy people don't just donate to charity to cherry-pick the social programs they support. They also gain influence over organizations and communities. They promise support to gain favor and threaten withholding to gain inf
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The set of real numbers used in the simulation is finite, but it doesn't prevent the result from being approximately the same. Using a small number of cards is no different. The best solution should be obvious, but was not presented in
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There are already lots of regulations that target e-commerce [0]. Net neutrality isn't about the freedom to serve any content you want, it's about the discrimination and prioritization of certain types of network traffic [1]. [0]:
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If you have ever played a card game where you have to guess if the next card is going to be higher or lower than another card, this should not be a surprising result. You should always assume the next card will be the average of all possibl

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