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by decker 5mo ago
Fun idea of a metric, but if I'm reading this correctly, we get roughly one apocalypse warning per year? > Level 5 is calibrated so only the highest daily peak in the trailing year should exceed it.
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by decker 1y ago
The starting cost for a drone show is around $20k USD, so it wouldn't be hard to fake what they are doing. It's hard to say if this a functioning system that can take down drone swarms, or someone is testing the market for a sys
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by decker 2y ago
This would be pretty nice to carry around during oncall shifts, albeit, probably not the most productive device to have in the event you get paged.
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by decker 2y ago
Save you some time, this post never answers the question in the title.
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by decker 3y ago
I find this building's title of cottage preposterous, this is a mere hovel if I've ever seen one.
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by decker 3y ago
Pretty neat, but I wish they would have emphasized safety a bit more and put up a full sheet of plywood behind the target.
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by decker 4y ago
This would have been perfect if it ended a paragraph earlier.
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by decker 5y ago
It's unfortunate that he went back to work instead of quitting and filing patents on the device.
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by decker 5y ago
The deer lobby must be strong in Wisconsin.
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by decker 5y ago
I'm surprised the article didn't mention the atlatl which would have been the true historic answer to "how far did cavemen throw spears?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-thrower
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by decker 5y ago
Does a swat team have to show up for it to be swatting?
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by decker 5y ago
After working with declarative systems for some time now (terraform, kubernetes), I've concluded that things will generally be declarative, but you're bound to run into edge cases where the imperative nature of the underlying syst
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by decker 5y ago
Money.
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by decker 5y ago
Sounds like the root cause was due to not obeying the rule of five: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(C%2B%2B_program...
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by decker 5y ago
You sure there isn't someone there doing A/B experiments for motivating the pickers and having to choose whether or not to try motivating them with the message "how would you feel if you have to tell your children they don&#x
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by decker 5y ago
From what I recall about compression, the artifacts are at the high frequencies which also tend to get muted with age / sound exposure. Rather than play the game of determining if you can hear the difference, are there any diagnostics
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by decker 5y ago
It's quite amazing how the human body has defense in depth to mitigate changes in protein shape due to mutations.
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by decker 5y ago
Did everyone stop using the internet and stick strictly to cash? If not, is it possible that someone made a purchase or search that may have related to what people who need nappies might buy or search for, but didn't realize it?
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by decker 5y ago
Did you do searches related to the condition that caused you to be prescribed Voltaren?
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by decker 5y ago
I'd like to see a study on the percentage of people who's heart, lungs, or brain got filled with micro clots and now have permanent damage. The serious effects of COVID need to be taken into consideration as well if we are talkin
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by decker 5y ago
It's almost like every major world power suffers from hubris and needs to show that they can succeed in controlling Afghanistan.
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by decker 5y ago
Braid was a novel puzzle platformer for it's time, it's exciting to hear that he's coming out with a new game.
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by decker 5y ago
tl; dr - It's not legal to hang stuff from the rearview mirror, so it's a technicality that officers will use this infraction to pull people over then interrogate them.
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by decker 5y ago
This is an insane amount of money. The article doesn't even mention if it's going to be available on prime, or offered as a premium for purchase title. In any case, I wonder what their strategy is for breaking even.
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by decker 5y ago
Taxing the unrealized gains doesn't seem like a good idea, however, taxing stock used as collateral for loans would be appealing since that seems a loophole to access the gains without realizing them for tax purposes.
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by decker 5y ago
I'm always a bit conflicted about the idea of carbon capture. The whole idea seems predicated on the notion that the carbon is going to be sequestered forever and ignores organic matter getting broken down into methane which is much w
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by decker 5y ago
If they really depend on this for takeoff weight, I have to wonder why they don't just ask passengers for their weight then add 20% or something.
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by decker 5y ago
I have to wonder if there's some aspect about the night vision optics that results in points of light looking like triangles.
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by decker 5y ago
Key word being UFO, if it were clear, they would just be FO's.
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by decker 5y ago
Short summary: Fitting teams to a stack ranked performance quota system causes perverse incentives for management to hold on to poor performers, team members to sabotage each other, and high performers to avoid working on the same team.

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