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by delecti 2y ago
Except there's not really "a" lobby. It's a building with equally sized entrances on the red light district, wall street, silicon valley, and capitol hill. A lot of people happen to be coming in from capitol hill at the
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by delecti 2y ago
You can quite literally write your own algorithm for Bluesky. https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds
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by delecti 2y ago
What is "the front page"? Scrolling through the first couple dozen posts on my following feed, I see a selfies, science educators, artists, makers, a couple naked people, a complaint about days getting shorter, and a few people ta
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by delecti 2y ago
I think that's meaningfully different. If you ask for chess advice, and get chess advice, then your request was fulfilled. If you ask for your photo to be optimized, and they give you a different photo, they haven't fulfilled yo
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by delecti 2y ago
I'm seeing a variety of places all saying 500 hours per minute, or 30,000x as much upload as clock time.
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by delecti 2y ago
I got the "Engage 2 Plus". Though like I mentioned, they reduce sound by enough on their own that the included removable "Mute" wasn't worth the extra cost over the basic "Engage 2". And one thing I forgot
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by delecti 2y ago
Homeopathic pills are usually literally sugar pills, essentially small crummy candy, so not really any water, despite the purported basis of the "technology".
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by delecti 2y ago
They're much more subtle than most earplugs, only about 10 dB of reduction, and it's a fairly level reduction across the frequency spectrum. So rather than the normal muffled effect you get from normal earplugs, they sound like yo
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by delecti 2y ago
For under $100: earplugs, two kinds. I got a pack of basic foam ones (supposedly 33dB reduction), and it meant that my wife and I could keep sleeping in the same bed without snoring getting in the way. Was only about $10 for 50. And I got a
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by delecti 2y ago
That was one poll which was wildly out of line with all other polls. All of the polls had Trump ahead there. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general... (No intended endorsement of 538, they're
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by delecti 2y ago
But dems don't campaign hard on immigration or the border, except in response to the GOP doing so.
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by delecti 2y ago
I'm unclear on who is using AI in this scenario. Are you going to use your own AI on your X-rays, or expect that the dentist will use a new tool to tell them to not do the procedure to get them more money?
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by delecti 2y ago
> it feels like the year is born in the spring Then shouldn't the start of the year be when the year is "born"? Or alternatively, the end of the year when the year "dies"? January 1 is neither.
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by delecti 2y ago
> Why would I even use Amazon in this scenario? The point isn't "Amazon", it's "insert ebook distribution platform". If you prefer you can just as easily mentally substitute Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google
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by delecti 2y ago
It was just an example. Without copyright, ebooks would pretty immediately be free, so why "buy" any book? And what do you mean by "retained property rights" over the contents of a book, such that it isn't just re
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by delecti 2y ago
As a simple example, why would Amazon not immediately sell ebook versions of every book ever if copyright ended? Ditto for adding every movie and show to every streaming service, meaning there'd be no incentive to make them. Copyright
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by delecti 2y ago
There are a lot of prevailing winds around the world. You'd have to go out of your way to find somewhere still enough that local concentration could drop, rather than just creating a very slight CO2 "shadow" downwind.
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by delecti 2y ago
Your comment is phrased as though you think you're correcting me, but your point seems to be agreeing with what I said. My point is not at all about the technological ability of a computer to simultaneously process audio input and outp
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by delecti 2y ago
The benefit of a headset is not solely the improved microphone, it's also that the headphones mean your microphone is only picking up your speech, and not your meeting's output audio. If you are using both your laptop's micro
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by delecti 2y ago
I kinda agree with the GP that this seems weird. Yes, ocean temps are rising very quickly, but this experiment only took 5 years, and was presumably a only a tiny fraction of how many wild coral there are. Ocean warming has taken place over
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by delecti 2y ago
Every page has a live chat and video stream. The content tends to be better, but it's not mechanically much better than Fandom. It also highlights an important difference between why wikis can be useful. If I want information about Eld
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by delecti 2y ago
I'm from northern Ohio (Cleveland area) and it's only reading this thread that I'm learning/realizing that the name "JCPenny" isn't plural or possessive. My family always called it "Penny's"
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by delecti 2y ago
There might be an age component to that. Anecdotally, holding the phone with the opposite hand from the one touching the screen feels correlated with age to me. I'm right-handed, and primarily use my phone one-handed with my right hand
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by delecti 2y ago
Based on some back of the envelope math, if the US met 100% of its electricity needs with solar, it'd take about 1.6% as much area as the US currently has farmland (22k sqmi vs 1.4mm sqmi). Considering some solar is on non-arable land,
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by delecti 2y ago
I truly loved Cloud Atlas. It's also a rare example where the book and movie adaptation both lift each other up (though I saw the movie first, and can't know if I would have felt that way in the other direction). I felt like the m
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by delecti 2y ago
Diaspora by Greg Egan. No other book has caused such a seismic shift in how I think about consciousness, personhood, continuity of self, the enormity of the universe, and practicalities of galactic timescales. It also triggered quite a few
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by delecti 2y ago
Some examples are navigation algorithms, machine learning, neural networks, fuzzy logic, or computer vision. I personally learned several of those in a "Artificial Intelligence" CS course ~15 years ago, but most people would never
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by delecti 2y ago
Why install apps? It's a Chromecast, just cast to it. I've been using Chromecasts as my primary vehicle on my TV for 8 years, and never needed to install any apps. It seems like it defeats the purpose of the main distinguishing
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by delecti 2y ago
I generally find that it's easier to interact with AV devices (webcams, microphones) on the desktop app, than when having to deal with a browser's opinions. It also separates it from your browser, which might be desirable if you k
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by delecti 2y ago
As I remember it, the problem with video replies wasn't that they didn't take off, it's that they were mostly dominated by busty women making fairly low-effort content but whose thumbnails nonetheless drew clicks.

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