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by derbOac 9mo ago
> what is making the situation truly dangerous, is the dictator-jealousy fueled encouragement and indulgence of the current U.S. administration, and all its sycophants, which got to the point of publicly applauding a dictator on U.S. soi
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by derbOac 10mo ago
Personally, I don't have a problem with them changing fonts. I personally think Times isn't a great choice for the reasons articulated in that statement (something open and more legible seems better to me), but I don't think
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Atomic Orbital Viewer(asliceofcuriosity.fr)
5 points by derbOac 10mo ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 10mo ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Even if you ignore the legitimacy of security concerns about foreign drones, this action gives more monopoly control over drones to the US government. If some US drone manufacturer crosses the admin
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by derbOac 10mo ago
If the TikTok process is any guide with this administration, it's pretty predictable how this will turn out.
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by derbOac 10mo ago
This was a great read but I took issue with this a bit: "When researchers gave people willow bark extract corresponding to 240 mg of salicin, then looked at how much salicylic acid was present in their blood over time, it was the equiv
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Starlink Satellite Is Tumbling Toward Earth After an Anomaly in Orbit(gizmodo.com)
5 points by derbOac 10mo ago|1 comments
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by derbOac 10mo ago
It seems people in this thread are getting downvoted for pointing out that your questions are reasonable. There's a lot of disputes between state and federal authorities about this. The 9B figure is being disputed, and there's a l
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by derbOac 10mo ago
Maybe this is naive on my part but I find an argument like "the EU and FTC raised their metaphorical eyebrows at us and so we had to fold rather than merge" sort of pathetic. I think the idea of Amazon buying Roomba causing monopo
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by derbOac 10mo ago
The press statement is full of stuff like this: "Area for future improvement: developers continue to improve the ensemble’s ability to create a range of forecast outcomes." Someone else noted the models are fairly simple. My quest
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by derbOac 10mo ago
I suspect the names of those perpetrating this kind of destruction will become synonymous with ignorance and intellectual cowardice.
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by derbOac 10mo ago
But wouldn't that also be true of mineral oil? I understand why you'd use a polymerizing oil for certain things; I guess I wonder about it as a substitute for mineral oil.
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by derbOac 10mo ago
What happened in the last 6 months or so to affect those numbers? According to them, Chrome increased in percentage quite a but recently and the others all got "compressed" towards 0. Looking at the last 10 years gives a different
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by derbOac 10mo ago
Reading comments here about problems using Firefox is odd to me as I never run into them. I feel like people are taking about totally different browsers. I don't remember the last time I had page rendering issues or was asked to use
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by derbOac 10mo ago
The timing of this is sort of uncanny as it's been on my mind a lot lately. Generally I use a beeswax and mineral oil finish, sometimes this other product I can't remember the name of made from flax oil. I've been wondering w
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by derbOac 10mo ago
Although I think the phenomenon they write about is real, I have difficulty sympathizing with these types of essay because I see them as causing more harm than good. Gatekeeping trauma with a broad brush is never good in my mind. Calling ou
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by derbOac 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier I couldn't get the doi to resolve to a valid number. It seemed to go to the journal but not a document.
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by derbOac 10mo ago
Regardless of what information the Texas AG thinks parents should have access to or why, it's always seemed to me to be a matter of time before the monopoly status of Epic would come up. I generally have a positive view of the Obama pr
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by derbOac 10mo ago
I guess this raises the question of a "Turing test for pain".
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by derbOac 10mo ago
The study is here (the doi was broken for me): https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/292/2060/202... I thought the approach to the question was informative and clever and sort of puts things on
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by derbOac 10mo ago
I've often wondered about the actual effect of caffeine on blood pressure for an individual. This case is pretty extreme, but the literature repeatedly suggests that if you consume caffeine regularly, the effect on blood pressure is pr
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by derbOac 10mo ago
The former isn't even a new proof: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1362 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.4169/amer.math.monthl...
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by derbOac 10mo ago
Python for awhile had its own cultural issues. I guess, coming from more of a C and lisp background, the stuff you're mentioning seemed playful and fun to me and I didn't get the sense anyone expected to write performance critical
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by derbOac 10mo ago
I often find the full context gets into privacy issues, to put it one way, if I'm reluctant to get into the full context. I feel like this is one example of a general second guessing phenomenon. Sometimes that second guessing is accura
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by derbOac 10mo ago
There's also the intuition that the circumference of the circle must be less than the perimeter of the square, so if the perimeter of the polygon isn't decreasing as it gets closer to the circle, it doesn't approximate it bet
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by derbOac 11mo ago
There's some insights there about the base rate of correct responses and pretraining to boost that. Basically searching a suboptimal versus optimal area of the model space at a suboptimal versus optimal rate. I think the framing of the
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by derbOac 11mo ago
https://archive.is/8OJmG
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by derbOac 11mo ago
The problem with this is it doesn't offer compelling evidence that twin studies are biased, it just assumes they are because the other studies are consistent with one another, just like the twin studies are with each other. It just fli
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by derbOac 11mo ago
In my personal experience gun owners want mechanical foolproofness too. They want something that's not going to lock up or fail or discharge at the wrong time. Smart features just add a layer of complexity with fail possibilities to ad
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by derbOac 11mo ago
My impression was part of the issue was ANT is a proprietary Garmin protocol and so never really gained traction or imprint beyond those devices. Without meaning to sound too critical or supportive of BLE, I think something more open would

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