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Probably also some selection bias: > Frequency illusion, also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency bias, is a cognitive bias in which, after noticing something for the first time, there is a tendency to notice it more oft
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> The U.S.'s perspective on drugs is so very backwards. The War on Drugs is a flaw that needs to end but at least with psilocybin US is moving slowly in the right direction. The only countries where psilocybin is legal are Brazil, J
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Glad to see Apple supporting more open 3d tools. Apple was huge in getting open standards funded at Khronos for OpenGL ES, WebGL and more. These investments led to lots of great things and innovations. The market for 3d tools is one of the
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Additionally, tires filled with air can be dangerous over or under filling them. Filling tires at too high pressure can lead to blowouts. Filling tires under pressure leads to degraded performance handling issues potentially causing acciden
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> I'm pretty sure if we all suddenly went offline, half the internet would seem to keep going as usual. That could be a good Black Mirror like scifi movie, everyone dies but chatter and social media just keep living on. "Did yo
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A programming language needs a BDFL in the early days of design and value creation. Even content/entertainment creation needs a director, a novel should have only one writer and a game should have a consistent design. However, a "
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The High Price of Efficiency (2019)(hbr.org)
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Very little margin and too much optimization/efficiency is bad for resilience. Couple that with private equity backed near entire market leverage monopolies/duopolies/oligopolies that control necessary supply and you have tro
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Jeff Bezos flying with his brother Mark on the first manned flight of Blue Origin is the ultimate dogfooding event. Surprised people are so against it, it is an iterative step and was massively risky but proves out the technology. Blue Ori
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The Valve Steam Deck is pretty exciting and well timed. The Nintendo Switch it the largest console market > 50% and mobile is the biggest market in gaming. So going with that model but with gaming selection of Steam is a smart timed move
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This is essentially a solar still that uses the natural water cycle to produce fresh water. Learning about desalinization should be taught in all schools for more innovations in this area. It would be a cosmic joke to run out of water on a
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That is for USD only though, only deposits in USD are insured and only on bank failures. Anything in a coin, even a stablecoin like Tether, USDC, DAI etc is not USD. Stablecoins really are not as "stable" as USD for the insurance
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> focus on writing content Cory Doctorow has a good take on this recently. It isn't just writing content but getting ideas out there that can later become something more. [1] Doctorow calls blogging like a Vannevar Bush Memex but p
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Good games should be easy to approach and difficult to master . Good tools should be easy to approach with the ability to customize and do more advanced actions, but never difficult Good tools and products encapsulate complexity but stil
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> “Don’t get discouraged because there’s a lot of mechanical work to writing. There is, and you can’t get out of it. I rewrote A Farewell to Arms at least fifty times. You’ve got to work it over. The first draft of anything is shit. Whe
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"Engagement" algorithm is like, "they are very active when nightmares are happening so they must like it". So the algorithm adds in more nightmares, engage.
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LiveLeak is like those old drivers ed videos, it can make you better by showing how bad things can get. I remember pre-internet it was Faces of Death [1] (lots faked but still intense), then Ogrish then the makers of Ogrish going to LiveLea
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It is dangerous, especially without warrants and massive data trails of who requested the data and why, who looked it up, what they checked and more. Not only just from the law/security side but from people in your position, probably
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Print styles are great for grabbing a PDF output of the page that is cleaner than the site usually. If you have lots of content to read and want an archive that isn't online, isn't a messy html/package, printing to PDF output
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The information being blocked down the memory hole is just for the people that need to see that information. Concentration in the tech world to so few platforms is helping build that memory hole capability. At least people outside can see t
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Amtrak already does some screening and they increased their security like all others did from rental cars to busses to trains to planes. However the nature of flying has a much higher reach in terms of potential damage which was realized on
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When I took it, it was early morning Flagstaff (6AM) into Trinidad by later that day (5PM). Going through Navajo lands, then New Mexico, then Colorado coal areas and then beautiful mountains was amazing. It gives you lots of perspective. Th
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The longer we wait to do rail right the more expensive it gets because of NIMBY-ism and property ownership. We need to do it now. Trains are slower in some cases, but the views you simply cannot get from a plane or car. You can work on a tr
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If other scammers are using spoofing the ranges then another company does it, that doesn't raise alarm in the other entities abusing the same trick. If you announce it as DoD then it may scare off the others. In any good investigation,
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> Defense Digital Service (DDS) authorized a pilot effort advertising DoD Internet Protocol (IP) space using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). This pilot will assess, evaluate and prevent unauthorized use of DoD IP address space. Additiona
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Xamarin.Forms was like an abstraction helper though, underneath all Renderers. You can/could make CustomRenderers for any custom controls or to access any native needs on iOS, Android and UWP directly. That is how most apps ended up.
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Yeah, UWP is a progression on WPF/Silverlight that had its own XAML as part of the platform code/declarative. Xamarin is from Mono and had its own XAML for Xamarin.Forms that underneath have build in Renderers for platform targets
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Basically MAUI is the next phase of Xamarin/UWP as that was not fully ported on the UI side in .NET 5 which was the merging of .NET Framework 4.x and .NET Core 3.1. .NET 6 UI is essentially being replaced with this for .NET 6. I use Xa
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The Gray-Green Urban Divide: How Wealth and Poverty Are Visible from Space(2016)(geographyrealm.com)
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Agriculture also reduces the root depth as crops are harvested fast and regular iterations. This was a large cause of the Dust Bowl issue. There was a great post on this on reddit that has photo for reference. [1][2][3] Cover crops help th

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