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by duskwuff 10mo ago
The rules were different at the time Gatsby was published. Its copyright expired 95 years after it was published - 1930 + 95 = 2025.
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
While this is true - it's the reason why fusing current was measured in the first place - it is not a reasonable way to answer a question asking for "max amps".
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
Not mine, but: Query: "max amps 22 awg" AI Overview: "A 22 American Wire Gauge (AWG) copper wire can carry a maximum of 551 amps. Here are the fusing currents for some other AWG wire sizes..." (A fusing current is the cu
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
MPEG-TS files are just a pain to play in general. It was never intended as a file format for prerecorded video, and lacks some features (like seek indexes) which are required for reasonable playback. In most circumstances, a MPEG-TS file ca
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
It's not at all clear to me that Mobile IP would be viable at the scale of a modern wireless service provider. It amounts to routing all traffic to/from the mobile device through a machine on the network of its "home" IP
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
Into the final track of an album titled "Songs About My Cats", titled "Look". :3 There's a better visualization of the track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHup81lEjqo
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
That wouldn't work anyway. IPv6 addresses aren't routable on an address-by-address basis.
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
> There should be a dashboard indicator or toggle to visually warn when the bot is just uncritically agreeing I would be very surprised if it were possible to reliably detect this. In fact, I'm not certain it's a distinction wh
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
This is a recognized quirk of ChatGPT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#... I wouldn't be surprised if it's also self-reinforcing within a conversation - once the pattern appears re
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
The point is, there are legal complexities which make it unsafe for an employee to go out on their own and download a JRE - sure, they might download Adoptium and be fine, but they also might download one of the ones which requires a commer
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
And, possibly even worse, from page 16 - when Mr. Soelberg expressed concerns about his mental health, ChatGPT reassured him that he was fine: > Every time Mr. Soelberg described a delusion and asked ChatGPT if he was “crazy”, ChatGPT to
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
> IT departments are extremely strict about installing Java. Understandably so, given that some Java runtimes (most notably, Oracle's) require a paid license for commercial use. Having users installing that can get the company in ho
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
"The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy notes that Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones, are generally held to be not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but in fact the loudest noise of any kin
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
Do you really think the Bitcoin mining firm would pay to retrofit all of their equipment for water cooling, and to install a massive hot water network, out of the goodness of their own hearts? I find that really unlikely. (Plus: does the to
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
It sounds as though the data is being transferred over HTTP, so packet loss/reordering is all handled by TCP.
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
Before you get too excited, keep two things in mind: 1) Using a single compression context for the whole stream means you have to keep that context active on the client and server while the connection is active. This may have a nontrivial m
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
> Steam game updates are mandatory and you can't downgrade the game to a previous version either. You can usually download old versions from the CDN using tools like steamcmd. Developers can remove the old depots, but usually don&
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
Yeah, brand licensing seems to be by far the most common reason for games to be delisted. A couple of other common ones seem to be: 1) Server shutdowns for multiplayer or live service games 2) Breakdowns of developer/publisher relation
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
Flu shots were accepted as a routine thing long before 2020. I don't think the stigma existed in the way you're imagining.
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
Under $600 delivered from Amazon, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6R91Y8F
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
Modern fusion splicers are also shockingly cheap. You can get one for under $600.
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
It never posed a meaningful challenge in gameplay, though - just an annoyance. If you run too much, you have to stand still for a bit for your stamina to build back up, or chug a stamina potion if you have one. There's a reason it didn
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
This is true of virtually all FPS games. Realistic movement speeds feel unbearably sluggish in game.
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
The swirly background (especially on the main screen), shiny card effects, and the CRT distortion effect would be genuinely difficult to implement on a system from that era. Balatro does all three with a couple hundred lines of GLSL shaders
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
> I remember the local press going on about the crypto mining operation and how folks were going get high-tech jobs in this rural area of Texas. Of course it didn't go that way. That's a disappointingly common crypto industry l
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
Rockdale is a small town of ~5000 residents. Even if it were practical to install district heating - which I don't think it is - there certainly isn't demand for hundreds of megawatts of it.
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
> It will be interesting to see how they make this arrangement approachable for Arduino’s audience which generally expects ease of use to be a high priority. If history is any indication: they won't. See the previous Arduino Linux +
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
> it prevented future killings from this individual, though. The individual prevented future killings by that individual. Flock didn't prevent anything; at most, they helped find his body.
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
> All things considered I actually kind of respect the relatively straightforward naming of this and several of Intel's other sockets. That's an industry-wide standard across all IC manufacturing - Intel doesn't really get
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by duskwuff 10mo ago
That's a fair point. I'm thinking of the use case of formatting a past date on something like a social media post/comment. (For example, a comment on HN - which uses a rather long cutoff for relative dates.)

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