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by ebg13 7y ago
A lot of people here are rightly concerned about the dangers of falsely marking something as an artifact, but let me present additional data that will hopefully sway you a little bit... If you need an MRI or a CT of an area adjacent to orth
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by ebg13 7y ago
Do you have a paper comparing states of the art flash LIDAR to real time high density stereo that makes you think it's better? Because my experience with the field has been that lasers aren't better for this except for very specif
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Musk's decision not to use LIDAR is paid for in blood. LIDAR is not the only way to record depth information. Saying that LIDAR is some kind of savior device is heavily into "solve all your fusion problems with this one weird
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by ebg13 7y ago
> This is great. Walmart has a reputation to protect so at the very least I can trust what they say. I've had a hard time getting a dentist I can trust. Do you think that dentists don't also have a reputation to protect? What
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Do you have any evidence at all that this is the case? Do you accept this from Forbes? https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/12/13/how-to-p... How about this from the LA Times? https
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by ebg13 7y ago
I didn't mean to suggest otherwise. Only that a great deprivation has weighed heavily on us to the point that you need to ask what possible alternatives exist rather than knowing several already. I don't condemn you personally f
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by ebg13 7y ago
I'm saddened that you don't see any middle ground between linking to a site with a very long history of actively facilitating counterfeits through product commingling and not getting paid at all.
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by ebg13 7y ago
These official sellers are using Amazon order fulfillment. Amazon is mixing counterfeits into their inventory. Linking to the official seller doesn't matter if Amazon treats the product as a fungible commodity behind the scenes like it
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by ebg13 7y ago
> I’m not sure how it works with counterfeits on Amazon, will the same product id or same link sometimes be the real thing and sometimes not? Correct. Say for the moment that Nike decides to sell their shoes on Amazon through the Amazo
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Definitely makes me respect The Wire Cutter much more. I'll probably respect them more when they stop hypocritically linking to Amazon. > Maybe does their article imply that as long as you purchase through their recommended
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by ebg13 7y ago
The problem in the title is not the word "deceivingly" but the word "are". It should say "appear" or "seem". The reason is the common understanding of the word "robust" to mean the strong en
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by ebg13 7y ago
I think TeX is terrible, so keep it up please, but the examples all look really bad. If you want to sell someone on "this system will help you make beautiful documents", the examples need to wow.
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by ebg13 7y ago
It doesn't matter because that's NOT the reason why spam is commonly not autodeleted. The reason is because of false positives. If you could be 100% certain of never falsely flagging an email as spam, you would be totally OK with
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by ebg13 7y ago
Panic and adrenaline? I think you must have missed the part where I said "humans are very dumb and make dumb mistakes all of the time".
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Again, do they do this by 50+mph ALL THE GODDAMN TIME? No. Usually they crash into something first. I can tell you one personal anecdote, though, where in 1995 the gas pedal in my truck actually got physically stuck in the down posit
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by ebg13 7y ago
> would AI driving not fail there too? It might if it were relying solely on a GPS and nothing else, but, of course, none of them do that. The biggest difference is that navigation software can improve and sensors don't stop payin
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Googling "humans drive into lake" only finds one incident. You'd find more examples if you tried slightly harder ("lake" isn't the important part!): https://kfgo.com/2020/02/1
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by ebg13 7y ago
I keep seeing throughout this thread statements similar to "a human would never do this", and the only thing running through my head is awe at how little otherwise smart people understand their fellow humans. Like...y'all hav
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by ebg13 7y ago
I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but, if renters insurance is only $100/year, what makes you think that a lower price matters at that point? Is the market that price sensitive, and doesn't psychology drive people away from d
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by ebg13 7y ago
> I want it to do something like a minimax search and do something that will be safe in the presence of the unexpected This is called defensive driving, and you're wrong about it not being based on prediction. Defensive driving p
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Last I checked, it scored 55/100. 39. > Who is Google(and their designers) to tell the world how to design things?* Indeed. They deserve giant middle fingers from all sides for this shit. I can't remember the last time I
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by ebg13 7y ago
The sad part is that they do use <a> tags! The site just does other stupid shit to break basic expectations about primary functionality, because "design! (handwave)". This is the kind of sewage that bubbles up when program
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by ebg13 7y ago
> and it doesn't support things like full outer joins This at least is possible to fake. But in the era of premade docker packages for postgres, I do wonder why the practice you describe persists.
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by ebg13 7y ago
I'm pretty sure this breaks copying from google docs.
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by ebg13 7y ago
It would be more pleasant to read your post if you didn't use code formatting. https://imgur.com/tYH8HWy
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by ebg13 7y ago
It doesn't hurt Linux. It hurts a billion Android users floating in a wasteland of devices that never update. But the only part Google could actually control is if they provided the stable driver interface that the kernel refuses to pr
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Some people also “involuntarily gag” when they think about interracial marriage or a person eating pickled cabbage. This kind of paranoid disgust is a conditioned response, not a reasoned risk assessment. What a peculiar defense. The
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by ebg13 7y ago
> theatrical demonstrations of disgust near smokers outside on the sidewalk I'm with you completely except for this one. Cigarette smoke feels like it sucks the air out of a nonsmoker's lungs from quite a wide radius. A nonsm
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by ebg13 7y ago
> “For brands, this means the black-hat review clubs and sellers will have less impact, as fake reviews as a percentage of legit reviews should decrease.” Well, at least they're thinking happy thoughts.
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by ebg13 7y ago
Tldr: After the 2016 primaries, Sanders supporters filed a class action lawsuit against the DNC for conspiring to give the nomination to Clinton, effectively, they claimed, defrauding Sanders campaign donors. The DNC's official respons

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