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by eurleif 1y ago
Amazon does, however, ship showerheads that come with an instruction sheet for how to remove the flow restrictor. (One must only do this to compensate for one's home having low water pressure, of course.)
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by eurleif 1y ago
This is a basic misunderstanding of his position; the relevant quote is: "The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else."
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by eurleif 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaratory_judgment
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by eurleif 1y ago
In FSD, there's an annoying bug where Georgia minimum speed signs are misinterpreted as speed limit signs. It's because most states that do minimum speed signage combine it with the speed limit into a single sign, but Georgia has
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by eurleif 1y ago
One thing that I feel actually became more believable with new technology is the plot device where only one character can perform a certain task, but then all they really do is tell the computer to do it. For example, in Voyager, they make
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by eurleif 1y ago
You're probably thinking of Milo and Otis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Milo_and_Oti...
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by eurleif 1y ago
>I can accept that sometimes a holstered gun ends up pointing at somebody occasionally. It's not occasional. If you carry AIWB (appendix inside the waistband, a common position), it's routinely pointing at your own leg (and oth
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by eurleif 1y ago
Yes, and this is especially concerning because Eaton makes IoT devices. Imagine the damage a disgruntled employee could do by deploying malicious code to devices on millions of consumers' networks. A company of this size, with this lar
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by eurleif 1y ago
It's no doubt possible to have translation with less lag on average than current tools like Google Translate's Conversation Mode, but truly real-time translation is impossible because of word order differences. You can't tran
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by eurleif 1y ago
No, all criminal convictions require proof beyond a reasonable doubt: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt14-S1-5-5... >Absent a guilty plea, the Due Process Clause requires proof beyond a reason
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by eurleif 1y ago
>The seller sets the price. Not the buyer. You should ask why the seller is willing to let the vehicle go for a lower than expected price for a given number of miles. The seller sets the asking price; the buyer sets the bid price; and mu
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by eurleif 1y ago
Tesla sells a $2000 Acceleration Boost package for certain non-Performance trims, which increases performance purely by toggling a software switch. You can buy it like DLC from the Tesla app. Also, Track Mode isn't available outside of
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by eurleif 1y ago
The problem with "you don't need to outrun the bear, only to outrun your friend" is that either you or your friend are going to get eaten. All other things being equal, it would be preferable to have a strategy where no one g
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by eurleif 1y ago
The NSA is said to have intercepted packages bound for surveillance targets, opened them, modified the electronics inside, then taped them back up and sent them on their way: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014&#x2
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by eurleif 1y ago
Trademark rights are limited based on the category of goods or services. The Phoenix and Firebird disputes were with software companies.
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by eurleif 1y ago
>so overall inflation is around zero Pedantic point: monetary inflation is around zero, not necessarily price inflation (which is what people typically mean when they just say "inflation").
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by eurleif 1y ago
X11 session support is being removed from the default install of Ubuntu with the upcoming 25.10 release. Gnome and KDE Plasma plan to remove X11 session support entirely within the next few years. Ready or not, Wayland is here.
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by eurleif 1y ago
Agree that while the skeptics eventually won out, the thread was very credulous for a while. I recall that at the time I made my skeptical comment, there was almost no skepticism in the thread at all.
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by eurleif 1y ago
I agree that the original doesn't look like a scan of pen-and-paper, but it looks real to me in the sense that it looks like a person made it, and it's not just a cursive font. It looks too messy, and some of the letters are too i
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by eurleif 1y ago
"You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?"
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by eurleif 1y ago
The signature from Dinna Eskin at the bottom of the letter appears perfectly identical to the one on this letter from 2022: https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-sends-cease-and-desis... It's possible that she co
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by eurleif 1y ago
Exist, yes; a lot, no. Dialup accounts for around 0.25% of households with an Internet subscription according to the 2019 census: https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT1Y2019.B28011?q=ACSDT1Y20...
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by eurleif 1y ago
>Now it’s probably time to ask ourselves why we are here. We wanted a rate limiter and now we’re learning a niche programming language just to execute some code in a database that has nothing relevant to our task but a roundabout way of
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by eurleif 1y ago
I understand the author's point to be that, if RFC writers understood "byte" to imply eight bits, they wouldn't go out of their way to use the word "octet" instead when referring to eight bits.
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by eurleif 1y ago
One can construct English sentences in the opposite order. There is no singular "English sentence order". "Filter for this function in this array" "Map over this array with this function"
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by eurleif 1y ago
Adultery is a crime in 16 US states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adultery_laws#United_States
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by eurleif 1y ago
It's widely reputed to have genuine predictive power.
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by eurleif 1y ago
Has anyone actually done the work of checking how well this correlates with world events? It gets attention when it has an apparent hit, which makes it appear predictive; but you could make a random noise generator appear predictive in the
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by eurleif 1y ago
But that doesn't accomplish much, because you can still do: `d.accessed_keys.add('foo')`.
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by eurleif 1y ago
>The traffic needed to maintain presence scales by N^2 Only true if we assume the average number of contacts scales linearly with the total number of users, right? But then, we could also assume that the average number of messages that a

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