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by evan_ 5y ago
Slashdot comments could never go below -1 (or above +5). Also, moderation wasn't an "everyone votes" thing, moderators were picked semi-randomly and if you got picked, you could only place 5 votes. If you voted and the posted
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by evan_ 5y ago
absolutely, or just shell to python if you want to use something from a python lib
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by evan_ 5y ago
One of the producers from the Stargate shows has been posting random UI playback videos on reddit, very interesting to see: https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=author%3AJosephMallozzi%20t...
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by evan_ 5y ago
but homeowners can't actually access that value because they would need to immediately use the money to buy another house. They don't let you continue to live in the house after you have sold it.
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by evan_ 5y ago
Non-competes are morally wrong
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by evan_ 5y ago
Probably talking about something like LoRa on 900mhz I guess?
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by evan_ 5y ago
A really creepy use case for this would be to combine it with one of those IP-to-company name lists. If you visit a vendor it could play a video greeting you by mentioning your business name. “Click here to learn what we can do for Acme Ind
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by evan_ 5y ago
You could just eat a spoonful of baking soda.
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by evan_ 5y ago
it's satire, not parody.
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by evan_ 5y ago
Something I noticed when reading the books is that the authors describe the specific type of LED lighting in every scene they introduce: > The tunnel outside was white where it wasn’t grimy. Ten meters wide, and gently sloping up in both
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by evan_ 5y ago
> I stopped watching it though once the "protomolecule" stuff started. So, the first scene in the first episode? Before the opening credits? It would be one thing if they added the crazy alien magic plot device midway through a
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by evan_ 5y ago
The latest season of The Expanse featured a character who had been exposed to vacuum revived by an injection of “hyperoxygenated blood” in the arm. This makes me think they just got the method of administration slightly wrong. In the future
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by evan_ 5y ago
> What you described sounds like a product flaw. It would never have shipped with a product flaw that frequently caused it to classify white people as something insulting.
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by evan_ 5y ago
if you’re dead set on controlling individual LEDs look up “charlieplexing” which will let you use n pins to control n^2-n LEDs
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by evan_ 5y ago
Look into addressable leds like the WS2812... you can wire them up in series (or buy them pre-soldered on tape) and you can control hundreds of RGB leds independently with just two wires. Adafruit sells tape as well as matrices of the stuff
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by evan_ 6y ago
Stars are visible in space but the Earth is so bright that if you expose it properly, the stars are underexposed. It’s basically the same reason we don’t see the stars in the daytime: the sun is much brighter.
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by evan_ 6y ago
There are a few in the linked gofundme. https://ca.gofundme.com/f/toronto-tiny-shelters?utm_campaign...
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by evan_ 6y ago
computers don't need to boot "close to instantly" because nobody ever turns them off now. The "open browser" step in the previous comment is probably a noop because who even closes their browsers?
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by evan_ 6y ago
it's not like they actually live in the town they're policing so they probably won't even need to move
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by evan_ 6y ago
> Spoofed number to bypass contact whitelist etc.
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by evan_ 6y ago
50 years from now "We've got 100 years left before we have to worry about this!" 100 years from now "We've got 50 years left before we have to worry about this!" 145 years from now "This is a crisis, if on
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by evan_ 6y ago
definitions aside you should be able to understand that if you add salt to ocean water it will be saltier, not less salty, than it was before
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by evan_ 6y ago
Have you tried re:AMP? https://re-amp.ru/
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by evan_ 6y ago
We can actually just test this. Here's some code: const x = {value: 0}; console.log(x); console.log({x}); x.value = 1; Running that in the latest Chrome javascript console, we see that the first version prints `{va
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by evan_ 6y ago
I’m interested in the 3:00am spike shown on the monitors and her physical response. Could the building’s HVAC be programmed to turn on (or off) at that time?
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by evan_ 6y ago
If you dump something radioactive into a volcano, now you have a radioactive volcano, which is not better
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by evan_ 6y ago
The companies that pay for access can use it in their marketing. “You can feel good about ordering from our food delivery service, our drivers don’t have to pee in bottles.”
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by evan_ 6y ago
My observation is that they use restrooms in office buildings on their route. Idk what they do on residential routes.
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by evan_ 6y ago
Someone needs to start urban truck stops. Convert storefronts in centralized areas into a space with bathrooms, showers, maybe some snacks and sundries. Keep it clean and climate-controlled. Maybe it’s a gas station too, but the idea is to
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by evan_ 6y ago
There's a remaster on Duke3D on Steam and console. It stays true to the original in a lot of ways but fixes a lot of the really annoying stuff you'd get if it were just a straight port. I haven't played multiplayer on it for

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