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by femto 10d ago
> ...wait for Australia to join first. A possibility. https://www.reuters.com/business/australia-on-same-page-cana...
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by femto 11d ago
Same technique as Australia's bush turkey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapode#/media/File:Brushturk... A more direct link than a crocodile, as birds came from dinosaurs.
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by femto 11d ago
Pictures in this article: https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/76901
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by femto 11d ago
I'm designing and building a rack to house 5 ukuleles and a guitar.
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by femto 12d ago
Best to use a termination, to avoid the power that would have gone into the antenna from reflecting back into the transmitter output and damaging the output driver transistors. Damage is no bad thing if you do want to permanently disable t
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by femto 14d ago
There's probably a reason for that. > Current ITU regulations ignore unintended satellite hardware leakage, leaving astronomers without legal protection. Oh, what a coincidence.
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by femto 16d ago
It should be 100% liability on the self-driving car. Only by doing that will there be enough incentive for the manufacturers to drive the accident rate down to zero (or in practice a low enough number that the cost to manufacturer of the r
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by femto 26d ago
Because you perceive a readily available result to be worth less? Why do something whose value has gone down?
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by femto 26d ago
It's "their" fault, at least according to Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest, who is one of "them". His view is that if a specific group, of about 1000 powerful people, chose to address climate change, it would be f
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by femto 28d ago
It's geofenced. https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/maps/uni...
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by femto 1mo ago
In that regard, it's not too different from mobile telephony. Mobile phones drove the electronics industry 20 years ago, but there is limited demand for people who really know how to build a phone (ie. build the hardware and write a
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Meta's Global Playbook for Fighting Child Safety Laws(techtransparencyproject.org)
2 points by femto 1mo ago|0 comments
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by femto 1mo ago
1) Does applying a copyright message warrant that the content has not been generated by an AI? 2) If one applies a copyright message to AI generated output, is that fraudulent?
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by femto 1mo ago
That's a complete misreading. Eye for an eye is "treat others as they treat you" Golden rule is' "treat others as you WANT them to treat you". It's the complete opposite of eye for an eye. If someone is
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by femto 1mo ago
The closest we have to a "neutral rule" is "The Golden Rule": "Treat others as you would like them to treat you." It has a long history, both secular and religious. Pretty well everything flows from it, and if
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by femto 1mo ago
The disk is part of a larger Scanning Tunneling Microscope project. https://john-alexander42.github.io/simple-stm-web-page/Proje... Alexander's results show a movement range of 1.25um, 10 times smaller than the 12
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by femto 2mo ago
It would be interesting to augment the plotter with a Unimorph piezoelectric disk scanner [1], to enable finer movement so lines can be drawn closer together. [1] https://john-alexander42.github.io/simple-stm-web-page/D
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by femto 2mo ago
Most electrical/electronic items (radios, TVs, washing machines, ...) used to come with a schematic, or at least a block diagram, inside the device. Similarly, published integrated circuit data sheets contained enough information to u
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by femto 2mo ago
Perhaps Anna's Archive will be the last bastion of some books, especially if they manage to acquire the internal collections of some of the AI companies, à la Spotify. (ie. the parts of the collections that didn't come from Anna i
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by femto 2mo ago
As long as the AI devouring a book isn't making it harder for a person to get access to a copy of the book. There might not be many copies of some out-of-print books.
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by femto 2mo ago
The battle for Wendy's garden will pale into insignificance compared to the battle for a "Sydney Harbour High Line". https://www.sydneyharbourhighline.org.au/ In 2023 the NSW government committed to turn the
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by femto 2mo ago
> made by an equally obscure manufacturer, YiQingTeng Electronics, in Shenzhen, China. Is this what is meant by "Shenzhen Speed"? Dump all safeguards and get any piece of crap out the door as soon as possible? This comment i
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by femto 2mo ago
A similar story to Wendy's Secret Garden in Sydney, Australia? https://www.wendyssecretgarden.org.au/ After her husband's death in 1992, Wendy Whiteley took to cleaning up an unused railway easement behind her hou
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by femto 2mo ago
Nice! Thanks too for putting the work into this library.
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by femto 2mo ago
I got caught out by my Australianism! "How do you find the speed of the Rust version of your FEC vs, the C version?" translates from "Australian" to "English" as: "What is the speed of the Rust version of
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by femto 2mo ago
How do you find the speed of the Rust version of your FEC vs, the C version?
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by femto 2mo ago
I'm beginning to think that my '96 Toyota Starlet is "peak ICE". It has EFI, no infotainment, no power windows, no power steering, no automatic transmission. It is basically an engine, gearbox and wheels. An electric
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by femto 2mo ago
MMR vaccines would be a net positive to the US economy, to the tune of $3.5B in direct savings (14x benefit/cost) and $7.6 billion (26x benefit/cost) in wider societal benefits [1]. Those are 2004 figures, so the dollar amount sa
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by femto 2mo ago
A big chunk of that 72% are legitimately labeled "Made in China" or niche brands. The brands that failed, plus the products that are actually labeled "Made in China", dominate Australia's four supermarkets with the
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by femto 2mo ago
It's about trust.

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