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by gavinsyancey 3y ago
Haven't read the article, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is taken as a percentage of the bank's uninsured deposits specifically to encourage banks to have less uninsured deposits, strengthening the resiliency of the bank
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by gavinsyancey 3y ago
If you read the article, it's not really a technicality. He filed a false incident report with the FAA, lied to the FAA about what happened, and destroyed evidence despite an order from the NTSB to preserve the wreckage in order to cov
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by gavinsyancey 3y ago
Might be worth looking into motorized telescope mounts. Should have plenty of precision, although you might not be able to slew very fast and will probably have to handle zoom/focus/camera control separately. Looks like people hav
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by gavinsyancey 3y ago
Peer reviewers are fellow academics who are not paid. Peer review does not add any cost to publishing. The cost all goes to for-profit companies making record profits.
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by gavinsyancey 3y ago
He'd then have to convince everyone else he wants to talk to to use Signal instead of Facebook. That's the hard part.
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by gavinsyancey 4y ago
This is not the case in WhatsApp on Android, at least as of a couple months ago when I last checked.
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by gavinsyancey 4y ago
The page size dictates the minimum size and alignment requirements for `mmap`, and also for regions of memory with different levels of protection (e.g. read-only vs read+write vs read+execute, etc). If a program expects to be able to `mmap`
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by gavinsyancey 4y ago
With one exception -- whatever module is executing is named `__main__`, and if something else imports it by it's usual module name you'll get a duplicate copy.
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by gavinsyancey 4y ago
I think what's really meant here is different pixel densities -- e.g. a high-dpi laptop screen and a low-resolution external monitor. I'm not sure exactly how Wayland handles this, but X doesn't do a very good job.
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by gavinsyancey 4y ago
If they're expressed in two's complement, this works for negative numbers as well.
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by gavinsyancey 4y ago
Can I install to an external/USB disk? Apple Silicon machines cannot boot from external storage. While it may look like they do when you choose an external macOS volume, behind the scenes parts of its boot components are being copied t
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by gavinsyancey 4y ago
Also, a LaTeX macro will grab the first token as it's argument if there are no curly brackets which the regex doesn't support ... Not entirely surprised as that's hard (impossible if you don't assume default catcodes) to
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by gavinsyancey 4y ago
https://www.ucop.edu/global-food-initiative/_files/food-hous... A 2017 study found: - 5% of UC Graduate students had experienced homelessness. - 26% of UC Graduate students had experienced food insecurity.
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by gavinsyancey 4y ago
I own a Nintendo Switch, and several games for it. I also own a Steam Deck, and I'd like to be able to play my Switch games on it so I don't have to carry two devices around. Emulation lets me do so.
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by gavinsyancey 4y ago
This is also true for lower numbers. It evens out so each player is equally likely to end up with each number.
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by gavinsyancey 4y ago
Legally, treat the bicycle as you would a tractor. Slow down to their speed, give them plenty of space, and wait until it is safe to pass. And when you get home, advocate for better cycling routes in your area.
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by gavinsyancey 4y ago
It works, and does what it is supposed to. Why does it need a new version?
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by gavinsyancey 4y ago
> If Herodotus can ask 2,400 years ago for immortality while striving to prevent his subject from being “forgotten in time”, then perhaps it is not too presumptuous for me, more than two millennium later, to ask you to read for five minu
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The Great California Electricity Blackout That Wasn’t(nrdc.org)
5 points by gavinsyancey 4y ago|0 comments
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by gavinsyancey 4y ago
That is a key that someone extracted from an Apple Airport Express back in 2011: https://mafipulation.org/blagoblig/reversing/index.html#shai...
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by gavinsyancey 5y ago
That card has a $100 annual fee -- Prime is not much more per year.