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by gbrown 5y ago
I think you misunderstood the OP. > what cat you put on what as long as it sniffs within spec
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by gbrown 5y ago
As others have said, humidity makes an absolutely staggering difference.
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by gbrown 5y ago
I guess not, it says 180 on the back. Haven’t bothered to meter it under full load + charging though. To be clear, I’m skeptical of pushing that much power over USBC.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Most of these gaming laptops likely don’t; they’re really not intended to be used for heavy gaming while on battery, because the battery can’t support the discharge rate needed by a high end GPU.
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by gbrown 5y ago
No thanks, I’ll keep my gaming laptop. Far more portable than a desktop, lots of compute overhead, and I can use it for games. At home it’s basically a desktop with external keyboard and monitors. Oh yeah, and when it’s not being used with
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by gbrown 5y ago
Macs were around when Microsoft was shut down over browser bundling. Perhaps duopoly or monopsony would be more precise terms.
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by gbrown 5y ago
... which is monopolistic rent-seeking, the like of which would have been shut down (and was) in the 90’s
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by gbrown 5y ago
> that's what a jury is for. Determining matters-of-fact from presented evidence. That’s a pretty shockingly huge amount of faith you’re putting in a system with well documented shortcomings and biases, especially in a capital case
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by gbrown 5y ago
I didn’t see that in the article, but it’s still trivial to come up with reasonable doubts: 1. What does known/recognized mean? It’s perfectly possible for additional people to make a mistake in identification, especially if prompted b
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by gbrown 5y ago
The idea that eyewitness testimony obviates the need to examine hard evidence is absurd, given how poor people are at providing accurate eyewitness testimony. It’s not that DNA evidence is perfect, it’s that eyewitness testimony is hot garb
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by gbrown 5y ago
You got your answer: seriously, just do a cursory search about the reliability of eyewitness testimony.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Which is an absurd statement on its face
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by gbrown 5y ago
It would still allow them to go after notorious people caught in the act where there really is no risk of confusion. I mean, better to just ban it entirely, but I’d take culpability as a half measure.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Especially when the current result is based on eyewitness testimony, which is known to be crap.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Ah, duh. Not enough coffee.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Wouldn’t it be even faster to solve that problem conditionally? P(x >= a)P(y >= a | x >= a), since the conditional distribution is known and normal?
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by gbrown 5y ago
I’ll chime in as a long time vegetarian and former meat eater. The more realistic an imitation meat product is, the more it creeps me out. I lost the taste for meat, and I’m no longer used to the texture, and I find it disgusting. Imagine m
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by gbrown 5y ago
> That's insanely accurate. This is misleading, and it's a misconception arising from the way that even physicists sometimes misspeak when talking about statistics. The "sigma" is a reference to a standard deviation,
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by gbrown 5y ago
A human subjects determination isn’t really an approval, just a note that the research isn’t HSR, which it sounds like this wasn’t.
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by gbrown 5y ago
It’s been a long time, but having been a student working on a .NET project with no C# background, I’d say that for me it had less to do with the language than the discoverability of language features through Visual Studio.
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by gbrown 5y ago
It’s process based, so communication overhead is heavy and the infrastructure is minimal - if you’re distributing jobs which are individually large it works fine, but it can’t really be used to replace multithreading in a shared memory mode
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by gbrown 6y ago
> Good riddance. Matter of preference I guess. I like to hope humanity will continue to learn things about and explore the broader universe rather than descent into feudal oppression (or some-such) in the ashes of our former civilization
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by gbrown 6y ago
I was talking about humanity as a whole, that's the "team" I'm worried about.
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by gbrown 6y ago
I made a more specific offer which received no response, meanwhile others have posted a number of research articles in this very thread. Nothing I’ve said disagrees with the scientific consensus, so you could also just Google it rather than
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by gbrown 6y ago
> If you're calling for action I mean, I guess I am, but really I'm mostly relaying my understanding of the scientific consensus. I didn't make my comment in some sort of vacuum where readers are supposed to understand the
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by gbrown 6y ago
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make or if you're objecting to anything in particular, but being global carbon negative seems like a good start.
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by gbrown 6y ago
In terms of the definition of "advanced", the question I was answering was a subjective one. I think it's appropriate to use the term "advanced" for societies that can plan for their long term futures and continue t
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by gbrown 6y ago
That’s a very common line of reasoning which I would call magical thinking. Sure, there’s not really any risk that humans will go extinct in the near future, but our technological global civilization is much more fragile. First, we look at
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by gbrown 6y ago
One of the worst features of humanity is that we’ve proven ourselves incapable of planning more than a few years ahead. The fact that it takes acute crises to get us to take dramatic action is the problem: climate change and biosphere coll
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by gbrown 6y ago
You’re probably right.

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