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by geor9e 3y ago
They've appended "in 2024" and changed the article date to 2024, but the comment dates reveal this article is from 2018, and the 2018 archive of the URL confirms this https://web.archive.org/web/202400000
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by geor9e 3y ago
Most of the first results have Cyrillic letters in the Author's name. I think these folks perhaps aren't fluent in English, and think "Certainly, here is a summary of…" is a normal thing people would say. They probably s
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by geor9e 3y ago
Exactly. The premise was true years ago, definitely. But today it's not hard to get correct spelling out of the top models. Ask DALL-E 3 to make a picture with some text, and it will spit out 4 image. Usually 2 or 3 are perfectly spell
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by geor9e 3y ago
He has an active tiktok account, ironically https://www.tiktok.com/@bidenhq/video/7334529963066019114
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by geor9e 3y ago
Anyone can nitpick anyone by listing whatabouts they didn't intend. Whatabout this OTHER sense of the word "best". It's in the dictionary. You didn't address it, therfore you're a lazy man of straw. The only de
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by geor9e 3y ago
The comment I replied to appears to have completely changed. I replied to a comment that, at face value, asked why don't we shoot 0.5 plastic pellets 5000 miles. Must be a glitch. So ignore my comment, it was in reply to someone else.
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A smart engineer won't be wasting resources by fetching immediately though. It will trigger by datacenter off-peak hours or by user activity.
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This was actually a political campaign point at the end of the cold war. Congress considered funding low mass by very high speed kinetic weapons in orbit called "rods from God" and "brilliant pebbles".
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The link is a forum post with barely any info, followed by a hundreds people commenting. They didn't technically say the experiment occurred in space (it didn't). But the gist is accurate. Here's a better sourced photo with a
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by geor9e 3y ago
Yes, hitting a 15,000 mph ICBM warhead, with a 15,000 mph pellet of tiny 0.5 oz plastic you shot out of a cannon from 5,000 miles away, would be enough to disable it. The roadblock here is hiring a good sniper in this economy. Everyone they
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by geor9e 3y ago
1/2*(0.5oz)*(15000mph)^2 = 319 kilojoules of (kinetic) energy 1/2*(1,955 lbs)*(60mph)^2 = 319 kilojoules of (kinetic) energy So it's basically the same amount of energy as a car at highway speed. But, you'd need to conce
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by geor9e 3y ago
The same scam exists for DMV renewals. The first link is always a sponsored ad scammer link who charges extra to just forward your information to the real DMV. I almost fell for it. If government consumer protection agencies had any gumptio
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by geor9e 3y ago
That's definitely not the limit. At 700Hz, a 700px wide screen with the 1px line crossing it every 1s would qualify as reaching the limit in that situation. But, speed that line up so it crosses every 0.5s, and it's no longer good
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by geor9e 3y ago
GMail opens and caches links, and Chrome prefetches links, so enjoy your two "read" receipts on the link I never clicked.
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The tradeoff of rendering or filming motion blur at finite refresh rates is the audience can move their eyes to follow an object moving around the screen. In real life, that causes the object to become sharp. So, you either need to track ey
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by geor9e 3y ago
Feedbro
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by geor9e 3y ago
Ah the old hosts file blocklist trick. I tried that 20 years ago, but my dopamine craving brain wasn't fooled. Paul Graham tried owning two computers, one without internet https://paulgraham.com/distraction.html . That
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by geor9e 3y ago
That makes much more sense. Now I see that it's a plate of pills, with a woman's hair behind it. I thought it was a cupcake.
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by geor9e 3y ago
Saved You A Click: Butterflies are often drawn by illustrators like dead specimens, with their wings pinned far above their head, when living butterflies do not hold their forewings very far forward of their head.
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by geor9e 3y ago
That one reminded me of soviet UV baths https://natgeofound.tumblr.com/post/48043261031/children-cir...
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by geor9e 3y ago
My favorite one is "Chemical dinner". Literally just people eating dinner. The idea of chemicals in their food was science fiction to them. https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/a-19t...
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by geor9e 3y ago
Saved You A Click: The Apple Sports app primarily focuses on displaying scores and betting odds, lacking features like news, highlights, and schedules, leading to speculation that it might be transitioning into a betting app.
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by geor9e 3y ago
Normal people just see facebook.com in their browser URL box and will never be dealing with the hundreds of different CDN domains it might be pulling from anyway, unless they're inspecting the HTML in dev tools.
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by geor9e 3y ago
A less clickbaity title: How I Found Out Sun Microsystems Was Selling My Open Source Tools Without My Permission
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by geor9e 3y ago
I've been screaming this for years: there was never a rational reason not to buy off-the-shelf solutions. This problem is identical to those faced by thousands, even millions, of other organizations. The solution has been developed and
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by geor9e 3y ago
>Adults over the age of 30 only catch flu about twice a decade, a new study suggests. Oops, I was wrong there, thank you for the link.
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by geor9e 3y ago
Oh, I didn't know that. Two rivals doing the exact same thing. The move makes even more sense now.
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All that tells you is that "what model number are you" statistically almost never otherwise occurs on the open internet, except for when people post chatGPT transcripts. When in human history has anything been simultanously anthro
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They're probably just banking on the fact that MyHeritage has a lot more customers than either one of those, who probably haven't heard of either one, and are already proven to shell out money to research their family history. Wha
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In reality, most people have never even had the flu. They often mistake a severe common cold for the flu. The true influenza hits you hard, like a brick wall, and has a significant fatality rate among the elderly. The primary contrast betwe

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