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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
> Additionally Ebola (Zaire) has previously been shown to be potentially spread via aerosols. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep00811 Ah, I was not aware of this, so thanks for pointing that out. That does indeed
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
> True right now, but what happens if it mutates? There are more than a dozen viruses in the same family as Ebola, each of which have various strains, and none of them have airborne spread. Also, this family has been around for over 1k y
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
> No one worth listening to is claiming that there will be a COVID-style pandemic. When I first posted this, all 4 top-level comments were dead, and half of them suggested that this Ebola outbreak would be similar to COVID-19. I agree th
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
(Originally posted as a reply to a dead comment) While there was some controversy regarding how COVID spreads in the early days (droplets vs aerosol, how many virions you needed to be exposed to to become infected, whether asymptomatic tr
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
> It seems the trend for AI math is: > > Proofs which fewer and fewer people are able to understand This is the trend for proofs of famous old theorems in general, even pre-AI. Some particularly extreme examples are the proofs of F
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
> because I definitely remember pixels being visible when I was growing up Was this on an LCD or CRT display? Because on a CRT, you can't really see the pixels [0] [1], so what you were seeing was probably the shadow mask instead [2
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
Sure, it would be pretty easy to smuggle small, high-value items, but most of the trade volume is in large items like lumber, steel/aluminum, new vehicles, and potash, and it's pretty hard to sneak a dozen 18-wheelers across the b
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
> So moving goalposts Sorry, my earlier posts were all talking about hardware decoding, so I had assumed that it was implied that I was talking about hardware decoding in this reply too. But I see that I never actually mentioned that any
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
1. Most Linux distros install Firefox by default while very few install Chromium, so I suspect that most Linux users use Firefox (even though Chrome is far more popular in general). 2. On Fedora, openSUSE, and similar distros, the Mesa in
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
Sure, I understand why most Linux distros omit proprietary codecs (and mostly agree with it). But to the average user, it's not easy to explain why h264 videos play out-of-the-box on Windows and macOS, while you need to first run some
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
> The web app is slow and burns CPU (and my laptop fans start going nuts) Ah yeah, that's because codecs are (still) a mess on Linux. In Firefox, navigate to about:config, then make sure that the following are set: media.ffmpeg.
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
Sorry, but I've never tried that before, so I'm not sure. (I didn't even know that Zoom had that feature at all!)
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
> which destroys variety and flexibility That's probably the worst argument that you could make against Wayland: there has only ever been a single X11 server in common use on the Linux desktop (first XFree86, now X.Org), but there
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
I've been screensharing using the Zoom web application (via Firefox) on Wayland for almost 5 years now, and it's always worked well for me personally.
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
It's listed in the Unicode character database, but I doubt that it was in (m)any fonts 20 years ago, it would have been in zero printed books [0], and nobody knew the meaning of the character, so I'd argue that it's more an a
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
Letterlike Symbols is a bit of a weird grab bag of characters, most of which are clearly distinct from their "regular" Latin versions, but I do agree that a few of them are pointless exact copies of regular Latin letters. The full
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
> Not that hard to imagine, OCR existed back then? How do you train OCR on a character that doesn't exist though? Even these days, OCR often confuses the 52 Latin characters, so I wouldn't expect as good of results with older t
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
Yes, but most of those are intended to be used exclusively for math, where the different styles do have semantic meaning. Even in introductory textbooks, it's pretty common to see the roman, calligraphic, and double-struck variants o
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
I would think that changing the last name only should be fine though, since up until somewhat recently, most women changed their last names when they got married, so most systems should be equipped to handle this.
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
> That said, this is an area where antitrust enforcement would be applicable, if we ever get an admin who’s willing to engage in active trust-busting. Professional sports in the US are mostly exempt from antitrust law [0], so it would ta
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
> I propose a sane rule for all humans: if you see an ad somewhere, or if you suspect a hidden ad ('influencers' trying to promote something), close the tab immediately and never return to that site. But this very site has lots
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
> I still have the Pixel Watch 2 and it's much the same, battery barely lasts a day […] Will never buy another one The later models are way better. When I switched from a Pixel Watch 1 to a Pixel Watch 4, my battery life increased
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
> > Countless times I’ve taken it off the charger to find 0%. > The charge is magnetic, so it's really obvious when it's actually charging. It's possible to dock it in the charger enough for the charging display to s
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
> There are only three places where I hold letter-spacing of any kind to be acceptable: Three more that I'm aware of: 4. For emphasis in Fraktur text [0]. 5. In very small amounts (< 2%) to improve paragraph breaking [1 §7.2].
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
The original link works here in Canada at least.
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
> What happened to "one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it"? There arguably still is—just use f-strings for everything, unless you need to support ancient Python, in which case use %-formatting. t-strings are a sp
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
I have a Pixel 7a on the latest version (Android 17, July 2026 build), and I'm able to turn this off. If you want to find it the long way, then tap through the following screens: Settings > Security & Privacy > Lost devic
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
I think that they typically use lots of other atomic clocks [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time
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by gucci-on-fleek 2mo ago
> What is possible by pushing past that incredibly narrow margin of 1s in 13b years? What dreamy capabilities do we get that we don’t enjoy today? You can measure speed (via special relativity) and altitude (via gravity/general rela
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
> The real story here is how a corporation can just pack up and leave it's mess for the government to clean up. With public money. This is unfortunately a common issue in Canada :( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

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