jaclaz

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by jaclaz 4y ago
Ah, ok, it is just an over-provision "just in case", I thought there was some peculiar intended setup that required two cables.
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by jaclaz 4y ago
May I ask why two cables per room?
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by jaclaz 4y ago
[2022] The idea is simply genius, no way to compare the product to the real thing, even the few that actually may have tasted tiger or lion meat, how often did they eat it, maybe once in their lifetime. Next step could be synthetic meat of
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by jaclaz 4y ago
The actual blog post with details (linked to in the vice.com article): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg/solidgoldm...
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by jaclaz 4y ago
TLDR: What (maybe) determined that the painting is a Raffaello is everything[1] BUT the AI/facial recognition, that just found very high similarities with a known painting of the artist, thus (possibly) confirming the attribution. BTW,
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Interesting possibility, to this you add that (likely) young people that became eligible for voting tend to be more pro-EU and anyway go against the status quo, and the 10 years after vote could be easily reversed. But for getting 60% or mo
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Yep, that is exactly the good thing, anyone can use his/her own metrics, though technically 50% + 1 vote is the majority, and democracy works that way, 52% is virtually indistinguishable from 48% as I see it.
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by jaclaz 4y ago
It is good how everyone can call the same number in different ways, I would call the hypothetical 60% votes for re-join as a "slight majority", the FT calls it a "strong approval".
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Sure, but you will concede that both the ordinary and the shaking are largely inaccurate , like everyone at home makes ice with liquid nitrogen and then can shake it with steel balls at 20 Hz.
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Related (yesterday): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34654410
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Sure, legally. It is not about quality of all software, it is about expected use of software, software (including OS) used for "serious" things should be "serious". It may seem bonkers, but since market hasn't manag
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by jaclaz 4y ago
A user with a nick of "only_Dev" submitting almost only links to pages/articles on "dev.to", maybe you are considered to be spamming for your own site? BTW, almost every link to dev.to seems to be [dead], no matter
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by jaclaz 4y ago
>... plenty of people driving with the seatbelt behind them ... There is a gadget which had some diffusion here (the manufacturer explicitly states that it is not tested/approved and actually prohibited for human use, but we all kno
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by jaclaz 4y ago
>Are you content with the status quo? The status quo is IMHO terrible, but it affects also "smart" ovens, regriferators, tv's, and anything that is designed to be "connected" (IOT). And games (which you mentioned
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by jaclaz 4y ago
>Looks like something Batman would be riding on. ... because Bruce Wayne can afford to buy one ... It shows that I am getting old, but I am completely failing to see the value in this thingy, almost 600,000 US$ seem to me a lot of money
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by jaclaz 4y ago
>You need to change filters at least once a year to keep your indoor climate good. It really depends on the location and on the specific machine/install, usually there is no need to change the filters (they are normally washable) bu
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by jaclaz 4y ago
>This is common wisdom in Germany but the rest of the world ... In Italy, the tradition has always been that when you wake up in the morning you open windows and let the air change, but the "new generations" are forgetting this
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by jaclaz 4y ago
And you are young enough and tech-savvy enough to know about all these mechanisms, you made a mistake because you were in a hurry or distracted. Think of how many people (older and/or not technically proficient) fall in this same trap
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by jaclaz 4y ago
>Turns out, what they mean is "don't use Google to search for software you wish to download". I think the reality is more like "when you search for software on Google do not use links in the ads that you get at top
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Previous discussion (80 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22683150
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by jaclaz 4y ago
> I just want to yell that I need a imer set Sorry, I don't understand "Imer", can you repeat? Typo serendipity ;)
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by jaclaz 4y ago
So, similar machines are in the 7,000-10,000 US$ range? I had thought they were far more expensive, I vaguely remember checking the costs for a "cleaning" laser only a few years ago (probably it was more powerful/better quali
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Yep, and [2016].
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by jaclaz 4y ago
I don't know, back in those times personally I never liked MS Access, Filemaker was meh (for me), there was the Borland Paradox engine that (IMHO) was good. Before those there was DBIII and Clipper. For small businesses and niche/
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Roughly the dividing line between use of oil vs. butter (or lard) in traditional regional cuisine was slightly north of Bologna, until relatively recent times (I would say until post 2nd world war). South, oil. North, butter. My grandmother
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Sure, just like the 25 pin connector in PC's was used with less than 25 wires cables, leaving most of the pins unconnected: https://allpinouts.org/pinouts/connectors/serial/pc-serial-2... still a 25 pin
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Thanks, I just checked their website, and also one of the competitors (Cryonics Institute), the "alive subscription" seems like being secundary, the main part seems to be a lump sum at time of death (directly or through life insur
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Truism of the week: >An RS232 pinout 9 pin cable features nine pins
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by jaclaz 4y ago
The idea by Douglas Adams in Hitchikers guide to the galaxy that in an infinitely large universe most things are grown might well have been inspired by this. The description of the life cycle of ratchet screwdriver fruits remains a masterpi
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by jaclaz 4y ago
>Another problem is the lack of guarantees that 100 years later the same company would care ... Only as a curiosity, I always wondered how the payments are arranged with such a company. I mean, is it a lump sum paid at the time of the fr

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