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The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was caused by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. They are separate, but related disasters. Despite the low fatality rate, there is no doubt that it was a disaster. Radioactive material was released and
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Speaking of Tetris and Hatetris, have you ever heard of Hatris? I just learned about it from last week's No Such Thing as a Fish podcast. Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris, continued to experiment with the Tetris formula. One of t
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And don't forget that all of that worked within Gmail. It floors me that Google didn't realize what they had when they had it. I used to manage all of my daily communications though one pinned tab that was always open. Heck, half
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It would be fun to design ways to manage the latency. I could imagine a modified push-to-talk where you hold down a key and the system gives you an audio cue to start speaking when the backlog of audio has dropped to an acceptable length. T
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> Starting in May, listeners [...] can sign up for premium subscriptions that include a variety of benefits curated by creators, such as ad-free listening, access to additional content, and early or exclusive access to new series. Some p
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Votes currently stand at 34 likes to 11,000 dislikes. Is that a record low ratio on a video with a non-trivial amount of votes?
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Why would people want to have an iPhone for only a week? That sounds like more of a hassle than it is worth. Just to see what they are like?
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Video calls too. I just got back from visiting my in laws since everyone is now vaccinated and one of my projects while I was there was running ethernet lines to their work areas. They're both on daily video calls now and poor wifi per
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Beating Super Mario World using the same button input recording for every level(tasvideos.org)
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No problems with 87.0 on Windows for me.
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For anyone confused like me. [1] Incidentally, Googling "C plus come from" only returns two relevant results, the parent comment and a manual for an esoteric programming language called C-INTERCAL that uses the COME FROM statement
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> Earth is supposed to be in the Royal Sonesta hotel, but I believe it was moved to clean the area and never put back. Ha, that is straight out of a Douglas Adams book.
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You would be interested in Sabermetrics, which is the use of statistics to quantify the contribution of baseball players to the outcomes of the games they play in. Yacht racing is also a competitive team activity and you could define the pr
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> It works pretty well, since there is quite a limited vocabulary. You probably know this already, but that was due to a bet! > The vocabulary of the text consists of just 50 words and was the result of a bet between Seuss and Bennett
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Potential math illiteracy aside, is this such a terrible policy? This seems to me like a nice compromise that provides some stability to the renter while still allowing the landlord to raise the rent substantially over several years. Downsi
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> The US actually Are you speaking about the US as a whole or just the federal government? If you only consider federal income taxes, then yes, our system looks progressive by comparison. However, US citizens pay federal, state and often
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Is 'digital twin' anything other than a buzzword? Is there anything that distinguishes one from a model or a simulation? I had the misfortune of being introduced to the term by an executive who repeated it until is lost all meanin
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> Now, read about Skunkworks - they were able to build the SR71 (without supercomputers) in less than half that time and for a fraction of the cost. Not to mention the F-16 itself, which the F-35 was meant to replace: 1972: RFP for prot
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Context: > For wind developers, federal tax credits also are a contributing factor, even allowing the wind resources to make offers at negative prices. However, low and/or negative offers are not limited to any particular resource,
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One recent example is the man who ran onto the field at the Super Bowl after having proxies place $370,000 in bets on that occurring. However, he bragged about what he had done on a radio show and those bets were invalidated.
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Have you considered seeding some of the land with native species? My summer job in college was doing wetland and prairie restorations. It is very rewarding to visit old project sites to see species that I planted still growing years later a
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"19. Sedlik requires that all licensed reproductions of The Iconic Miles Davis Portrait include Sedlik’s copyright management information." I hope he would make an exception in the case of a tattoo. I can't imagine going thro
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The same thing happened last July to comp.lang.forth and comp.lang.lisp. https://support.google.com/groups/thread/61391913
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I only mean to point out that 500m is quite detailed, particularly in terms of the vast scale of a star. I wasn't commenting on the relative sophistication of the models or anything like that.
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To put that in some sort of perspective, NOAA's highest resolution weather model uses 3000m grids and they are "only" simulating the thin layer of atmosphere over a single continent.
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If that's the case, why assign all the patents to the same individual? Each additional implausible claim just serves to discredit the others by making him look more like a crackpot.
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G. K. Chesterton's Fence Principle: > There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and
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I remember reading about a similar result in software that judged job applicants. The system was trained on resumes of past applicants and the hired/not-hired outcome. Unfortunately, instead of providing a neutral guide, it just learne
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Why are they so trivial to detect for you while they bedevil the rest of the software industry? Is it possible that there are many such bugs hiding in your code that have not been found, because your code has not been subjected to the amoun
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> given how shortlived they are, they never get the chance to do much evolution There is a very rare category of cancers for which this is not true, clonally transmissible cancers[1]. They can move from individual to individual like othe

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