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by jfim 3y ago
Yet there's an online encyclopedia that people can anonymously edit and upload files to.
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by jfim 3y ago
Lipitor and Xanax don't even have a fluoride atom, how can they be PFAS?
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by jfim 3y ago
It's the same way that shadow banning is effective, it lets people post links that are automatically flagged, saving moderator resources.
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by jfim 3y ago
If you're talking about the latency plots, they look like ggplot2
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by jfim 3y ago
Temu is basically using the de minimis import rule to avoid import taxes. There's a longer report linked at the bottom of this page that goes into more detail: https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/press-
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by jfim 3y ago
Videogame programming is also pretty fun. It's unfortunate however that credit screens for software went away in the late 90s/early 2000s. It would be interesting to be able to see who made the software that I use daily, or even o
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by jfim 3y ago
Do you have examples of needing to use both mouse buttons at the same time?
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by jfim 3y ago
I'm not convinced that Hollywood really competes with TikTok. Going out for a movie date sounds a lot more interesting than "let's go flop on the couch and watch TikTok/YouTube all evening."
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by jfim 3y ago
> I don't know how much stock I would put in the idea of the "Ikea" method for Costco as they have returns, membership, pharmacy, eye glasses, and the food court all relatively towards the front which are areas that people
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by jfim 3y ago
Some cameras do this automatically, and will adjust the focusing distance in steps in order to obtain a larger depth of field. It's mostly used in macro photography, where the depth of field is less than a millimeter thin, although it&
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by jfim 3y ago
Japan is also 73% mountains, so the populated areas are much denser than a simple population divided by area calculation would give.
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by jfim 3y ago
Thanks for the explanation, that makes a lot of sense! I never would've guessed those hazards.
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by jfim 3y ago
I frequently exceed it on mine as well as on rental cars. It really depends on one's driving style. Coasting to upcoming red lights/stop signs and accelerating at a gentler pace make a big difference, as well as driving the speed
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by jfim 3y ago
Out of curiosity, what's dangerous about Alpine lakes? I understand that rivers can have currents that can pull and hold people underwater, but I can't think of a risk for lakes other than hypothermia.
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by jfim 3y ago
> Doomsaying and fearmongering is about power. Because every warning is about power dynamics, and obviously not about things being dangerous. We should get rid of that "can cause death if ingested" cartel that's putting al
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by jfim 3y ago
That sounds like a pretty interesting setup, how do you have it work with your bank accounts?
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by jfim 3y ago
There are different kinds of lidars that use different wavelengths and sensing methods. For self driving car use, the difference between a small lidar that's on a phone or vacuum cleaner and the one on a car would be the amount of powe
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by jfim 3y ago
Interestingly enough, ChatGPT can generate Wolfram language queries. > Can you give me a query in Wolfram language for the first 25 prime numbers? > Prime[Range[25]] > What about one for the limit of 2/x as x tends towards inf
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by jfim 3y ago
> I can make a West Coast salary and live in the midwest if I so choose. For now, until the execs realize that they don't need to pay West Coast salaries, just whatever gets them the engineering output that they need. If the job can
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by jfim 3y ago
Rents are negotiated for a fixed period of time and are not necessarily increased to the market rate every year, hence the current price being paid being a lagging indicator of market prices. If you were tracking the inflation of banana pri
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by jfim 3y ago
The CPI only includes OER (owner equivalent rent), not housing prices. OER is also a lagging indicator due to it being calculated on current rental expenses, not market rate rents (eg. when people move and their rental expenses get adjusted
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by jfim 3y ago
People don't buy Rigol because they want a secure device, they just want a low cost oscilloscope.
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by jfim 3y ago
Is it the whole country or only some individuals of concern? I haven't really followed the news on sanctions, but I thought it was the latter.
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by jfim 3y ago
They're fun and make biking more accessible to people who wouldn't bike because they're out of shape, can't bike up steep hills, or don't want to show up at work covered in sweat. Try one sometime, a good ebike with
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by jfim 3y ago
There are people who value having a wiper stalk, a button to defog the windshield, and an instrument cluster when driving.
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by jfim 3y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the rationale for using git? Is it to get a history of notes or just for sync? If it's the latter, I believe obsidian has a paid offering for that, or one can MacGyver it with syncthing.
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by jfim 3y ago
Bankers aren't in the business of underwriting risk, other than credit risk. However, mortgages typically require having property insurance as a condition for issuing the mortgage, so de facto, if the property is uninsurable, the bank
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by jfim 4y ago
Probably a cold immersion tub.
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by jfim 4y ago
I'd wager it's because moderate/pragmatic viewpoints don't really make for interesting discussions. There wouldn't be much interest in "signal doesn't run on my very niche phone but it runs okay on another
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by jfim 4y ago
It's more that there doesn't seem to be any kind of synergy between Fuschia and Google's business of selling ads, hence the fake work label. If Google tried to launch a FM radio ad business and it flopped, it would be at leas

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