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by jnurmine 3y ago
If I could design zoning things and building regulations and generally Simcity/Cities micromanage in real life, I would set a demand of reserving let's say 500 m2 of green space for every occupant in a multistorey building. This a
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by jnurmine 3y ago
I might pay more if they didn't sniff any other data from me. Search is just one color of light from the prism, so to speak. Edit: not beam but color
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by jnurmine 3y ago
I might pay like max. 3 EUR a year for this to get a search engine that gives the good results without ads, SEO spam and bogus clone sites. That amount of money is probably more than Google now makes from my online presence because I adbloc
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by jnurmine 3y ago
I got some unexpected melodic mellow Indian-sounding sitar-music with the input prompt "suomisaundi". Not at all what I expected, but quite nice nevertheless! It worked better with "suomisaundi psychedelic trance spugedelic&q
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by jnurmine 3y ago
There's rain and there's rain. Once my Google Nexus 4 died because of rain. Normal rain was no problem ever with it, even to make calls in a rain. But one day it rained very heavily with a wind so strong it was hard to walk agains
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by jnurmine 3y ago
Mainland EU's first orbital launch site was inaugurated in January 2023. It is located at Esrange, in Kiruna, high up north in Sweden. The Themis program ("reusable space launcher demonstrator") will actually do some of their
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by jnurmine 4y ago
If it was not a drone, and "not a balloon", what could it be? Assuming this was a drone, the "car-sized", "unmanned", "not a balloon", "not maneuverable" (!?), the operating altitude (40k fe
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by jnurmine 4y ago
This is what I've been pondering too as a possible terrestrial explanation. Perhaps some fancy machinery can beam modified waveforms not only with microwaves, but with frequencies high enough to reach infrared and/or visible light
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by jnurmine 4y ago
For my part, after considering this very question in the past, the answer is that the question is wrong. The question is: is there some reason to trust, and the answer is: no. In my opinion, any and all general computing devices sold to the
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by jnurmine 4y ago
Personal, biased, cynical, enterprise marinated opinions follow: Turn off notifications. Don't have Slack visible all the time. Stop working on multiple things at the same time (unless you really know what you're doing and can han
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by jnurmine 4y ago
I used a piece of tape to achieve the same thing. Printed for a few years (yes, a rare need) after that small operation. It's sad that manufacturers resort to these schenaningans at all.
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by jnurmine 4y ago
I see this claim a lot in different contexts, and personally have never quite understood who it really talks about. It cannot talk about everyone, because there are many different kinds of people and work sectors. I'd expect the motiva
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by jnurmine 4y ago
Is there something like Stable Diffusion for text only? Like, feed in some text and pose questions, like people have done with GPT-3.
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by jnurmine 4y ago
How do you prepare the Aeropress coffee? Do you use a metal mesh or paper filter? Do you get enough pressure from your Aeropress? I've had several over the years and sometimes the plunger heads (the rubbery part going towards coffee) c
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by jnurmine 4y ago
By the way, there are add-on espresso gadgets for the Aeropress, I've the Fellow Prismo and in my opinion it works quite well. Making larger amounts, like a triple espresso, is a hassle though. For espresso-like strong coffee, I just u
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by jnurmine 4y ago
Indeed! I'd like to add Lance Henriksen, too.
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by jnurmine 4y ago
Well, I'd like the voices of David Attenborough and Christopher Plummer for audio books please...
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by jnurmine 4y ago
Could this be used for electromagnetic (and other) waves as well? I suppose the principles are similar for a medium in which oscillations move into some direction(s) etc.
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by jnurmine 4y ago
Suppose you have one repo with branches main, v1 and v2 (for example, releases are made from these). The branches are there forever, they are very long running branches. Some days you work with v1 and some days with v2, and sometimes with m
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by jnurmine 4y ago
IMO the Spotify Android UI is OK for the most part. That said, Spotify could improve the UX. For one thing, recommendations are fine but how about reduce the amount of lists. Let the user click something if they want recommendations based o
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by jnurmine 5y ago
Singularity... The whole concept of the Kurtzweilian "singularity" has always felt to me like a technology-flavored hand-wave of eschatological thought: AI designs AI in a recursive manner, science/technological progress (wha
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by jnurmine 5y ago
That was an interesting article, I don't want to steal it's thunder or anything, but damn, I love the layout. It is gorgeous. Looks like a magazine, elegant, no cruft.
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by jnurmine 5y ago
Indeed you are right, the land is there, and palaces might be nothing more than a pile of rocks now, however: having wealth meant both getting enemies, but also having resources to get protection and arrange things; with enough money/w
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by jnurmine 5y ago
One of the books I'm currently reading is Edward J. Watts' "Mortal Republic - How Rome Fell into Tyranny" which details how Rome the republic transformed into a dictatorship. It is intriguing, parts are like the TV-serie
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by jnurmine 5y ago
For some reason I wasn't aware that ABP supported "Acceptable Ads". How does Eyeo make money?
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by jnurmine 5y ago
Everyone has their own way to be effective and productive, my opinion follows. TODO-lists are useful when using them for what they are good for: 1. mini-planning the upcoming work, 2. tracking what you've done (the ticked boxes), and 3
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by jnurmine 5y ago
Nope, but in a crisis I'm sure many would make do with what they have.
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by jnurmine 5y ago
Unless EMPs also wipe out consumer electronics, there will likely be only islands of connectivity. I'm thinking folks with WIFI gadgets and COTS networking gear could very well build local connectivity, but those islands would be unabl
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by jnurmine 5y ago
People often make "predictions", whereas they just list their wishlist. But, I'll do a prediction or two: Climate: The climate continues to become more and more disrupted. We see beginnings of food and water unavailability in
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by jnurmine 5y ago
According to BBC: "The country will not turn its back on nuclear technology completely as part of the compromise deal, with 100 million euros ($113m; £84m) to be invested into research including on smaller, modular nuclear energy plant

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