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by jnurmine 6y ago
Perhaps a laser could be used to first reliably replicate the original pattern of an LP into digital form, then one could feed that pattern to a real tonearm needle somehow, vibrating it suitably, in a nondestructive manner. Like some kind
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Not only are airblades gimmicky nonsense, they are very loud. Anything that blows air around will also blow viruses and the like into the air. People do not wash hands in a "standardized manner" and some people do not even use soa
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by jnurmine 6y ago
I'd predict a slightly different viewpoint, though also related to the environment. If the circular economy and recycling of expired electronic devices back into raw materials cannot be solved in a satisfactory way, the next wars will
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by jnurmine 6y ago
I didn't get the vacuum pump hate either. Such a pump is really great! What I have noticed is that some bottle necks are slightly too large or of a weird form for the corks, letting the vacuum escape. When everything is OK the cork mak
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Hmm, good idea. Or weighted by distance between midpoint of state? The idea being that, to my knowledge, the state capitals are not in the middle always, thus leading to some form of distortion.
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Would it help to provide more information by adding edge weight as the length of the shared border between the two states?
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Good point. I did not know exactly how much fruit pickers make, I supposed it was not very much. According to Google, the California average is 24 k USD a year, 11.49 USD an hour. However. A human must rest after, say, 12 hours, but a robot
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by jnurmine 6y ago
I was born cynical and I'm proud of it, so apologies to Boston Dynamics and others, but these things will absolutely be used as war bots and automation surrogates once the time is ripe. Even so, yes, these robots are truly engineering
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Usually any UI in a movie is bad and drops me back to reality out of the magic of the movie. There are meaningless percentages with silly labels, animated histograms, so much useless movement, scrolling nonsense, and sometimes even a world
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by jnurmine 6y ago
I do this too. It works well. In addition I have several playlists, as a song might suit the current playlist, and another song might fit playlist B instead. So any playlist might be seeding several other playlists at a time. Sometimes I go
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Exactly. The human species mirrors its expectations and technological limits into the parameters it uses to conduct the searches for extraterrestrial species. Implicit guesses on the details of the alien species are done: for example, use o
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Permanent, unless someone innovates medical therapy to fix the damage.
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by jnurmine 6y ago
I'd guess part of the hesitation is due to the Pandemrix-caused narcolepsy cases during the A(H1N1) pandemic in 2009. It was just 11 years ago, still fresh on people's minds.
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Have you tried https://github.com/cyrus-and/gdb-dashboard ? Edit: just saw that several people mentioned this already. Good, it is a nice tool!
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by jnurmine 6y ago
The CDC and the EMA both say that Pandemrix did not cause anything. But that information does not match with what happened in Sweden and Finland. In Finland and Sweden, a small number of young people with specific genes who got the Pandemri
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Please see my reply to your other comment with the same link. There is a link in Finland and Sweden with narcolepsy among people who have HLA-DQB1*06:02 and who got Pandemrix.
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by jnurmine 6y ago
...in the USA. And actually, EMA has similar information on their pages on the whole Europe level. But that is beside the point. The point is not the H1N1 vaccines used in the USA in general, the point is not Arenaprix, Focetria or even Pan
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Pandemrix caused many cases of narcolepsia not only in Sweden, but in Finland too. (And other countries, but in lesser numbers) Apparently there are two types of narcolepsia, type 1 is an autoimmune reaction against a hormone which regulate
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Short answer: yes, there is plenty of innovation taking place in diverse domains ranging from elevators to energy grids to robotics to pharmacology/biotech to medtech to defence to telecommunications to green tech and so forth and so o
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Interesting, but they ship only to the US, which is a deal breaker for me. Would've ordered.
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Have you tried a morning ritual? I mean something to prime your brain to "it's work" mode. I've never had problems with working from home, but reading your post made me think of things which I'm perhaps doing differ
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by jnurmine 6y ago
I don't think Git has a "terrible UX". It really is no less worse or better than any random CLI program. But yeah, I fear people have issues with Git because unfortunately they reflect upon their experiences with other SCMs (
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Indeed, though the only commonality is high secrecy. Operation Gladio meant NATO's stay-behind armies. The original intention was that in the event of a Soviet/Warsaw Pact attack the stay-behind armies could organize guerrilla res
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Yes, it's a good point. However, it sounds like an unenforceable thing. As secret votes have been around since ancient Greece, one could have said "I voted for X" when the real vote went for Y, and no-one would've been a
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Outside of the box indeed. I mean, there are dopey ideas galore, starting with the wedged sectors, and then married women over 20 cannot vote, Sweden took a sizeable chunk of Finland, and Norway got the Kola Peninsula, Finland took East Kar
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by jnurmine 6y ago
I agree that the Leningrad siege was a terrible suffering for everyone inside the city, no question about it. I'm not sure though what Finland could have done otherwise; if they had not been where they were, Leningrad would have receiv
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Finland was really between a rock and a hard place, as the international community was basically a lame duck after the Soviets attacked Finland in 1939 by staging a false flag in the small village of Mainila. Although some in Finland tend t
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by jnurmine 6y ago
There's a lot of stuff. And the reason is that distributions usually build in support for a large amount of diverse hardware. These are modules (=m) where possible. The motivation for this is: when you have that heart rate monitor, in
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by jnurmine 6y ago
Self-sufficiency is coming back, I think. The SARS-NCoV-2 epidemic showed how brittle the worldwide supply chains really are. China is a production powerhouse, producing all kinds of everything, and everyone and their neighbour wants to pro
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by jnurmine 6y ago
It would be awesome to have the old Sierra games like King's Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest, etc. re-born as first-person adventures with photorealistic graphics.

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