jxramos

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by jxramos 4y ago
Why's this being downvoted, it's totally true. When the object counts of possessions exceed a certain amount you just naturally lose stuff and the objects own your attention and frustrations. Anyone familiar with this crazy docume
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by jxramos 4y ago
exactly, I've dreamed about cataloguing a bunch of low res images of all my belongings just or inventory sake. So much junk to manage.
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by jxramos 4y ago
I think this may be an unfamiliar pattern for towns that haven’t yet crowded their name into university titles but it’s a well established pattern when enough institutions land on the ground. Eg University of San Francisco (USF) San Francis
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by jxramos 4y ago
The further you let them grow the more differentiated they become. So time could be leaned on as a predictor. But even at the very young cotlydon phase you can differentiate between certain species, even at the level of seeds. It depends ho
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by jxramos 4y ago
Dr John Campbell recently covered something similar in the UK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f45S6vmQgA I didn't quite follow everything he said and I don't quite follow everything in this substack. Ever since t
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by jxramos 4y ago
Is it the case that deepfakes are really only possible in low resolution video? That as resolutions move on to the next degree you cannot create a deep fake while still preserving high resolution?
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by jxramos 4y ago
Makes me think about those wise statements Elon Musk shared in the video of him at the Twitter All Hands zoom meeting. It was there that he contemplated the value of side stepping news outlets and avoiding their negative filters. He also qu
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by jxramos 4y ago
This is the first time I've ever learned about that `extra` argument to logging calls Interesting capabilities. There's a rundown with log output examples seen in https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging
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by jxramos 4y ago
I don't think the name of the game is at the level of upholding consistent logic in and of itself but of defending the separation of powers granted to the three branches of government. You can think of it as analogous to programming ar
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by jxramos 4y ago
I think the big difference there is in what capacities for violence exist within these two entities. One has a monopoly on legal violence and is armed (government) the other has no such powers (corporations). You want to limit how much powe
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by jxramos 4y ago
so what is the reading list feature exactly, I was going to post to AskDifferent what's the deal with that feature and what does it offer precisely. I had stuff showing up in my list but they all got added there accidentally. Does Safa
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by jxramos 4y ago
what technique do you use, a pdf printed copy or the File-->Save as-->Webpage Complete html thing?
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by jxramos 4y ago
this is interesting, the cost of doing business ala a black hat bug bounty effectively.
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by jxramos 4y ago
Yah, it boils down to the 10th Amendment at the end of the day and the US's approach to federalism. https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-10/... .
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by jxramos 4y ago
Can you elaborate further. What’s the relation or workflow to the OS update that connects to native apps exactly?
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by jxramos 4y ago
Same exact sentiment and behavior on my end. I’ve become what I call “app-averse”
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by jxramos 4y ago
Is that metal hydride stuff feasible? I heard about it and saw videos around the claims of the substance but was curious why it never took off if it was so great. What are the challenges around it precisely? https://www.energy.go
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by jxramos 4y ago
This is a reference to it requiring shipment to the launch site right? That shipment was more practical under bite sized chunks no?
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by jxramos 4y ago
The Project Farm channel on YouTube does a great objective and transparent set of reviews to follow along. It’s not exhaustive for every product on the market but does a reasonable sample and is a joy to watch.
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by jxramos 4y ago
That’s a fascinating idea. Get companies to accept some form of standardized testing and have it be transferable. That would greatly increase the motivation behind its studies I would presume.
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by jxramos 4y ago
Wow so we need some explicit record of abstaining that the voter can submit and check the status on.
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by jxramos 4y ago
yah this is it; software doesn't stand still unless you use old applications. I've read about folks keeping old systems around to use their old licensed software or some other application they know the ins-and-outs of and can get
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by jxramos 4y ago
totally this. I had a boss once who took me aside in her office to probe interests and direction. Somewhere she quipped about work in academia being paid peanuts. It was a pretty shocking statement and attitude to hear it so bluntly, especi
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by jxramos 4y ago
I heard this recently that forestlands expanded somehow through the decades. It's too bad there were no aerial views of things long ago to see this before and after.
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by jxramos 4y ago
Is this what iOS photos uses under the hood when it goes into plant detection mode? I was photographing some bugs on a plant in the garden yesterday and noticed a leaf annotation on the photo. It was accurate with the “Siri knowledge result
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by jxramos 4y ago
There's something very pressing about moves that pares down the true sentimental value of some belonging. If the item survived multiple moves it either concentrated in value or waned in value and will soon have skeptical eyes glancing
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by jxramos 4y ago
at one point I was moving a stack of books and realized I'm essentially moving thinly sheared off logs around. It was quite a visual to imagine me moving stumps of logs around the size of small UHaul boxes. That's essentially what
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I actually faced this while researching how to aid a family member under the representative payee program and began to wonder how to spend their funds in ways that would benefit them and avoid accumulation of assets and all that stuff to re
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by jxramos 4y ago
I had an art teacher affectionately remind me the etymology for amateur > borrowed from French, going back to Middle French, "one who loves, lover," borrowed from Latin amātor "lover, enthusiastic admirer, devotee," f
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I'd suspect the knocking sounds are thermal expansion of some rigid parts shifting about.

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