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by kazinator 15d ago
I'm absolutely not destroying my cherished "pet" projects with this shit.
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by kazinator 15d ago
Sound is compression + rarefaction. Maybe the rarefactions reduce pressure enough to wreck the stoichiometry of the burn.
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by kazinator 15d ago
To be competitive in the sport, you need the pyramid method with the high volume base of light effort, middle of volume of sold effort (e.g. lactate threshold work) and a peak of intensity (e.g. interval training). This is about health. Hig
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by kazinator 15d ago
I read about the Chorleywood Bread Process in a book out of the library at a time when I was making a bunch of bread: it was the year 1993. I was quite appalled by what I learned. The basic idea is that we introduce air into the dough mecha
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by kazinator 15d ago
Moreover, the article author seems not to mind the controls if they are on manufactured gore or porn.
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by kazinator 16d ago
If you're opening a damaged door from which a preloaded spring can pop out, this is probably dangerous to someone in the vehicle next to that door. You are on the outside of the door, the hinge mechanisms are inside. So what good is y
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by kazinator 16d ago
This is just an advertorial. "Our AI is so powerful that Bad Guys could actually use it for real Bad Guy Work!"
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by kazinator 16d ago
Well reasoned! A car accident is something that just happened. It's not manufactured gore, but a fresh part of history, so take the sheets off the dismembered bodies and let my five-year-old see everything!
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by kazinator 16d ago
If a Nissan commercial cuts right to someone cruising along a mountain road, would you assume that Nissans are always moving, never having to be started?
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by kazinator 16d ago
> Moving the kitchen in software might look like a "simple fix." Why, of course! We leave the kitchen deployment where it is, and just install a proxy kitchen facade on the other side of the house, which does everything via t
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by kazinator 16d ago
You could easily be recorded by someone surreptitiously using a microcasette voice recorder from 1990.
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by kazinator 16d ago
If you have a delayed start dishwasher or washing machine, you already have that.
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by kazinator 16d ago
I'm like: Neat! I will show this to my small kids. Wait, nope; they already know how to make mandala coasters offline with scissors and paper.
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by kazinator 16d ago
Before, you "cut the cable". What is the idiom now? Do you still cut something, or is there some other verb?
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by kazinator 16d ago
While that simplifies things for the customer, who knows exactly what they will pay, it's hiding the theft, making it look like it's part of the price charged by the merchant, even though the merchant has to remit that money.
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by kazinator 16d ago
Reads like someone having a schizo-paranoid meltdown.
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by kazinator 16d ago
There is a third alternative space here: functions that are compatible with C function pointers, dynamically created by libffi. With these you can implement upward and downward funargs. E.g. make Lisp dialect whose lambdas can be bound to C
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by kazinator 17d ago
You can totally tell, at lower bitrates. People used to share songs as MP3 files using 128 kbps rates, and you could easily hear whooshy/chirpy artifacts in those at times. Modern codec at a decent bitrate: inaudible. Ironically, it co
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by kazinator 17d ago
> If merchants across the world make a deal with me to charge exactly the listed/advertised number exactly, no more, no less, then I'll pay in cash again. Where are you not getting this? You mean taxes on top of the retail pric
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by kazinator 17d ago
I would only use cash in situations where I'm able to obtain a discount compared to using a credit card. Even then, you have to think twice. If you get scammed of cash, it's gone. If you get scammed in a credit card transaction, t
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by kazinator 17d ago
I had a dispute with Canada Revenue Agency and won. A good part of a decade ago now, I got into contracting for a couple of years. The accounting lackeys at S_____ W_____ in Richmond, BC, Canada paid me using cash method accounting. They ma
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by kazinator 17d ago
Dammit, can't I just post on the Internet without constantly being checked for facts and strawman arguments?
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by kazinator 17d ago
When I say returning, of course I mean not buying in the first place! "Does it have a standard bolt pattern compatible with my intended mount" is one of the first things you check for in the technical specs, long before you order
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by kazinator 17d ago
Since the mounting hardware you already have from your previous TV does follow VESA, you would be returning the new one for that reason. Unless, you know, it was amazing, like completely dumb with no registration step, and offering great pi
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by kazinator 17d ago
Your idea is sane. You're already facing the problem of degradation of magnetic media; compounding it with dubious hardware isn't helping. Why can't that disk be read? Is it the disk, or this drive of dodgy origin? Or some co
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by kazinator 18d ago
Count me among those who would care about that enough to be completely dissuaded from naming a new language C*.
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by kazinator 18d ago
Mounting on the wall is just four screws to the TV, with a standard bolt pattern that fits any modern TV. Whatever accomodations were made will work exactly the same with any TV of approximately the same size.
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by kazinator 18d ago
I would march it back to the store in that situation. They are getting away with this shit because the return rates are low. Bumping up the return rate isn't something you can count on others to do; if you don't return it, you&#x2
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by kazinator 19d ago
> Tesla is now asking businesses whether they’d like to buy and operate their own fleets of Cybercab robotaxis on its network. Would you like to pay for the privilege of using our network, with hardware you buy from us, in order to sub
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by kazinator 19d ago
AI told me that the same hex wrench used on bicycle pedal crank bolts would fit the freehub body fixing bolt in the rear wheel. (Spoiler: nope!) Guess it's too busy pushing math off to the conservatory to know the difference between 8m

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