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by knodi123 4y ago
As a conversation topic in our engineering team recently, we discussed what the shortest possible message you could send to pinpoint as specific a position on earth, unambiguously, in as few possible characters, in plain readable non-coded
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by knodi123 4y ago
What's the point of the metric system if we have to say one million thousand grams? Just say "lost one gigagram"!
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by knodi123 4y ago
Amazon has nothing to do with my user rights. I mostly read drm-free ebooks. But their reader hardware is second to none.
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by knodi123 4y ago
And I try to convince my family about it, but just cannot get it through to them that "kindle the tablet" and "kindle the ebook reader" are entirely unrelated products. What a terrible bit of branding.
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by knodi123 4y ago
I read an article where a software engineer was about to go on a long plane flight, so he downloaded a file of all english words and tried to write a spell checker during his flight, with no internet access, just as an exercise. And when h
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by knodi123 4y ago
We can't keep reddit influence out entirely. But with heavy moderation, we can keep out the worst of it, and that will have to be good enough. If you liked my comment, please upvote and subscribe, and consider donating to my Patreon t
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by knodi123 4y ago
from wikipedia, I learned The city's modern name may derive from the Latin word meaning "knee", but there are other theories. It could derive from the god Janus, because Genoa, like him, has two faces: a face that looks at th
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by knodi123 4y ago
> In any case it’s a similar material as road signs that are a similar size. Exactly. If anything, for this scenario, it would increase your visibility in a good way!
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by knodi123 4y ago
so it hurts if the opposition is live-scanning a crowd, and it helps in all other cases, including targeted advertising / facial recognition stuff.
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by knodi123 4y ago
That's exactly the kind of thing I was imagining, thanks! And from 2010 no less!
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by knodi123 4y ago
I've often wondered if there might be a more efficient propulsion design using modern materials, using something like a whale's fluke, or some flapping wings. Seems like in addition to personal zeppelins, there's room to inno
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by knodi123 4y ago
What, like Morlocks and Eloi? I suppose it's an interesting idea to contemplate, but planning to avoid it is a textbook example of premature optimization. We have a million bigger problems that could wipe us out long before that becom
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by knodi123 4y ago
It's like the old joke, a guy is walking through the park and he sees an old man playing chess with a dog. He says "Wow, that must be the smartest dog in the world!" The old man says "He's not that smart, I almost
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by knodi123 4y ago
> Then again, I've read that 4% of Americans believe they could win a fight with a Grizzly bear. I bet I could. Maybe on a good day. Not, like, 9 times out of 10, but maybe 1 or 2. Sure, he outranks me in muscles and claws, but I
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by knodi123 4y ago
Referring to TechTV presenter Cat Schwartz, I presume? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Schwartz
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by knodi123 4y ago
Does anybody remember the famous incident with the TechTV host Cat Schwartz, who took a topless photo, and then cropped it to just her eyes and posted it on her blog? And then a fan told her "btw, the original photos contained a thum
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by knodi123 4y ago
I don't get it. How is his code treating pixels differently according to intensity?
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by knodi123 4y ago
ha! now I see it too. But it's an illusion caused by the frame rate and the animation speed. if you try to imagine the pink gear turning correctly, eventually your perception will snap and it will appear correct again.
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by knodi123 4y ago
The famous humorous example is "I dedicate this book to my parents, Ayn Rand and God." Sometimes an example can be humorous, educational, and technically not actually confusing .
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by knodi123 4y ago
> Wrong. Sorry. You are out of date with the science on this. Which science has updated this conclusion? > Weasel-wording like "every reputable study" can't change that. Is that a civil way to word things? And why cal
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by knodi123 4y ago
Yeah, but that's a super-weird study. If you read the data tables in the actual study ( https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/155/12/1096/123184?logi... ) you see some weird conclusions like * Fo
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by knodi123 4y ago
Yeah, but at least at this airport, they almost always use separate runways. They COULD share, but that sounds like making perfection the enemy of improvement.
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by knodi123 4y ago
"Okay, fine, we'll make him an anthropomorphic phone dial. Or maybe a floppy disc."
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by knodi123 4y ago
siri sucks, but google assistant is already pretty good for the 90% of things I want it to do. a much improved google assistant would be awesome, and if I remember to use it within its limitations, I'm not worried about any of this &q
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by knodi123 4y ago
Public exposure convictions/registration from people who are innocently peeing somewhere they shouldn't is vanishingly rare. As in, I've never seen a report of a conviction that I found credible, but if I did, I'd bet
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by knodi123 4y ago
If the phone in your pocket is troubling, think about how many radio stations your car radio can receive- every one of those signals is blasting through your body, most of the time! And we swim in a sea of wireless router signals, as well.
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by knodi123 4y ago
lol, I bought a dozen bright tritium vials as gifts for some coworkers, but I was going to deliver them in person a couple of months later, so I held on to them until then. It was hard to let them go! Glue one to your deadbolt handle, and
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by knodi123 4y ago
> What’s even the point of the popup then? Complying with idiotic bureaucratic regulations. Nobody wants to be popping that thing up, but if they don't, they can get reamed by the EU.
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by knodi123 4y ago
That's how native-speaker kids learn grammar. First learn to speak the language. Then many years later, learn how to say _why_ what you're doing is the right way.
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by knodi123 4y ago
> In my time ::shakes fists at cloud::, hacking the school network meant you risk exposing yourself to people with strong opinions about plot points in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. lol. In my time, hacking the school network meant you coul

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