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by knodi123 5y ago
> Men like Denard but perhaps a little less theatrical—many of them South Africans So if all of the men being discussed had a hat with a propellor on it, we should be careful to avoid saying so, because there are also innocent unrelated
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by knodi123 5y ago
> is it the same as critiquing the intellectual property system as a whole? Sounds like it's more concerned with the opposite, human side - the madness that grips people who have some control and are terrified of losing it, so they
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by knodi123 5y ago
In this very article, the guy says that he was jumping over buckling floors and dodging falling walls to make it to his locker so he could retrieve his spare shirt.
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by knodi123 5y ago
why lie? he confessed to the crime, and he confessed to becoming a crack addict, and he confessed that he stopped giving it away.
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by knodi123 5y ago
When measured, it apparently came out to about 262.5 Hz for Sonicare. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15575438/ And that makes sense. On the face of it, the idea that the bristles are vibrating in the MHz range is jus
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by knodi123 5y ago
Probably not- the faster sonicare toothbrushes vibrate at 512 Hz, while sonograms are between 2,000,000 to 18,000,000 Hz. There's probably a significant difference in power levels, too.
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by knodi123 5y ago
I had to replace the one mine came with. It was new-ish, so I was able to get it for free under warranty, but be aware- quality control for their power supplies is not great (at least as of ~2017)
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by knodi123 5y ago
I have three. One was going to be a home security and automation server, but in the end, every feature it had was either something my family wound up hating, or something that worked 9 out of 10 times and was therefore useless, or somethin
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by knodi123 5y ago
Have you tried Cave Story? It doesn't get any more indie than that- every single aspect of the game made by one guy. And it is also an incredibly tight and polished platformer that follows all the genre conventions, and then violate
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by knodi123 5y ago
ha, man, some people have veeeery different workstation setups than me. I was offered a large external monitor by my employer, but I turned it down because I didn't want to get used to it, and working in different locations is too crit
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by knodi123 5y ago
> then they might as well have not happened "Might as well not" is different from "Did not". That's all I, and Mr Hawking, are saying. In fact, your first sentence is literally just a paraphrase of my quote fr
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by knodi123 5y ago
> Time itself is supposed to have been created at that point Our space-time began at the big bang. Even decades ago, Stephen Hawking was talking about it like "Since events before the big bang can have no observational consequen
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by knodi123 5y ago
The net total is the sum of heat in and heat out. :-)
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by knodi123 5y ago
> Many of them are blind to how much their talents make what is easy for them, very hard for the rest of us. See also: Asking very old people how they managed to win so long.
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by knodi123 5y ago
> The radiation to earth varies already, sometimes we're farther away from the sun and the output of the sun isn't constant either. The earth seems to handle that just fine. That sounds remarkably similar to "how can there
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by knodi123 5y ago
Fusion as a power source has been several years away for several decades.
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by knodi123 5y ago
> and also serves as an aspirational target for public policy There we go. He was giving aspirational targets, not scientific evaluations. Sounds like he had a good reason to stretch the truth, but the fact remains.
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by knodi123 5y ago
> People who have to present a single number to summarize an entire body of scientific research for the general public always have to make a decision about how conservative of an estimate to give You expect those people to make their est
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by knodi123 5y ago
> Saying he's purposefully lying because the facts on the ground change is ridiculous Yeah, but it's fair to say he's purposefully lying because he told us he was purposefully lying . https://www.axios.com&#x2F
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by knodi123 5y ago
That may very well be. However, there's no need to wonder whether Fauci was being totally frank the entire time, because he has outright said that he knowingly gave a so-optimistic-its-a-lie estimate at first, in an effort to avoid
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by knodi123 5y ago
* I meant to say add commercial encryption on top of custom encryption
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> And what kind of program would your AI write? I'm terrified of the day when the answer to that is, "a better AI".
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by knodi123 5y ago
> If you naïvely apply bad encryption before good you may weaken the entire system The strength of the system can be viewed from multiple angles. From a practical angle, applying one kind of commercial encryption on top of another typ
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by knodi123 5y ago
We did the same thing when I worked for a resume search/sort/share site. Built a big ML tool that could look at job listings and resumes and pick who was best for each job. Our training data set was millions of resumes, hundre
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by knodi123 5y ago
Why would someone prefer something that you wouldn't? There as many answers to that question as there are people. I for one love big cities, and prefer to live in one even though I'm a remote worker. You do you, I'll do me
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by knodi123 5y ago
amazing takeaway paragraph: > United States Intelligence quickly noticed the prevalence of F-91Ws on the wrists of Islamist fighters. Secret files about the Guantanamo military detention camp published by Wikileaks say Pakistani authorit
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by knodi123 5y ago
I'm picturing a bruised and bloodied mugging victim at the police station filing a report, and a detective reassures him, "Could be worse! Spare a thought for the vastly worse-off mugger, who had to actually do all those horrible
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by knodi123 5y ago
It can handle a pre-determined amount. Just like all gearings. :-) There's definitely a tradeoff here, but I imagine there are plenty of applications where it makes complete sense.
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by knodi123 5y ago
> quite possibly halt piracy ?!? Anything you could do to keep an unmanned ship from being robbed, you could do to a manned ship too. > autonomous ship could just has easily be a Trojan horse! ?!? A manned ship could be a Trojan Hor
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by knodi123 5y ago
The position "it is better to be harmed than to harm, if you have to choose between the two" is certainly worth discussing, but it would be such an uphill battle that Sisyphus would probably prefer to return to his boulder.

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