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by knodi123 2y ago
my mom had an alexa gizmo beside her chair, that was cycling through 4 kinds of ads followed by a random pic of one of her grandkids. Literally 80% ads. And she placed it beside the chair where she spends so many hours. I said "but d
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by knodi123 2y ago
Huh. I usually push against the use of american-style weirdo units to describe things, but I guess one benefit is that if you specify multiple different units, you get automatic protection against typos!
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by knodi123 2y ago
Oh my god, finally. I can't get over how bad Siri is, compared to Alexa and Google.
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by knodi123 2y ago
> and the voice suspected to be a clone or performance of ScarJo's own voice was the natural speaking voice of one of those actors, who was not instructed to mimic ScarJo Yeah, but I bet out of all the voice actors available, I can
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by knodi123 2y ago
you'd be surprised. I've heard about people experimenting by wearing a belt with dozens of haptic motors and a compass, so that it always indicates the direction of north. After a while wearing it, they stop consciously feeling t
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by knodi123 2y ago
"We don't know what it does, but junk DNA is a real thing, and that's one possible explanation" is a lot more reasonable. And I think that's a more charitable reading of the comment you replied to.
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by knodi123 2y ago
Lawrence of Arabia was at the forefront of so many skirmishes, but in the end he got killed driving a motorcycle back at home.
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by knodi123 2y ago
> flying a fighter jet It was a military trainer propellor plane. But your point stands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_T-34_Mentor
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by knodi123 2y ago
most plane crashes are at takeoff or landing, which means it's not as simple as calculating how populated their flight path is.... but yes, it's pretty rare to be smooshed by a plane.
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by knodi123 2y ago
> It's a useless brick Unless the owner falls for one of these texts, right? Isn't that the entire point of the linked article?
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by knodi123 2y ago
Have you seen the videos of what you can do with radial menus in The Last Of Us 2? Search youtube for "ellie plays", and the name of a famous guitar song. You can basically free-play a guitar on there. A good guitarist with a l
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by knodi123 2y ago
> guess they are sweeping their IR transmitter around just like a visible light For very clever reasons: (from the article) Since they are projecting infrared with moveable projector they can sweep effects around the stadium, and cover
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by knodi123 2y ago
I wasn't defending him. Just pointing out that the killer did a lot more than "park on a side street and fire into a crowd". He ran a red light to commit vehicular assault, so he could intentionally provoke a reaction, and
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by knodi123 2y ago
> drove his car up to a side street where the crowd was, shot into the crowd, and managed to kill a guy with a gun Not EXACTLY how it played out. He was upset the crowd was blocking an intersection. So he ran a red light, driving into t
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by knodi123 2y ago
"wip"
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by knodi123 2y ago
anecdotal, but me too, and several other people I know
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by knodi123 2y ago
> Hubris made him think he was the real Tony Stark Maybe it was the time Tony Stark praised his ideas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wC4rLguuYI
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by knodi123 2y ago
> I'm just highlighting how ridiculous the GP comment is, The one that I specifically described as a meme comment? You're saying it's technically inaccurate? Thanks, criticism noted.
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by knodi123 2y ago
I enabled it because github's "turn this push into a PR" link is such a timesaver.
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by knodi123 2y ago
as the meme goes, "Americans will do anything to avoid the metric system!"
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by knodi123 2y ago
Spoiler for people who don't want to read a VERY long article- the electrical circuits in the plane did not follow the plans. A screw that was providing grounding (to the plane body) for the flap system had wiggled loose- causing the e
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by knodi123 2y ago
> what could they observe and experience Observe? Nothing, once you're inside the event horizon, right? The event horizon isn't a solid wall, it's just the point at which light can only move further inward, never outward
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by knodi123 2y ago
> you could build an actively–stabilized structure around the black hole to create a livable environment of truly insane proportions with Earth–normal gravity Which was also a rocketship into the future, moving you super fast towards the
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by knodi123 2y ago
> From an outside observer they never cross the event horizon, due to the time dilation mentioned by the other comment. Doesn't that imply that if we look at a black hole from a safe distance, the event horizon will appear to be a c
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by knodi123 2y ago
Uh... But how do you get there? My understanding as a lay-person is that you can't get past the event horizon without getting spaghettified, and cooked by high-energy blue-shifted radiation.
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by knodi123 2y ago
No, but the core concept had changed so much, between the firmware version when I bought it, and what it is now, that I'm not surprised if the upgrade is a buggy process. It's a shame, because I only wanted a tenth of what it coul
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by knodi123 2y ago
Is it possible to run this on a generic linux box? Or if not, are you aware of a similar project that can? I've googled it before, but the space is crowded and the caveats are subtle.
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by knodi123 2y ago
me too, but I bricked mine when flashing the bios. just a fluke, nothing to be done about it.
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by knodi123 2y ago
that's the general idea, yes. Or rather, store several chunks of audio, and discard the oldest. aka "Rolling window".
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by knodi123 2y ago
> just in case someone is peering over your shoulder Yes, exactly that. That's why I highlighted the risk of someone looking in the right spot at the right time. > the pw will be sent in the request body as plaintext on a post W

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