kortex

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by kortex 4y ago
> You need about 1.5 wraps of PTFE tape to seal a fitting. Not a pipe fitter, but I've done a lot of plumbing on a huge variety of systems (sinks, drains, air lines, HPLCs and other chemistry equipment, bioreactors, RO systems, pota
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by kortex 4y ago
We don't know exactly what techniques are under the hood, because it is closed source (for now...I really hope they open source it one day because I want to marvel at it), but from reading all their FFF blog posts and just knowing how
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by kortex 4y ago
The "pop up while I was typing and it hit a button when I hit a space" situation is especially painful. I use a custom keyboard layout with lots of layers so it's doubly frustrating for me. I just see a UI flash and I'm
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TFA sort of addresses this and while it's better, it's still "warn-think", it's just a more glorified and tedious habit, depending on what happens when OK is clicked without the discard box checked. I presume the de
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by kortex 4y ago
Ah, Cambiar the Cannibal! 10/10 would absolutely recommend this playthrough series, especially as chill/background audio. Super enjoyable and you don't have to be 100% tuned in to keep up. I often have this on while doing cho
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by kortex 4y ago
My partner and I have our own copies of base game and both expansions. Worth every penny. We've both sunk uncountable hours (actually we started way back in alpha 15 with a pirated copy so steam hours doesn't mean much) and done m
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by kortex 4y ago
You don't have to play with that mindset, though "attachment leads to suffering" is a valuable mantra for this game. I play fairly risk-averse and I'm willing to save-scum to avoid the death or even grievous injury of
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by kortex 4y ago
I definitely relate to this. Have you tried Upwork or similar temp work? I know it can be rough in its own ways, but it was critical for me to stay afloat during a particularly rough period. Your best bet aside from temp work is finding a c
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by kortex 4y ago
>> Equating any telemetry=spying is a knee jerk reaction to tech companies abusing telemetry. > Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemetry disagrees It feels like your response fails to address the point col
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by kortex 4y ago
I have ADHD and I straight-up don't do silence. Between restless brain and tinnitus, actual silence, or anything with a noise floor below ~15dB, just doesn't sit right with me. 20-30dB is about ideal. Especially when trying to sle
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by kortex 4y ago
Torsors are algebraic structures that basically answer the question "why can I subtract two points in space / dates in time, but not add them?". Sure, you can pick an origin (space/time), but that's exactly because
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Torsors (2010)(math.ucr.edu)
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I scored a perfect 0 and while I can tell the difference, it's still pretty close. Purple/violet colors are just hard to discern in general.
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Microtonal and xenharmonic mega-playlist with over 1200 tracks and growing: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1OcPPq0ohnUarvDCERaxaR?si=...
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Also Altin Gun and Gaye Su Akyol, both Turkish artists that use a hybrid of standard guitars and baglamas, and operate mostly in 12TET but employ lots of embellishments from Turkish makams. Flying microtonal banana, KG, and LW are fun (24TE
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by kortex 4y ago
The video details explain the process. Basically manually retuning note by note (probably using melodyne/autotune or similar).
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I'm likened to agree. As much fun as syntactic macros in python would be, and despite all the doors it would open, it would really kick up the potential complexity. Heck, folks were complaining about pattern matching and the walrus ope
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by kortex 4y ago
$lastco (defense contractor) used something like that for localizing various EMF (cell phones, drone controls, RC remotes, and other potential IED triggers) as part of one of those "smart soldier" DARPA programs. There's defi
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by kortex 4y ago
It's almost like TFA is about this very distinction. Whether or not you agree that "guys" should be used as such, it is in fact used as such in common english. "how many guys have you had sex with?" implies malene
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by kortex 4y ago
Not necessarily. A lot of analog front ends have a highpass filter around 8-20 Hz (the audible threshold). I don't really know why, it might be to prevent DC drift so that there is no asymmetrical distortion in the signal fed to the AD
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by kortex 4y ago
How much of cooking protocol is to smooth over differences in heat flux? Recipes almost always seem to call for pre-heating an oven or bringing a pot to a boil before adding pasta/noodles. But temperature is temperature (when it comes
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by kortex 4y ago
Oof. Yeah, standard lib code tends to be harder to read on average than application code. But at least I can mentally parse the Rust code. Heck it even looks like a linked list impl. The c++ code looks barely better than line noise. I'
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by kortex 4y ago
Same for both: brake. I don't want either hitting my windshield. The kickball may be bouncy, sure, but it may have gotten rocks stuck to it, which can create a point stress and scratch paint or chip the windshield. Humans can't in
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by kortex 4y ago
Use it for phase information, perhaps.
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Intelligence is a Heap Paradox and trying to define where the boundary between Artificial "Intelligence" and "really good pattern matching" is a fool's errand. Intelligence is a continuum from the simplest bang-bang
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by kortex 4y ago
What? Even in a bloated, red-tape bureaucratic hellhole, that's maybe a few engineer-weeks at absolute most. Wire up a payment processor, plug into whatever api sets the blue checkmark, have some expiration logic, done.
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by kortex 4y ago
That's reading quite a lot into an article which I don't believe supports those positions. We know nothing about the circumstances of the murder, nor of the riot, nor of his upbringing. There's absolutely nothing in this arti
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> But like, how safe are they really? If they're spraying a cocktail that kills dozens of kinds of insects of all sizes, how does that have no effect on humans? Short answer: it's complicated, and there are in fact very target
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by kortex 4y ago
Not GP but (former) chemist, and I share the same sentiment. Paraquat scares me. Note its direct chemical similarity to MPP+ [0], both sporting that methylpyridinium moeity (the CH3N+ in the ring). In fact the only real difference is paraqu
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by kortex 4y ago
Can YT premium still have multiple accounts? That's the main way I manage my learned feeds. I do wish there was something like "virtualenv" for youtube, where it's trivial to change your preferences without changing your

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