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by kurthr 3y ago
Luckily, that same LLM can summarize that really really boring report... and, if you ask it to, it'll make it exciting , as well. Maybe too exciting...?!
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by kurthr 3y ago
It's almost as if plausible deniability is all it's about.
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by kurthr 3y ago
Exists for a lot of banks in the US as well. Many people had to go physically into a bank branch (half of them were closed) and show ID when BMO bought Bank of the West. Your cards and electronic banking didn't work until they were rei
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by kurthr 3y ago
And burying the lede: to delay sharing the essential information in a story, and beginning with secondary details instead. or "one weird thing"
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by kurthr 3y ago
They probably used TCL for scripting though... it's bizarrely ubiquitous.
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by kurthr 3y ago
That doesn't make much sense. You'd think the military industrial complex would be playing up how competent and great a threat they are.
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by kurthr 3y ago
It's the warhead, especially the small ones, that are difficult. I imagine a thousand launchers distributed across the country are an issue as well. The problem is that it's too tempting for locals to simply scavenge or resell any
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by kurthr 3y ago
Or they can go the other direction and offer foreign powers protection for money. The incentives are aligned that way so it would require surveillance and conspiracy to prevent it from happening. Furthermore, collecting large amounts of inf
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by kurthr 3y ago
My bank and insurance companies can't regularly and reliably deliver their "paperless" email. Not sure anyone can unless they own the infrastructure. Just getting 50% of your sent mail to their readable inbox is difficult eno
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Experimental antibiotic kills deadly superbug, opens whole new class of drugs(arstechnica.com)
1 points by kurthr 3y ago|0 comments
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by kurthr 3y ago
I find this a bit bizarre. I've only taken a few toasters apart in the 90s, but they were examples of fairly complex control systems then. They didn't use timers or thermometers directly, but instead modeled the "toast"
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by kurthr 3y ago
Yes, to anyone who was there the difference between computing in 1980 vs 1989 is night and day. Personal computing changed completely and you really either wanted assembly or BASIC (OK Fourth if you're kinky) in the early 80s with 4k o
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by kurthr 3y ago
They discuss the economic and social incentives (even the cognitive dissonance that what I'm writing must be important if a lot of people read it) of the writers. However, the readers are also turning off their BS detectors. I'm n
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Giant Viruses Are Weird(science.org)
3 points by kurthr 3y ago|0 comments
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by kurthr 3y ago
400mi range seems a bit overkill since I'm up for a break after 4hours of driving, but 300mi seems like the lower end of acceptable, if you don't have another car for trips. I don't want to have to do some special charge for
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by kurthr 3y ago
Don't worry everyone will just assume that somebody else is fixing the Unix Rollover in 2038. Competence and stability breeds incompetence and instability. Hopefully, we're lucky and everything just migrates seamlessly to 64bit, b
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by kurthr 3y ago
Thanks for these!
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by kurthr 3y ago
Similar experience before the era of ubiquitous smart phones ~2006. The hotel was nice enough to say how to get there from Shinjuku exit E8 (at least it wasn't the A series which I think goes to 15) and it took we half an hour to even
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by kurthr 3y ago
In particular: The vaccine works by instructing the body to make up to 34 “neoantigens.” These are proteins found only on the cancer cells, and Moderna personalizes the vaccine for each recipient so that it carries instructions
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by kurthr 3y ago
It's also personalized, which to me says that it's unique and each could have different likelihood of autoimmune response. The vaccine works by instructing the body to make up to 34 “neoantigens.” These are proteins found
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by kurthr 3y ago
I'm saying photons here, because there are so many words that have very specific meanings that are not typically understood (Nits, Candela, Lumens, Luminance, Brightness, Illuminance, Luminous Flux (Lux), and Luminous intensity) by the
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by kurthr 3y ago
Exactly, for a white balanced screen you need the same number of photons whether they are at a higher resolution (like Pentile) or not. Adding a White (or Yellow or Cyan) subpixel for RGBW can improve efficiency for the less saturated part
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by kurthr 3y ago
My professional experience is that blue sub-pixels for a 5500K balanced white use about 50% of total power (rather than the 66% you show). My understanding is that this is because even though Blue 460nm is shorter wavelength (higher photon
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by kurthr 3y ago
Yes, for cameras it is called Bayer. For displays Samsung coined Pentile. It is by far the most common array of mobile OLED subpixel designs (RGGB), used in mobile devices (eg iPhone, Galaxy, Pixel, Huawei, Oppo, Xiaomi).
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by kurthr 3y ago
Man, those are some terrible statistics... 142.86% of nothing is still nothing. For starters, searches for just the term ‘X’ have increased by 19.4 per cent, while searches for ‘Twitter’ have fallen by 26 per cent in the same perio
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by kurthr 3y ago
The weirdest thing to me is the variation in gas pricing. Within 100 miles I see gas under $4 and up to $6 on the same day. The most striking was two gas stations on a corner where one was $3.85 and the other $5.30. Even weirder (anecdotall
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by kurthr 3y ago
I think the key here (similar to what happened to Blackberry-RIM which was sued by NTP) is that the ITC has stepped in before other courts or the Patent Office have had their final say. The argument being that Masimo would be harmed by the
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by kurthr 3y ago
The value of a union in China is profit for the owner of the company and control of worker organization. Going outside the ACFTU worker organization is illegal and punishable.
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by kurthr 3y ago
They didn't even bring up being armed in the cockpit: https://onemileatatime.com/news/delta-pilot-pulls-gun-captai... That was last month.
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by kurthr 3y ago
I recently saw a film about an art curator in Sweden ("The Square"?) that gave me a lot more insight into how that works. My experience in Japan also makes me aware of this sort of conflict avoidance (and my frustration with it),

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