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by layman51 9mo ago
That's a great tip, but I know some people hate that because there is some cognitive load if they rely more on visuals and have to think more about which way to turn or face when they first start the route, or have to make turns on unf
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by layman51 9mo ago
Maybe it’s because I don’t consider myself a super technical person, but I find it so hard to parse the title of this blog post. When I first read it, I thought it was saying something like, “The protocol is not insecure, and the reason is
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by layman51 9mo ago
Right, I don’t know much about coyotes but it seems like Alcatraz Island is too small and too touristy for a coyote to breed there.
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by layman51 9mo ago
This is really cool! The clock on your page reminded me too of some sites that show a "real solar" time based on your location where solar noon corresponds to 12:00 PM.
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by layman51 9mo ago
You reminded me of some riddle I had once read that was about trying to figure out how someone could be born one year later but still be older than someone born in previous year. The answer to the riddle also relies on timezones. For sure,
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by layman51 9mo ago
Well in the U.S., a majority of households are invested in the stock market via 401(k)’s. When their investments do well, the average Joe will give the incumbent president the credit.
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by layman51 10mo ago
Audio fingerprinting?
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by layman51 10mo ago
I thought this article was going to be about how chess at its core is a game about intersecting lines or crosses (+ or x). Also, there are really interesting ideas that could be explored around why a rook on a bare board always controls the
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by layman51 10mo ago
Same here. I'm really curious about this too. What do they mean by "wonderful"? I suppose some of the pieces here might not be very well-known or popular, but they are inspiring, or maybe they are a good resource for learning
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by layman51 10mo ago
That is interesting. I already knew about that idea that you’re not supposed to let the conversation drag on too much because its problem solving performance might take a big hit, but then it kind of makes me think that over time, people go
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by layman51 11mo ago
I have heard of a forum (I believe it was Physics Forums) which was very popular in the older days of the internet where some of the older posts were actually edited so that they were completely rewritten with new content. I forget what the
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by layman51 11mo ago
That work-related aspect is what I was thinking about too. I’m not sure what it looks like in various workplaces, but I’m always a bit curious around the policies they might have around putting lots of them on employer-owned laptops. I thin
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by layman51 11mo ago
Or also a genuine human voice reading a script that’s partially or almost entirely LLM written? I think there must be some video content creators who do that.
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by layman51 11mo ago
Do you have any opinion on rote work, for example data entry, or stuff like scanning the incoming checks or mail for a small office, filing papers, etc.? I sometimes worry that this type of work isn't as much of a brain challenge, but
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by layman51 11mo ago
I heard stories about a potential Oracle data breach (I think mainly affecting their customers) being removed from Archive.org too. It’s because in general, they comply with requests to remove stuff, which is understandable from an ethical
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by layman51 11mo ago
It is pretty sad that this is happening and that it apparently is at risk of just disappearing soon. I understand there are a lot of ethical concerns with that site, but if I use like the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to try to sa
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by layman51 11mo ago
That sounds right. I checked on some listings of books that I thought would be cool to check out, but it still keeps saying how borrow in unavailable except for patrons with print disabilities. For the books I'm interested in, at least
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by layman51 11mo ago
I believe that in California, the political party that mayoral candidates belong to cannot be printed on the ballot next to their names.
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by layman51 11mo ago
Do you have a source? I know there is an index[0] of the information on California birth certificates from 1905 to 1995 and technically, despite the privacy implications, birth records in California are considered "public record".
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by layman51 11mo ago
I recently learned of him because of a service that he seems to be affiliated with. This is a service that seems to search for webinars or meetings and surreptitiously records them. It is an interesting concept, but it has definitely baffle
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by layman51 11mo ago
By any chance are you referring to Michael Robertson who was the original founder of that site?
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by layman51 1y ago
This idea of unconscious memories perhaps being a type of fantasy is also discussed in this article too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freud%27s_seduction_theory
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by layman51 1y ago
Is it really that difficult to believe it could be accurate? If we take at face value what has been written about other big tech companies (mainly thinking of Facebook) as they grew their relationship in countries such as the People’s Repub
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by layman51 1y ago
Right, but there's no doomsday prophecies around the Year 2038 problem as far as I can tell. I think it falls in the same kind of category of known problems that are certain to happen at some point. Some other things I was thinking of
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by layman51 1y ago
Your comment just reminded me of a sci-fi novel called Roadside Picnic that I learned about on a different thread. Just because of that idea where aliens could come across us and not pay us any attention in the same way that a human might i
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by layman51 1y ago
I would hope so, but this whole situation reminds me of a quote from the writer William S. Burroughs: "This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, b
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by layman51 1y ago
I vaguely remember seeing a small help text on YouTube when you try to share an unlisted video where they tell you as the user that it's unlisted and to "be mindful" about sharing it. I think most people who read that don&#x2
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by layman51 1y ago
I don't think this is accurate. I believe if you go into your privacy settings, you can put yourself into a semi-private or a private mode so that your views aren't shown even when you click to view someone who is a LinkedIn Premi
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by layman51 1y ago
Yes, it sounds very cool and sci-fi, but having a humanoid control the car seems less safe than having the spinning cameras and other sensors that are missing from older cars or those that weren't specifically built to be self-driving.
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by layman51 1y ago
You mean the ones where people add a question that is like "What is 10+3?"

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