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by layman51 1y ago
I suppose it is, but to me it came as a bit of a surprise that if I want to send mail to someone in a certain area, I can essentially toss a coin when trying to figure out which city name to use as long as I don’t use certain ones that are
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by layman51 1y ago
I think this idea that a building/property can have more than one address can happen in the United States too. The way I see it, it is because a ZIP code can be associated with a list of cities that are categorized as “recommended city
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by layman51 1y ago
I haven’t tried it yet but it is an interesting idea for an app. My initial thoughts are: if I have something that seems to be important or significant that I wrote down near the start of my note, I would probably type gibberish or nonsense
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by layman51 2y ago
I’m not sure how hyped up databases were during their advent, but what do you mean “by partly because they are old?” The phonograph prototypes that were made by Thomas Alva Edison are old and they were hyped in a way. People called him the
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by layman51 2y ago
Mailing a banana is something I was wondering about when I first saw this thread. I remember seeing a photo in a book many years ago of a banana with a postage stamp on it and I was wondering whether it was really possible.
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by layman51 2y ago
What kind of breathwork? Is it kind of the same as box breathing? That’s breathing in for four seconds, holding it in for four, exhaling and pausing all for four seconds.
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by layman51 2y ago
GeoGuessr is also not a “solved problem” in the sense that if you give the model a photo of an outdoor location that is not covered by Google Street View, then it will just make an educated guess which might still be many kilometers away.
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by layman51 2y ago
I don’t know if I’m misremembering, but I remember getting automated service emails about how Zoom.us will be a deprecated domain in favor of Zoom.com When this outage happened, I assumed that they finally “made the switch” over but somethi
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by layman51 2y ago
I think it depends on the new layers feature that’s on my version of Paint. If I make the base layer be transparent, then the cutout is transparent.
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by layman51 2y ago
This is odd because when I follow your steps up to Step 5, the rectangle that gets cut out from the screenshot is white. I did remember to follow steps 2 and 3.
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by layman51 2y ago
When I hear about the concept of central planning, it tends to remind me of a mathematician named Leonid Kantorovich I had read about in a textbook. I am not too familiar with the economics concepts that he might have run into, but this art
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by layman51 2y ago
Search engines have gotten worse but they are still much more helpful for finding certain resources compared to LLMs. I am fond of the search operators that still work like `filetype:pdf`, site:example.com`, `intitle:trailmix`. If they get
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by layman51 2y ago
The scary thing is that Oracle is able to take down items from Archive.org.
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by layman51 2y ago
Well that was my point. TFA isn’t exactly high quality with the way it seems to suggest this is some kind of nationality issue.
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by layman51 2y ago
This kind of news is important to know about, but the title of it is dumb. What does “looking Mexican” even mean?
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by layman51 2y ago
I see. The main reason I was wondering about this is that occasionally there’s people online who recommend going barefoot or using a special shoe for doing weightlifting. Maybe strengthening the foot arch is the point behind this trend rath
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by layman51 2y ago
That’s interesting to note. I have usually taken the time to properly use en-dashes when it seems appropriate because I frequently deal with strings that represent academic years. At least where I live, these span two calendar years. I have
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by layman51 2y ago
Is having a wider foot a good thing for certain sports? It seems like it might be more natural and advantageous but I don’t know if I like the idea of having to buy wider shoes for regular purposes.
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by layman51 2y ago
The way the headline is written reminds me of a popular theory in Mexico that Thomas Alva Edison was born in Zacatecas State in Mexico.
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by layman51 2y ago
I think you have a point about the legalistic nature. In the video you shared, they had a detail about how it is much harder than in the past for Chinese people to get into the US via a port of entry because visas are scarce. So crossing at
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by layman51 2y ago
I assume it has to do with a federal law that grants immigration agents broad searches and inspections and technically the Fourth Amendment does not fully apply as long as they are within 100 miles of the border or in the functional equiva
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by layman51 2y ago
It seems like a common detail for both situations is both travelers were at a land crossing. It sounds like a nightmare scenario but I bet they also could have been bounced back and forth between the guards of either country. At that point,
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by layman51 2y ago
Earlier this month, the Guardian also had an article of a German tourist who crossed over the land border (San Ysidro Port of Entry, I assume) who was detained for a long while too. The details seemed kind of similar to this situation where
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by layman51 2y ago
The way LastPass had handled the incident back in 2022 is so disappointing. I don’t even how anyone could even recommend using them again.
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by layman51 2y ago
It is funny that the article linked is from this month, but the actual anonymous post seems to be from 2011, and it looks like the research paper itself is from 2018.
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by layman51 2y ago
I have wondered this too as a person who has attended a regular (non-honors) Calculus II course at a fairly top-rank private university and then again at a community college. From what I remember, the university course also had some rote ex
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by layman51 2y ago
When I do a Ctrl+F search for “Gonatano” one of the search results is the actual name as typed with the circumflex. I think that is kind of a handy feature of the browser I’m using but at the same time it is sort of weird since it technical
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by layman51 2y ago
That’s really interesting to think about. I had seen a list of the most expensive streets and Polanco is home to one of those (the commercial Avenida Presidente Masaryk) and Atherton is on the list too (the residential Walsh Road).
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by layman51 2y ago
Do you also get the apostrophe get mangled into something like `'` ?
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by layman51 2y ago
Maybe I’m missing the nuance here but I don’t understand the arguments against “blindly copying” in the parent post. I agree it is probably not good to give up like the sibling post is saying, but at some stages you kind of do need to copy

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