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by lbourdages 11mo ago
Love Atomic Shrimp. There is so much variety in his content, and always a focus on curiosity, trial and error, and learning things. One of the most positive channels on Youtube.
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by lbourdages 1y ago
Yeah, I am obviously not a data scientist. I guess where I was getting at is they do not technically even need to know genres to recommend songs. In practice though, they probably have to know them anyway for playlists, but I assume they ca
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by lbourdages 1y ago
Does it really need to think about the song contents? It can just cluster you with other people that listen to similar music and then propose music they listen to that you haven't heard.
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by lbourdages 1y ago
I was at a security conference recently and one of the presentations had some TLP:RED slides in it. I couldn't help but find that pointless. The conference is open to the public, the only barrier to entry being a small amount of money
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by lbourdages 1y ago
Thanks for sharing this, great read.
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by lbourdages 1y ago
That original Glacier API was infamous for being extremely cheap to write to but prohibitively expensive to read from. Something like 10 cents per list objects request or something ridiculous like that. Can't remember the specifics but
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by lbourdages 1y ago
My VW Golf has ABS based tire pressure monitoring and for the most part it works. The disadvantage is that it can only tell you if one tire is flat. If they all get slowly flat over time there won't be a significant discrepancy between
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by lbourdages 1y ago
We do, but not everyone looks at them. I certainly do not always look at it. A pet peeve of mine is tissues/toilet paper/paper towels. Sometimes the price is "per roll", sometimes it is "per sheets". Sometimes
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by lbourdages 1y ago
The thing is that there is a greater incentive to shrink than to inflate prices. Or at least, to do a combination of the two. Price-conscious consumers will probably choose the shrunk item over another brand that increased their price, even
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by lbourdages 1y ago
Have you looked into orthokeratology? Basically, contact lenses you wear at night (which could perhaps be tolerable for you). Then, your vision stays fine during the day (mostly, it worsens gradually but it's manageable). I don't
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by lbourdages 1y ago
Is it at all possible to use spaces as the thousands separator in Python f strings? At the very least, your tool wasn't able to figure it out and hardcoded most of the number I wrote in.
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by lbourdages 1y ago
The vast majority of countries have into their laws that road vehicles must adhere to UN vehicle regulations. That's how enforcement happens - by whatever regulatory authority of the country the vehicle is to be used in. Canada and the
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by lbourdages 1y ago
That must be very fragile! Gotta be careful when unplugging, pulling very straight.
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by lbourdages 1y ago
> If rates go up from 2% to 6+% while you're holding onto a $2m detached house, it's a bad situation to be in. I find it mind boggling that banks will lend money to people that cannot sustain a 4% increase to their mortgage rat
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by lbourdages 1y ago
70 years? That's just plain false. This website from the government of Canada here says the max term is 25 years, or 30 if it is your first property: https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/services
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by lbourdages 1y ago
I'm genuinely surprised, I thought the release of the Telum chip signed the death of the POWER processors. Are they meant to be two different tiers of mainframe processors?
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by lbourdages 1y ago
I've seen it before, but it was using Knuth's up-arrow notation [1], which I like because it generalizes easily. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth's_up-arrow_notation
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by lbourdages 1y ago
I use OpenEmu on my Mac, so I guess Mupen64 as the emulator core. However as someone else mentioned the ROM should run on native hardware.
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by lbourdages 1y ago
I love playing OOT randos. Not only is it a new puzzle every time, there are a lot of quality-of-life improvements (e.g. pushing blocks is faster, cutscenes are skipped) that make it much more enjoyable for someone who already knows the gam
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by lbourdages 1y ago
I'm in the same boat for the most part. Always had tinnitus, for as long as I can remember. Doesn't bother me at all. However, for the past 3 or 4 years, during spring, I get much worse tinnitus in my right ear for a couple weeks.
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by lbourdages 1y ago
Well, nautical miles are the standard unit in the context of aviation, so I don't think it's all that bad. "mi" refers to a different unit.
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by lbourdages 1y ago
I wish they could borrow my scalp and hair for a week. They would definitely not feel like shampoo is a scam.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
It used to be, but that ship has sailed a long time ago.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
Missing from the title is the fact that this happened in early January. I thought it referred to a repeat incident, but no, it's the same one that has long been fixed.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
Not available in Canada sadly.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
Anyone knows of an alternative to Skype to make free calls to 1-800 numbers? I was keeping Skype in my back pocket during trips abroad for that exact reason (allowed me to get away with using data only eSIMs and still be able to call bank&#
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by lbourdages 2y ago
Which kind of content would get people to pay? Certainly not memes and random youtube links. An obvious one would be porn, but then why would one pay for it on reddit as opposed to one of the existing platforms?
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by lbourdages 2y ago
I would love this when playing DnD. You could even have the app recognize dice and compute modifiers for attack rolls and what not.
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by lbourdages 2y ago
I think the HN hug was too strong for this poor server...
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by lbourdages 2y ago
At least those who started on a System 360 can run some applications essentially unmodified on modern hardware... The bus factor on that PDP-11 software must be uncomfortably low.

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