lightedman

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by lightedman 1mo ago
Then you'd have standing to sue the hell out of Verisign for their lying on their document to ICANN and the damages you sustained as a result. Sounds like a win to me if you play your cards right.
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by lightedman 1mo ago
The full sale over to GM happened in 2005.
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by lightedman 1mo ago
My 9-3t was the year SAAB sold entirely to GM but SAAB was still doing all the builds. So, no, no GM anything in it. Not a single American part (which made getting OEM replacements a pain in 2020.)
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by lightedman 1mo ago
My 9-3t stock could dust many modified Mustangs in a drag race. I never saw a 900 do that.
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by lightedman 1mo ago
I'd be happier with a 9-3t (small t not large T) redo. But nooo, SAAB sold their auto division to GM in 2005.
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by lightedman 1mo ago
That birefringence in corundum is why fluorite is used. Fluorite lenses low index of refraction across all wavelengths is also the reason for lacking chromatic aberration. Fluorite lenses are generally superior. For macro photography there
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by lightedman 1mo ago
Depends on how cheap you go - most of the cheap ones that take images where the blacks look grey likely do not have an IR filter on them. Most quality phones will use a camera with IR filters on them - blacks look like blacks.
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by lightedman 1mo ago
"On a related note, anyone wearing prescription glasses will be affected by chromatic aberration to some degree" Fluorite lenses FTW. Practically zero aberration. CR-58 pales in comparison.
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by lightedman 1mo ago
As a studying geologist, I find such a simplistic reduction to be very absurd, there are many factors which influence how that released energy causes its damage. Are there physical impediments in the way? Are there breaks in the path of flo
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by lightedman 1mo ago
This lake is currently halting any further rescue operations in the area, because the collapse of it threatens to unleash yet another very devastating flood. As these natural glacial reservoirs have no usual natural outlet, when they go, th
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by lightedman 1mo ago
We're in the era of 4k and 8k monitors. That character limit only occupies a tiny fraction of any modern screen. So odd a site dedicated to future technology companies isn't even caught up with modern display techniques, let alone
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by lightedman 1mo ago
The sheer amount of land mass that moved triggered seismometers all over the place. One seismometer registered a 5.2M. To put this in perspective, on the surface of the earth, quake energy does not travel very well. For this to make a seism
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by lightedman 1mo ago
"Uranium-235 isn't useful for dirty bombs" It is when your goal is to throw a ton of alpha emitters into the environment for the population to ingest. Do you remember your nuclear cookie thought experiment?
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by lightedman 1mo ago
"That's a fine way to get fresh food, but if you think the people selling lettuce at farmers markets or farm stands have any verified food safety or food handling expertise, they don't." They most certainly do at my farm
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by lightedman 1mo ago
"Her memorial service will need to be held in a football stadium to handle the number of people who want to pay their last respects" Way bigger. Dolly was beloved by millions, if not billions of people worldwide. You'd need a
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by lightedman 1mo ago
Which sort of net casting? I grew up with a hand-case 8ft diameter net. I'll guarantee you that's a billion times more sustainable than a trawler.
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by lightedman 1mo ago
"Meanwhile LLMs aren't that easy to replace" A BBS chatbot from the 80s (LISA) was almost as good as modern LLMs and that was just based on key words. So, uh, yea, chatbots are very, VERY easy to replace.
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by lightedman 1mo ago
In fact many humans need meat because the proper plant protein simply cannot grow/exist in their area. This is why we evolved to be omnivores. Basic biology laughs at your poorly-researched position.
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by lightedman 2mo ago
If what you say is true a report to ISO themselves will strip their certifications away and make them toxic to other businesses.
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by lightedman 2mo ago
"Huh, what Linux culture is this Ruby-on-Rails fanboi talking about?" Probably Gentoo, since that's where the truly competent Linux users that do understand their tools tend to migrate.
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by lightedman 2mo ago
"it is not the paradigm there that all your system settings and config are stored in text files." This is inherently untrue. A .plist in XML is nothing but text. It might be formatted text, but it is still text nonetheless, like a
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by lightedman 2mo ago
I took that old Celeron further and managed 533 stable with a screaming delta fan and a component swap on the mobo, beefier VRMs. Slap on a 256K stick of Winbond cache and boy did that thing scream for its time.
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by lightedman 2mo ago
"Read it later. If you can't read it at work, you can read it on your phone or after work from another computer." Negative, as I have ZERO TIME when working with things involving security. "Please don't use uppercas
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by lightedman 2mo ago
'How' is one of the most important conjunctive adverbs in the English language, and HN filters it out? I'm just going to call that exactly as I see it - send the people writing these filtering rules back to middle school so t
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by lightedman 2mo ago
It would be with the decoder, as the issue will happen in Windows Media Player but not VLC (which has its own implementation of XviD/DivX.)
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by lightedman 2mo ago
I can potentially know if you're home or not and then rob the fuck out of you or kidnap your family members, for one.
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by lightedman 2mo ago
"I trust Gemini API because they already have all my data" You trust someone because they already stole from everyone and spied on everyone?
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by lightedman 2mo ago
"I despise small tasks like this, so I never really do them until forced." I hope that isn't how you do your job.
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by lightedman 2mo ago
"DivX and XviD both encode to MPEG-4 ASP which has a lot of shortcomings that manifestly result in the infamous sludgy green-purple banding artefacts of the time, no matter how good the chosen encoder is." That's the fault of
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by lightedman 2mo ago
The real fix would be to bring back physical control buttons and leave the touchscreen for the rest. Also, I have 6GB of RAM in my phone - switching from a browser to youtube, or vice-versa, should not cause the other to clear and start bac

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