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by lolc 2y ago
I guess the unprocessed "photos" look like multidimensional arrays of floating point numbers. Nothing a human could appreciate. The interesting question is how they are processed.
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by lolc 2y ago
KDE is definitely overconfigurable. Except for all the options dear to me of course :-)
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by lolc 2y ago
That's some weird-ass disconnect from reality. Is that clause some kind of meme the control freak legal departments copy from each other without good reason? Or is there an actual reason I could understand?
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by lolc 3y ago
I was wondering what the answer would be, because it's a hard problem. There was only the half answer of "they have experience". The best answer I heard is that only domain experts have a chance to recognize each other. Other
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by lolc 3y ago
I'm trying to come up with a scenario to understand the difference: Say I have a triangle of emitter, receiver, and a large body, all at a fixed distance. And the receiver would see emitted light both directly and bent around the body.
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by lolc 3y ago
Not to quibble about definitions of what "change" means, but I thought the red shift depended entirely on the relative speed of the emitting and receiving body? A laser beam for example could not be analyzed for its red shift, unl
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by lolc 3y ago
I for one read it as paraphrasing and not a literal quote.
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by lolc 3y ago
> He [He Jie] was slightly behind the three African runners as they approached the end of the race but they slowed down and waved the Chinese athlete ahead as they gestured towards the finish line. The four had run together throughout th
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by lolc 3y ago
My understanding is that photons don't have a life the way we do. They move at the speed of light and thus time does not advance for them. They cannot change between emission and absorption, no matter the distance. Always bends my mind
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by lolc 3y ago
The way I see it, this is not about money but about group validation. By communicating a goal to your peers, one creates external reasons to persevere. I think the money is secondary, just the clientele of this app is easy to reach that way
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by lolc 3y ago
I enjoyed using Meteor. It is magic at first, and still rather elegant when you get into advanced stuff. The main downside for me was that it uses Mongodb. We had to denormalize heavily to get it working acceptably fast. There was talk abou
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by lolc 3y ago
The blog post propagates the myth that you can't project black on skin. Even though the solution is blindingly easy: You scorch the skin quickly with the laser so it becomes black. If that isn't projected black I don't know w
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by lolc 3y ago
When you run the numbers in terms of years lost, the traffic and firearm deaths will come out with a bigger share.
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by lolc 3y ago
A lifetime subscription on a service for a one-time fee has so many perverse incentives I wouldn't trust a company offering this.
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by lolc 3y ago
I'm against the death penalty for anyone. But this is one of the least bad reasons to have it.
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by lolc 3y ago
Are you saying that systems with the death penalty are less corrupt? That's a funny take especially coming in under an article about one of the largest fraud cases worldwide where the perpetrator gets the death penalty. What societal b
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by lolc 3y ago
I'd assume it's because Tesla can't afford more phantom breaking or they will lose people buying the FSD package. I wonder whether they will try to detect the test setup though and disable FSD, or pull a VW.
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by lolc 3y ago
In this hypothetical case, there would be some floundering to discover the cause, and a two-line fix. Rather than having the two extra lines from the start. Seems acceptable risk to me.
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by lolc 3y ago
Use an encoding with forward error correction of course! I think sending everything twice when drunk -- and letting the receiver figure it out -- would be most true to the drunk behaviour.
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by lolc 3y ago
As a complete outsider, I just liked to read about a major maglev project currently underway. The article even included a map wich sadly is rare for articles about rail projects! Japan can consider me a potential tourist now. Even if the ma
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by lolc 3y ago
Every configuration option is a support burden. I say tihs as a KDE user who installed Gnome for the parents.
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by lolc 3y ago
Oh but the scenario where the drone does it without permission is just way more entertaining.
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by lolc 3y ago
This is the funniest thing I saw this week. The idea that such a teensy drone could travel continental distances by hanging like a bat and recharge between runs. Sure solar gliders may keep aloft indefinitely too. But this one steals its ju
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by lolc 3y ago
Besides satellite based navigation they could also use visual navigation to hit the target. I think I've read about development in this area. For the first parts of the flight, a compass and dead reckoning should work fine too. But I&#
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by lolc 3y ago
Wow, so the naval drones carry a starlink terminal?
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by lolc 3y ago
I'm confident it follows a preprogrammed course. Piloting it from remote would be hard to achieve in such a deep attack and the radio link would expose it to detection and jamming.
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by lolc 3y ago
A small attack like this isn't very damaging in itself. But if it triggers a response that spreads air defense thinner and draws resources to the rear, it can have huge secondary effects. One of the effects could be added restrictions
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by lolc 3y ago
You're commenting under a link where commits to the xz-decoder are discussed. Some level of paranoia is warranted. The binary files look like a sideshow in comparison. Maybe we're lucky the attacker was tempted to hide something i
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by lolc 3y ago
I'd assume the procedure of how the ship will enter and leave was clear to all involved before it even got close to Baltimore.
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by lolc 3y ago
On pavement, when the front brake performs well and is operated near optimal power, the back tire will not have traction. The back brake is entirely redundant in that case.

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