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by lolc 5y ago
You see, the problem is judging people from appearances. Because the next crop of students would create a bot that tweets that she left the session early.
872.
by lolc 5y ago
So what will happen is that some politician's husband will die in an accident and the bot will call out the politician on Twitter right when she reads about it on her phone. Then the makers of that funny bot will apologize and promise
873.
by lolc 5y ago
Yeah, Manning books have generally been in the "better than nothing" category for me. Don't know about this book though, it might be an exception.
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by lolc 5y ago
The pieces are moved magnetically apparently. Which means the pieces must be ferromagnetic. Now this is just speculation on my part, but if the pieces are magnetic, they can have a different polarization for black pieces from the white piec
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by lolc 5y ago
Diabetes is a pre-existing condition for many. I'm lucky I live in a place where I can change insurer, despite my diabetes.
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by lolc 5y ago
I'm wondering what part of that setup is necessary for flight. And what is entertainment for the passengers.
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by lolc 5y ago
The model where the fly knows where the source of the smell is located the weird outcome of the flies targeting the pane in the middle instead of the sides where the smell escapes.
878.
by lolc 5y ago
Thanks, that was an interesting read on the topic!
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by lolc 5y ago
Sure, the inverse square law applies to smells as well.
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by lolc 5y ago
Thanks, that was actually the screensaver I was thinking of when I wrote my comment :-) But I don't actually know whether flies do use this pattern.
881.
by lolc 5y ago
All these models ignore how insects actually zero in on a smell. For a fly outside, the source of the smell is the gap in the window. What looks like random direction changes is actually a search pattern for that source.
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by lolc 5y ago
The obvious answer is to shield the exam rooms!
883.
by lolc 5y ago
There is something very important that forces me to use a single shell: Habit.
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by lolc 5y ago
What strikes me about a unit like that is how it's just a small part in an undertaking where thousands of similar components had to be ready and interoperable within the decade.
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by lolc 5y ago
While I agree that it's healthy to keep a broad set of sources, I find that once a source has shown to be untrustworthy on some topic, I discount them on other topics too. There is a difference between having a certain worldview and tw
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by lolc 5y ago
I can see how the author wants us to learn about this awesome life hack of going for walks. However, one can microdose and take walks at the same time. So the question becomes: How do they stack? Unfortunately, this was not explored.
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by lolc 5y ago
More like vote with your eyeballs.
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by lolc 5y ago
Haha, I'm in this cycle. I can go a long time wondering what the point of 3d-printing is. Then I see that bridge and I'm back at: wow, I want that too!
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by lolc 5y ago
Your example is bad because clearly Google has no claims on a child. In this context, a Google employee is telling a Google customer that he is not allowed to use a competitor's product. After the customer has explicitly noted the prob
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by lolc 5y ago
Converting all hydrogen on earth would be thermal death for us even if done over centuries. While I do think that humanity is a destructive force, and we don't know how to control ourselves, that doesn't mean to me we should not d
891.
by lolc 5y ago
To this day, I can recall how a good one feels. The calm of a sunset. And I can remember how a bad one feels. The sore throat, cough, headache, numbness, sleeplessness, smell, and ennui of ignoring all that when preparing another one. When
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by lolc 5y ago
Ok, let's look at Freenode's users as customers. They would not see it that way, but when you choose that perspective, consider how a business should act: If customers are leaving, do not kick them in the butt. Other patrons will
893.
by lolc 5y ago
One can link to an ad?
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by lolc 5y ago
So if I don't like your face at the corner, I'd order a drone equipped with a taser as a backup? An AI-controlled drone that listens to my voice? Now what if you also order one? Did you make sure to get the premium subscription wh
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by lolc 5y ago
Unfortunately it looks like this virus will be endemic indefinitely. It has spread to animal and human reservoirs we can't reach. Likely it'll end up being another one of those colds that children develop partial immunity against
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by lolc 5y ago
So true. I have stories both private and professional where people got angry at the site I built for them. Because it was empty. I have learned the hard way to insist on content before sinking time into a site.
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by lolc 5y ago
Romantic prepper fantasies. With a couple hundred people, the bus factor of a tech society is wildly negative. Meaning, you'd need miracle spawns of workers already trained to keep up with just maintenance. On Mars the whole thing woul
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by lolc 6y ago
At intensities that would injure, you light up the whole neighbourhood with scattered radiation. There's no hiding this attack from a sensor in the vicinity.
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by lolc 6y ago
There's no reason to follow the internal logic of a religion when trying to understand its workings. With Sabbath, observe how the rabbis decide on how to apply the rules. They know that their task is to keep the society functional, ev
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by lolc 6y ago
Yes, Cisco and Juniper are financing an entity that creates "fixed costs" that are easier for bigger companies to bear. They can argue that it was cheaper to pay, but that's only half the picture. They help create an environm

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