madacol

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by madacol 3y ago
Oh man that reminds me a lot to Kerbal Space Program, those times I lost communication because of a wrong turn and the antenna/solar panel faced the wrong way
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by madacol 3y ago
For context, he is the same guy that went viral yesterday[0] excited with optimism, now saying there are other more possible explanations for the results besides superconductivity [0]: https://twitter.com/alexkaplan0/st
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by madacol 3y ago
TL;DR in UK medical errors seem to be the 7th Cause leading factor I did some maths (Or Code interpreter did? but I did verified unsourced numbers are in the ball park, at least for UK) So for UK the estimate of deaths by medical errors is
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by madacol 3y ago
My takeaway from that article are these important criticisms: - Correlation is not causation: A medical error, followed by a death does not implies medical error caused death - The study that claim is based (BMJ analysis), suggest that 62%
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by madacol 3y ago
> The problem is chicken and egg ... That's not an issue of Tor. The same thing happens in the clear web, how do you know www.bbc.com is the BBC you trust from the TV?. That happens to any domain, in fact, that happens to any sour
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by madacol 3y ago
> It's really hard when you have an editor open with 5 `+page.svelte` files. +1. I've been pushed to change tabs using `Ctrl+P` instead (search tab command) and write its route (folder's name). But it's still a bit pa
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by madacol 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tgspeI-GHY
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Running OpenAI's large context models using LLM(til.simonwillison.net)
1 points by madacol 3y ago|0 comments
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by madacol 3y ago
DNS of whatsapp.com is down. The app works fine
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by madacol 3y ago
For me, the biggest blocker for using Sandstorm has been the inability to run on ARM https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/issues/2083
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by madacol 3y ago
cool! nc google.com 80 HEAD / HTTP/1.1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK ... Hint: write `HEAD / HTTP/1.1` and hit twice {ENTER}
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by madacol 4y ago
It has a similar learning curve, but less functionality
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LocalBitcoins will discontinue its service(localbitcoins.com)
266 points by madacol 4y ago|258 comments
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Firefox now supports extension's Manifest V3, with support for ad blockers(mozilla.org)
6 points by madacol 4y ago|1 comments
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by madacol 4y ago
Instead of fighting against that feature, why not instead ask permission from the user?, just like the APIs of location and notifications do
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by madacol 4y ago
The protocol that allows to federate is called "Activity Pub". Mastodon is just an implementation of it that looks like twitter, similar like how peertube is an implementation that competes with youtube. And this NextCloud Social
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by madacol 4y ago
> They are climate controlled environments where light is provided via grow lights Solar's efficiency is below 50% [ https://www.nrel.gov/pv/cell-efficiency.html ]. Considering that, I'd guess for each m² o
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by madacol 4y ago
> If you look at the progress in pesticide free organic farming and indoor/vertical farming By what measure is vertical farming more efficient?. I've heard the contrary regarding green house gas emissions, it is still less eff
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by madacol 4y ago
Oh I wished searching tabs (%) weren't broken by Mozilla's extension "Firefox Multi-account Containers"
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by madacol 4y ago
Looks really cool. Is it able to select text for copying?
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by madacol 4y ago
> ... think in terms of systems dynamics I think the main problem is that we lack better tools to communicate (and simulate) those systems. The existing ones are hard to use or require technical knowledge. And without them, we can only t
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by madacol 4y ago
post https://james.darpinian.com/blog/how-see-a-satellite-tonight...
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by madacol 4y ago
That's great! I suppose they removed bittorrent's weirdness of allowing chunks to overlap multiple files. That was the original sin that caused all this
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by madacol 4y ago
Try writing to security@facebook.com. I once had a very brief response with a link, but I took more than 24h to open the link and it was already dead. maybe you have better luck
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by madacol 4y ago
Well, money is the biggest use-case of it all. If you don't care about inflation (solved via decentralization), then there's the use-case of verifyably programmable money (ethereum) Another one that I find fascinating is immutabil
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by madacol 4y ago
> ... in fact they seem to be faring better for those under 60 or so. Haven't heard that before!. Do you have a source to read more about it?
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by madacol 4y ago
I think what you are describing looks a lot like what the Svelte team is trying to achieve with the reactive assignments "$:" A couple years ago, that feature used to work similar as useEffect, so I got used to use it for transiti
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by madacol 4y ago
$ has a looot of gotchas, under some conditions, the reactivity climps up the dependency tree. E.g. https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/4933 I used to use "$" like useEffect, but now I don&#x2
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by madacol 4y ago
After writing (and deleting) a long response, I finally get your point. You are trying to heat your home, so putting something outside to chill, is to waste heat, but putting it in the fridge would be like recycling that heat from the fridg
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by madacol 4y ago
I don't understand how that conclusion follows from the quote. I still think "putting something warm outside to chill in winter before refrigerating" cost less electricity than refrigerating immediately

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