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by mapt 10mo ago
"a man is not dead while his name is still spoken" GNU John Dearheart
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by mapt 10mo ago
Initially, thermal throttling was a safety valve for a failure condition. A way to cripple performance briefly so as not to let the magic blue smoke out. Only a terrible PC would be thermal throttling out of the box; Only neglectful owner
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by mapt 10mo ago
Extra-thin LCD panels are typically edge-lit, and edge-lit panels are not faring well at all in RTINGS' longevity test.
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by mapt 10mo ago
Some of these companies are now designing the phone on the assumption you're going to case it. No other reason to make a Pixel camera bump w/ scratch-vulnerable screen stick out so far.
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by mapt 10mo ago
Does this apply for external video inputs, outside of the smart TV OS? I guess I can always just refuse the TV OS access to the wifi, assuming they're not using 4G modems.
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by mapt 10mo ago
The only reason for a recent review (like with all the recently banned Facebook accounts from 2009) is firing up AI tools that didn't exist 5 years ago.
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by mapt 10mo ago
Paraquat is something that can cause acute toxicity to the point of death. Glyphosate is a teddy bear by comparison. Many chemicals that cause acute toxicity at high doses also have poorly studied chronic toxicity or carcinogenicity issues,
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by mapt 10mo ago
Certain businesses paid for years to keep a private-label version of Flash alive for their internal Flash business applications.
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by mapt 10mo ago
It's very difficult for me to contemplate how anybody could run a VPN, however reputable, that isn't compromised by one intelligence agency at least. Their incentive structures and their costs to participate in this space just ma
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by mapt 10mo ago
The right number for you to use is the default. But the right default is not necessarily 3.
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by mapt 10mo ago
Plus TLS handshakes. 5 proxies does it even slower but would make attacks much more difficult.
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by mapt 10mo ago
Gemini: > Therapeutically, recombinant urate oxidase (like rasburicase or pegylated urate oxidase) is used as a medication to rapidly lower uric acid levels, treating tumor lysis syndrome, hyperuricemia, and gout, especially when other
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by mapt 10mo ago
Either you endorse making demographic facts part of admissions to aim at some kind of social justice target, or don't. An disturbingly large fraction of people who discuss this are hypocrites or willful idiots who can't or who re
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by mapt 10mo ago
Mirror grinding is still a thing. Just not a thing that young people generally do. Distribution got easier and real estate got more scarce. Those of us who have garages, have filled them up. In my understanding it's gotten considera
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by mapt 10mo ago
We have this already. It's called an abstract. Some do it better than others. Perhaps we need to revisit the concept and have a narrow abstract and a lay abstract, given how niche science has become.
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by mapt 10mo ago
And what some of us might not have the context for, is that grocery stores at the time were usually clerk-serviced; Just like you don't pump your own gas in New Jersey, at the time the norm was that you handed the clerk a list of produ
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by mapt 10mo ago
Another possibility: For perishable goods in the sort of SKU counts typically offered, it can't work unless it has a certain minimum scale. Local supermarkets supported by a largely automated (and has been for 30 years) regional distr
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by mapt 10mo ago
A) Killing drug mules for being drug mules is murder. B) Killing enemy sailors in a war after their ship has sunk (assuming you can justify the false equivalence of drugs with violence with war in your head) is a war crime. The single most
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by mapt 10mo ago
Mandatory interview on the subject - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uleKvJ5Xsw8 It is quite difficult to get a lawyer visit or proof of life for a detainee, even if you have lawsuits being filed from outside and string-pul
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by mapt 10mo ago
Depending on weather and the site, a weed burner can be very effective for what people used to use glyphosate for. For large areas, tarping can work pretty well in the summer. I accidentally cut a perfectly rectangular hole in my lawn by l
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by mapt 10mo ago
The entire job of a codec is subjectively authentic, but lossy compression. AI is our best and in some ways easiest method of lossy compression. All lossy compression produces artifacts; JPEG macroblocks are effectively a hallucination, a
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by mapt 10mo ago
> a codec doesn't have enough information to know. The material belief is that modern trained neural network methods that improve on ten generations of variations of the discrete cosine transform and wavelets, can bring a codec from
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by mapt 10mo ago
Conversely, you get the cancer patients like my mother, who waited until her second cycle of chemo to explore cannabis, which is apparently the best antinausea medication we have, with the right strains embarrassing the best that the pharma
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by mapt 11mo ago
Datacenters and crypto are evidently a bad source for large-scale load variability because their significant capex demands that they be kept running 24/7. This is often a problem with variable load schemes that do any useful work, rath
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by mapt 11mo ago
While I'm sure you know much more than I do about UK politics, it seems like some systemic factor pushes both Tories and Labour and whoever else comes close to power, well to the right of their respective voters. In the US, that facto
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by mapt 11mo ago
One of the interesting things about hydro is that it's usually constructed to satisfy baseload power. In reality, shifting that over to a peaking plant requires relatively modest changes to system, a small fraction of the cost of an e
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by mapt 11mo ago
The thing about public bus systems is that none of them are financially sustainable. If they were, you wouldn't need a government to run them. My local system collects about 1/3rd of the annual operational costs and none of the (
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by mapt 11mo ago
That sounds awkward. The tech for isolating a speaker at conversational distances exists. You use half a dozen microphone transducers (minimum; Crappy microphone transducers are cheap and quality is expensive, so just use a bunch of them),
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by mapt 11mo ago
Of course. On just one avenue - The Japanese auto industry is huge, and practically everything in a car has some kind of chip in it. The chip industry isn't just CPUs and GPUs, cars use numerous fairly small, primitive chips you could
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by mapt 11mo ago
A belt pack can fit a battery literally ~1000x as large as a hearing aid battery. Is there a little computer doing DAW work inside the earpiece?

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