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by marlor 3y ago
The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) operates facilities in Chile because it offers good weather, good seeing, and it is in the Southern Hemisphere. None of the ESO’s instruments are in Europe
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by marlor 3y ago
I was waiting for a conspiracy theory to be woven in there, and you didn’t disappoint.
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by marlor 3y ago
Yes. That is indeed a total rumour.
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by marlor 3y ago
I’m sure the Yuan will increase somewhat as a reserve currency, but I’m skeptical it will become dominant. China has systemic issues at the moment, with a working-age population that peaked some time ago and a property market that is perpet
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by marlor 3y ago
It’s the same in China. My wife’s family is from there, and they hand out antibiotics for everything. Everyone seems to have a stash of them as well. When my in-laws were visiting Australia for a couple of months and my wife’s mother got a
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by marlor 4y ago
I’m not sure if this is the previous poster’s reason, but (given the implication that the poster is a vegetarian) it my simply be that many vegetarians are put off by the taste and texture of meat, whether it be real, cultured or fake (via
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by marlor 4y ago
I can’t even get Siri to reliably play a song or skip a track, let alone anything useful. Must be my accent. I’d hate to try to operate vehicle controls with the same hit-and-miss interface. Give me tactile controls any time.
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by marlor 4y ago
A few guys in my PhD office 15 years ago used to have a hobby of doing something similar. They’d invent a “fact”, spin up a webpage with that fact, add the fact to Wikipedia and cite the webpage to add plausibility. Then one of them would o
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by marlor 4y ago
If certain words (like “orange”) are statistically unlikely to be used in that context in that rhyme scheme, then they’re unlikely to be picked to begin with.
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by marlor 4y ago
Previously generated words are added to the input token window. At the point it’s generating the next word, it knows what its preceding words were. With a conceptual representation of various rhyme schemes, subsequent words will (probably)
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by marlor 4y ago
I’m eagerly anticipating our company moving to Teams. Right now, the only approved chat solution is Skype for Business (with only plaintext messaging - rich text, files and images have been disabled for security reasons). Other chat and soc
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by marlor 4y ago
Even with double blind reviews, it’s often very clear who wrote the paper. Authors regularly cite work by themselves or their team, so a statement like “In a previous study[1] we established a relationship between X and Y” renders double bl
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by marlor 4y ago
Just Rockbox. I’m using an iPod Video as well. Then I set up the bookmarking and startup settings to suit. It’s very customisable. I also generated “talk files” to voice the filenames. My Walkman is an NW-A45 upgraded with custom firmware f
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by marlor 4y ago
I have both a Walkman (for music) and an upgraded/rebuilt iPod (for audiobooks) and prefer them for a few reasons: - They don’t use any mobile data, and work when in a mobile-phone black spot (e.g. the national parks I go to most weeke
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by marlor 4y ago
The pre-Android Sony Walkmans (like the NW-A55 mentioned above) have decent battery life. I typically get around 30 hours from my SONY NW-A45. In a world where many modern “audiophile” players only get 8-10 hours of playback, that’s not ba
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by marlor 4y ago
UK Consumer Contract law has a 14-day cancellation period. For digital goods, the legislation states: —— Under a contract for the supply of digital content not on a tangible medium, the trader must not begin supply of the digital content be
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by marlor 4y ago
That’s precisely the approach taken in studying the Mpemba effect, with wildly differing results. The article goes into the difficulties in analysing out-of-equilibrium systems (both experimentally and theoretically).
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by marlor 5y ago
There’s definitely been a shift in tone in articles from the SCMP over the past five years. It used regularly provide highly critical coverage of both the Hong Kong and Chinese Governments. It was broadly supportive of the Umbrella Movement
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by marlor 5y ago
It’s likely the FBI mentioned they had an app they could leverage, Australia noted that there was a gap in the local market after Phantom had been taken down, and the two agencies decided to seed the app into the Australian criminal underwo
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by marlor 5y ago
They covered themselves by ensuring that the devices could only be ordered after private referral from another user. All of whom were underworld figures (the devices were initially “seeded” to “underworld influencers”). I’m sure that added
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by marlor 5y ago
Europol: https://www.europol.europa.eu/
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by marlor 5y ago
I’m sure he has no idea. This is far from the only encrypted messaging system out there.
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by marlor 5y ago
Burnout is made worse when you take on too many complex interactions and dependencies. OSS works best when it’s a small project that does a single thing and does it well, but doesn’t rely on too many upstream projects for its functionality.
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by marlor 5y ago
It’s been running for three years. I suspect something changed recently (perhaps some imminent threat) that meant they needed to act now.
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by marlor 5y ago
It’s bizarre, because news reports state that the entire app and monitoring system was created by the FBI and Australian Federal Police. If it’s their system, why would they need to seize its domain?
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by marlor 5y ago
The Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM is optically just fine if you stop down slightly, and the RF version is even better. It’s not much more than $100. The Olympus 25mm f/1.8 is absolutely fantastic, and smaller. As are all the Olympus fas
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by marlor 5y ago
In low light, I’ve never seen a smartphone that will beat a fast prime on a mirrorless or DSLR camera. A kit zoom lens will struggle in low light, but you can get extremely high quality fast primes for a couple of hundred dollars these days
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by marlor 5y ago
When shooting JPEG, I just use an Apple Lightning to USB Camera Adapter cable, and import straight to my phone (and iCloud Photo Library). The cable is in my camera bag, and it takes less than a minute to do the import.
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by marlor 5y ago
It’s not judging a book by its cover. It’s judging a company that designs a smartphone UX experience by their website’s UX experience. My eyes. I hit back.
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by marlor 5y ago
Currently, the quarantine system for returning residents is entirely overloaded. Leakage of cases from quarantine has been common, leading to snap lockdowns. Additionally, there aren’t many commercial flights right now, resulting in the gov

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