mcbits

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by mcbits 4y ago
Gowns and face shields (and gloves) are extra layers of defense, but the masks provide almost all of the benefit. People aren't getting infected in substantial numbers through their eyes or ears or skin, although we couldn't be su
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by mcbits 4y ago
China doesn't have widespread free (K)N95 mask use either. There's not enough production even in China. Yet they're still faring better than the US so far. Adjusting for population, the US peaked at the equivalent of 15,000&#
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by mcbits 4y ago
> The lab was located in Wuhan strategically because it's a very central transit hub but also very close to the bat caves where thousands of coronavirus varieties are believed to emerge from. This alone is enough to explain a lab le
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by mcbits 4y ago
Not all the time and only for a few months. It would have worked in 2020 if people had access to real PPE (not bandanas and chin straps). And if we didn't have large employers like Publix and the NY Dept of Corrections prohibiting thei
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by mcbits 4y ago
Even with almost everyone vaccinated and/or repeatedly exposed to the virus to refresh their immunity, the virus killed over 70,000 in the US in that last 6 months and over 250,000 in the last year. In the first months of the pandemic,
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by mcbits 4y ago
N95 masks were going for upwards of $50 during the shortage, but even at a nominal $1 apiece (and not including emergency capital investment to increase production), it would have cost $182.50 to $365 per person for 1-2 masks a day for 6 mo
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by mcbits 4y ago
The vaccines, while "better than nothing" and much cheaper than giving everyone a 6-month supply of N95 masks, were mostly a flop. We have a long way to go before we can just print up vaccines to head off emerging epidemics, but h
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by mcbits 4y ago
I haven't described anything that can't already be done (well, reading a license plate in an eyeball was mostly an exaggeration). It just can't be done affordably in real time on a home computer. And it's just the first
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by mcbits 4y ago
Hmm, I'm going by memory but I distinctly remember reading they were recalled and that Dell among others were issuing replacements for their systems with the faulty chips. Perhaps it's true that it wasn't officially recalled.
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by mcbits 4y ago
My ThinkPad T61p suffered a different problem: It was bricked 1 month out of warranty due to the GPU, which was recalled by Nvidia but Lenovo refused to honor the recall. Instead they wanted to sell me an $800 replacement board with the sam
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by mcbits 4y ago
This is more GPU than CPU, but I want to infer 3D models from my security cameras in real time so I can do some CSI "turn left and look behind it" shit. And use the overlapping textures for superresolution so I can shout "enh
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by mcbits 4y ago
Then I should be subject to increased oversight and scrutiny in case I start taking kickbacks to make up the difference or botch jobs out of spite.
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by mcbits 4y ago
If you pay me to work on a project, you can burn it for all I care as long as the check clears.
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by mcbits 4y ago
The birds around here don't stick around long enough to let me earn their trust, but I can get pretty close to the deer, rabbits, and squirrels just by pointing the camera off to my side so I'm standing perpendicular and appear to
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by mcbits 4y ago
You don't insulate the house; you insulate your body. If you're at the point of burning clothes to heat the house, heating the house is already a lost cause unless you have a lot of clothes.
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by mcbits 4y ago
I hope that doesn't mean I plug in my car at 80%, hoping to top it off for a long trip, but since everyone else is averaging 60% and there's peak demand, it decides to drain the battery and generously put a dollar in my account.
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by mcbits 4y ago
Assuming this[0] is accurate, it looks like solar irradiance reaching the surface is pretty flat from mid-blue up to red, including green. I would guess either there are other evolutionary reasons for reflecting green, or no reason at all a
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by mcbits 4y ago
It's a 1 cent item being sold for 22 cents, probably at least 30 cents with shipping. The 3D printer can't compete with the 1 cent but can compete with the 30 cents and definitely with the $15 if you really only need one clip and
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by mcbits 4y ago
Speaking of farms, 5 MW is enough to power LED grow lights equivalent to 5-10 acres of sunlight (napkin/google math) that could be packed in small-footprint building with hundreds of layers of hydroponics. It still wouldn't be eco
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by mcbits 4y ago
How about Forth as a compilation target for other languages. But you can dig in and define words for common patterns and the higher level code will be compiled down to that custom vocabulary instead.
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by mcbits 4y ago
I suspect the 4th amendment would have been worded somewhat differently if the royal tax collectors in Boston had been clever enough to train tea-sniffing dogs to search cargo for tea smuggling without physically searching inside.
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by mcbits 4y ago
I can't point to specifics, but I do remember a lot of similarly bizarre beliefs on YouTube leading up to 2012, like people trying to prove that the sun is now orbiting north-to-south because we're in the middle of a pole shift. A
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by mcbits 4y ago
Something like: This person gets put in my personal ignore filter, which over time will get better at predicting who and what I want ignored. I can always go back and review what's being ignored and make changes. Individuals and their
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by mcbits 4y ago
It has to do with the part that I quoted.
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by mcbits 4y ago
> We don’t have to declare the US as either 100% perfect and free We can still demand it. And if they only achieve 90%, we don't have to lower our expectations to 90%, or soon enough they'll be achieving 81% and so on.
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by mcbits 4y ago
Looks like the law was passed in 1980 due to the 1970s energy crisis, but it was repealed back in 2008: https://www.twincities.com/2008/01/15/bill-would-allow-for-h... Reminds me of the misguided pepper spray
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by mcbits 4y ago
Physics and chemistry modeling, economic modeling, cryptanalysis, face/posture/gait recognition and behavior prediction, spatial inference and geolocation from video, autonomous drone swarms, war gaming, forest management, code en
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by mcbits 4y ago
This is where video games may be in a few years when governments and cloud services buy 99% of GPUs at volume discounts while miners and scalpers bid up the 1% that make it to retail channels. It will be cheaper to play games at max setting
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by mcbits 4y ago
It would help if "public transportation" wasn't used synonymously with disgusting and dehumanizing "mass transit". I want to sit alone or with my co-travelers in a comfortable, sanitary pod that picks me up where an
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by mcbits 4y ago
I think it's less that the parameters are the wrong way around and more that the file-reading feature in grep is redundant and could be deleted.

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