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by mckeed 4y ago
Yep, Z-Wave's advantage is that they enforce the standards. They require that an end device from one manufacturer can work with any other manufacturer's controller. That was a bigger deal when controllers were stand-alone electron
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by mckeed 4y ago
That's an interesting point, though – that compared to Chess or Go, playing against other versions of itself is less helpful for improving against humans, due to the requirement of communication with the other players.
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by mckeed 4y ago
There are variant maps for fewer players, like this one for 3: https://www.playdiplomacy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=57439
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by mckeed 4y ago
Do you allow negotiation over how the pot is split for shared victories? Like can a weak player help the leader win in exchange for a small cut of the winnings?
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by mckeed 4y ago
Yes, at 6:00 you have to know which side to put north and south, and from 6pm-6am it will be North instead of South between the hour hand and 12. If you know the sun rises in the east, though, you can account for that and the trick can stil
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by mckeed 4y ago
It doesn't work at 6:00 unless you know which way to face. At 11am you should have a small wedge, and your left arm should be in the shadow, in order to not point both arms straight behind you. At 1pm your right arm will be in the shad
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by mckeed 4y ago
Still build the security protections but allow the administrator to selectively disable/override them.
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by mckeed 4y ago
Doesn't that study say that the merchants properly reported an increase in customers? So applying that to the NYC example, it's a reason to doubt the expectations before the change, but not necessarily the reports after.
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by mckeed 4y ago
There's evidence that the structure of the dog genome makes it easier to breed for various characteristics – the "slippery genome" theory [1]. It looks like the science isn't fully settled, however [2]. [1] https:/
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No more VPN. Using Cloudflare Tunnel to manage access to a self-hosted server(sakowi.cz)
2 points by mckeed 5y ago|1 comments
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by mckeed 5y ago
They are talking about assignments, not tests. It applies more to skill-based courses than knowledge-based ones. If you're writing C papers at the beginning and A papers at the end, should you get an A or B?
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by mckeed 5y ago
There sure seems to be a distinction between having sensory input and being able to reflect on that experience. How else could you explain the phenomenon of blindsight? I agree philosophical zombies are impossible, but only because they wou
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by mckeed 5y ago
Isn't that just layering an extraneous concept on top without explaining anything? Is there a difference between experiencing something (real) and having a "simulated" experience of experiencing it?
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by mckeed 5y ago
Finding stolen items isn't the only use-case, and you still have 8-24 hours to track the thief before it starts beeping.
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by mckeed 5y ago
At least Apple pays to recycle them, which is more than most companies making devices like this would do https://onezero.medium.com/what-really-happens-to-airpods-wh...
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by mckeed 5y ago
The most useful part in my opinion is the discussion of how the word differs from synonyms. That should be a much bigger emphasis in modern dictionaries and thesauruses. Unfortunately many definitions from 1913 are already becoming out-of-d
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by mckeed 5y ago
The signup page says "Unfortunately we are unable to accept credit cards at this moment" and has ACH/SEPA and Cryptocurrency as the payment options.
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by mckeed 5y ago
Does that vary with the type of soil? I wonder if the 25 degrees he mentioned is an average based on the properties of the soil. Either way, you can't really get to an angle that would be considered a "wall" without mechanica
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by mckeed 5y ago
All the colors in a design are chosen to look good together. Changing one major color could necessitate changing all of them, and likely also icons and image assets. Even photos could be tuned to the contrast ratios of the design.
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by mckeed 5y ago
The court doesn't need to determine what it means in an absolute sense, just what Google meant by it (or could reasonably have been presumed to) when they put it in the employment contract.
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by mckeed 5y ago
The fact that a small proportion of the atmosphere causes the greenhouse effect makes it more likely that the amount of CO2 we are adding is affecting the planet. It's easier to make a significant change in a smaller quantity. If you
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by mckeed 5y ago
The argument wasn't about the military purposes, but against the idea that these restrictions are actually effective against the military or government accessing the source code that is available in the rest of the world.
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by mckeed 5y ago
Did the Time Machine system alert you when the drive failed? I'm wondering how important it is to proactively replace an old drive if it's just used for backup and I can deal with the risk of the drive failing at the exact same ti
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by mckeed 5y ago
I live in the North and I've been thinking about building an ice box in the basement that stores cold from outside during the winter – mostly for energy-saving purposes, but it would be interesting to try making a system with precise t
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by mckeed 5y ago
I do it by pushing my top lip up against my nostrils. I look silly if there's someone with goggles on to see me underwater, though. Like an extreme duck face. Also, it doesn't work well now that I have a mustache.
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by mckeed 5y ago
I saw digital blasphemy on there. I checked and it still exists and he's still updating!
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by mckeed 5y ago
My wife and I both started Adderall in adulthood. She has the hyperactive, can't watch a whole movie type ADHD and I have the absent-minded, a couple hours can go by before I realize I'm not working type. She got her life together
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by mckeed 5y ago
I think they mean verifiable. As in, an encryption where you could verify that A*B==C given only the encrypted values of A, B, and C.
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by mckeed 5y ago
Does anyone know if it's possible for these objects to be suspended by wires from a less-radar-visible drone higher up?
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by mckeed 5y ago
FB is a top video streaming platform. Also they run WhatsApp, which I think is the largest global telephony system.

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