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by michaelt 11mo ago
When it comes to cryopreservation the thing I find infeasible is the idea a provider would bother with the preservation, under the incentives of capitalism. If someone pays millions of dollars to a company that promises to freeze their corp
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> It’s advertising I'm glad to hear we're in agreement.
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> OpenAI has disabled a feature in ChatGPT that suggested third-party applications [...] “There are no live tests for ads – any screenshots you’ve seen are either not real or not ads,” Mr Turley wrote. Here's what people were seei
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> Surely there are tools to retrieve all the citations, Even if you could retrieve all citations (which isn't always as easy as you might hope) to validate citations you'd also have to confirm the paper says what the person c
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> Non-domiciled CDLs introduced, permitting foreign nationals to obtain U.S. commercial licenses In many countries it's common to see freight being driven by foreign drivers simply because that's how cross-border deliveries a
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by michaelt 11mo ago
Video filters aren't a radical new thing. You can apply things like 'slim waist' filters in real time with nothing more than a smartphone's processor. People in the media business have long found their media sells better
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It sounds like it was something like PLA when it was supposed to be ABS. According to https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69297a4e345e3... > The aircraft owner [...] understood from the vendor that it wa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozy_MK_IV > The Cozy Mark IV is a 4-seat, single engine, homebuilt light aircraft [...] The aircraft is built from plans using basic raw materials. It is not a kit aircraft You could
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by michaelt 11mo ago
Before you went to college, did you have a bedroom to yourself in your parents' home?
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It's not unusual for diagnostic criteria to hinge on the impact the thing is having on your work/family/school life. Alcoholism, for example - we don't define alcoholism as drinking ≥2 bottles of wine a week, or say th
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by michaelt 11mo ago
Sometimes reputation and suchlike in the consumer market can directly boost your B2B business. Consumers and professionals alike will look at backblaze drive reliability figures. Other times professionals will sneer at a consumer product, o
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by michaelt 11mo ago
On "runpod community cloud" renting a 5090 costs $0.69/hour [1] and it consumes about $0.10/hour electricity, if running at full power and paying $0.20/kWh. On Amazon, buying a 5090 costs $3000 [2] That's a pay
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by michaelt 11mo ago
2100 I took from Wikipedia: > Japanese primary and secondary school students are required to learn 2,136 jōyō kanji as of 2010.[4] The total number of kanji is well over 50,000, though this includes tens of thousands of characters only
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by michaelt 11mo ago
Basically, it’s well known that fully laden 44 tonne articulated lorries making sharp turns do a lot of damage to roads. That’s who in industrial estates you’ll often find concrete roads, instead of tarmac, for lorries making 90 degree turn
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When I select 'Japanese' on fonts.google.com the number of fonts drops from 1901 families down to 50. Selecting 'Hiragana and Katakana' raises the number to 81. That's still a lot of fonts, but it's not 2000. I
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by michaelt 11mo ago
After an incredible journey, I’m excited to announce a case of beer is joining my fridge.
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[1] tells me a $350k mortgage with a 10% deposit, paid off over 15 years, costs $2,585 per month. That's $31k a year. That kind of income with that kind of house price should be pretty comfortable, given you don't mention supporti
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by michaelt 11mo ago
If TSMC is compromised, getting the security processor made in the US won't help. The CPU enforces the security boundary between web pages, apps, the OS, the hypervisor and so on. If you control that, you control everything.
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by michaelt 11mo ago
The time you want water is when something that water can soak into is on fire. Sofas, curtains, bedding, bookshelves, carpets, filing cabinets full of paper, etc. The water soaks in and prevents the fire re-igniting. 30 years ago, workplace
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A better design would be for the 'button' to be a normal lever in the normal location, and the emergency manual release to be triggered by pulling that lever extra hard.
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> there's still a limit on the amount of money the American political corruption system can absorb. Wikipedia tells me [1] to win a seat in the House of Representatives (one of 435) costs on average $2.79 million, while a seat the
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by michaelt 11mo ago
30 sounded low to me, but looking at the sprawling Altoona facility in Google Maps https://maps.app.goo.gl/KGLEpJRFiwVKYob89 satellite photos show 52 parking spaces in use across 11 buildings. Lots of construction workers i
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> Meta built a new data center nearby and this person along with many others got jobs there and now things are great. Creating such bustling workplaces as https://maps.app.goo.gl/fc9AGtsVwiLA1vd88 https://ma
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The "online safety act" introduced mandatory age verification starting in July 2025. The government announced "plans to fine Imgur after probing its approach to age checks and use of children's personal data" in Sep
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The UK’s “online safety act” means a number of medium sized sites have decided it’s not worth doing business in the UK.
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The security product marketers ruined “a possible attack” as a brag 25 years ago. Every time a firewall blocks something, it’s a possible attack being blocked, and imagine how often that happens.
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by michaelt 11mo ago
Well, there's https://www.nii.ac.jp/userimg/press_details_20121212.pdf I think fooling facial recognition systems and CCTV-cameras-at-night is easier than fooling professional photographers. Most photograhers&#x27
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by michaelt 11mo ago
It depends on the market you're aiming for. A younger, lone traveller staying 2-3 nights is probably going to be out doing things in the day, and in the evening. And they won't have much luggage either. Elderly travellers might no
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by michaelt 11mo ago
> it'll help crack down on illegal workers Will it, though? Businesses already have to get a photocopy of your passport when they hire you, and check your right to work in the country. If they're not performing the checks, wh
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> Sweden has a national database and a national ID card system, and it makes my life in Sweden a lot better. Can you be a bit more specific about how?

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