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by mrob 1y ago
The old Internet, even with all its "unsafe" content, felt far more friendly than the modern Internet for two big reasons: 1. Everybody who was there actively wanted to be there. You could easily live your life without Internet ac
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by mrob 1y ago
All the UK supermarkets sell it. Price is about 50% higher, so it's not worth buying if you get through a lot of milk, but I doubt I'm the only one to use milk mostly as a flavoring for tea. I wouldn't want to drink ordinary
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by mrob 1y ago
I'm confident that microfiber cloths are responsible for 0% (rounded to the nearest whole percentage) of oceanic microplastics. But it's possible that all clothing and fabrics combined are responsible for a significant fraction of
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by mrob 1y ago
Some more not mentioned in the article: Filtered milk. Tastes the same as ordinary homogenized milk but double (or better) the shelf life. Very convenient if you only use small quantities at a time, e.g. for adding to tea. Microfiber cloths
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by mrob 1y ago
There's an inconsistent mix of human hands and raccoon paws in the same image. I thought diffusion models could do inpainting of pre-existing images. If somebody actually cared they could have picked one and erased and regenerated the
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by mrob 1y ago
I never said it was painful for everybody to play instruments. I'm saying this is an underappreciated reason for children to hate playing. Maybe you are lucky enough that it doesn't affect you. And I personally measured my recorde
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by mrob 1y ago
The primary design goal for most traditional instruments was making them as loud as possible. I was briefly made to play violin as a child, and I definitely hated it (fortunately my parents recognized this and didn't push too hard). Th
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by mrob 1y ago
Relevant paper: The biomass distribution on Earth https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1711842115 I saw a good 3D visualization of this data using a customized version of Minecraft: https://www.youtube
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by mrob 1y ago
Anybody who's taken psychedelic drugs has likely seen this color already. Overlapping sensitivity of the cone cells doesn't matter when the image is generated without light. Psychedelic visuals are full of impossibly saturated col
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by mrob 1y ago
The majority of the engine noise is caused by the turbulent mixing of the exhaust with the surrounding air. Turbulence is chaotic, so even if the engines are phase locked the sound rapidly becomes incoherent.
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by mrob 1y ago
Something else you could send: >Does dentifrice use help to remove plaque? A systematic review https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27513809/ "The cumulative evidence for this systematic review demonstrates that the
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by mrob 1y ago
It doesn't take much head movement to cause audible flanging. The real hi-fi enthusiasts will have to use head clamps like in A Clockwork Orange (or just use headphones).
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by mrob 1y ago
The same effect is responsible for an unavoidable flaw with stereo loudspeakers, where you have differing path lengths between your ears and each speaker. Try playing some mono pink noise on stereo speakers and moving your head, then compar
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by mrob 2y ago
>First, the average pixel is not what I would expect it to be at all It looks like the averaging was done in default sRGB color space, with: magick "$f" -resize 1x1 txt:- Downscaling should instead be done in a linear colorspac
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by mrob 2y ago
Alternative solution: abbreviate all the fictitious names to single letters. This is commonly understood to mean obviously and intentionally concealed identity (e.g. "M" and "Q" from the James Bond franchise), which retu
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by mrob 2y ago
You're already making up fictitious names, so how is making up fictitious sexes any different? By using non-unisex names you're implying specific sexes already. It's implausible that you would know somebody's name and de
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by mrob 2y ago
indoordin0saur is correct. Traditional use of singular "they" was restricted to persons of unknown sex, where it is correct and unobjectionable. But the article uses it for persons of known sex. This is a modern innovation, and it
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by mrob 2y ago
And it's still better than GTK3 because you can run it on Xorg without it being capped at 60fps regardless of monitor refresh rate.
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by mrob 2y ago
I think it's more likely that social pressure to control people's weights is responsible for Japan's low BMI, not anything to do with the food. Japan is the land of vending machines and convenience stores. It's easy to e
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by mrob 2y ago
Alternatively, could you stress test the failing addresses while selectively heating each chip in turn with a hot air gun and checking if the error rate changes?
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by mrob 2y ago
I think adventure games were doomed because their success depended on hardware restrictions limiting the competition. The main selling point of adventure games was graphical spectacle. Adventure games had better graphics than any other genr
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by mrob 2y ago
I think that's more adjusting the parameters of the built-in denoising and feature detection circuits of the inherently noisy analog computer that is the brain.
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by mrob 2y ago
Also much harder to control. Oven drying has the advantage that you can set the temperature so there's no risk of overheating anything.
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by mrob 2y ago
If you're keeping them on hand for drying electronics in emergencies then you need to store them somewhere airtight.
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by mrob 2y ago
I store mine in an plastic box with airtight lid designed for food storage.
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by mrob 2y ago
I want both fuzzy search and exact search. Google still has the "I'm feeling lucky" button, so it can support multiple search buttons. It could default to fuzzy search and have an "I'm feeling unlucky" button f
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by mrob 2y ago
How about if you cap the power of the GPU? Modern semiconductors have non-linear performance:efficiency curves. It's often possible to get big energy savings with only small loss in performance.
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by mrob 2y ago
The worst example of things popping up I've seen is Youtube's sponsored content warnings. These immediately appear above the active click target (video thumbnail) when you move your mouse over it, hijacking the expected action the
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by mrob 2y ago
That sounds more like your personal absolute threshold of suffering is unusually low, not a category error.
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by mrob 2y ago
It logically can be an improvement if experiences can have negative value. I think most people would prefer non-existence to endless torture with no hope of escape.

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