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by mrob 2y ago
When both things are claimed based on the same evidence it follows to judge them together.
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by mrob 2y ago
You're not working with just suffering and non-suffering, you also have death. The existence of death makes the concept of an absolute threshold of suffering meaningful. If, assuming an experience lasts an entire lifetime, you would ra
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by mrob 2y ago
Vitamin C synthesis is a clear example. Humans do most of the work then fail at the last step: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C#Evolution_of_animal_...
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by mrob 2y ago
It's not a non-sequitur. The usual reason people believe in a god is because some religious group says that the god exists. Those religious groups usually also claim that their god is good. If they're wrong about the goodness, why
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by mrob 2y ago
From the release notes: "Fully open-source release of model weights" However: "The Instella-3B models are licensed for academic and research purposes under a ResearchRAIL license." Their ResearchRAIL license is not an Op
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by mrob 2y ago
I've heard that Singapore manages to do it. Copy whatever they do. It doesn't need to be 100% effective, because it's easy to rip the caps off the new bottles making them not 100% effective either.
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by mrob 2y ago
Because it's collective punishment. Why should I have to put up with inferior bottle caps that get in the way and are more prone to leaking than traditional bottle caps just because some other people misused them? The correct solution
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by mrob 2y ago
I've never met a steam turbine enthusiast. Steam engine enthusiasts are specifically piston engine enthusiasts.
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by mrob 2y ago
I draw the line at the 2006 release of the Horse Armor DLC for Oblivion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_The_Elder_Scrol... This is the turning point where the industry began to change from selling product
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by mrob 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_pressure#Examples Threshold of pain: 120-140 dB(SPL) Risk of instantaneous noise-induced hearing loss: 120dB(SPL) A sonic weapon must cause pain to be effective. Any sound that relia
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by mrob 2y ago
There will be some attenuation, but the output is focused into a beam, so you don't get the usual inverse square falloff with distance.
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by mrob 2y ago
As LRADs are less ethical than CS gas, the true design intent is likely to produce something that looks insignificant on video recordings so it can be used as extrajudicial punishment of undesirables with less risk of public outcry.
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by mrob 2y ago
While I mostly agree with this, it's inaccurate to say that Open Source Software is more liberal than Free Software. The issue of copyleft vs. permissive licenses is orthogonal to that classification. The difference between Free Softwa
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by mrob 2y ago
They are designed to produce sound pressure levels that cause permanent hearing damage from short exposure, which makes them maiming weapons. There is no safe way to use an LRAD. Anybody who uses an LRAD is evil. Stop making excuses for des
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by mrob 2y ago
>Are chemical irritants preferable Absolutely. You can heal from those. LRADs are maiming weapons designed to cause permanent damage. Under any reasonable legal system their use would be considered a war crime.
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by mrob 2y ago
There's no standard recipe for natural gas odorant, but it's typically a mixture of various organosulfur compounds, not hydrogen sulfide. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odorizer#Natural_gas_odorizers
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by mrob 2y ago
And even "open-weights" is generous, as they're released under a proprietary license with usage restrictions, not an open-source license.
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by mrob 2y ago
The best feature of C is the inconvenience of managing dependencies. This encourages a healthy mistrust of third-party code. Rust is unfortunately bundled with an excellent package manager, so it's already well on its way to NPM-style
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by mrob 2y ago
How about deliberately putting a strong magnet close to the rotating test masses, then repeating the experiment with the magnet on the other side and verifying that it doesn't make a difference?
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by mrob 2y ago
Lots of common people did listen to Bach, because he wrote many works for church organ. Church attendance was almost universal, and even small churches had (small) pipe organs.
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by mrob 2y ago
By not ignoring studies that find risk of tsunami damage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident#Pri...
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by mrob 2y ago
My monitor has a strange EDID that requests timings with such short vblank that my GPU doesn't have time to reclock memory between frames, preventing switching to low power modes. But because I use Linux I can supply an EDID with stand
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by mrob 2y ago
The ringing is most obvious in the striped shirt in the painting on the wall. It's added entire new stripes that don't exist in the original.
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by mrob 2y ago
Dynamic range compression is not "required", it's a choice of the mastering engineer. You can produce MP3 or CD recordings with higher dynamic range than vinyl if you want to.
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by mrob 2y ago
Ball movement on a real pinball machine is three dimensional. The game is designed to keep the ball in contact with the playfield surface as much as possible, but in practice there are lots of imperfections and awkwardly shaped features tha
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by mrob 2y ago
It's just stating a preference for deterministic behavior, i.e. tools not agents. Once you've learned how to use a tool it will reliably do what you intend it to do. With agents, whether human or AI, less initial learning is requi
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by mrob 2y ago
This is especially true of hand soldering. Hand soldering requires regular cleaning of the soldering iron tip. Both the common methods (brass wool and damp sponge) produce many tiny balls of solder that roll and bounce easily. They can end
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by mrob 2y ago
Even if it doesn't kill them, thick smoke in the cockpit is obviously going to impair pilot performance, and that's a big problem when it's most likely to happen during the most dangerous phases of flight (takeoff and landing
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by mrob 2y ago
It doesn't sound dull to me. The stories are about the periphery of the Culture because that gets the most storytelling value out of the effort that went into worldbuilding, not because it would be impossible to write interesting stori
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by mrob 2y ago
Microwaving is highly effective but can damage desiccants. You're relying on the water evaporation to keep the temperature under control and when it's gone the desiccant will rapidly overheat. Brittle desiccants like silica gel ca

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