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by narag 4y ago
There are many possible reasons why something doesn't work. You surely know some technology that few people used until a little seemingly inocuous obstacle is removed. Or maybe they didn't start with the right customers set. I mos
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by narag 4y ago
Exactly, that's why banks need to support the system. It should be something similar to mobile prepaid refill cards.
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by narag 4y ago
Wow, so I need to add a feather duster and an... electrostatic vacuum filter to my lunar excursionist kit!
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by narag 4y ago
Sounds very weird. Without atmosphere the dust... just falls. No dust in the wind there, because no wind. And in the surface there is already plenty of it.
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by narag 4y ago
I just see a reference to some "problematicus" species in the article, I wonder what it did to earn that troublemaker rap :)
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by narag 4y ago
The end result is that if you open a project and for some reason the controls get resized... I used a graphical diff tool that showed both versions and allowed to revert unwanted changes with a couple of clicks. I think it was WinMerge. A
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by narag 4y ago
It's been a long time, so things might have changed... I doubt it anyway. What you write about sounds very much like you could solve easily changing the default behaviours. There was some "autoalign" property, or something si
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by narag 4y ago
I believed that it used several other engines, and also had its own crawler, not just Bing. Can you share a source for "just a wrapper"?
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by narag 4y ago
So it depends on the relative impacts of very different factors - neither of which have been well quantified. Well, that's... correct. I still think that it's less probable, but I have no way to prove it :)
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by narag 4y ago
So, if google had done nothing at all the product would be completely unusable and we wouldn't even be talking about Google at all. I stopped using Google Search years ago, not because they were doing nothing, but because they were d
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by narag 4y ago
Or, if there's production budget, Hypatia. There was: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186830/
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by narag 4y ago
You surely knew I was half joking. Anyway, I'll explain a little further. I said cheating because panspermia, as I understand it, has a very narrow window of usefulness. If surface abiogenesis is unlikely, panspermia is more unlikely
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by narag 4y ago
OP was asking why de Sade is promoted so heavily. "Promoted" or "fascinated" are the wrong words. Sade is a classic and that's not because he was a nice guy. The same happens with many other famous authors. Fame i
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by narag 4y ago
The alternative explanation is that seeds from a previous evolution started colonizing the planet as soon as the medium became viable. But that's like cheating.
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by narag 4y ago
I had not read "coffee table photobook" before, nice concept. (and yours is great, btw) That reminds me of those big table screens that Microsoft (?) was selling years ago. Only seen in Hawai 5-0 again. Are they still for sale? Wh
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by narag 4y ago
Nobody invited me to one of those pizza parties. The employees+bosses parties I attended were all at regular restaurants and we split the bill. Pizza/pastries is always on premises as an apology for unexpected overtime or a farewell
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by narag 4y ago
30 minute session of combined anger and crying If that's the expected outcome, it's already lost. ...and forgetting that she'll pick cheap colorful junk every single time. Still better than expensive colorless junk :)
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by narag 4y ago
No. Yes. Also, there's a psychological effect around shopping and it's worse for online shopping. I know people that are daily scanning a handful of online shops for "offers" of "collectibles" and pay hundreds
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by narag 4y ago
Because kids. Not that I can't understand, but that's terrible neglect. Saying no is difficult but it's the parents' duty, same as many other difficult things.
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by narag 4y ago
Impulse purchases? Shopping addiction. There's a lot of info about that. Happens both in general, people that buys tons of assorted junk, and in niche hobbies like wristwatches, garments, shoes, perfumes, cars or car models.
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by narag 4y ago
Child mortality is a huge problem now . https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality#child-mortality-i... And as close as my grandparents' generation, half of their siblings died before ten.
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by narag 4y ago
- Does human (or superhuman) thinking require consciousness? I was going to write this exactly. I believe these things think. They're just not alive. - What even is consciousness? My advice: stay as far as you can from that concept
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by narag 4y ago
Please, tell me your definition of trolling. You enter a room where people are discussing a technical subject, trying to find ways to collaborate and have a better understanding and then you start giving your speech about the dark future
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by narag 4y ago
A friend named his daughter Andrea and registered her... before she was born. There was some benefits that expired at the end of the year. At that time, there was no easy way to know the fetus' sex, so he chose female in a hunch and us
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by narag 4y ago
That's not a serious question, it's the very definition of trolling. You can replace Stable Diffusion with any other subject to learn, and that particular doom scenario with a similar one or, if you don't feel very inclined t
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by narag 4y ago
The day Steve Jobs passed away there was a moment in which the front page was just that. I believe I saved it, but can't find it right now.
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by narag 4y ago
So the interior of baryons is analogous to the interior of atoms, with gluons instead of electrons dancing frantically... weird. Also the part about mass being generated by motion and how it seems to be an established fact.
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by narag 4y ago
The proton is a collection of quarks and gluons moving at relativistic speeds around a central point. What? Moving at relativistic speeds? I had never heard that.
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by narag 4y ago
Delphi used to compile 200k lines in less than ten seconds. That was around year 2000, with first generation Pentium. Later it slowed down a bit, but not so much. IIRC, C family compilers suffer from some problem with headers that makes com
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by narag 4y ago
I second that. People working in small scale down-to-earth charities often needs practical immediate help. My experience offering help to big organizations can't be worse. First was a long time ago, I was unemployed and pennyless. Some

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