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by nerfhammer 5y ago
It's dolphins, duh. Notice how 100% of the credible sightings are over the ocean.
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
The article mentions "Because ferrofluid adheres well to glass, special treatments were required on the glass" but doesn't go into details
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
tried this recently and found "beta" to be an extremely optimistic description of the state it's in
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
It's a matter of trust. Do you trust a robot to make decisions of life or death? You can't empathize with the robot, you know it can't empathize with you, and you instinctively don't feel like you can understand or predi
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
young people use instagram constantly
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
I'd rather have quad tracks. easier to keep things running 24/7.
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
waiting for the gaming console announcement
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
desolder the speaker or piezo.
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
a piezo is more like a capacitor
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
they prefer USD in parts in SE Asia because the local currency has experienced hyperinflation in the past. the problem is there is no easy way for them to exchange overly worn bills back to the Federal Reserve, so they have like rotting old
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
strong taboos on some somewhat arbitrarily chosen psychoactive substances but not others is pretty culturally universal
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
this. Subscription software models extract more money from the pro market but cut out the casual market completely.
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by nerfhammer 5y ago
imagine being able to talk to GPT-3 in your brain. It would make you superintelligent although without being completely sure that anything it said to you was actually true.
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
incidentally you can get leds with clear, clouded, or colored+clouded encasings. Only with the latter can you tell what color they are when they're off. One time I had some red leds in clear encasing in a parallel configuration and the
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
They could also just call it "uses less gas"
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
it follows then that we should consider blowing up the ship
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
there's speculation that he was spelling badly on purpose to make it harder to compare to his real-life writing style
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
The Fed only owns some percent of Treasury bonds. It's never been anything close to a majority. It's about 16.5% at the moment, which is unusually high.
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
they hold the bonds. the fed has a balance sheet with whatever assets it holds. the fed just doesn't hold cash. any money it spends is created, any money paid to it ceases to exist. the fed buys bonds from the treasury department, whic
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
5. Because in 1956 William Shockley moved there, for somewhat arbitrary reasons
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
I know at least 4 people who lucked out on a rent control unit and have essentially moved away but don't want to give it up, and so keep it as a second residence. Or in other cases, rent it out to someone else at market rates.
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
confirmed: https://twitter.com/NASAJPL/status/1362944639624388610
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
from the author of that software https://twitter.com/mrdoob/status/1362508150507790343
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
> This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. They're probably still processing the whole video
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
Star Trek calls them "quakes" I noticed
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
would dust stay in the air longer or shorter than on Earth? also is it technically correct to call the Martian atmosphere "air"?
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
pro-tip: your phone's magnifier app can be used as a perfectly good digital scope, you just need something to hold it up with. ios: Settings > Control Center > Customize Controls > Magnifier
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
That's why they call the big tax avoidance move "Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich"
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
nvidia has a competing service that supports that title, and it honors your steam account instead of needing you to re-buy it https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/games/
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by nerfhammer 6y ago
the dialogue sometimes feels like it's disproportionately characters barking or hissing at each other, even if they're in a very formal or very familiar environment where that level of rudeness and overt hostility seems out of pla

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