nick486

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by nick486 1y ago
>Taking a zoom call in a car sucks. Taking one in a train with face to face seating, wifi, Power plus and a table between you is a much better experience. Not for all the other people around you, no.
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by nick486 1y ago
its how most home networks already work, when you think of it. you have a small locked down isp-provided technically-a-computer, that manages your connection, and behind that, you have all your own stuff on your home network. if anything, i
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by nick486 1y ago
realistically, the end point for moderately tech savvy folks is going to a be two-device setup. one cheap phone for basic communication , all the corpo stuff like banking and shirt-and-tie social media + a wifi hotspot. then a second "
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by nick486 1y ago
I'm open to the idea that i somehow caught an outlier. then again, its a lab integrated to the general eu funding schemes, so it can't be that much of an outlier. your summary of a grant request doesn't really sound all that
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by nick486 1y ago
I had the same view until I went to do a small internship in a research lab. There, I realized that my research group's boss was spending most of his time submitting grant requests, that in my view distilled to 'Give use money and
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by nick486 1y ago
I mean, to be a bit of a devil's advocate, its not impossible. Bitcoin sort of has the reputation of being used to buy "shady stuff". Its not unreasonable for MasterCard to not want to be "That card company people buy ed
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by nick486 1y ago
the wiring harness required would be a bit uncomfortable.
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by nick486 1y ago
find an old one, connect the odometer to count the distance flown in addition to the x00k miles it already has, stream the video as it flies around the moon and back. would be a fun publicity stunt.
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by nick486 2y ago
> By asking ChatGPT about "Russian narratives." This is so stupid. ChatGPT is inferring the expected response tone from your question. Which means you could get it to argue pretty much anything with guided questions. I got it t
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by nick486 2y ago
with enough energy(like starship would have), i suppose you could get out of an irrecoverable tipping over motion by just lighting the engines and trying again. Before you fall, obviously. "works in KSP"^TM
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by nick486 2y ago
Yes. There was just recently a post about a person who got his life saved by chatGPT reading his blood results and saying "ER. NOW." Would that Medical result PDF be anonymized here? Stripping PI from random pdfs, sounds like a ve
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by nick486 2y ago
>> Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. I love this line. Its like a riff on the old radio Yerevan joke. > Q: What is the difference between the Constitutions of the USA and USSR? Both guarantee freedom of speech. &g
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by nick486 2y ago
Why ? The discussion is about fixing brand reputation, and he quotes probably one of the most disgustingly successful rebrands in history. If even IG Farben managed to successfully rebrand, surely a company that just went "a little too
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by nick486 2y ago
they will probably be discouraged in the workplace too. no one wants to be dealing with a sexual harassment case, just because someone didnt pay attention to the direction his head was pointing in, while reading some random article on his g
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by nick486 2y ago
I don't think its comparable. phone cameras are assumed to be off, its pretty obvious when someone is recording a video, because he has to hold the phone in a very uncomfortable position. Unless someone is actively pointing their phone
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by nick486 2y ago
>What happened to "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Nothing. It still is the same fake Voltaire quote used to con overly idealistic adversaires into giving you some situational
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by nick486 2y ago
the equivalent here would be a child learning from a textbook he has written himself. not sure how effective that would be, if it was his only source of learning.