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by nxobject 1y ago
Note that a conspicuous capability of a Predator drone is to track people's heat signatures, with limited capability into buildings.
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by nxobject 1y ago
The analogy doesn't quite match up – – Parent is talking about making public the identities of ICE employees, doing things in public, which is by far and large true of your local sheriff; - Individuals are reporting the presence of I
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Balkan endemic nephropathy: on the trail of a mystery disease in the Balkans(newyorker.com)
4 points by nxobject 1y ago|0 comments
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by nxobject 1y ago
Heads up for arm64 users: there’s currently no precompiled arm64 support.
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by nxobject 1y ago
For what it’s worth, the authors note that since this is installed on a phone, by the time CellGuard has detected a rogue base station, it’s too late anyway.
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by nxobject 1y ago
> Being arrested by the feds for breaking the law has usually been a fairly unpleasant ordeal. > This really doesn't have to be an emotional issue. I think you're misreading the OP and/or ignoring recent news. OP's
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by nxobject 1y ago
Similarly (and this isn't a judgment), the ultralight outdoor gear – you trade off weight for durability.
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by nxobject 1y ago
The author’s doing themselves a disservice by using the word “basic” - it doesn’t describe either the mathematics or the description. Perhaps it refers to its focus on the basics of a field.
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by nxobject 1y ago
Changelog item: "#21855 – Lotus Word Pro 9.8: Windows pull down does not show file names". Reported 2010, closed 2025...
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by nxobject 1y ago
…and money to go to conferences and summer schools, and money for software licenses (especially in applied programs), and department funds to bring visiting academics, and the following things that get lumped under administration: money for
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by nxobject 1y ago
The opportunities are in applications that lead to job opportunities in other departments, especially with the rise of secondary data analysis in other fields… I would sell myself as as a methodologist in a field of application, rather than
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by nxobject 1y ago
In defense of the cynics, I get the impression in a situation where (a) there's a lot of company marketing hype in such a competitive market that begs cynicism, and (b) we're constantly learning the boundary of trained LLMs can
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by nxobject 1y ago
With the caveat that I know little about the implementation of NNs (I do embedded): what it take to go from working on predicting a 2D array of RGB pixels, to predicting more general 2D arrays of structs? It might be fun, for example, to si
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by nxobject 1y ago
Would this have been with MacOS 7’s Multiprocessing Services? I managed to play with an SMP Mac clone (DayStar Genesis MP), but all I really could do in the end is use some plugins for Photoshop.
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by nxobject 1y ago
As an illustration of where housing laws left SROs, I highly recommend this fantastic documentary on the last SROs in downtown Chicago - “Caged Men: Tales from Chicago's SRO Hotels” (2018). It turns out that a lot of the residents are
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by nxobject 1y ago
Thankfully, in my city, it seems to be all retail parking lots. But it’s disturbing to see other very, very adjacent cities go all-in on flock.
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by nxobject 1y ago
> The ARM chip was also designed to run at very low power. Wilson explained that this was entirely a cost-saving measure—the team wanted to use a plastic case for the chip instead of a ceramic one, so they set a maximum target of 1 watt
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by nxobject 1y ago
Sometimes I dream about a language with a “blessed” editor that just had a rich 2D formula and matrix notation editor. Having context in the form of a formula is sometimes helpful in remembering what a pesky one-off variable name might mean
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by nxobject 1y ago
The position title of the author is the cherry on the top: "Senior Director, Competition".
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by nxobject 1y ago
> they're also indirectly paying for it through inflation caused by government borrowing beyond their actual tax income. Don't worry – unless we stop giving out tax cuts as well, we'll still be running deficits until Socia
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by nxobject 1y ago
I hope a similar oral history will be done for 18F – it ran very, very lean.
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by nxobject 1y ago
Yes – we're still going to end up with deficits due to tax cuts. We may as well actually get things done while doing so, and be honest to ourselves about it.
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Steamed Hams but It's a 43 Minute Critically Acclaimed Feature Film [video](youtube.com)
4 points by nxobject 1y ago|1 comments
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by nxobject 1y ago
Looks like it's due to fundamental limitations – there's a one-to-one mapping between cells and Unicode code points, and glyphs are blitted from a pre-rendered atlas. (It's very Shadertoy-like.) I agree it's an awkward s
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by nxobject 1y ago
I've always wanted to ask an actual ref (fans are a dime a dozen)... what would have been your takeaway from how Maradona's Hand of God was called?
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by nxobject 1y ago
Are the Alibaba 4090s modded to reach 48GB VRAM? (I ask only to figure how why they're that cheap...)
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by nxobject 1y ago
Don’t worry about India’s GDP: growth has averaged above 5% over the last 20 years.
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by nxobject 1y ago
If you think H-1Bs are exploitative and lower working conditions, O-1s are much more so: O-1s aren’t portable between employers _and_ don’t have prevailing wage requirements.
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by nxobject 1y ago
The choice is also to deprive health shortage areas of doctors, and academic institutions of scholars, but keeping tech happy and screwing over health and research isn’t new either the administration.
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by nxobject 1y ago
Well, good luck cap-exempt employers…

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