otherotherchris

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by otherotherchris 4y ago
Comic Sans is extremely legible on small screens for people with poor eyesight. It's a perfectly acceptable use of the font.
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
Vacant property insurance can also be more expensive in certain locations as untenanted buildings tend to get quickly vandalized and have higher rates of arson. Easier to just put a popup retailer in it on a peppercorn rent.
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
Since the mid 90's I've been having trouble keeping up with which soft drink conglomerate or highly leveraged hedge fund owns Cadbury in any given week, and whether it's one of the bad ones that I'm supposed to be boycot
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
>"Easily transported"? Are you nuts? It has far less chemical compatibility than LNG and is wildly more dangerous to people. It gets even worse if the ammonia has any impurities. Why would there be impurities in ammonia generat
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
I feel that this is an edge case that only applies to unencrypted radio transmission in Ukraine. Please get back on topic.
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
>Transmit power is highest when near the range limit for a cell tower, since the handset increases power when more range is needed. Yeah, in addition to the inverse square law, devices also have a higher noise floor from adjacent devices
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
You can't divide by 4.5kg as the distribution of power into the human head is not homogeneous. It's going to be much much higher adjacent to the ear. In any case this is burst power during very high bitrate use such as 4k video, l
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
Could have been hand to mouth contact from any number of sources. Bacterial biofilms are pretty easy to transfer and as we recently learned from eating bats it only has to happen once.
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
>they're not eating a gallon of coke or a bucket of M&Ms Most cats and dogs are eating carbohydrate rich mass produced pet food made by a very familiar privately owned chocolate company.
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
Most diesel and natural gas reciprocating engines can be switched to ammonia with only changes to fuel pumps and injectors. It's a great easily transported bridge fuel that can replace LNG export until the anti-nukes pull their heads o
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
I reckon you're right, but I doubt that it's manual or under Google's control. Google is too important a tool of control to be left in the hands of Silly Valley idealists. I've always wondered why Sergey Brin and Larry
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
Oh it's far worse than that. The next fundamentalist quasi-dictatorship in Romania, Poland or Hungary gets to decide what's illegal and immoral and therefore censored in Belgium and Sweden.
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
I think this is going to expose the core problem in Europe, that the political classes of the "liberal" member states are just giving lip service to the "fraternity equality liberty" crap and care no more for free speech
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
Platforms are responsible for everything shown to a user inside the EU. I suspect that Google and Facebook will not offer country specific blocklists like they do for Nazi content in Germany. If Hungary bans LGBTQIA content, it'll disa
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
Most libraries in the US and Australia have access to the Kanopy streaming video platform if you can't afford Netflix any more. It has an interesting selection of content. Many will have ComicsPlus and Bibliotheca CloudLibrary as well,
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
Things like "fairness" aren't defined in the legislation and will be determined in smoke filled rooms by shadowy moneyed interests. Ordinary users will get censored. By the courts, by unelected regulators, and by Big Tech AI
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
Google doesn't know what the algorithm is anymore. The whole site is a black box.
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
"Here's 100PiB of unlabeled neural net weights. Knock yourselves out."
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
Yeah, there's also a rubbish dump converted to a amphitheater next door that randomly and spontaneously catches fire. VOC contaminated soil at Fairchild, Intersil and Intel sites should be safe except after flooding from exceptionally
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
The world has a nearly infinite supply of lithium. Evaporating naturally occurring brine in poverty stricken shitholes is just a lazier way of extracting the tiny amount that we've used historically rather than capital intensive extrac
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
Pretty much every iron chemistry has failed to reach market. I reckon they're probably just blowing smoke. I really want them to succeed for the sake of the planet, but it's another "revolutionary new battery just five years
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by otherotherchris 4y ago
They claim ~65% round trip currently and think they can improve to 75%. Not great, but polysilicon solar panels are cheap cheap cheap so charging efficiency doesn't matter much. It's being sold as a complementary solution to more
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
Google's key problem is that it seems to prioritize "freshness" above all else. Experts on a given topic have no need to continuously spam their sites full of minutely modified "best of x in April 2022" listicles. T
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
I question what is going wrong with Google at a management level. It's products have been undergoing a slow creeping rot since Brin and Page bailed from the company. Google Search as a product is declining in usefulness due to a very s
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
Autonomous trucks don't need stationary rest so you can halve your fleet number just from higher fleet utilization. Battery powered trucks are also expected to have lower downtime for maintenance and overhaul, so you can shave off anot
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
"Fake taxi's that drive a customer into a bad experience for "lols"." That solves part of the unemployment problem, at least for the more photogenic "teens".
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
Or single purpose accounts that laid dormant. My anonymous marketplace-only account was banned from logging into Facebook after a few months of activity for being what they identified as a "bot account". They say I can send them p
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
I'm in my 30's and am in the same boat. A lot of my older colleagues and mentors are over 50 and won't use this service because half their network is excluded. The most toxic people on Nextdoor and Facebook are over 60, are j
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
Android is bleeding marketshare to whom? PalmOS? Windows Mobile? Outside of the Great Firewall they dominate everything. Apple's IOS is shrinking globally due to Apple chasing premium customers and pricing itself out of the market. An
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
They don't exist. Open forums have been dying for the last decade. First they migrated to Reddit, then walled garden Facebook groups, and lately to Discord. Google has also removed a lot of large and active forums from it's index

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