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by peterleiser 3y ago
My bad! I fixed it. Thanks! The original title is too long for submission, and I mistakenly deleted the wrong words.
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Man convicted for trying to help undercover game wardens recover deer with drone(outdoorlife.com)
123 points by peterleiser 3y ago|304 comments
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by peterleiser 3y ago
Slight addition: eBike, eBike Pro, eBike Ultra. Ok, good job folks. I think we got it.
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by peterleiser 3y ago
I found that running TrinoDB in a docker container and adding the trino plugin to grafana was very straightforward. TrinoDB feels magical sometimes, except that the SQL syntax they use seemed awkward IIRC. Also, there are inexplicable per
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Science fiction authors excluded from Hugo awards for fear of offending China(nbcnews.com)
9 points by peterleiser 3y ago|0 comments
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by peterleiser 3y ago
Probably because it's been an active subject of research for decades. Search for "learning by writing things down". Not the only way to learn, obviously, since all of us also routinely learn by reading, listening, watching,
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by peterleiser 3y ago
My wife and I have never heard of being graded on your notes. Which school was this?
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by peterleiser 3y ago
Businesses are allowed to destroy inventory and then write that off. In this case I guess the movie is the inventory.
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by peterleiser 3y ago
Exactly. HSBC was laundering money for Mexican and Colombian drug cartels and fined $1.9 billion by the US government, which is one of the largest penalties ever imposed on a bank for breaking U.S. law. Deutsche Bank fires pretty high on th
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by peterleiser 3y ago
LOL'd as well, which caused my 1.5 year old to laugh; He gets it. Every time I use the Google Cloud Platform web UI I feel like someone is reaching through the monitor to slap me upside the head for not doing Infrastructure as Code.
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by peterleiser 3y ago
The best part is that the first 10 customers get their very own Evil Lair! Hurry, before Volcano Lair is sold out!
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by peterleiser 3y ago
Or maybe the "Talking Head" from the book Neuromancer: https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/Talking_head "On the exterior it is an antique-looking bust, cloisonne over platinum, studded with seedpearls
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by peterleiser 3y ago
This whole story reminds me of the movie Brazil.
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by peterleiser 3y ago
My wife bought this for our 6 year old when he was 3 and he loved it. She also bought a bunch of the other science books for babies. He insisted that I read "general relativity for babies" multiple times every night for months. H
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by peterleiser 3y ago
It's not about cost or technology. The pilot's union is against longer recordings.
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by peterleiser 3y ago
Hah, yeah. But it's a good problem solving and reasoning exercise. One of my courses in college used this book and it's very useful for reasoning about general real-world science topics: https://uscibooks.aip.org/b
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by peterleiser 3y ago
Reminds me of a friend who's New Year's resolution over 20 years ago was to pick up smoking. He tried a few times but just couldn't manage to start the habit.
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by peterleiser 3y ago
Can the download be cached in the browser so that subsequent web page visits don't download the same initial 200MB blob? That's better at least.
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by peterleiser 3y ago
This will probably be a minor component of the Qeng Ho's timekeeping system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Inters...
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by peterleiser 3y ago
Try contacting local small airports for information. Also, flight plans are apparently public record and available upon request.
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by peterleiser 3y ago
I laughed so hard that I needed a bandaid.
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by peterleiser 3y ago
This is the same reason I can't watch Dateline, where telling the story linearly and with just the facts would actually take about 3 minutes.
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by peterleiser 3y ago
12V is used more often than 5V for outdoor shows. This vendor is very popular, and also has a discussion about 12V vs. 5V: https://www.holidaycoro.com/kb_results.asp?ID=126 Also, the xConnect pigtails are great for wiring u
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by peterleiser 3y ago
The original announcement from January 2022 provides overall details as well as specific bullet points on each dollar amount of the "corporate welfare": https://www.michiganbusiness.org/press-releases/2022&#x2
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by peterleiser 3y ago
If you can "wear" the face of someone else then that seems like deepfake territory.
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by peterleiser 3y ago
Maybe so, but they definitely feature Evil Lair fetishists.
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by peterleiser 3y ago
The SEC knows who is trading, and is likely investigating why.
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by peterleiser 3y ago
I copied the scrambled text from the PDF but extra letters were inserted, spacing was messed up, etc. Typical PDF nonsense. So I took a screenshot of the letters, uploaded that to chatgpt-4, and it transcribed the letters. Then I asked it t
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by peterleiser 3y ago
Playing the sounds "Navigate on Autopilot" through "Traffic-Aware Cruise Control" sounds like the song "Oh! Susanna"
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by peterleiser 3y ago
Yes, stolen through incompetence but not malice in this case.

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