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by random_ind_dude 3y ago
It will probably increase the concentration of water vapor in the atmosphere, which will lead to further warming as water vapor absorbs the heat radiated by Earth.
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by random_ind_dude 3y ago
>he was a talented actor Was?
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by random_ind_dude 3y ago
Here is a report from the UN on forced criminality. https://www.unodc.org/roseap/uploads/documents/Publications/... The report is for Southeast Asia, but the same may apply for India too.
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by random_ind_dude 3y ago
What do you call a group of managers that used to work at Twitter? XXXX
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by random_ind_dude 4y ago
> A recent estimate of the global number of prokaryotic species is 2.2–4.3 million [110], down from previous potentially flawed estimates of trillions [111] From this Nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles&#x2F
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by random_ind_dude 4y ago
You know, someone not liking the current Indian government doesn't mean they hate India. To those in the US, Meta meddling in politics and turning a blind eye to those who used the platform to peddle misinformation isn't news. Ank
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by random_ind_dude 4y ago
A bit more context: The Gyanvapi mosque is older than the United States and the current controversy has been stirred up by Hindu nationalists targeting India's Muslim minority. Nupur Sharma's statements created an international co
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by random_ind_dude 5y ago
To me the study is interesting in that it found an association between the duration of daytime napping and the progression of dementia and that those two feed into each other. While it's true that there have been studies that linked po
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by random_ind_dude 5y ago
What makes you think that the scientists didn't consider the possibility that poor sleep at night was the actual causative factor driving the progression of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's dementia? From the paper:
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by random_ind_dude 5y ago
>swarajyamag A right-wing website that's extremely sympathetic to the current right-wing government in India is how you rebut V-Dem's classification of India as an electoral autocracy.
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by random_ind_dude 5y ago
Well, X-Ray is a feature in the Prime app that I like and use quite often and is very snappy. Since it's part of the UI overlay, I think it's handled by the WASM module (probably with local caching) and not by the dedicated video
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by random_ind_dude 5y ago
I have an LG UHD TV model from 2020 running webOS and I haven't noticed any performance issues either with Prime Video, UHD, HDR or otherwise. I use Bluetooth speakers/earphones for audio. The sound is almost perfectly synced with
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by random_ind_dude 5y ago
Mostly because of a multi-billion dollar ad campaign by a megacorp whose name rhymes with Moogle.
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by random_ind_dude 5y ago
After you pause the video, you can tap the screen to hide the controls. Tap again to display the controls.
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by random_ind_dude 5y ago
You are correct. I meant Google Sheets instead of Google Docs. I thought I'd tackle the word processor part once I got the spreadsheet to a usable state. I do think Google Docs suite is used as an umbrella term to refer to all the Goog
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by random_ind_dude 5y ago
The name Writely reminds me of a side project I worked on around 2010. I was not satisfied with the performance of Google Docs and its competitors at the time like EditGrid and thought (naively, as it turned out) I'd be able to develop
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by random_ind_dude 6y ago
Spring framework is "useless"? It's used by well-known companies like Netflix and LinkedIn as well as by a lot of Fortune 500 companies.
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by random_ind_dude 6y ago
You say you have found an ally in someone who is known for his controversial take on intelligence and heritability and who maintains that it is this inherited difference in intelligence that is responsible for social division within the US.
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by random_ind_dude 6y ago
It was possible to use Quixel assets in UE4 as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fC20NWhx4s The assets used in the UE5 demo are available in Quixel's website. https://quixel.com/megascans/coll
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by random_ind_dude 6y ago
The graphics look good because of two things: Quixel and global illumination. Quixel is Swedish company that Epic acquired in 2019. Quixel does high-resolution scans of actual physical objects(photogrammetry) and makes them available as tex
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by random_ind_dude 9y ago
>baby If, at some point in the future, scientists figure out a way to coax normal cells to become totipotent, will you consider amputation as murder?
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by random_ind_dude 11y ago
It doesn't work for me either. The fault lies with HN. I think the reason text reflow doesn't work on HN is that HN styles its content using old-fashioned HTML tables instead of DIVs.
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by random_ind_dude 11y ago
Dolphin does have text reflow. There is an option that says 'Auto-fit pages' in advanced settings, which is the same thing as text reflow. That option is the only reason I'm using Dolphin as my mobile browser. I used to use O
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by random_ind_dude 11y ago
>India itself is a big importer of horns and I think much bigger then China That's not true at all. In fact India has two-thirds of the world's great one-horned rhino population in the Kaziranga National Park. https:/&#x2
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by random_ind_dude 11y ago
Can you completely discount the part played by one's innate ability, though? I have been able to sing in tune and play percussion instruments (mainly the tabla) from a very young age, though I am no prodigy. Sadly, I was never motivate
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by random_ind_dude 11y ago
On reading galtwho's comment again, I feel you are right. I thought he/she was repeating the post-hoc reasoning that is common in India, where people would take a ritual and assert that ancient Indians knew about scientific ideas
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by random_ind_dude 11y ago
I can't find anything on the Internet to support the theory that greeting by way of Namaste was practiced for hygiene reasons. Do you have any citations for that?
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by random_ind_dude 11y ago
I find it interesting that sending a probe more than 200 million kilometers to another planet is a lot easier than launching multi-ton payloads into the geosynchronous orbit. I am referring to the fact that India still relies on the ESA to
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by random_ind_dude 12y ago
An oscilloscope is a cathode ray tube that has an electron beam that can be moved around by applying varying voltages to its inputs. In this case it works as an XY plotter, i.e., you specify the X co-ordinate by the value of the voltage on
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by random_ind_dude 12y ago
That explains what I saw in a few Reddit threads where a user was tipping everyone for no reason at all! Some of the users that got tipped got angry and some got curious about Bitcoin.

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