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What does facial recognition software make of Putin’s backdrop crowd?(bbc.co.uk)
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by robga 4y ago
I’ve not used Mathematica before, but I managed to get it twerking.
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Removing these books was what Daunt did at Waterstones. “Daunt also removed legal textbooks, technical guides, reference books from the shelves. In return, he stocked more books that customers were delighted to discover which led to an incr
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Looks like backblaze b2 and cloudflare as a cdn may have a more liberal egress policy. Your profile with wasabi may suit your needs, however. Another option is minio.
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Re “egress is free”. Note that “If your monthly egress data transfer is greater than your active storage volume, then your storage use case is not a good fit for Wasabi’s free egress policy”. There are reports of bill shock from mastodon us
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This is a well written post that explains how to tune an AWS single user instance deployment, and the costs that may be expected. It makes me feel that I’m getting rather good value at masto.host for my personal instance (I was on a waitlis
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I listened to 20 or 30 of his podcasts and enjoyed them. But then let it slide. It felt more like Lex was asking interviewees for thoughts on his ideas and worldview than letting their own ideas breathe.
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New to me in the 12 months. Fall of Civilizations - catalogue is now 16 long (3 hour) episodes. https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/ Sweet Bobby - crazy phishing story, told in 6 tight episodes. https://www.t
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by robga 4y ago
No, far less for me. 2000-2019: unwell (flu, cold) 2-3 times a year. 2020-2022: not unwell a single time, 36 months counting now. Context: I now travel on public transport once a month vs 20 times a month. I work from home and not a busy o
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Here is the result of a previous run. Probably this one came to the same fate? Turbulence or atmospheric conditions leading to mid air disintegration. When ZULU82 was lost, it was operating at a lower than usual altitude. https:/&#x2F
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Just this year, an uncrewed Airbus Zephyr 8 High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite crashed just 4 hours shy of the time aloft for this crewed record. It’s 82 feet long but only 166 pounds, and solar refuels it’s batteries. Hardly the same class, bu
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It’s the way he makes them.
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I’d throw in sheafs of Nassim Taleb and Yuval Harari output to get the fire roaring.
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"Ours cannot offer a telephone appointment for 3-4 weeks". This is labelled an anecdote. My anecdote is that I can always get an in-person appointment on-the-day at my London NHS GP, and I live not in a particularly affluent locat
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Much better source than some schlocky tv channel copy https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-w...
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Answer from the author https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33855250#33856184
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And: masto-debated
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The PDF of the book provides reasoning. https://access.bl.uk/item/pdf/lsidyv3c0c937d "Taking the City of London for the central division, round it we have grouped six similar divisions ; these, in their turn,
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Potentially more informative https://mappinglondon.co.uk/2013/hexagonal-map-of-london/ Book PDF https://access.bl.uk/item/pdf/lsidyv3c0c937d
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The official Anker response on Amazon UK Q&A is "86.4Wh" But yes, it is annoying.
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I've played about 60 hours of Factorio on the Nintendo Switch version, which came out 4 weeks ago. I'd never played it before. This comment has very little to do with Apple Silicon, except to say that I imagine its a faster platfo
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Projects underway include https://www.projectceti.org/ and https://www.earthspecies.org/
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Brief discussion of Takahe in the TalkPython podcast here https://youtu.be/LhBfMoR3bvI?t=2369
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Say you’re into several disparate topics. e.g. always into a tech area, a sports team, a type of music, a local city. Then you may have time based interests that come and go yearly. It doesn’t seem to make sense to me that you have to choos
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DMOZ had an interesting license, as I recall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Directory_License https://web.archive.org/web/20070813215202/http://www.dmoz.o... "The Free Soft
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It reminds me of DMOZ ODP days. Ohh.nostalgia http://www.odp.org/homepage.php (archive)
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Also, the Benefit In Kind (BIK) tax is rising from the current 2% to 3%, 4%, 5% over the next three years. On a £40k car, this means the assessed benefit will rise from £800 to £2000 over three years. For a 40% tax payer, this means an incr
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If you're interested in ancient blue, the book Blue: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau is very enjoyable. I also enjoyed his Red history book. And I've just noticed that he went on to write histories of Yellow, Green, Wh
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Do you find the answer “variation and natural selection” to the question “how could evolution possibly have occurred" unsatisfactory? If so, it’d be interesting to understand why.
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Making Creative 'Anti-Cheating' Hats in the Philippines(says.com)
1 points by robga 4y ago|1 comments

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