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by rudyfink 4y ago
-46 f (-43.4c) actual temperature. The rest is just the fact that it's a windy mountain and wind chill values wind speed. If you were also curious, the lowest actual recorded temperature without windchill was -128 ( https://
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by rudyfink 4y ago
Or the performer is whomever you'd like it to be but some performers cost more than others based on rights? So if you'd like, you can be Rick-rolled by an AI generated dancing penguin in the style of Picasso with anime overtones
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by rudyfink 4y ago
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7629497B2/ (if anyone else was looking for a link, assignment information is near the bottom).
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by rudyfink 4y ago
Here they are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0feR5grSa4 (32 second spot) / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEVjILqU3pU (apparently the UK version of the same commercial).
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by rudyfink 4y ago
Yes, here is a chart of their activity in setting the Federal Funds rate since the 1950s ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS ). It is only, in very recent years (from 2008 to 2015), that the rate has stayed unc
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by rudyfink 4y ago
Adverse issues (e.g., fraud) tend to get noticed more in downturns, because, generally, everyone cares more about the details in those times. In times of plenty, they also occur (perhaps even as much), but people are more willing to let th
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by rudyfink 4y ago
Thank you. And I guess those protections apply even at the volumes of data subject to these ransomware attacks?
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by rudyfink 4y ago
This may be a very dumb crypto / ransomware question, but if someone knows the answer, I'd appreciate it. Why don't businesses (or systems) seed their drives with files with known text / content and then use those files
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by rudyfink 4y ago
If anyone else wants more detail, this is the FCC's page on the notice: https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-fine-interrupting-... This appears to be the agency's statement: https://docs.fcc.g
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by rudyfink 4y ago
You might enjoy a book called Financial Shenanigans ( https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Shenanigans-Fourth-Accounti... ). It's essentially examples of detective stories based on financial statements.
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by rudyfink 5y ago
How about a view that weights the time headlines have spent on that page per day? In other words, as I understand the page, it aggregates the current headlines, but I'd like a view that shows what that page has shown to be the news th
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by rudyfink 5y ago
Yes, it feels like a return to the walled-garden days of America Online, Prodigy, CompuServe, etc. Essentially, they seem to be want to create a separate network that they control--one that is not "internet-ed" to other networks
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by rudyfink 5y ago
Do both?
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by rudyfink 5y ago
From "The Demon Under the Microscope" by Hager--an interesting read on the history of Sulfonamides (the drug that kicks off the "golden age of antibiotics on the chart)--usage was entirely uncontrolled and people did not comp
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by rudyfink 5y ago
I'd love to see a paper looking at this (e.g., how often is the "primary" author the last author or is the last author a better predictor of quality than the first, if you look back historically). I suspect this is very wide
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by rudyfink 5y ago
In short, "necessity is a helluva thing." It is not a technical explanation, but there is a great amount of truth in saying they were that way because they had to be to make it work. Coming from another angle, the developers at t
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by rudyfink 5y ago
I can confirm this is a nice use case: I had this on a ThinkPad once, though the pad was not MacBook big. It was also nice to be able to do some mouse movements with the trackpoint without having to alter your hand position on the keyboard
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by rudyfink 5y ago
A Facebook login is required to read an explanation to the public? I get a login/password screen... There is probably a good quip there about the psychology involved in placing a response on a private forum, but the effect for Faceboo
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by rudyfink 5y ago
"Law? What do I care about the law. Ain’t I got the power?” (attributed to Cornelius Vanderbilt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Vanderbilt ) Your question made me think of that quote. There are technical a
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by rudyfink 5y ago
I think of that as a parachute-rigger solution ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute_rigger ). Historically, people packing parachutes could be randomly selected to jump with the parachute they had packed.
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by rudyfink 5y ago
In case anyone else wanted to know more, there are, apparently, 2 official languages and the other is Spanish. https://www.servat.unibe.ch/icl/pa00000_.html#A140_
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by rudyfink 5y ago
I recall once hearing a talk that discussed, what I recall as, "test patterns" being run across the visual cortex prior to birth. Essentially, waves / patterns of stimulation would go across the optic structure that would be
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by rudyfink 5y ago
The recommendation system, historically (i.e., in the long-long ago of spinning disks), was insanely good. But then Netflix moved to streaming and, as a consequence, its own--and generally less good--content. By analogy, Netflix went from b
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by rudyfink 5y ago
Would you mind sharing your experience on how well that has worked for you? Has the complexity of maintaining different addresses been a problem? I ask because it is something I have always thought about, but I suppose I kept hoping a servi
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by rudyfink 5y ago
Alan Turing's Google NGram certainly supports your impression that "general public knowledge of Turing's life and work has increased over the years." https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Ala
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by rudyfink 5y ago
Generally speaking, this decision should not alter decisions in the district courts. Today's decision concerns filings in a specific agency court (the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P
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by rudyfink 5y ago
To add to this, the App Store clearly markets security and trust. These are the very first words describing the App Store ( https://www.apple.com/app-store/ ): "The apps you love. From a place you can trust. For ov
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by rudyfink 5y ago
Maybe not? Most consumer arbitration agreements these days ban asserting class claims. This has been on the rise since 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility_LLC_v._Concepc... . In my opinion, this legal
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by rudyfink 5y ago
I have no idea if it is true, but, in Egypt, my guide (who I will say was wonderfully knowledgeable on historic matters), stated that the reason many properties had rebar extending upwards (e.g., it looked like there were more stories to be
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by rudyfink 6y ago
From the article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22274-1#Sec2 The point of the article is, in my estimation, the university's press office celebrating the achievement of its student, its faculty, and,

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