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811.
by saltcured 3y ago
I understand what you mean. I'm a bit of an ideologue who would rather sacrifice some comforts or conveniences in order to reject the plan marketers are trying to force onto me. I am disgusted by the cynical vertical integrations which
812.
by saltcured 3y ago
I agree with other comments that it can be easy to conflate the actual person on the other side of text with the imagined person. But, there are also other possibilities to consider too. I am speaking generally here, not assuming we know th
813.
by saltcured 3y ago
As someone who has had several cars like that (built in the late 70s and late 90s), I'll note that operating costs get much harder to quantify with an older car... I suppose it depends on your maintenance philosophy and risk tolerance,
814.
by saltcured 3y ago
From the context, I assume it is a pun on hinterland as borrowed into English. Here, it is mostly synonymous with backwoods. The hinterland may sound more literary than folksy, or may emphasize an unexplored or less navigable zone rather th
815.
by saltcured 3y ago
My gut reaction is similar to yours, but then I've lost a couple pocket-knives over the decades when I accidentally had it in my day pack that gets used in the outdoors as well as for flights. I wonder if there are folks out there who
816.
by saltcured 3y ago
In both the US and Asia in the past 20 years or so, I've been able to buy my own ADSL and cable modems from third-party sellers and have that as my only CPE. This avoids the rental fee and is often a win if you're going to use it
817.
by saltcured 3y ago
Ha, that does sound somewhat un-smart. Of course, when I imagined clever, it would include enough state and timer-based behaviors to recognize a bad trend and protect the traction battery too. It should be feasible to monitor voltage levels
818.
by saltcured 3y ago
I learned over the pandemic that a Toyota Camry Hybrid would eat its 12V AGM battery very easily. In this case, it is a deep-cycle AGM and isn't even used to start the ICE. It's "just" to run accessories and boot up the
819.
by saltcured 3y ago
I use profiles because I want state isolated for my purpose, not per web origin. So for example, I may need to visit google sites related to my employer's Gsuite, or my personal account used with GMail and phone, or as an anonymous use
820.
by saltcured 3y ago
I came back to this thread expecting to see at least one reply in a let-me-LLM-that-for-you style to task an LLM with reader-mode cleanup. Is the lack of such posts due to newfound restraint? Or is this kind of task already too complex for
821.
by saltcured 3y ago
In encounters with medical professionals related to my elderly relatives, I was told several times the same kind of anecdotal observation: that "intelligent" patients seem to decline more rapidly with dementia; the hypothesis is t
822.
by saltcured 3y ago
TBH, I've started to wonder after all the recall news... are airbags really a liability on any older car? As they age in place, how do you quantify the personal risk and unknowns as to whether you are driving around with a cluster of
823.
by saltcured 3y ago
If only there were some kind of information pump that could convert heat into information and vice versa. Then you could decide which calculations to run depending on whether you want to cool or heat your room. ;-)
824.
by saltcured 3y ago
So far, AMD doesn't do the p-core/e-core thing. All cores will have the same ISA. They have talked about a "compact" core which seems to be a tweaked process that shrinks the core and decreases peak clocks a bit, meant t
825.
by saltcured 3y ago
I'm surprised nobody in the comments (that I can find) has mentioned another problem of relative times: am I the only one who considers of the ambiguity of _when_ was the page rendered and therefore what is the reference point for the
826.
by saltcured 3y ago
If I can recall from over 30 years ago, yes Old Faithful viewing is within a few hundred feet of a parking area. For those who naturally wander, it can be hard to understand. But a lot of visitors barely leave parking lots and pull-outs. I
827.
by saltcured 3y ago
For those with some savings, you also need to understand how to get into inflation-resistant investments if you want to not be pinched by savings. Otherwise this spiral of increasing wages makes your prior savings irrelevant. On the other h
828.
by saltcured 3y ago
I have fully immersive dreams. It's not a movie, it's like reality with sight, sound, smell, touch, temperature, proprioception, etc. Also, there generally aren't any of the fantastical, psychedelic, or other "dreamy&quo
829.
by saltcured 3y ago
And then there is multi-photon fluorescence where several low energy photons are absorbed simultaneously to pump up the electron state and then it can emit a higher energy photon! This is used in a lot of biomedical imaging with infrared il
830.
by saltcured 3y ago
But for how long will good batteries be stocked for older phones? My frustrating experience with lots of older tech like cameras and laptops is that the battery formats are constantly changing, and none are being manufactured in the require
831.
by saltcured 3y ago
Well, the second secret is having a very rigid and precise interface between the watch case and back cover so that the thin gasket remains under the correct amount of pressure everywhere around the joint. This has been optimized at the smal
832.
by saltcured 3y ago
Yes, it's really frustrating that Zarr is promoting these exploded file/object trees and not providing a viable standard serialization for an entire image. It's ironic that they mention FAIR but don't see how much better
833.
by saltcured 3y ago
Yes, I think you are talking about light-sheet microscopy. This tries to illuminate a thin layer and then images with a 2D sensor like in a normal digital camera. This is often a monochrome sensor, and extra metadata records what kind of o
834.
by saltcured 3y ago
So far, I've only ever replaced smartphones because they stopped getting software support or had a battery failure. Never dropped lost one to water damage. Never cracked a screen or otherwise broke one physically. Unless I forgot one,
835.
by saltcured 3y ago
I don't claim to have golden ears but I am a picky listener. I've been pretty satisfied with good MP3 encodings like 320kb/s though I'm not sure I'd agree they're indistinguishable. I had an experience I mentio
836.
by saltcured 3y ago
I understand the theory of this, but cannot reconcile it with an experience I had in person a decade ago. In the acoustically prepped monitoring booth of his recording studio, a friend of mine tried to give me an ABX test of 24bit 96 kHz re
837.
by saltcured 3y ago
Aliasing can actually occur in the capture stage if the setup isn't right. Think of moire patterns in a video with highly textured subjects. It can happen whenever a signal is sampled. The mastering discussed higher up in the thread is
838.
by saltcured 3y ago
That's close to my take from the SF Bay Area too. A few days over a weekend would strongly tend towards adding either Friday or Monday but not both. I do consider that "a couple" is imprecise and varies by context. Asking for
839.
by saltcured 3y ago
Exactly. It isn't really possible to discuss this without "copyright" and that is why RMS focused on that topic. Conventional commercial copyright in practice is making a monopoly of redistribution and then burdening the dist
840.
by saltcured 3y ago
Yes, but there are also the inverse who confuse thoughtfulness for cynicism! And this is just one facet of a more general cognitive behavior, where abstraction fails. I like to think of it as metaphor collapsing into simile. Call me cynical

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