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by scherlock 2y ago
All their APIs are rate limited. Disney would have a Grid and with Grids you get data dumps. The feature is normally used for litigation and you need pretty high admin access to get a dump. They either found an exploit or they compromised
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by scherlock 2y ago
I named my kid Dexter. Despite my best efforts he won't wear lab coats or speak with an accent. When I try he just asks me to go buy some plastic drop cloths and goes back to sharpening the kitchen knives.
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by scherlock 2y ago
I'm thinking something like it's a proxy for self control. Being able to restrict yourself to a relatively small treat shows self control which probably is good indicator for avoiding other foods that might cause heart disease.
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by scherlock 2y ago
Yeah, I've done custom skinned apps in WPF that were deployed via zip file. Unzip and run the exe. Worked fine and even did p/invoke. Either they are ignorant about MS windows development or just a fanciful idea about how it sho
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by scherlock 2y ago
Ohh, I've done this. I bought some titanium bike parts and I was suspicious if they were titanium. I measured the weight of the bolts then dropped them in a graduated cylinder to get the volume, mass divas by volume is density, I the
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by scherlock 2y ago
What did the author do? Ask Chat GPT to write an article about API Governance and use that word as much as possible?
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by scherlock 2y ago
Might as well called Stanford B2C and MIT B2B. Yeah, B2B needs more capital since they are building a plant while B2C is really about sourcing materials, packaging and marketing. Completely different businesses, different CapEx and OpEx m
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by scherlock 2y ago
The windows are not glass, they are 1/2" polycarbonate, per the article, which is easily scratched and susceptible to UV damage. That is the problem. They could likely be polished but then they need to retest the windows for saf
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by scherlock 2y ago
This is the author learning new tech on personal projects. Nothing wrong with that. Resume driven development is when a technology gets shoe horned into a project since someone wants to pad their resume.
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by scherlock 2y ago
Also, the reason people go bankrupt in the US are very different than the reasons people go bankrupt in Europe. 2/3 of personal bankruptcy in the US is linked to medical debt somehow. That is not the case in Europe.
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by scherlock 3y ago
Might be a slow moving, low flying civilian air craft isn't what the AA system is looking for as a possible threat.
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by scherlock 3y ago
I'm pretty sure I read a scifi dystopian novel where a scientist develops a bacteria that eats plastic they release it and the novel follows the after effects. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86452.Ill_Win
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by scherlock 3y ago
Stop subsidizing corn production. Invest in making fruits and vegetables cheaper. Encourage development that includes high walkable and bikable aspects while minimizing driving aspects.
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by scherlock 3y ago
Sorry, yes, that is the better definition.
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by scherlock 3y ago
Implied volatility is really the standard deviation of the price over time. You can calculate it by look at prices in the market. Then interpolate values. Where banks get funky is that the market for options go out about 3 years, but a ba
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by scherlock 3y ago
Crud is widely used. My kid's pediatrician and my PCP both use it to describe a general cold or cold symptoms. I'd say it has been in general use for about decade.
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by scherlock 3y ago
The major issue with research is how only successful results are viewed as worth while, and study results without a "positive" out come is viewed as a failure. So this means researchers are incentized to p-hack or falsifying resu
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by scherlock 3y ago
Yup, 99.999% are script kiddies running bots that look for unsecured servers or indicators for known exploits.
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by scherlock 3y ago
How about this, why don't SK, UK, French and US regulators get together and agree on a common set of regulations for reactor design. Then they can focus on the site specific regulations unique to each installation.
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by scherlock 3y ago
Yup, is they say you didn't meet metrics but can't articulate what those metrics are then they are incompetent and lying. Wouldn't surprise me if those two yoyos were contractors and not actual employees and just reading fro
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by scherlock 3y ago
Wish they had a photo of the two bolts they can't get out. Though I wonder if, in the vacuum of space, the metal of screws and the metal of the containers contact welded together due to high machining tolerances.
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by scherlock 3y ago
My mom used to do English/French translation. Her favorite example was the word "file". That word has multiple translation in French depending on the context, and that context may simply be implied by who is speaking. You
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by scherlock 3y ago
Why would ranchers spend money on reducing negative externalities they don't have to pay for? If ranchers had to pay a methane emission tax, they would buy it in a heart beat.
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by scherlock 3y ago
If you have a db, why not just model it as unsaved data? I.e. all changes get stored to the db, but have a flag of unsaved. If you open up a file and there are unsaved changes, you can prompt the user to either make them saved or discard
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by scherlock 3y ago
Because what is happening I the list of ages is being transformed into a list of booleans where it's true if the age is greater than 17. This list of booleans is then turned into a list of integers where it's 1 if true, 0 if fals