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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
I did much the same and ultimately came to the conclusions that: 1) The remaining consumer options are on the low to mediocre end of the spectrum and don't have great picture 2) The commercial options are more expensive with mediocre p
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
At least for the time being it's still possible to keep TVs off the internet and bypass this garbage. I've got a 2020 Sony and have never seen an ad on it. I'm expecting these days are numbered though; some combination of eth
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
Heck, I'm just impressed with it for acknowledging the family issue. Not sure why this is such a popular internet topic, but almost none of the treatments I've seen bother considering it. Any method that starts separating a parent
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
I'm not all that deep into the bikepacking/touring world (just some weekend rides) but it's not something I see referenced, however they have some pretty amazing storage and packing options that remind me of it: https:/
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
The one distinguishing feature (in theory) of digital twins is it is supposed to be such a hyper accurate model that it can be used to predict absolutely anything about the system in question. No changing of model setup, it's a "p
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
Is there a possibility sites just begin blocking Firefox? It's only ~8% of the desktop market share and ~4% across all devices. It doesn't seem inconceivable sites just give up supporting it if they're not getting the ad reve
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
On one hand I'm completely ok paying for a service like this, because it is worth it. On the other, I'm pretty angry about this change. I am so sick of services luring you in with a free tier, then changing the terms once they hav
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
I don't have any automotive experience but that largely squares with what I hear through the grapevine in the Auto industry. In the heavy machinery industry which Deere opporates it's mostly the opposite. Kubota, Agco, Bosch etc.
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
The entire industry does. I work for a component supplier in the industry and the US companies are just awful. Their two priorities are: 1) Proprietary Fit - how do they prevent their customers from buying replacement components from third
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
See Idaho attempting to pass a constitutional amendment banning any legalization, even medical. Passed the senate with a 2/3 supermajority a couple days ago, about to go to the house for a supermajority vote, then a simple majority b
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
See Argument From Fallacy or Fallacy Fallacy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy https://effectiviology.com/fallacy-fallacy/
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
Maybe poor phrasing on my part, but that's the prevalent theory I've seen for how they do it today. Various other methods of EM leakage might have worked in the past (unproven as far as I know), but modern televisions are so muc
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
I believe the current theory is they simply look for light leakage. If they see a "flash - 200ms - flash - 400ms - flash - 350ms - flash" pattern leaking through your curtains precisely at the moment the same pattern occurs in a l
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
Yeah, unfortunately that's a problem with basically all the competitors I've looked at. OSM is pretty terrible in a good chunk of the US as well, and even varies neighborhood by neighborhood in most cities I've checked. At le
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
Interesting. Do you have any more information about it? I haven't been able to find anything. Their privacy policy seemed reasonably OK by modern standards, and all I can turn up is Facebook is getting map data from them; but nothing a
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
For what it's worth, I've find Here Maps to be a step up from Apple Maps. Used to be owned Nokia, now it seems to be a big partnership between VW, BMW, Daimler, Intel, Mitsubishi and NTT. Here has our complete transit system; Appl
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
The portion I've ridden in Iowa (Marshalltown to Woodward) was a mix. Roughly 50% dedicated trail, 25% on-road lanes, and 25% "the trail is just gone, use your GPS to find the next segment". It's a lot of packed gravel a
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
My company has been sending out monthly tests for about 2 years now. There were some modest early gains (~33% -> 20%) but it's been stuck there for 12 months or so. They're not particularly convincing fakes either: "please
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
It's because the German language is highly compound. Take any descriptive phrase, remove the spaces, and you have a new word. In English, it'd be the equivalent of taking "make worse by improving" and turning it into &qu
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
Any idea how well this would work with sawdust? I generate a ton in my workshop. The city currently takes it in our organics bin, but it's a pain. Have to buy expensive compostable bags, then transfer from the dust collector to the sec
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
It's not perfect, but depending on how much you know about them, probing niche areas of their interest can work out. A book of 100 basic bread recipes is nearly useless for an experienced baker. A book of "authentic Mozambique bre
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
I've checked a couple with Soundhound and they seem to be on "Healin' in the City Night, Vol 3" now https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nqWGydjKlLOvGr... Edit: Hm, seems to be some chillhop pla
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
Discussed quite a bit here 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25143926
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
In theory yeah. In practice, 32 was about the best I ever managed and 24-26 was typical.
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
kb or kB? Assuming kB and dialup, which was 83% of the US at the time (easiest stat to quickly find), that was a difference of about 23s vs 121s load time. Edit: Seems like the UK would have been about 50/50 around that time according
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
I'm not sure what changed with COVID, but something has been much worse in the last 9 months. I've always used a personal system similar to what I understand "GTD" to be based on the article but everything about it has b
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
I thought this was a really great look at all of data visualizations that happened on election night. Some good, some bad, but interesting to see them all side-by-side.
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We design maps for a living. Here’s who got the 2020 election right(fastcompany.com)
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
That's really interesting, I hadn't sliced it that way yet. I know FiveThirtyEight allocates undecideds evenly - if 8% respond undecided they assume 4% will break Biden and 4% will break Trump. In one of the podcasts they discusse
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
I'm not sure that's quite fair. They do write some excellent retrospectives and admit when they made mistakes, at least more so than almost any other news outlet I've seen: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features

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