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841.
by serf 2y ago
the same way they ever make ballistic weapons in space work in fiction, an aim-able exhaust port and accompanying verniers. or, for bonus points during an extra busy war, symmetrical cannons firing synchronized volleys.
842.
by serf 2y ago
if you're foregoing proper preparation almost any food will kill you.
843.
by serf 2y ago
i'm with you, but 'product discovery via security announcement' is a risky business.
844.
by serf 2y ago
same as parent, it was taught to me in an introduction to algorithms class, and no one during my academic stay ever referred to it as an AI. I don't disagree that it certainly meets certain AI criteria, just saying that particular phra
845.
by serf 2y ago
all the sun displays were built by Sony afaik, so you're probably not far off.
846.
by serf 2y ago
because the far-parent problem was 'facebook has ads that target me.' an easy way to avoid the problem of seeing ads on facebook is.. to avoid facebook. yes, this doesn't solve the privacy and ad-affiliate network problem --
847.
by serf 2y ago
>and none of its users complain of an allergy. I have a hard time imagining that's true for any material, ever.
848.
by serf 2y ago
>Rear-ending someone going slower than you is not their fault. who gives a shit who is at fault when they're in an accident? the goal is to avoid the event all together, not to have a scapegoat.
849.
by serf 2y ago
ahh that takes me back. I used to be addicted to this back in the SubSpace VirginNet days. trench wars sniping was the best.
850.
by serf 2y ago
there is a lot of spontaneity in the act of sex that you're taking for granted; it's not that easy to throw that away and get the same thing out of the event. rigor and standards are often the enemies of passion, so it's a ha
851.
by serf 2y ago
you can sorta-kinda do that with anything with a high fat content. the fat interacts with the gum base and emulsifiers. the fat also coats the components in a way that reduces likelihood of re-amalgamation.
852.
by serf 2y ago
>If one volunteers to participate in a study of a drug suspected to reduce drinking, that itself is a contradiction of the exclusion criteria. no, it isn't. many trials offer financial compensation -- they may not be seeking treatme
853.
by serf 2y ago
stitch the images together (sift,orb) and apply a perspective transform. if the images are uniform enough in style you can then probably crop them all at once with mask coordinates. opencv/imagemagick will handle all of it. if the imag
854.
by serf 2y ago
>Git is not just a fad; it's a literal underpinning of most serious software development these days, especially if you need to work with others. yeah, but all of the VCSs before git could've claimed the same thing. if that&#x27
855.
by serf 2y ago
who cares? git is a tool, not a discipline. It's made to facilitate work, not to create a whole knowledge domain unto itself. I wouldn't fault a seasoned and well trained mechanic for not knowing the specifics of a specialty tool
856.
by serf 2y ago
>scientific return that comes after 'someone out there' misinterprets our super fast gram probes as weaponry and conquers our world for the sake of their own spacecraft safety. it's ingenious really, let's antagonize
857.
by serf 2y ago
it's not surprising to me that the bosch mid-drives are failing, they're typically placed at an angle that catches all the run off from every tube at the lowest point on the bike (except on recumbents), and the controller is (usua
858.
by serf 2y ago
every modern injection system that has authority over ignition and cam timing can monitor knock via microphone and adjust accordingly.
859.
by serf 2y ago
>It's just that it's very easy for deviations from what the sensors see to occur. right, but this is a problem in any modern precision machining, and it has been (mostly) conquered to a degree that we can produce very precise
860.
by serf 2y ago
no, not really -- BUT -- you can print onto the top of a grate to apply that surface finish to the bottom of the print. It's a neat thing to do when you're printing phone cases or something similar.
861.
by serf 2y ago
Same. When I was young I emailed him with a question something like "I am too young to have witnessed the events of the Vietnam War, can you please recommend me some reading material or push me in the right direction?" That questi
862.
by serf 2y ago
NGE isn't really about the world ending, it's about the forced ending of humanity as we know it; we're even left to see what the world looks like post-humanity in EoE.
863.
by serf 2y ago
>Various Gundam series take place across different universes, there is no reason a series based on "the world is ending" can't do the same thing - share thematic elements across different sets of characters. NGE has done t
864.
by serf 2y ago
it strikes me as ridiculous to have an expectation that something painted on a walking or driving path is going to stay in good condition. At one time it was considered disrespectful to the cause itself to demonstrate flags in inappropriate
865.
by serf 2y ago
i'm not a big openAI fan and even I think the title is crummy. I think it should be "How we used chatGPT to make a 10k mistake." -- at least then it's honest about the party at fault, that being the startup that didn&#x2
866.
by serf 2y ago
firefox could have some of the wackiest politics in the world but that fact remains that Google/Chrome is one of the key linchpins for the global corporate surveillance capitalism panopticon that we have today. I still feel like it&#
867.
by serf 2y ago
where there is increased opportunity there is usually increased risk; it's hardly a relative comparison. also no one really chooses their offspring's 'half of the lottery', it's an accident of nature -- we only get
868.
by serf 2y ago
rotation: 360/86,400=0.0041667deg/sec 0.0041667 * 0.004sec = 000016667degR circumference: 2pi * 6371km = 40,030km land covered by rotation: 40,030 / 360 = 111.194km/deg 0.000016667deg × 111.194 km/degree = 0.001854
869.
by serf 2y ago
A Wired article reminding adult humans that siphons exist. Feels like a bad sign for humanity that we're getting this simple in the citizen-science 'laymen' explanations. "Can you dig a hole without an excavator?" W
870.
by serf 2y ago
i've spoke about it before, but I think it's criminal when a video game company continues to rake-in in-game-purchase profit far after they've ceased moderation or population herding. TF2 is one such example. Another egregiou

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