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871.
by serf 2y ago
generative AI photos are the headline photos for like 60% of 'Google feed' type news these days. Did 'enterprise blockchain' ever change the real world in any ways noticeable to the laymen outside of the industry?
872.
by serf 2y ago
this has been my experience, too. more rotors = more power consumption capability, but in practice it yields lower duty cycles for each of the motors. That effect, along with additional lift capacity for batteries, creates a platform that g
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by serf 2y ago
>The current prescription opioid crisis is for the millions of patients in pain unable to get any pain med as a person with a dear family member who is addicted to opiates and watches their compulsive behavior of going from new doctor to
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by serf 2y ago
>Surely my conscious mind cannot exist in two different eras simultaneously. mentally I think of it more like save/restore states. the future-person meeting the past person would just be past person+future person as a merged state,
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by serf 2y ago
this entire sub-thread and dialogue is like an advertisement for finding a mentor as quick as possible. on one hand you're talking about how you made it without one, then on the other hand you're also commiserating about being a (
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by serf 2y ago
aside from 'the craft' and tradition of the process, is there any real benefit to using legitimate urushiol? there are lots of bonding agents and epoxies out there that are not urushi based , actually food safe, and just as
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by serf 2y ago
>We're shaming most of the population for way less. none of us benefit from my neighbors' scrap wood fire, except for him. that alone drives a distinction between the two.
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by serf 2y ago
>the issue was nobody expected a tsunami that fucking tall and reasonably so. that's less reasonable when you consider Japan's history with tsunami. The events in 1933,1896, and 1993 produced tsunamis with larger wave heights t
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by serf 2y ago
"He's not going to listen to anything anyone at the SEC says!" "...but he will pay their fines." what a renegade!
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by serf 2y ago
yeah in 94, and the reasons were ridiculous.[0] [0]: https://merage.uci.edu/~jorion/oc/case.html
881.
by serf 2y ago
I'm excited for all these epaper devices for use on my sailboat. Everyone uses tablets + Navionics, but glass tablets absolutely suck in bright daylight. It will be nice to find an ePaper device that I trust enough to use for charts.
882.
by serf 2y ago
it's neat that the spider outlasted the arachnologist's career. I wonder how long it would have lived without the wasps' interference.
883.
by serf 2y ago
it's only a cost because the budget for building things like toll-roads considers the future revenue of fines as one of the payback streams. fwiw I think it's a a stretch to call it a cost, it's a sympathy move. More like &qu
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by serf 2y ago
Etsy as a platform for buying and selling is fine, its discoverability and search that hinders the customer experience. I've bought lots of art commissions and actual hand-made knickknacks and toys from actual non-print-mill individual
885.
by serf 2y ago
wait long enough and the other product will be able to expose the secrets. future gpt prompt : "Take 200000 random comments and threads from hacker news, look at how they rank over time and make assumptions about how the moderation sta
886.
by serf 2y ago
i'm so sick of this lame line of reasoning, it oozes out every time anyone is even minorly critical of anything. an individual can criticize something without having produced something greater than the thing itself, it's just comp
887.
by serf 2y ago
i've shifted between political 'sides' in my life, but my opinions on prostitution (and torture, I suppose) haven't really changed. tl;dr : I think that's a bad yard-stick.
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by serf 2y ago
my gut tells me the dyson sphere is easier. we can sorta-kinda imagine how to make a dyson sphere now, the engineering is just tremendous and our product would kind of suck. as far as i'm aware we're still pretty clueless about in
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by serf 2y ago
it's noteworthy because a lot of similar solutions using OpenSCAD (progmatic on-demand creation of boxes/containers) are written poorly, and in many cases they only allow an arbitrary precision as set by the authors. >This is k
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by serf 2y ago
>That’s why she was the voice actor for the AI voice in Her. She was used in Her because she has a dry/monotone/lifeless form of diction that at the time seemed like a decent stand-in for an non-human AI. IMDB is riddled with c
891.
by serf 2y ago
here's the relevance : a bow and arrow and a gun both shoot projectiles. One of them has more regulation due to improved efficacy at shooting projectiles. The presumption here would be that the materials designed for killing cells woul
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by serf 2y ago
you can still provide for your family without signing deals with the devil, it's just harder. moral stands are never free, but they are freeing.
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by serf 2y ago
a conspiracy theorist wouldn't accuse the coroner of being poorly trained. They would say that the coroner was highly pressured, in cahoots, or paid. conspiracy theories generally don't allow naivety/neglect/negligence&#
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by serf 2y ago
'guy'/'guys' is used without a gender context in certain regions, more like synonyms of 'folks '. I hear "hey guys" routinely in SoCal said without intention of labeling people.
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by serf 2y ago
> Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers, we're seeing a backlash here on HN and elsewhere. You don't have to 'feel threatened' to want to disable a ux feature that provid
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by serf 2y ago
I think anyone attempting to compare the difficulty of abstractly related things runs into the problem of unrealized depth in the maneuver. you can spend a lifetime sharpening your developer skills, same goes for driving. in old age i'
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by serf 2y ago
>Turns out actually building homes works :surprised_pikachu:. more like it turns out that having a wrongly-promised false market of endless real estate customers prompts municipalities to (over)-invest in the housing market. to our benef
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by serf 2y ago
>and I idolized musk in those days so I ate it up... may I ask why? it's a genuine question. he proved himself as a certain kind of dot-com bro back in original-X days, his behavior seemingly stayed consistent with his history. what
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by serf 2y ago
sonique was interesting because most skins ditched 'square-rectangle' all together. Sometimes it was really wacky, like raindrops on your screen. The visulization engine was very milkdrop-y, too.
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by serf 2y ago
>It’s interesting this tech is for disabled people when Nintendo just assumed their players were disabled to begin with. oh, that's why the N64 controller was designed that way, to accommodate those of us with three hands -- I get i

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