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by sparky_z 2y ago
My favorite (maybe apocryphal) has always been the Italian division of PowerGen. powergenitalia.com
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by sparky_z 2y ago
I would gently suggest that you are simply not in natural audience for a blog post like this, and that's okay.
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by sparky_z 2y ago
This is a common myth that often shows up in family lore and has bled into popular culture, but it simply isn't true. Historians are unanimous that it didn't happen (with perhaps some extraordinarily rare edge cases). https:&#x2F
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by sparky_z 2y ago
You're most likely thinking of Battlezone from 1980. Funnily enough, the 3D tech that was developed for that game was repurposed by Atari to create a tank simulator for use by the Army, though apparently it never went further than the
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by sparky_z 2y ago
I don't know the answer, but this doesn't seem to tell us one way or the other. Even if there is independent lab testing for the final certification, it would be crazy for the company to not perform their own testing many many mo
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by sparky_z 2y ago
"They never said “I can ask a passenger to search…” or anything of the sort." It would be weird for them to say that if, for example, they were the passenger...
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by sparky_z 2y ago
Yes. MLK Day is the 3rd Monday of the month. Inauguration day is always Jan 20, unless it falls on a Sunday, in which case it is Jan 21. They happened to coincide this year, as they have occasionally in the past, but it's more common t
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by sparky_z 2y ago
Zork 2 and 3 actually contain a lot of new material, which is the origin of the tonal shifts. The original mainframe Zork was basically a larger version of Zork 1. Zork 2 took most of the rooms that had to be cut for space, weaved them toge
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by sparky_z 2y ago
Who said they were driving?
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by sparky_z 2y ago
Those aren't citations, they're just asides.
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by sparky_z 2y ago
For competitions, the performance benefit is zero time lag between controller inputs and the screen output. Also, it's very very difficult to get the "look" right on an hdtv. The original graphics were intended to be displaye
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by sparky_z 2y ago
I thought they were saying that a hypothetical state run "Bank of New York", set up similar to BND, would have a lot more assets. They weren't referring to any real organizations called BNY.
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by sparky_z 2y ago
>Why not send only to phones currently in and maybe within 250m of those zones? There's often significant lag between the earthquake and the arrival time. You don't just want the people in the inundation zone to know, you also
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by sparky_z 2y ago
Just in general, or only after you've died? If the latter, how does the system confirm someone has died in a way that can't be exploited by a bad actor?
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by sparky_z 2y ago
My favorite intuitive explanation was actually written by science fiction author, Greg Egan. It takes the exact approach you're asking for, reinterpreting compound interest in a 2d rotational context on the complex plane, and doesn&#x2
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by sparky_z 2y ago
It's a very old joke https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/04/churchill-prepositi...
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by sparky_z 2y ago
The entire point of having sponsor segments negotiated with a third party is to bypass YouTube's cut and reduce exposure to the risks associated with putting all your eggs in the YouTube basket. An income stream uncorrelated with the v
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by sparky_z 2y ago
You're correct, they don't. My example was a hypothetical analogy. If they did and you paid for them to stop... would you also expect them to also censor the magazine ads? I don't think you would.
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by sparky_z 2y ago
My hypothetical ebay guy says the exact same thing. "If I'm paying for the ad-free experience I want an ad-free experience." Why is he being unreasonable and you're not?
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by sparky_z 2y ago
1) is like being mad that you payed for an ad-free ebay experience, but then you used it to buy some old magazines and there were ads in them.
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by sparky_z 2y ago
Man, whoever did it back in the 70s must have been really forward thinking.
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by sparky_z 2y ago
The ratios in the example are on integer numbers of people, not measurements. You seem to get that, so I'm struggling to imagine what "the same kind of data" from a "sensor with some uncertainty" would even mean. Or
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by sparky_z 2y ago
They clearly do.
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Your comment seems to be written by somebody who has no idea what they are talking about. (Meaning, the contents of the article they supposedly just read.) Once you bother to get past the first paragraph, the entire rest of the article expl
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by sparky_z 2y ago
Oh, come on. I'm not saying that nobody should know which random ID corresponds to which plane. That would be ridiculous. Just keep that index on an FAA (or whoever) computer system networked to the control towers at various airports,
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by sparky_z 2y ago
I don't know much about aircraft, but unless I'm missing something big, I don't see how the importance of planes not hitting each other makes it impossible for us to protect that personal data if we wanted to. Who says that a
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by sparky_z 2y ago
You're the second person to quote that sentence, but it isn't visible at the linked page. Has it been edited out of the article?
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by sparky_z 2y ago
>Note: You do _need_ an iPad or an iPhone to accept the terms and condition to download apps. I... don't think that's correct. I bought and set up an Apple TV less than a year ago, and I've never owned an iPhone or iPad. I
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by sparky_z 2y ago
That's hilarious, actually. So I suppose my answer would have to be "This one".
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by sparky_z 2y ago
Is that the same shipwreck? Your link is about a wreck discovered by two men "Kevin Dykstra" and "Frederick J. Monroe" in 2014. This article is about a wreck discovered by a married couple before 2013. I think they'

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