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by starkd 4y ago
I think the most realistic goal was always a main-frame type computer that could perform computations for special purposes. Not necessarily to shrink it down to phone-size or even a desktop. But maybe the marketing did really have this ob
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by starkd 4y ago
They can automate the installation of the current code onto the machine, which is in turn also open source.
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by starkd 4y ago
True, the average voter is not inclined to hire a computer expert to do an analysis, but if there is widespread suspicion, they will at least have the ability to vent their collective outrage into an actual audit of the code. This transpare
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Covid transmission higher in households than in workplaces, schools or community(medicalxpress.com)
4 points by starkd 4y ago|0 comments
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by starkd 4y ago
It's pessimistic because most of the recycled materials goes right to the landfills with the other garbage. Meanwhile, we are consuming twice the resources just to collect the garbage.
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by starkd 4y ago
The US has been recycling for a good 30 years now. How much more time should it take? At some point, you have to question why we are separating our garbage when it all winds up in the same place anyway. Is it just a ritual to make us feel
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Even Greenpeace now admits the obvious: recycling doesn’t work(city-journal.org)
10 points by starkd 4y ago|8 comments
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by starkd 4y ago
Of course, the exact opposite should follow if their interest is meth.
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Something Toxic Flourishes in Your Brain After Too Much Hard Work(sciencealert.com)
3 points by starkd 4y ago|0 comments
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by starkd 4y ago
No wonder they can't build high-speed rail.
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by starkd 4y ago
I admit to doing this. Even many of the useful error messages that clearly indicate the fix are drowned out out by the mass of output. I've made this mistake before, and I'll probably do so again.
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by starkd 4y ago
It's tricky. You have to customize it. But any index method needs a fairly low threshold or the search devolves to a linear search. But as you increase the threshold, you quickly reach a cutoff where it's all just completely dis
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by starkd 4y ago
There's limits to how short you can make the perceptual hash. The more you compress it, the more information you lose. The ML image classification models can be used to extract a good descriptor that can be further reduced into a comp
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by starkd 4y ago
I have found the ML image categorization models an excellent method of extracting a unique descriptor. It is possible to compress the image for matching and storage into a compact signature. I did it here: https://github.com&#x
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by starkd 4y ago
I think his point was the developer tends not to even investigate the ENVVAR at issue or visit the link. If the developer does investigate the link and still has an issue, than you have a point.
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by starkd 4y ago
Plus who doesn't like digging a good hole in the ground.
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by starkd 4y ago
He is a psycho-linguist and his field is evolutionary psychology. He never claimed a complete resemblance between the savannah and suburbia, but just that both contain many of the key features which would make it highly suitable for the spe
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by starkd 4y ago
We also know people behave differently in mobs than they do in individual one-on-one relations. The answer could be putting more stress on personal relationships regardless of anyone else. This also would help when the mob does come after
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by starkd 4y ago
I think it was Steven Pinker who claimed that we were best evolved for life on the savanah, bucolic pastoral type settings with wide open fields. Settings that are easy on the eyes and provide a good line of sight while also providing corn
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by starkd 4y ago
Perhaps. Sort of makes you want to go out and dig a hole.
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by starkd 4y ago
But isn't that more of an illusion of greater wealth? I mean, if you don't stay in your current house, you will just swap it for another one. The price level doesn't really matter, just as long as you can still get somethin
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by starkd 4y ago
Not to mention a decade of very loose money policy.
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by starkd 4y ago
The increase cost of goods and service is not the cause of inflation, it is the definition of inflation. The cause is increased supply of money along with velocity of money.
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by starkd 4y ago
The congress sets fiscal policy that choose to fuel deficit spending.
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by starkd 4y ago
<< The NGO world of which the Wikimedia Foundation is now part uncannily follows Marx’s prediction that the middle class would devise an infinite number of ways of enriching themselves, while ensuring the proletariat, the volunteers a
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by starkd 4y ago
True. But listening to an hour-long or half-hour long podcast is considerable more investment than a simple headline. In terms of the investment in time the listener makes.
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by starkd 4y ago
I'd say it is highly unethical. Imagine thousands of people listening to fake podcasts as if they were real. Not only are they being lied to, but if they find out many are sure to become very angry on learning they wasted their time.
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by starkd 4y ago
ahh I see. Yeah that makes more sense.
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by starkd 4y ago
Good start, but I'm not sure how song title can extract meaningful similar songs. I put in "Big Time" (song by Peter Gabriel) and it came back with a list of songs from a variety of genres. From smooth jazz selections to so
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by starkd 4y ago
Good idea! It's just so crazy, it might work!

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