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by stordoff 2y ago
It does the same on Windows, and scrolling feels weird/slow. I blocked www.centauri-dreams.org/wp-content/themes/Divi/js/smoothscroll.js with uBlock as a workaround.
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by stordoff 2y ago
The author has said the title is a reference to the Lenna test image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna . Possibly another influence though.
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by stordoff 2y ago
They do offer a link for sharing as an alternative: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HZMATsSJJhpcejoJ8
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by stordoff 2y ago
LLMs are also capable of mixing up information about different people: > Prompt: Who is Tom Faber > ChatGPT: Tom Faber is a versatile individual with multiple professional identities. He is known as a culture journalist and gaming rev
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by stordoff 2y ago
I'm reminded of the 'Tom Formal' that took place whilst I was at university: > Last night, February 3rd 2011, saw 100 students and fellows all sharing the name of Tom, gather together in a record-breaking charity event in
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by stordoff 2y ago
I flashed my Radeon 9550 into a Radeon 9600 Pro. Bumping the core/memory clocks from 250/200 to 400/300 was a pretty decent upgrade, and there was still some overhead for overclocking (IIRC, I got it up to about 450MHz on the
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by stordoff 2y ago
> RINSABLE PAINT Is there a source for/further information about this? I can't find it mentioned anywhere (including on the Declare Emergency website), and it seems difficult to square it with the gallery's claim that it c
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by stordoff 2y ago
SMES = Subject Matter Experts? (searching SMES/SME mostly brings up small and medium-sized enterprises)
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by stordoff 3y ago
It's not exactly common, but you can have central sleep apnoea instead of obstructive sleep apnoea. Essentially, rather than your airway being blocked, you just stop attempting to breath for a period of time. I was diagnosed with this
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by stordoff 3y ago
Someone appears to have done that: > The mouse pad was designed by Steve Cisler, who had been hired at the Apple Library as librarian. However, Apple thought the title librarian was too boring and so named him an Information Surfer. htt
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by stordoff 3y ago
A lot of homes are wired for power but not Ethernet, so WiFi is easier. For a couple of cameras I installed recently, I just had to drill a single cable hole for one, and feed the power through an existing cable hole for the other - there w
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by stordoff 3y ago
I'm reminded of HUDOC, where navigating the site gives you URLS such as: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/#{%22documentcollectionid2%22:[%22GRANDCHAMBER%22,%22CHAMBER%22],%22itemid%22:[%22001-230857%22]} Fortunately,
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by stordoff 3y ago
There's a couple of mentions of it in side pages and in example code, but that's all I can find: > will soon be a proud part of the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog&#
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by stordoff 3y ago
> Beautiful visualization of data as usual I would disagree with that to an extent for the distribution below "I excluded the 20 most repetitive songs in the dataset from the above chart. When you see what it looks like with them, y
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by stordoff 3y ago
It sounds like something out of Four Lions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okGgkfDy4bc
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by stordoff 3y ago
Just asking "Does that work?" can demonstrate this. Slightly contrived example (I've trimmed the ChatGPT output down - it gives some warnings about code readability and that it only has knowledge up to 2022 that might be usef
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by stordoff 3y ago
I definitely heard it more from my Grandfather, but I still hear it here in South Yorkshire. It seems to be most often used in common phrases, such as "What's tha want for tha tea?" or "What's tha doing?" (tha
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by stordoff 3y ago
I suspect it also varies between drugs in the same person. I've been using temazepam (as prescribed) for years, and if I don't take it for a while, it's not a huge issue - I don't crave it, and I don't have any with
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by stordoff 3y ago
According to Wikipedia[1], "Angola" was (allegedly) to be printed on the notes later: > [T]he contract had specified that the word "Angola" would be overprinted on the new notes when they reached Lisbon and before tra
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by stordoff 3y ago
At the end of this video? https://downfall.page/media/gds_aes.mp4 They appear to match to me, albeit with the last few characters hidden by the timer. They are visible when the key is copied though.
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by stordoff 4y ago
> The guide also rejects the disabled in favor of people living with disabilities FWIW, as someone with a disability, I just don't care about this - your intent and actions matter so much more, as I've commented before[1]: >
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by stordoff 4y ago
These sort of protections are fine until they trigger on legitimate installations. Red Alert 2 has a copy protection mechanism that destroyed all of your buildings a minute into the game, but it is notorious for triggering on legitimate ins
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by stordoff 4y ago
They still seem to be there for me - the poster made a number of replies to the linked comment (one per book) with a table of changes. Direct links to each reply: * Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - https://old.reddit.com/
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by stordoff 4y ago
The problem I have is that other retailers tend to be more awkward about returns, whereas Amazon have never questioned them, even when the manufacturer has refused a repair[1]. It feels more like a case of pick your poison, rather than havi
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by stordoff 4y ago
That sounds horrific, I hope you're OK now. I was lucky enough to avoid intubation, but I suspect I wasn't too far away from it. CPAP with pure O2/a high-flow nasal canula at 90L/min pure O2 (I initially couldn't to
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by stordoff 4y ago
I wonder if it's something you're more likely to notice in hindsight (and not at all if it's subtle). I was recently hypoxic (~78% SpO2) due to COVID-19, and felt absolutely fine at the time, but looking back, I was making so
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by stordoff 4y ago
> (unfortunately it's a Youtube short, so it will auto repeat.) If you change->transform it to a normal video link, it doesn't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec_zFYCnjJc
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by stordoff 4y ago
How much RAM is that with? My home server idles at ~25-27W, but that's with only 16GB (EEC DDR4). However, throwing in an extra 16GB as a test didn't measurably change the reading.
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by stordoff 4y ago
> lack of elevator control This was the case with Ameristar Charters 9363, which aborted after V1: > [T]he jammed elevator could only be detected once aerodynamic forces came into play — something which would only happen once the plan
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by stordoff 4y ago
Ameristar Charters 9363 is one example of this happening: > Captain Mark Radloff was thus faced with an almost unprecedented situation: having already accelerated well past V1, he suddenly realized that his airplane would not become airb

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