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by sxp 2y ago
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq0305 is the paper and https://www.science.org/cms/10.1126/sciadv.adq0305/asset/b68... is the key graph.
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by sxp 2y ago
> Last month – the head of NORAD and NORTHCOM – the military commands that defend North America – told Congress some of those mysterious drones seen flying inside the United States may indeed have been spying. He did not say for whom Is
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by sxp 2y ago
> Along the same lines: one of the worst misconceptions in product design is that a microwave needs to have a button for every thing you could possibly cook: “popcorn”... On a tangent, the popcorn button actually has a purpose on well-de
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by sxp 2y ago
> I think Windows still offers easy screenshotting of frames from DRM video not because the streaming services somehow don’t care about what Windows users do This is incorrect. The DRM on Windows varies based on the browser. Trying playi
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by sxp 2y ago
I have an EightSleep from before their enshittification into a subscription model. It is a good piece of hardware, but I can no longer recommend it because the software is so crappy. I checked the logs on my router and found that it was str
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by sxp 2y ago
An average of 60-70 according to watch.
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by sxp 2y ago
This book is amazing. Two useful bits that really helped me were mastic gum and mouth tape. Both of them made it much easier for me to breath through my nose at night and avoid waking up with a dry mouth in the morning. There are also some
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by sxp 2y ago
> The end-stage dystopia of the deprofessionalization of teachers is already apparent in some parts of the US. A new online charter school, Unbound Academy, plans to teach kids for two hours a day using learning apps driven by artificial
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Sam Altman is trying to sell OpenAI on the cheap to himself(nathanpmyoung.substack.com)
3 points by sxp 2y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 2y ago
YT video going into the math and physics involved: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjyeI0ykGM TL;DW: not practical in it's current design.
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by sxp 2y ago
Normal LED lightbulbs shouldn't flicker on standard 60Hz circuits. Do you have a dimmer switch or smart switch in the circuit? I've noticed these cause flickering that's visible on camera or out of the side of my eyes.
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Linux running inside a PDF file via a JavaScript-compiled RISC-V emulator(xda-developers.com)
9 points by sxp 2y ago|2 comments
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by sxp 2y ago
Full title and bullets from the article: Someone got Linux running inside a PDF file, because its users are something else -This Linux distro runs in a JavaScript-compiled RISC-V emulator within a PDF. -This PDF file format supports Javascr
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DeepSeek not as disruptive as claimed, firm has 50k GPUs and spent $1.6B(tomshardware.com)
31 points by sxp 2y ago|13 comments
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by sxp 2y ago
Full title & subtitle: DeepSeek might not be as disruptive as claimed, firm reportedly has 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and spent $1.6 billion on buildouts The fabled $6 million was just a portion of the total training cost.
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by sxp 2y ago
For anyone who uses ffmpeg for this type of per frame analysis, `ffmpeg -skip_frame nokey -i file -vsync 0 -frame_pts true out%d.png` will get the "presentation time" of each frame in the video. That's more precise than just
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by sxp 2y ago
It would have been nicer if they drew an informative diagram instead of spending a 1000 words trying to explain the phenomenon. To understand what's happening, go to https://mgvez.github.io/jsorrery/ , set the dat
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by sxp 2y ago
> Because HTML ... lacks features like ... Turing-completeness, it’s often dismissed as not a programming language. This is the core reason why HTML isn't considered a programming language. It's not designed to be Turing-compl
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The Telepathy Tapes: A Dangerous Cornucopia of Pseudoscience(skepticalinquirer.org)
3 points by sxp 2y ago|7 comments
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by sxp 2y ago
Nice. Eink calendars are always a fun IoT project. > The Pico isn't powerful enough to fetch the iCal data on its own, so it relies on a server program to retrieve the latest information to show on the display. What prevents the Pic
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by sxp 2y ago
Nice. I’m always a fan of eink calendars. > The Pico isn't powerful enough to fetch the iCal data on its own, so it relies on a server program to retrieve the latest information to show on the display. What prevents the Pico from fe
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by sxp 2y ago
Health insurance isn't /that/ big of an issue due to Obamacare and similar state programs. Yes, could have to pay almost $1k/mo to get insurance, but it's just one more expense along with rent, food, etc. It is more
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by sxp 2y ago
Similar hacks: - ShaderToy + pseudoDoom: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lldGDr - Linux running in a pixel shader via a RISC-V emulator inside VRChat: https://blog.pimaker.at/texts/rvc1/
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by sxp 2y ago
This report doesn't include the DNA sequences that were deleted from databases soon after the outbreak. https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2021/07/delete...
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The Debanking of America(thefp.com)
8 points by sxp 2y ago|7 comments
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by sxp 2y ago
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.06493 is the paper. If I'm understanding it correctly, the camera isn't actually capturing a pulse of light. Instead, it's recording single pixels from a 10MHz series of pulses
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by sxp 2y ago
Do programmers use those weird font ligatures in practice? E.g, Rendering `a != b` as `a≠b`. I've only seen them used by people who want to show how far they can push coding style away from the standard monospace low ASCII, but haven&#
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by sxp 2y ago
This seems very similar to https://dynamicland.org/2024/Intro/ but I don't see any connections or citations listed on the site. I hope the two teams are collaborating.
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by sxp 2y ago
I've been getting my CGM via https://siphoxhealth.com/ which takes care of writing the prescription.
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by sxp 2y ago
They also have techno-optimistic YouTube channels that I love. There haven't been any new videos for a while, but some of the older ones are worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/@NODEtv/videos https:/&#x2

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