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by sxp 2y ago
For those who don't want to watch a video to understand what a "solar gravitational lens" is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens
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by sxp 2y ago
It appears to be this line of Smart Monitors: https://www.lg.com/us/smart-monitors Why the fuck would anyone buy a "smart monitor" that is hooked up to a computer? Are they too incompetent to directly watch N
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by sxp 2y ago
Article text: https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/1fvxrxl/comment/... Source paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2016976118 Key quote: "Draw
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by sxp 2y ago
Or more generally, "[a camera + Internet connection + PimEyes] can be used to dox anyone in seconds".
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CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you're merely licensing it(polygon.com)
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There is also a YouTube short series about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-IiVeGAydE
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by sxp 2y ago
Excession deals with this. It involves the Culture and "The Affront" which is a spacefaring but savage civilization that some people in the Culture dislike. Player of Games is a similar story about a civilization that the Culture
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How Dating Apps Contribute to the Demographic Crisis(kyla.substack.com)
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by sxp 2y ago
One famous person who did this was Larry Ellison using Oracle shares. This almost caused a problem for him in the 90s due to the stock dropping in value: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Inside-look-at-a-billion
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by sxp 2y ago
That is the meaning of the term "democratized" in this context. Just like the printing press democratized books since they no longer required hiring a personal scribe to copy, normal people no longer need to pay "a crazy supe
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Second Neuralink participant can play CounterStrike using Link(neuralink.com)
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by sxp 2y ago
Would it have been too much effort for the author to just show the numbers in the main article instead of burying them on two separate pages? 2024-27 2028 American Indian/Alaskan Native 2% 1%
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by sxp 2y ago
Only if the assumption is that people need to be employed 40 hours a week. If we reduce the preferred workweek to something closer to 20, then we have 2x the amount of jobs available.
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by sxp 2y ago
What do the two ownerships clauses (quoted below) mean in practice? It's unlikely AirThings will come after me if I download all the data from my sensors and post them online. And is there any evidence that they've gone after peop
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by sxp 2y ago
One common stat that is used is "1 in 5 women are SA'd in college". Assuming a 4-year college, that means 1-((1-.2)^.25) = 5.5% of women in college are SA'd each year. So the rates are somewhat similar to a rough approxi
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by sxp 2y ago
Has any company done anything interesting with dry electrode EEGs? Most of the ones I've found use hacks like sensing head orientation or muscle twitches rather than brain signals. Dry electrodes seem to be useful for sensing "cal
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Number of words.
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by sxp 2y ago
The article cites Greg Egan, but it doesn't cite Permutation City. I think that novel has the most scientifically accurate method of escaping the simulation assuming you agree with its assumptions about materialism and consciousness. A
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by sxp 2y ago
Related question: what's the best way to digitize a collection of physical photos for personal use? I ran into this problem recently for a family reunion where we wanted a slideshow of photos that were decades old. The best solution wa
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by sxp 2y ago
If you want a more in depth view about this series of events, I suggest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6yL0_sDnX0 which is an episode of the amazing documentary, Connections. (The show also has one of the best timed shot
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by sxp 2y ago
Watching the demos, I thought this was related to Ken Perlin's ChalkTalk, but they appear to be independent efforts. Inkbase cites Chalktalk in the Prior Art Section it's it's definitely worth watching those videos. Inkbase,
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by sxp 2y ago
It would have been nice if the journalist cited real data. They claim "People are shooting..." and "It’s apparently quite common for Americans to shoot at drones..." and then only cite a single anecdote?
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Disappearing Polymorph(en.wikipedia.org)
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I'm so glad I don't have to deal with this crap for my last two Teslas. My previous Tesla was a purely online order due to Covid, but when I went in for a lease on the Tesla before that, I had a zero-pressure sale where the salesr
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by sxp 2y ago
Thanks for the pointer. For others who are interested: https://medium.com/hexacta-engineering/didact-learning-how-r... and https://medium.com/@pomber are the articles.
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by sxp 2y ago
Are your older build-a-react tutorial available anywhere? The links on your site are broken and I wanted to implement a class/object based system using your older tutorial.
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For those wondering how the site was made, the author has a bunch of videos explaining his frameworks for coding tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/c/RodrigoPombo His Scrollycoding framework uses a DSL similar to markd
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[citation needed] Have you done the math on the amount of fuel that needs to be transported up given the specific impulse of Dragon thrusters its total usable delta-v? Or the risk of transporting to the new orbit while protecting it from th
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by sxp 2y ago
https://www.amazon.com/How-Would-Move-Mount-Fuji/dp/03167784... was the classic book on MSFT interview questions before the software world switched to copying Google's leetcode interview style. Google found t
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by sxp 2y ago
Context: I developed Android professionally apps at Google & FB from 2010-2021/ and as a hobby dev during that time. I personally blame gradle for the complexity. It's such a horrible system for builds, and when I was developi

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