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by systoll 4y ago
It’s more like leaving out 9/11 when discussing the effects/impacts of the PATRIOT Act. The consumer price index has been relatively flat since the Fed started raising interest rates. https://tradingeconomics.com/u
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by systoll 4y ago
The precedent is purely that the AI itself won’t be awarded the copyright. The claimant here explicitly denied being involved in authoring the piece, and the copyright office took that at face value. Anyone who actually wanted copyright wou
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I tend to oscillate between it and Safari. It’s Chrome with vertical tabs, and that’s better than Chrome.
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Worth noting that the numbers you get at the end exactly match original claims from in The Bell Curve by Herrnstein & Murray. They’re not from any American Psychological Association study.
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"Small kids and elderly people: please don’t eat [these]." Probably in front of mochi or some other choking hazard.
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by systoll 4y ago
No they aren’t. They thought they had peaked. IE - they thought the peak was in the past. IE - they thought emissions were higher in the past than they are right now.
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by systoll 4y ago
The hammer is pretty good at screws. And CSS grid is only working on pentalobe screws, until subgrid is usable. https://caniuse.com/?search=subgrid
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by systoll 4y ago
As qrian said – they’re abbreviations. They’re repeated to cover the different ways typing them might get encoded. Hangul writing combines all the characters in a syllable into one block. The keywords are the first character in each block.
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by systoll 4y ago
> It's 2022 and I am using a Samsung A8 phone from 2018 which is pretty good And if it can’t scan QR codes from the camera app, that’s purely because your carrier is withholding software updates from you. It’s built-in from Android
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by systoll 4y ago
It’s more what they’re not doing. The main issue is that they linearise the sRGB colour space before adding together the components… and then never 'delinearise' it afterwards. Human brightness perception is non-linear and WCAG
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by systoll 4y ago
The cable is included - https://www.apple.com/iphone-se/specs/
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by systoll 4y ago
Whoops – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=931454 is a better source for the second one.
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by systoll 4y ago
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=996629 , is the 2.3% https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228207991_Innocents... is the 5%.
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by systoll 4y ago
3.8mB is an auto-update framework – https://sparkle-project.org 3.5mB is for a Quicklook plugin, so that Torrent files can be previewed in the Finder. 4.5mB is UI 'stuff'. The Cocoa 'nibs' that define the app
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by systoll 4y ago
> Sigmoid Functions & Binary Classification Sometimes you want to do binary classification. This isn’t all there is. > Layers - Why are artificial neural networks setup as "layers"? They aren’t all set up like that. It’s
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by systoll 4y ago
If the webpage declares that it wants JPEGs or PNGs, but not HEICs, Safari will transparently convert the file before the webpage sees it. <input type="file" accept="image/jpeg" />
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by systoll 4y ago
you can do this now with the contacts widget.
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by systoll 4y ago
The iPhone is using a quad-bayer filter. Most of the time, it is behaving as a 12MP camera with error correcting photodiodes. Compared to a normal 12MP camera, the 48MP one will collect slightly less light due to there being more gaps, but
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by systoll 4y ago
$5/year is an extremely high estimate. A phone with a 5000mAh battery (more than any iPhone) takes about 20 watt hours of power to charge. Charging it from empty to full each day would use about 7.3 kWh per year. Electricity costs abo
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> In a flat monitor centered in front of your head, the distance between your eyes and different pixels on the screen varies depending on how close they are to the edge, thus distorting the sizes of the rendered sprites. Curving the edge
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by systoll 4y ago
It’s a weird case IMO — CreditKarma played a role but it seems like all the actual harm was elsewhere. 1. The Criteria are given by the banks via 'Lightbox'. If they were misrepresenting those criteria, it seems like the harm was
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by systoll 4y ago
One decent argument not made: this would avoid “spam” reaching people’s inboxes from people trying to sign up with emails they don’t own. As the owner of a very common [initial][last name]@gmail.com address, I’d take the trade off, but this
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by systoll 4y ago
Android is in basically the same situation. Obviously both Android & iOS let you open things in the default browser. iOS has SFSafariViewController, which more-or-less corresponds to Chrome Custom Tabs on Android. These basically make a
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by systoll 4y ago
We have interoperable, open systems; things like IRC and XMPP exist. People chose discord over them.
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The terms of service are just Discord being transparent about what they’re doing. The thing actually stopping you from using Discord with a third-party client is that Discord’s server software responds differently to the way the third-party
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It’s mostly an ergonomic difference. Google Sheets has custom functions in Javascript; excel has them in VBScript. Both are part of the 'product', but they’re not integrated into the spreadsheet user interface at all. Using them i
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The writer of this article determined Kraft singles to be the second best American cheese… second to a generic version of Kraft singles. https://www.seriouseats.com/the-burger-lab-what-is-the-best-... So… it well may be a K
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by systoll 4y ago
Safari has tail-call optimisation. We don’t have it elsewhere mostly because Google: 1. Agreed to implement it [it’s in ES6] 2. Implemented and shipped it behind a flag 3. Unshipped it. 4. Proposed something else [ https://github
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by systoll 4y ago
Beauty score of 10.5 out of ten? I’ll thank our AI overlords for the compliment, but I don’t think I’m off the charts attractive.
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by systoll 4y ago
I really wish MS had worked on bringin their 2008, pages-inspired mac UI to windows rather than bringing the ribbon to the Mac. https://appleinsider.com/articles/07/11/14/road_to_mac_offic... Since then

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