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by tdeck 9mo ago
So the cost of caching should be a rounding error as well. If The Internet Archive can afford to cache vast swathes of the web, then surely the big AI companies can do so.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Would it be possible to run an AB test?
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Right, that's something to discuss at the IRB review. But they didn't even do an IRB review before conducting the experiment. After the outcry, they went back to the IRB and said "was this OK?"
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by tdeck 9mo ago
It's because when the term was first used, newer electronics to generate those frequencies had only recently become available. The HF band is 3-30 MHz. Maritime navigation was operating on 500kHz (.5MHz) for most of the 20th century be
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by tdeck 9mo ago
I've read that pirate radio is still a big part of protest movements and Mapuche resistance in Chile.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
There is actually a lot of fairly inexpensive SDR hardware aimed at amateurs, and other ways to do cheap packet radio. But outside the amateur radio community you might not hear about it because you need a license to transmit.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Just to underscore this WSPR sends 50 BITs of data in 110.6 seconds - a data rate of less than 2 baud. It's not practical for really any kind of message passing. Using CW (Morse code) would be at least an order of magnitude faster.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Is politics that thing where I vote every 2-4 years and maybe volunteer for the DNC or send some money to a presidential candidate, and spend thousands of hours passively consuming election and news content? That's what I learned growi
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Thanks for the spelling correction. Autocorrect on my phone didn't handle that word right.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
What thing? Afraid to speak plainly?
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by tdeck 9mo ago
The IDF conducted targeted strikes alright. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80d2zrdj7vo
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by tdeck 9mo ago
> The voices that are silent are the ones that are shouting from the rooftops when Israel does this to Palestinians. When Israel does this to Palestinians with US made planes and US made bombs, bought largely by US tax dollars? Over and
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by tdeck 9mo ago
> half a dozen Black Lives Matter protests, one of them attended by Michael Moore. A whole half dozen, you say? And who could forget those iconic Michael Moore protest videos from 2020. For anyone who wasn't paying attention somehow
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Personally I think this (admittedly long) video makes a good agument on the subject. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oG5EpzGmAtA&pp=0gcJCTIBo7VqN5t... My TL;DR Choosing not to financially support a creator for ethical sea
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by tdeck 9mo ago
While this sounds true, it's also true that police often will try to bully you into abandoning a crime report or treat you with contempt of they don't consider the crime "worthwhle". So not only do you not get a resoluti
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by tdeck 9mo ago
> free speech zones' in the US which have not been a thing in years, maybe more than a decade This is from 2024 https://www.thefire.org/news/how-milwaukee-and-chicago-circu...
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by tdeck 9mo ago
I was curious about the "blank sign" story because it's slightly different from what I remembered reading. As far as I can tell, this is the incident you're referring to: On 12 September, Charles addressed parliame
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Swiss court declares arrest of pro-Palestine activist illegal(swissinfo.ch)
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by tdeck 9mo ago
A lot of the racist and islamophobic talking points get exported from the US, then they seem to mull around in Europe for a while, and eventually the US right wing points at what the right is saying there (particularly in the UK) and reimpo
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by tdeck 9mo ago
It's amazing that this has been going on for decades and Amazon still doesn't give a shit.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
This is why European cities had so many canals back in the day.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
I did this once from Seattle. It was a good experience, but the internet connection was nonexistent along large parts of the route. Also one way cost like $1,200.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
I think some people might be surprised to find one of these close to home. For example, I only discovered the Connections Museum by chance (they were manning a booth at another more well known museum).
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by tdeck 9mo ago
They also have an excellent YouTube channel. https://m.youtube.com/@ConnectionsMuseum/videos
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by tdeck 9mo ago
I went to both years ago, and did enjoy LCM better. The difference is that LCM was ectremely hands-on. They had all kinds of rare machines out on the floor that you could just...play with. Imagine using an original Lisa running XENIX of all
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by tdeck 9mo ago
The InfoAge museum in New Jersey seems to not be well known, but they have lots of interesting computer and radio artifacts, including some hands-on demonstrations. The museum is on the site of an old Marconi shore station. https:/&#
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Don't forget to spend a few minutes journalling self-affirmations. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Just look at Tal Broda for one example.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Yes for me it's true. Most of my actions are not part of a monologue. However I use it to think through possible conversations or to carry myself through tough problem solving problems or complex processes.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
If you live in the US (and possibly other countries) and are blind, you can probably get See3D to model things and print them for you for free. http://see3d.org/

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