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by tgb 9y ago
The role of sweat appears to be to make the keratin in the finger softer and allowing more of it to contact the hard surface. This is unnecessary when contacting a rubber surface since the rubber surface is already soft. I.e. rubber makes t
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by tgb 9y ago
Pig Latin?
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by tgb 9y ago
I think the confusion is that the term "nearest neighbor approach" has a different meaning in machine learning than in image interpolation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearest-neighbor_interpolation versus
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by tgb 9y ago
It's possible that's only in the PC version. I don't see anything on Google about Securom on xbox, so this seems likely.
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by tgb 9y ago
"You're not really gay, you're just acting gay for attention - look the AI says you're not gay!" "I can't believe you're still seeing John! You know he's gay, right? I tested his profile pictur
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by tgb 9y ago
Off-topic: I thought that tracking email opening was no longer possible in gmail? My memory of it was that you'd insert an image and track whether that was retrieved, but that GMail started caching all images ahead of time for their us
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by tgb 9y ago
The portrait with the tree and the sun in the background is a clear example. Whether the sun is shining through the leaves of the tree or not will overwhelm any inter-phone differences.
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by tgb 9y ago
I don't understand your complaint at all. Phrasing the question differently doesn't deter people who are guessing, but it does deter people who don't understand what is being asked! People clearly (myself included) get conf
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by tgb 9y ago
Yes, but man is it confusing. The question should be something like "Do you have a home mortgage and if so who is it with?"
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by tgb 9y ago
No, it's perfect as is. Eg: Wikipedia's use of "Br'er Rabbit stories" here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%27er_Rabbit
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by tgb 9y ago
There's a related annoyance I've had for a while now: I grew up reading PC Gamer magazine and one of the great things about it was, for me, seeing the fancy new graphics coming out in large, glossy screenshots. Now, I read Rock Pa
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by tgb 9y ago
It's true, I don't really know enough to tell how recent the phone is (I'm an Android user and don't even know that market very well). I do think people spend "more than they can afford" on their phones. Compar
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by tgb 9y ago
I think you've missed the point that willun is making. It's in general impossible to assign a numeric "rank" to a partially ordered set such that the rank(A) > rank(B) iff A > B and rank(A) = rank(B) iff A is incom
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by tgb 9y ago
You're correct, and on this particular example you can see the problem immediately: is France in the same "rank" as Korea or Italy? Neither, the question is ill-posed.
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by tgb 9y ago
I disagree. I expect the median middle class American to have an iPhone X or other phone that costs within 15% of that. I ride the public transportation in a not-so-well-off area and new, high end phones are ubiquitous. I think the miscalcu
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by tgb 9y ago
It's widely regarded today that McCarthyism was terrible even though people of that era believed - not unreasonably - that there was a good chance that Communism would take over the US.
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by tgb 9y ago
Sorry, wouldn't it be $1/7 = 14cents per follower?
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by tgb 9y ago
Only if they wanted it to be: stainless steel is not significantly ferromagnetic. My guess is they don't want it to be magnetic but I can't think of a good reason other than "that's not what phones are like".
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by tgb 9y ago
I had to register to vote 4 times before they got the "N" for North part of my address correct. Half the addresses in my city have those and getting it wrong puts me in the wrong district! And two of those four times were me expla
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by tgb 9y ago
Actual question: what's the point of Messenger if you don't have notifications enabled?
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by tgb 9y ago
Cool. It might be fun to let people adjust the parameters with some sliders!
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by tgb 9y ago
Can you describe the rules of the system? Most of the colors I see at the start go away quickly and never come back so I'm not sure what's going on.
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by tgb 9y ago
Thanks for this information!
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by tgb 9y ago
You misread me: I passed no judgement value on whether it should be preserved I just asked whether it needed preserving.
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by tgb 9y ago
The context of the post above certainly making it sounds like Telugu was a dying, rarely-spoken language. If you, like myself, knew nothing about Telugu except the suggestion that it needed preserving, then you'd probably have assumed
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by tgb 9y ago
My father was given a prescription to an opioid for a scratch on his eye that didn't hurt at all. That was maybe a year ago while the problem with opioids had been obvious for years at that point. If it had been a little painful and he
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by tgb 9y ago
The problem was actually wifi information (which can be used to infer location) not location. What OS are you using that you can't choose permissions individually for an app? I forget which version of Android got that but it's at
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by tgb 9y ago
I dunno. If you take a random walk and label the parts that go up as "growth" and the parts that go down as "recession" don't you get a similarly compelling 'narrative'? The picture looks far from periodic
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by tgb 9y ago
On the contrary, I have been getting into modern science fiction after being raised on my dad's collection of Asimov/Clarke/Heinlein/etc. and the modern stuff is great. Check out Vernor Vinge, Greg Egan, Kim Stanley Robi
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by tgb 9y ago
Sorry for the newbie question, but can someone explain why the round trip time is so important for transfer speeds? From the formula I'm guessing something like this happens: server sends DATA to client, client receives DATA then sends

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