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by thombat 6y ago
They don't use their eyes to hunt, just to detect potential attackers.
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by thombat 6y ago
Now imagine trying to sleep in a room that has a multi-rotor drone hunting mosquitos...
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by thombat 6y ago
I ran into some value setters which simply logged their parameters but did not store them. Hah! obviously GPT2, not understanding that a setter should, well, set. Wrong, of course. Now maybe the human concerned was far down some inheritance
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by thombat 6y ago
The owner of Times Square relies upon the big advertising signs for their income. The companies that pay big bucks for those signs decline to renew their contracts, because those signs have become best known as the backdrop for sedition ran
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by thombat 6y ago
Once a Member instance is big enough to be attractive for spamming/phishing/otherwise-exploiting the bot herders will arrive anyway, using compromised Member clients, just as current spammers don't generally pay for the data
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by thombat 6y ago
From the EULA: 7.2 Updating. If your Computer is connected to the Internet, the Software may, without additional notice, check for Updates that are available for automatic download and installation to your Computer and let Adobe know the So
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by thombat 6y ago
Except it's only after escaping from the Misty Mountains that Gandalf can have any idea that Bilbo possesses such a ring, but I don't remember him modifying the plan in response to that knowledge. Meaning that if it was a suicide
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by thombat 6y ago
The connection between half life and decay energy isn't so linear. Looking at a table of gamma ray energies [0] one can see that the lowest-energy distinct five have half lives in hours: 5994 104 6 2904 482117
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by thombat 6y ago
The Supremes don't roam the legal badlands like caped crusaders, looking for injustices to set right. Somebody has to appeal a verdict in a lower court to them and they have to agree to hear it. Which generally doesn't: according
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by thombat 6y ago
At least in Germany that's already the standard plumbing practice: a mixing valve on the tank outlet ensures the tap temperatures are safe. This is important because the tank is required to periodically heat to 65C to kill legionella b
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by thombat 6y ago
But please do live in common sense and apply proportionate safeguards: when you notice a changed mole go to the dermatologist. When you cross the road look both ways first, even when you "know" there's nothing coming. And whe
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by thombat 6y ago
Some of the hedgehogs that bumble across the highway arrive safely at the other side.
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by thombat 6y ago
Absolutely - the only thing about Nikola that looks dodgy on purely physical grounds is the claim of super-efficient electrolysis. Whereas SpinLaunch seems quite uncoupled to reality. Meaning of course the reality is that they'll run g
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by thombat 6y ago
Well somebody is sure to lose their money, but if enough bigger fools can be lured aboard it needn't be the current crew. In other words, the Nikola truck but in space.
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by thombat 6y ago
Other than herd immunity (from vaccination or natural incidence) what do you expect will durably protect you from infection? The positivity rate a year ago was zero, in a year's time it's most unlikely to still be 5%.
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by thombat 6y ago
Surely not so much a troll as a tub-thumping snort of sarcasm. The truism of sales is that if a customer comes looking to buy a suit and a pullover then you make sure to sell them the suit first, after which the price tag on the most exorbi
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by thombat 6y ago
Possibly a trade secret as marvelous as the famous South Sea Bubble instance described by Charles Mackay: But the most absurd and pre-posterous of all, and which shewed, more completely than any other, the utter madness of the people, was o
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by thombat 6y ago
I wildly guess that you may find long-standing relationships between those popular creators and the caption writers, such that they've built some measure of trust. Captions contributed by a new author might get vetted more closely, e.g
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by thombat 6y ago
ELI5 time - where would a truly uniform gravitational field exist?
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by thombat 6y ago
Except that the phrase the OP picked up on is "million billion". So is that 10^15 or 10^18?
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by thombat 6y ago
But seemingly it already has guards: apparently the captions have to be approved by the video uploader before being displayed to viewers.
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by thombat 6y ago
Maybe enacting your mission statement is no longer popular nor cool?
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by thombat 6y ago
The organism will need something like a fluid rotary union so the nervous and circulatory system can reach the rotating part, or that part will be limited to very low metabolic levels (basically diffusion). That will certainly be ingenious.
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by thombat 6y ago
The projected range for the Overture craft is 8300km. That would just barely get you from San Francisco to Tokyo (shades of Concorde, which on days with contrary winds had to stop to refuel on the New York - London/Paris runs), but not
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by thombat 6y ago
New things are interesting, and astrophysicists like investigating interesting things. If these brown dwarfs posed the slightest threat to us they'd be even more interesting than they already are.
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by thombat 6y ago
100 years ago it was "common" according to WP [1]; I can't speak to whether it's still handled so cavalierly: "The workers needed to use pickaxes to get it out, a problematic situation because they could not enter t
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by thombat 6y ago
Let alone the parsimony that led the original 737 design (and so too its grandfathered descendants) to recycle the same horn sound for two different situations: incorrect takeoff configuration and cabin altitude. Boeing's reasoning was
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by thombat 6y ago
With a mortar shell most of the lofted mass is burnt or converted into tiny shreds. With a rocket the casing plus stick/other-aerodynamic-guide falls in a few coherent pieces, sometimes burning, which means for large (public display) f
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by thombat 6y ago
During deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum, between about 20,000 to 7,000 years ago (20–7 ka), the sea level rose by a total of about 100 m, at times at extremely high rates, due to the rapid melting of the British-Irish Sea, Fenno
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by thombat 6y ago
Yep, and I feel peculiarly grateful for the next sentences: By 2018, the screenplay had been languishing in development hell for five years since the most recent script rewrite of 2013 and has yet to be picked up for further development.

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