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by tzs 9mo ago
An interesting option for fretted instruments is to build it with 12 regular frets per octave, and then add temporary extra frets if you want to make specific notes more in tune for the key you are in. This was common for lute players in th
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by tzs 9mo ago
I've got a belt like this [1] which works great. It is a braided belt and the prong on the buckle simply goes through the braiding so you in effect can have a hole wherever you want one. I often adjust it depending on what I'm doi
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by tzs 9mo ago
Obama is not in the flight logs and there is no evidence he was ever on the island.
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by tzs 9mo ago
> 99% of commercial profits come from the first 5 years after any piece of media gets published - book, music, film, artwork, etc. Many songs make far more profits when they are featured in popular movies or TV shows decades or more afte
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by tzs 9mo ago
Massachusetts just signed an agreement with Denmark [1] covering several things. From their press release: > Today, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey welcomed a delegation from Denmark for a series of meetings focused on strengthening
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by tzs 9mo ago
> Not going to read the article, because Data centers in space = DOA is common sense to me, however, did the article really claim cooling wasn't an issue? No. Nearly everyone that talks about data centers in space talks about coolin
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by tzs 9mo ago
How did they decide to name their Zoom/Teams replacement "Visio"? There's already an extremely well known program called "Visio", namely Microsoft Visio, and it is included in many of the same Microsoft commerc
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by tzs 9mo ago
There are at least two catches with micropayment ideas. One is transaction costs. The other is taxation. If person in country X is accepting payments (micro or regular) directly from customers/donors in country Y they are then running
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by tzs 9mo ago
There are laces designed to convert a shoe meant for regular laces into a slip-on, such as https://www.locklaces.com/ I've used them and they worked pretty well.
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by tzs 9mo ago
You can see the karma of the people with the 11th-100th highest karma at https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders . Here are the 60 of those people who are also in the top 1000 on the word count list, sorted by increasing word
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by tzs 9mo ago
The first time many of Trump's desires to do illegal things were somewhat restrained by non-political government employees who remembered that their oath is to the Constitution, not the President. Based on what I've read a lot of
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by tzs 9mo ago
A million tons a year would be over 18 Starship launches per day.
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by tzs 9mo ago
I don't think any of the companies that say they are working on space data centers intend them to be habitable.
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It doesn't mean a free hand to develop solar. The Trump administration hates solar, too, and is doing as much as it can to hinder solar development. Also, wind and solar have different production patterns, such as how they perform seas
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Periodically send a crew to a comet to bring back a large slab of ice to put in the data center.
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by tzs 9mo ago
> We've heard countless SSD clone stories over the years, but this particular Samsung 990 Pro 2TB case stands out for the frighteningly sophisticated level of counterfeiting behind its creation. The label usually tells you whether a
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by tzs 9mo ago
Some have been built where there wasn't enough power currently available from the grid but would later be available, and were allowed to operate using temporary power sources until then which can cause serious pollution issues for near
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by tzs 9mo ago
What are the price variations like over short distances? In the US gasoline short distance price variations are ridiculous. I've seen it where one station was $3.50/gal and another station on the same main road just a 30 second dr
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by tzs 9mo ago
Rates are down massively compared to where they were before the significant drop in smoking. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10752493/
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It looks like common names like "squirrel" or "chipmunk" that cover many different species are taken more as "squirrel-like animal" and "chipmunk-like animal". They are in the same family (Sciuridae).
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by tzs 9mo ago
> Wordle's word list is going to be a lot more curated than TFA's word list because people want to guess words they use or have heard of, not "aahed" The Times sure doesn't think that about the people who do Lett
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On most streets wouldn't you power new traffic lights using the existing power lines that are powering the street lights?
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> And I access the website from my computer how? By cross device authentication, such as by scanning a QR code displayed on the computer from your phone. Nearly all these laws or proposed laws only require verification on account creatio
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by tzs 9mo ago
The way most proposals that want to support age verification (or verification of other things from a typical ID such as country) without disallowing anonymous users is to involve secure hardware. Briefly, someone (probably your goverment) i
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The problem with that is if someone gets a hold of the logs from both the centralized service and the social media site they can compare timestamps and may be able to match them up. Most people will be doing the whole process (site gives to
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You tie it cryptographically to their phone with keys in the phone's hardware security module. This doesn't stop sharing of ID but it makes it much more inconvenient.
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The EU has been working on a zero knowledge system as part of the EU Digital Identity Wallet project for a few years now. It is currently undergoing large scale field tests in several countries with expected release late this year. All memb
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Anyone happen to know what the arguments were from those who supported that bill? Here's a summary. In late 2016 the FCC passed a rule that: (1) applies the customer privacy requirements of the Communications Act of 1934 to broadband I
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What's different this time is that the US has an extensive system of checks and balances that nearly everyone thought would make the current situation impossible, and now we are learning that they aren't nearly as effective as we
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by tzs 9mo ago
What about that counts as far left activism? Nearly every Republican who was in Congress in 2014 would have described at least 3/4 of what Trump has done this term as illegal and totally unacceptable, and would have described at leas

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