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by vilhelm_s 4y ago
I propose waiting a thousand years, so that the difference builds up to an hour, and then handle the adjustment as part of the daylight savings reform, which should just about have worked its way through the U.S. Congress and the EU institu
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by vilhelm_s 4y ago
Facebook Research has indeed made a prototype for a sunglasses-sized VR headset! https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Holograph...
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by vilhelm_s 4y ago
The article calls it a "plant identification app", I guess it's not specifically for mushrooms.
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by vilhelm_s 4y ago
I think apes are generally black or brown under the fur, not pink. See e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/bacdh/here_is_a_pic_o... https://twitter.com/gorillasdaily/status&
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by vilhelm_s 4y ago
You can still grow tomatoes outside California though, surely production would shift to a place with cheaper water? And if the prices are too high people would stop buying tomatoes. I agree that the prices would not be exactly the same, my
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by vilhelm_s 4y ago
The prices should not go up a lot, because if they did, farming would become unprofitable. E.g., tomato farming produces around $4000 worth of produce per acre and year[0], and requires 2.5 feet applied water. ($4000/acre)/(2.5 fe
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by vilhelm_s 4y ago
Not really, it's the velocity the "Breakthrough Starshot" probes would reach. They propose[1] that launching each probe would take 84 GWh, which is not super much (about 15 times more than a space shuttle launch), but of cour
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by vilhelm_s 4y ago
Truth and honest opinion are both defenses under UK law. https://www.carruthers-law.co.uk/our-services/defamation/def...
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by vilhelm_s 4y ago
I think maybe this is because the user who left the review is a New Zealand national residing outside the U.S., so they do not have any first amendment rights. If the user was American, I think they could assert a first-amendment right to a
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by vilhelm_s 4y ago
I'd absolutely expect the guy and his team to know about prior work, but the article comes from the university "news office". In my experience university PR releases are always extremely overhyped, particularly from the elite
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by vilhelm_s 4y ago
USB-C is infamous for being complex like that, but I think the charging part is basically fine? People talk about the Nintendo Switch often, but I have never heard any _other_ example of something where the charging didn't work, so I t
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by vilhelm_s 4y ago
> LDT (logical decision theory) seems to be an umbrella decision theory that only requires the use of logical counterfactuals, leaving the iteration type and updatelessness unspecified. So my understanding is that UDT1, UDT1.1, UDT2, FDT
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by vilhelm_s 4y ago
Is this because doing nothing is "popular", or because non-industrial societies don't produce enough calories to do more? There's an interesting blogpost[0] about extreme poverty in 20th-century Africa: > He describes
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by vilhelm_s 5y ago
What kind of bugs are visible to userland? I would have thought a random number device would be the least likely thing to have upgrade problems like that: applications should not be able to assume anything at all since the output is literal
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by vilhelm_s 5y ago
Steve Yegge tells the story[1] of his dad cooking: > When I was a teenager, my dad and my brother Mike decided to make homemade chili. I'd never seen it made before, and I watched with keen interest as they added beef, beans, some v
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by vilhelm_s 5y ago
You don’t deposit any SOL to create wETH, you deposit ETH on the ethereum side. That’s what the name means, “wrapped ETH”
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by vilhelm_s 5y ago
creating wETH doesn't create any SOL, they are separate things.
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by vilhelm_s 5y ago
I don't think this is right at all. The attack first created 100,000 wETH ($320 million) on the Solana side, and then bridged 93,750 wETH ($250 million) to ETH on the Ethereum side [1]. So some of the added ETH backs the remaining 6250
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by vilhelm_s 5y ago
Cut out and assemble yourself: https://www.irisa.fr/lande/ridoux/LPAZ/node47.html
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by vilhelm_s 5y ago
Cameras are very sensitive to lasers, there are lots of reported instances where a camera was damaged by e.g. a light show at a concert, even though it's presumably harmless to the human concert-goers[1]. So I don't think the fact
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by vilhelm_s 5y ago
Isn't that kindof what the list of warnings below the message provides? I think you can click on them to expand them, and based on what's in the owner's manual I expect one of the warnings is about "components under volt
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by vilhelm_s 5y ago
“Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.” --G.K. Chesterton
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by vilhelm_s 5y ago
Oh wow, that used to be the default starting airport in Microsoft Flight Simulator, I must have taken off from it a million simulated times as a kid...
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by vilhelm_s 5y ago
The story is told by Saunders Mac Lane, quoted in the book Mathematical Apocrypha Redux: > J. von Neumann in 1927 introduced the axiomatic description of a Hilbert space, and used it in his work on quantum mechanics. There is a story of
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by vilhelm_s 5y ago
One of the IBM scientists seems to have an old quantum computer as a piece of office decoration, so I guess there's some hope to preserve them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJCfOvochA
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by vilhelm_s 5y ago
In this case he granted rights to the book itself, not to make derivative works of it, so I don't think this clause is relevant. I think it's saying that e.g. if Penguin had made a tv-series based on the book, they would not lose
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by vilhelm_s 5y ago
Natural gas plants are cheap but they cause global warming, so soon we will not be able to use them. For example, the U.S. target is to have zero carbon emissions from electricity generation by 2035, and zero carbon emissions at all by 2050
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by vilhelm_s 5y ago
In principle yes, but did you read the paper? They do a lot of completely crazy things like blurring the image until it's just fuzzy blobs, or doing a high-pass filter on it until it just looks like noise (they comment that a human cou
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by vilhelm_s 5y ago
They are describing a particular incident when they were aiming at a man carrying a walky-talky, but the missile instead struck a different motorcycle with two adults and toddler. So killing those three people were accidental.
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by vilhelm_s 5y ago
Why would it be a GDPR violation? As I understood it, the point of the GDPR is to prevent people from being tracked without knowing about it and consenting to it. Here the consent button is as obvious as it could be, you really can't m

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