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by wl 8y ago
Well, Rolling Stone settled over the UVA rape story. Then again, that settlement is rather small in the grand scheme of things. Given the nature of the case, maybe it was cheaper than going to trial. https://www.nytimes.com/
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by wl 8y ago
Companies like Cradlepoint or Sierra Wireless will sell you cellular radios you can hook up to anything with ethernet, including this camera.
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by wl 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA
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by wl 8y ago
Norvig and Thrun's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence class was pretty awful. I hope their offerings improved since the original class in 2011, but I'd be wary of paying money for any classes with their names attached to it.
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by wl 8y ago
> WHO HAS "BUSINESS" DINNERS ALONE WITH MARRIED PEOPLE? Would you give it a second thought if it were two men or two women?
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by wl 8y ago
I'd rather keep the 1/8" to 1/4" adapter on it. Lightning or USB C means now I have two adapters to carry around.
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by wl 8y ago
Landlords like that are the reason (besides financial considerations) that I bought housing as soon as I was able. That adversarial relationship was never fun.
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by wl 8y ago
> TIL you can't paste emojis into HN comment threads. Probably all for the best. It got in the way of me explaining the Rebus principle used in Egyptian hieroglyphs a little while ago. Then again, the topic was phalluses in Unicode
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by wl 8y ago
The types of fun seem relevant here. https://www.tetongravity.com/story/culture/the-three-and-a-h...
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by wl 8y ago
It's unprovable that science is the best method to arrive at truth about the universe. Remember that science attempts to come up with the best explanation for the evidence we have, often using experimentation to resolve questions. The
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by wl 8y ago
The only blade length mentioned in the SF Police Code is in a loitering law (Article 17, §1291). Arguably any pocket knife would also be covered there, regardless of length, under "any cutting, stabbing, bludgeoning weapon or device ca
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by wl 8y ago
I've found my folding knives as useful when living in major cities as I have when I've been in the wilderness backpacking. I would hardly call them out of place.
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by wl 8y ago
There are no state-wide restrictions on blade length or serrations for folding knives in California. There may be some local laws on length in various cities, but I've never been able to find an example where they've been enforced
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by wl 8y ago
I'm no Egyptologist, but I have discussed middle Egyptian hieroglyphic texts on Facebook. Admittedly, images, images of text produced by JSesh, and standard transliterations are more common than Unicode.
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by wl 8y ago
It's pretty common for signs to be rearranged or omitted for aesthetic reasons. There was a strong preference for signs to be grouped in boxes. For example, if we were find 𓅨𓂋 wr, it would almost always be written with 𓂋 underneath 𓅨.
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by wl 8y ago
No, but continuing on with Egyptian body part hieroglyphs, there is Gardner sign D27, Unicode U+13091.
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by wl 8y ago
Sign D52A is a monogram combining sign D52 (transliteration: mt, phallus) and sign S29 (transliteration: s, folded cloth). It is read smt or smt(r). Possible translations, depending on context include the verbs to hear, to examine, to bear
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by wl 8y ago
That would be unfortunate for people working with or discussing Egyptian texts. It's not like this is an uncommon symbol in hieroglyphic texts.
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by wl 8y ago
This symbol has a couple of uses in writing ancient Egyptian. The most common use is probably as a determinative. Ancient Egyptian, much like many Semitic languages, omits the vowels in a word in writing. Determinatives are ideograms that d
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by wl 8y ago
It's still rather fragile and a pain to terminate, which disqualifies it as a serious connector in my book.
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by wl 8y ago
Isn't that only software engineering, not EE?
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by wl 8y ago
The term is "mainsleeze spam." Just because their customers aren't pushing v!agr4 and their lists are smaller doesn't mean their emails are any less unsolicited. If you don't take technical measures to require your
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by wl 8y ago
There's nothing in the US constitution that prohibits taxation without representation.
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by wl 8y ago
That helps protect your baggage from theft; it doesn't protect your baggage from damage.
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by wl 8y ago
With electronic license plate readers everywhere, you already lack privacy in a private vehicle. I wish there were a way one could drive anonymously yet still be held responsible for hit and runs, etc, but that doesn't exist.
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by wl 8y ago
My work contact information has been in the Apollo, Exactis, and NetProspex breaches. I have no idea how my information ever got in these databases. Have I been pwned sent the only notifications I got about these breaches. Does anyone maint
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by wl 8y ago
Genome assembly and computational fluid dynamics are the two that come immediately to mind.
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by wl 8y ago
That's not a phrase a physician would typically use. Laypeople sometimes use it to describe respiratory and/or cardiac arrest.
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by wl 8y ago
That's my impression of everything I've seen from Buckminster Fuller. As someone who loves his work, what would you suggest I read that isn't?
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by wl 8y ago
There is historical evidence for the Babylonian captivity. Most scholars date the final compilation of the Torah to after that time.

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