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by wl 3y ago
In-state tuition for the CSUs is on the order of $13,000/yr. I don't think an aversion towards student loans explains this.
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by wl 3y ago
Those "extended audio clip[s]" don't seem to be available anymore as a matter of policy after 2019, following an external privacy audit done by the Policing Project at NYU Law. It also seems that police don't have access
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by wl 3y ago
Can you point to an example of a ShotSpotter sensor recording a conversation inside somebody's home? That seems unlikely given that these sensors are installed outdoors.
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by wl 3y ago
Daubert requires that expert testimony be based on "reliable principles and methods" and Frye requires "the thing from which the deduction is made must be sufficiently established to have gained general acceptance," both
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by wl 3y ago
A proposed law, not a rule change. One introduced in response to a novel DNA analysis technique being rejected in a Frye challenge under existing law.
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by wl 3y ago
Several people are misinterpreting a Chicago Inspector General report that examined call disposition records on ShotSpotter alerts and found approximately 10% were coded with dispositions indicating a firearms offense. The misinterpretation
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by wl 3y ago
What gets presented in court is a "Detailed Forensic Report" that includes the timestamped audio waveforms, sensor locations, and screenshots of the multilateration computations. These reports, when used as evidence, are required
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by wl 3y ago
They don’t change the data. They change their interpretation of it. The police say the classifier got something wrong, so the classification gets updated, both for the record and to improve the classifier. The police say that the location i
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by wl 3y ago
Yeah, you’re thinking of Boomerang. ShotSpotter did some limited body-worn stuff for the military back in the day, but the vehicle mounted stuff is all Boomerang. Entirely different approaches (distributed microphones vs. a single microphon
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by wl 3y ago
You’re probably thinking of Boomerang, not ShotSpotter if you’re talking about military use.
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by wl 3y ago
Requires having an account with Facebook.
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by wl 3y ago
A warning for anyone who is using local keychain: Don't. Either give in to iCloud keychain or use a different secrets manager. If you're using a Mac with a T1 or T2 security coprocessor or Apple Silicon, your local keychain can on
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by wl 3y ago
There's similar incentives in some parts of medicine in the West. Some physicians get into academic medicine not because they want to be researchers, but because they like teaching residents and/or the high complexity that academi
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by wl 3y ago
Track bikes don't have brakes. You don't need brakes on the track as the bikes are fixed gear without a freewheel, so you can brake by slowing down your pedaling. Stopping fast on the track can cause dangerous crashes, so velodrom
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by wl 3y ago
Wegovy, the weight loss indication for the same drug as Ozempic, has people titrate up to 2.4 mg/week. Ozempic is generally titrated up to 2 mg/week for T2D. The study you’re looking at used doses lower than is typical today.
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by wl 3y ago
During the last natural disaster I found myself in, the authorities were updating Twitter and Facebook but not their official websites. At least the important/urgent stuff was going out through the emergency alert system.
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by wl 3y ago
The issue isn't me posting Twitter links here or elsewhere. It's what to do when others do.
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by wl 3y ago
If the content we wanted was on Mastodon, we would not be having this conversation. Your comment is deeply unhelpful.
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by wl 3y ago
There are people doing things of interest to me where I can either read it on Twitter (currently using Nitter's RSS feeds) or see the misleading blogspam or fluff-filled YouTube video about it a few days later. I'd rather get the
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by wl 3y ago
There's two distinct Nitter use cases I need to replace. 1. Someone drops a link to Twitter. Twitter hides threads and throws items in some weird non-chronological order—assuming I don't get a login wall. I need an unfucked UI. 2.
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by wl 3y ago
A metallurgist once told me that stainless doesn't mean it doesn't stain, it just means it stains less.
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by wl 3y ago
Barnett.edu is likely a reference to Barnett College, one of the fictional institutions where Indiana Jones was faculty. Might explain his dislike of snakes!
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by wl 3y ago
David W. Packard (HP heir) has been trying to throw money at doing this for years, so the money isn't as much of an issue as you'd think. The larger issue is that the locals don't want digging underneath their buildings, no m
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by wl 3y ago
The big problem is that the Villa of the Papyri is underneath modern buildings. That doesn't mean that excavation without demolition is impossible (see the Scavi underneath the Basilica of Saint Peter), but it makes things far more dif
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by wl 3y ago
You can have coasting and regen braking with traditional two pedal driving. With Toyota's hybrids, for example, using the brake pedal engages regen and only engages the brake once you need more braking force than the regen can provide.
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by wl 3y ago
Apple removed telnet from Mac OS. And ftp. You're installing a client anyway because of the security paternalism of others.
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by wl 3y ago
Maybe transactional emails don't need an unsubscribe link like marketing emails, but they do need a "not my account; please stop" link to avoid the spam button.
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by wl 3y ago
That's a partisan phrasing, but I think there's an uncontroversial, generally accepted assertion there. Namely, starting with Wickard v. Filburn in 1942, the courts were willing to uphold nearly any federal program under the banne
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by wl 3y ago
John Allen "updated" this in 2017. I use scare quotes because battery powered angle grinders should have been part of the threat model then and Allen doesn't mention them at all. This is important because now those fancy U-Lo
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by wl 3y ago
While I'm sure there's homeopathic preparations that use witch hazel, the witch hazel you buy at the drug store is not homeopathic because it actually contains witch hazel in a usable concentration. Homeopathic preparations are, b

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