xsmasher

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by xsmasher 3y ago
Filters are not cotton, they are plastic. Putting a picture of fake cork texture on them doesn't make the biodegrade any faster!
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by xsmasher 3y ago
I like this. I call it "making something solid enough to argue about." Once you get out of the realm of design docs and create something people can poke at the next steps become clear. Just do something to move the ball up the fie
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by xsmasher 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37003137
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by xsmasher 3y ago
A piece of magnetized iron would flip the other way if you turned over the magnet. That's why in the Chinese videos you see them remove the magnet, flip it over, and put it back under the sample. The same "end" of LK99 floats
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by xsmasher 3y ago
A piece of magnetized iron would flip the other way if you turned over the magnet. That's why in the Chinese videos you see them remove the magnet, flip it over, and put it back. The same "end" of LK99 floats, no matter which
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by xsmasher 3y ago
HomePods "synergize" well with Apple Music subscriptions. I also think they're a protective measure to keep people from getting someone else's smart device, which might lead you into someone else's ecosystem.
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by xsmasher 3y ago
By that logic it never makes sense to buy a computer. It'll be obsolete in 18 months! Electric cars are cheaper to operate that gas RIGHT NOW, with less maintenance. No reason to hold off just because they're going to get better.
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by xsmasher 3y ago
Hard to TL;DR because it's a twisty tale that doesn't make a lot of sense. It was the name of an unrelated book by an obscure author that was adapted into a "film treatment" by Willam Burroughs; and it was sitting on the
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by xsmasher 3y ago
They have locations in Pittsburg and Phildelphia Pennsylvania, and in Louisville and Lexington Kentucky. It is not in every town like, say, McDonalds, but they're not just in global tourist destinations.
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by xsmasher 3y ago
My mind goes to suicide.
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by xsmasher 3y ago
Isn't that what Pons and Fleischmann did, calling a press conference? Going through review and publication first seems more prudent.
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by xsmasher 3y ago
Hopefully the thief sees the warnings and picks a different bike lock to cut instead. The lock doesn't have to deploy the skunk to be effective. BRB going to print up some warning stickers for my lock.
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by xsmasher 3y ago
Thank you! I always felt that Diablo was a step backward in computer RPGs, and it never grabbed me the way that Baldur's Gate did; even though the vibe is great as you noted. The randomized dungeons just feel like a treadmill of same a
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by xsmasher 3y ago
"I don't know" is more correct than making up an answer.
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by xsmasher 3y ago
I had a similar thought today about e-bikes and other micro vehicles; why do we allow e-bikes to ride on the road, but ban small trucks and tuk-tuks like this one? https://electrek.co/2021/10/25/i-actually-bou
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by xsmasher 3y ago
Some people are not equipped to handle that responsibly. They'll promise it to rent-a-center in perpetuity and still be hungry halfway through the month.
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by xsmasher 3y ago
And some non-public-domain images of their own. > The current Firefly generative AI model is trained on a dataset of Adobe Stock, along with openly licensed work and public domain content where copyright has expired.
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by xsmasher 3y ago
To me that implies that real animals are scarce; the price is not related to any kind of "artistic realness." If they said that hand-crafted robotic snakes were more expensive than run-of-the-mill live-bred snakes, that would supp
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by xsmasher 3y ago
You just invented ShotSpotter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShotSpotter
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by xsmasher 3y ago
Apple has a 3d keyboard that you can reach out and type on. Tactile feedback is replace with visual feedback - the letters glow more as your finger gets near and they "pop" when you make contact.
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by xsmasher 3y ago
I respect what you're saying, but you should probably suppress the subconscious hierarchy behavior at work too. A little humility goes a long way.
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by xsmasher 3y ago
It's funny how an offhand comment can turn into personal dogma. One day driving through a beachfront town I asked my mother what job you had to do to buy one of those beachfront mansions. She joked "nothing legal!" I'm s
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by xsmasher 3y ago
As a friend told me when I missed the point of a story, "that's not the subtext, that's in the actual text."
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by xsmasher 3y ago
I assume the real challenge here is preventing some kind of "pop" when a pixel leaves or enters the eye's area of focus. Any kind of change in the periphery of your vision would be distracting.
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by xsmasher 3y ago
Parent poster is referring to the walking segments; the walking bubble around each station is a circle. Click on Rockaway park. A pigeon could reach those islands, but a walking person could not. This is still a great visualization.
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by xsmasher 3y ago
Yeah, you have to decide "does this really matter in the long term?" If not, let it go. If it does, do your best to explain why. I'm a huge fan of good interfaces with shitty code inside. You can always improve the code insid
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by xsmasher 3y ago
It's kind of dumb, but I think about a line from Casino Royale - M says to James Bond "I want you to take your ego out of the equation and judge the situation dispassionately." It's unlikely that the person making the co
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by xsmasher 3y ago
Kneel; now put your head on the ground. (I am guessing, I don't have extra knowledge.)
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by xsmasher 3y ago
I assume the attack case case was sending a mail that says "I have attached product.zip to this email" but product.zip becomes a link to the web because the email client is too smart. What you think is an attachment from a trusted
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by xsmasher 3y ago
Bumper height is the factor there, not weight. A higher bumper is more likely to knock you down and under, not up and over.

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