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by zhivota 1y ago
From time in hospitals I've gotten very good at disabling them. Most nurses are fine with it but every now and then one would come on shift and tut tut at me for having done it. They usually shut up when I point out that they don&#x2
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by zhivota 1y ago
Hmm yeah fair point. I'm not sure you can do it without some control over the observer device then... will we have "authenticated cameras" soon, with crypto in secure elements? Feels like we'll have to go there to have
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by zhivota 1y ago
The light source could be connected to a clock and the flashes represent the encryption of the time using a private key, verifiable using a public key. It's a lot of complexity, so probably only worthwhile for high value targets like g
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by zhivota 1y ago
What you're missing is that the activities you're doing were not the activities people were largely doing 10-20 years ago to be social. Going to bars was probably at least 100x more popular than hiking, so even if you see a 10x g
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by zhivota 1y ago
Well there's the problem. One of the same problems we have with housing. Overly complicated regulation forcing custom builds.
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by zhivota 1y ago
I love the European model of retractable bollards that are down overnight and then go up in the morning and stay up until late in the evening. Allows for night time delivery vehicle access while preserving a car free space for the whole da
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by zhivota 1y ago
It will be an ID number based payment service built on top of FedNow. In other countries similar services are used with QR codes to do easy payments.
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by zhivota 1y ago
True until the acquiring (merchant side) bank is insolvent. Then the network pays. Source: worked at Visa for years. It's why it's so hard to become an acquiring bank on the network.
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by zhivota 1y ago
That's a big part of it, yes. Retailers take advantage of information assymetry after all. While you're in Best buy, you may pay more than online to walk out with an item, but would you pay more if you could instantly confirm it&#
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by zhivota 1y ago
I am the same, long time Android user and when I borrow my wife's iPhone it is an exercise in frustration. Interactions are hidden, not intuitive, or just plain missing. Now that Pixel cameras outclass iPhone cameras, and even Samsung
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by zhivota 1y ago
I worked on this, it was called Milo.com. we had crazy scraping and xml/csv feed ingestion. It was a terribly difficult business because most retailers hated us. ebay bought it and eventually killed it.
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by zhivota 1y ago
Ok thank you I was really worried for a second. Capital controls are on the bingo card but I was hoping it wouldn't come yet.
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by zhivota 1y ago
A self driving car, yes.
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by zhivota 1y ago
It's considered a minimum skill requirement to know how and when to use AI and to actually then use it, yes. I haven't seen managers enforce it but the CEO already said so. In practice there are still people who are resistant of c
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by zhivota 1y ago
Hah yes or broken down muscle tissue in the case of rhabdomyolysis. As I've gotten older I've had to discard this kind of maximalist thinking with exercise and think of every workout as just a smidge more than the last, after an a
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by zhivota 1y ago
Only logical thing to do personally is to take it completely off your mobile devices. You still get caught in the dragnet if you have friends and family posting you. Also in many places WhatsApp is practically a requirement for daily life w
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by zhivota 1y ago
Bingo! It's also an antitrust thing but yes, look up the number of grocery stores in a northeast city 100 years ago vs now, it's mind boggling. Like at least 25x difference, maybe more, I can't recall.
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by zhivota 1y ago
In my experience the difficulty in this kind of task is reading the docs of a bunch of packages I haven't used in months/years and probably won't use again anytime soon, testing things manually and creating all the little har
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by zhivota 1y ago
I used one of these exclusively to cook on an 8 day bike packing trip about 15 years ago. You can't beat it for weight and size efficiency IMO.
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by zhivota 1y ago
Ok so I have Google One AI or whatever the previous version of this is called, and what's wild to me is that in Google Sheets, if I ask it to do anything, literally anything, it says it can't do it. The only thing it can do is re
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by zhivota 1y ago
The trains and subway are right there...
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by zhivota 1y ago
These are common in all developing countries. In the Philippines it's called a Jeepney. They even did pop up around NYC, catering to Hispanic neighborhoods IIRC, and have been in various states of legality over the years. I think now t
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by zhivota 1y ago
Agreed, stuff like Punggol town is IMO much more accessible and interesting. It's truly an awesome place, affordable, well connected with transit as part of its design, etc.
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by zhivota 1y ago
FWIW the application was to send up UAVs after Air Force runways were attacked to isolate exact locations and sizes of damage, to allow for the fastest possible fixes to be made. In these situations, seconds and minutes matter as the plane
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by zhivota 1y ago
You could be right... I'm just going off of what I've seen in the other departments they touched. Let's hope at least this program would be left untouched. https://www.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/re
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by zhivota 1y ago
I worked at two National Laboratories, Argonne and Idaho, on NSF funded internship grants. The second one turned into a full time job, again on an NSF grant. The first one was on supercomputing, writing proof of concept code for a new supe
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by zhivota 1y ago
Ah fair, though it seems the real number was -0.3% so still not really useful... being off by 2.4 on a number that has a historical range of [-5, 5] or so is not great.
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by zhivota 1y ago
And the raw materials. Oh I guess just start a mining operation, and a refining operation, and...
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by zhivota 1y ago
Hilarious because 10 days ago it was -2.7%: https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow/archives This wild of a swing makes me re-assess depending on this data for anything.
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by zhivota 1y ago
Hah, I think being a parent is one way people get slowly trained into thinking of themselves as the adult finally. You kind of have to fake knowing a lot of stuff just to give confidence to your kids that they are safe and in good hands. I

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