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2mo ago
Getting rid of the blobs and putting a smiley face on 'pile of poo' were sad days.
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5mo ago
In the 2x2 resolution (which can't support all of Braille, but does support the first 10 characters), A, B, C, E, and F are all the recognizable Braille shapes for those letters (though in offset positions). At first, it seemed like an
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7mo ago
The proximate cause is Trump's crackdown on immigration. Immigration was responsible for 84% of the US's population gain in 2024. Both immigration rates and population gain were halved between 2024 and 2025.
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10mo ago
Not exactly the same, but in Japan (where obviously many of the great games of the 80s and 90s were authored) there's a mechanism to acquire a license from the government to publish abandonware. The government collects a royalty from t
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1y ago
> How else would you do it? Render a viewport, given an API like mining/maxing/minlat/maxlat.
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2y ago
The dog that died was kept in a crate.
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2y ago
Decided to check those ligatures out, but this is pretty much entirely unreadable to me. https://usgraphics.com/static/products/TX-02/images/TX-02-li...
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2y ago
The alleged cheater was also the head judge of the tournament.
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2y ago
> They used stolen identity information to make false unemployment insurance claims in other people’s names. I don't think "they," meaning Epoch Times, did the actual identity theft / unemployment insurance fraud. The
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2y ago
Just to clarify for people who don't read it, the article isn't claiming this was trained on the voice of someone doing a Scarlett Johannson impression. It says it was trained on the natural voice of someone who sounds similar to
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2y ago
> Started on the cheap during the Korean War, the Tappan Zee was deliberately built to last just 50 years. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/nyregion/a-bridge-that-ha...
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2y ago
Interesting. Perhaps different tellings of the same story? This appears to be the story I read from the book Nothing to Envy: > A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was sh
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2y ago
> I was able to confirm in the Windows NT4 source code that he originally wrote some of the code for the format dialog on 2-13-95. That was a dry Monday, not a rainy Thursday. It's possible he wrote the code Thursday, but didn'
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2y ago
Yes, that's where I read the story
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2y ago
Reminds me of a story I read about a North Korean who defected to the US during the Korean War. He came across an American nail clipper and was amazed by the machining and intricacy that went into something as mundane as trimming nails. He
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3y ago
> At what point does sufficiently advanced technology become not human? When it's not obviously just an airplane.
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3y ago
I could still taste the difference after decanting to a cup. I felt like it was still mostly can/bottle, but didn't have an American bottle to use as a control. There definitely is a subtle difference. I was about to pick out the
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3y ago
Having done triangle tests with Mexican Coke and HFCS Coke, I find it unbelievable someone "can't stand" one and enjoys the other. Mexican Coke doesn't use cane sugar anymore. But when it did, I'd read that the sucr
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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/the-l... TLDR: They use various ways of emphasizing words and adding variety to speech. It's almost exclusively done in videos where it's
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3y ago
It's "don't be evil," not "do no evil." They're accepting of small amounts of evil so long as it doesn't come to characterize the company.
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3y ago
Haven't seen these new Google Maps yet, but from the screenshots, I couldn't disagree more. Broadway is completely invisible in the "old" map, but visible on the "new" map. But I guess the more usable contrast
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3y ago
Yes, ideally everyone should check every e.g. Wikipedia citation before relying on it, but obviously most people don't. In the past, the only way to come across completely made up court citations regarding obscure bankruptcy procedures
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3y ago
It seems either like his goal was treason, and going public was a bargaining chip to avoid being extrajudicially disappeared somewhere or whistleblowing was his goal and doing it in an adversarial country with loads of confidential document
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3y ago
It's not about denying anyone revenue. The goal is to make easily accessible artwork that apparently has enough value to be sold commercially.
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4y ago
The authors of that study started by filtering down a giant list of survey responses to those where there's a significant difference in responses between the "donor class" and everyone else. I forget exactly how often that ha
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4y ago
US skiers' phones too https://coloradosun.com/2022/12/26/skier-iphone-crash-detect... https://www.explorebigsky.com/iphone-software-issued-28-fals...
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I think the difference is that your historical examples of skepticism (which are a bit exaggerated, btw. Da Vinci was a pretty bright guy who thought human flight was possible; Churchill summed up the current understanding of nuclear physic
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Assumigly, they're offering I'm the coffee for 50% retail price. Sounds like that would put everything in line with standard grocery store markups. https://bellwethercoffee.com/blog/how-to-start-selling-whol
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4y ago
Assange had a TV show on Russian state TV.
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4y ago
This is incorrect. Citizens United found that the BCRA's ban on corporate independent expenditures was unconstitutional. PACs were not affected by this decision. Super PACs — which I assume you're thinking of — would only become a
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