CarbonBasedUnit

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Real-time ceiling projection of planes flying overhead(old.reddit.com)
3 points by CarbonBasedUnit 4mo ago|1 comments
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by CarbonBasedUnit 4mo ago
Receives aircraft ADS-B position/identification signal via a cheap RTL-SDR dongle and uses the data to project a real-time image of aircraft flying directly overhead. https://github.com/cpaczek/skylight
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Smartphone Sales Are Tumbling(msn.com)
8 points by CarbonBasedUnit 4mo ago|4 comments
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by CarbonBasedUnit 4mo ago
Worldwide smartphone shipments are expected to decline 14% ... the steepest annual contraction in smartphone history. Manufacturers focusing on selling fewer higher-end products, driven by elevated prices for RAM and transportation/fu
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Beyond Conventional Drones: A Review of Unconventional Rotary-Wing UAV Design(mdpi.com)
3 points by CarbonBasedUnit 5mo ago|0 comments
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by CarbonBasedUnit 11mo ago
From the article: "If I ask you to think through a problem you don’t think in symbols, numbers, or any other representation. You think in words, and therefore your ability to think relies on your ability to deploy words. " Author
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You don't have to swallow frogs(degenerateart.beehiiv.com)
4 points by CarbonBasedUnit 1y ago|1 comments
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by CarbonBasedUnit 1y ago
Author analyzes the different ways Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates approach the current political moment. He argues that Klein risks compromising his own morals by trying to solve too much at once while Coates' values-first approach
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Munchy Box(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by CarbonBasedUnit 1y ago|2 comments
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by CarbonBasedUnit 1y ago
Fast food restaurant fare in Scotland. May include kebab meat, chicken tikka, samosas, chow mein noodles, pakora, naan, and other fast foods and sauces such as curry sauce. Sometimes a salad item. Invariably, chips or fried rice. Not clear
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by CarbonBasedUnit 1y ago
I can relate. Be aware that well-meaning people will read your post, not realize your situation is outside of their own experience, reinterpret your problem into something that makes sense to them , and then give you useless advice based o
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The workers who feel left behind by return-to-office policies(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by CarbonBasedUnit 1y ago|0 comments
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by CarbonBasedUnit 1y ago
A new rationale for objecting to AI. Sadly, chock-full of nonsequiturs.
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by CarbonBasedUnit 1y ago
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/03/trump-tesla-musk-goin...
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Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production(techspot.com)
7 points by CarbonBasedUnit 1y ago|2 comments
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Power Cut – Microsoft reduces spend on future AI-related data centers(wheresyoured.at)
5 points by CarbonBasedUnit 2y ago|2 comments
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by CarbonBasedUnit 2y ago
Ed Zitron draws conclusions from Microsoft's downscale of future data centers. Ed interprets this as MS losing faith in the future of AI but it could be a turn away from brute-force model size expansion and toward DeepSeek-style effic
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Gondolas eyed for public transit in SugarLand, TX(fastcompany.com)
2 points by CarbonBasedUnit 2y ago|0 comments
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Piracy in the UK: the failed war on illegal content(huckmag.com)
50 points by CarbonBasedUnit 2y ago|32 comments
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Return-to-Office Mandates degrade job satisfaction, do not improve company value(papers.ssrn.com)
2 points by CarbonBasedUnit 2y ago|1 comments
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by CarbonBasedUnit 2y ago
- Employees' WFH environments are even more productive now than the makeshift home offices of 2020. - Managers don't impose RTO because they believe it will improve company performance, it's for the feeling of control and eas
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2024 General Mini PC Guide USA(docs.google.com)
2 points by CarbonBasedUnit 2y ago|1 comments
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by CarbonBasedUnit 2y ago
Spreadsheet by user SerMumble on the MiniPCs subreddit, attempting to list all Mini PCs available on the market.
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by CarbonBasedUnit 2y ago
tl;dr Everyone else isn't as extroverted as I am. There must be something wrong with them.
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by CarbonBasedUnit 2y ago
Is this the same commission that previously warned America “might struggle to win, or perhaps lose, a war against China or Russia? Would that be the same Russia that can't win a war of its own choosing against Ukraine , an immediatel
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by CarbonBasedUnit 2y ago
People who seek out martial arts tend to be at least somewhat interested in their fighting value, even if it's only for reasons of image, and the same goes for teachers. If you're really just after physical fitness and self-discip
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In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again'(techdirt.com)
3 points by CarbonBasedUnit 2y ago|0 comments
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Auto Universum: The Allure of Period Colours (Car Colors)(autouniversum.wordpress.com)
2 points by CarbonBasedUnit 2y ago|0 comments
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by CarbonBasedUnit 2y ago
Another retread of the misconceived "AI as collage machine" idea behind some the early lawsuits, i.e. training data goes in and something intelligible comes out, therefore the output is "made of" the input. Non sequitur
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by CarbonBasedUnit 3y ago
The author fails to recognize that performance culture is actually the norm but the primary mission is profit maximization, not product quality.

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