Domenic_S

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by Domenic_S 19d ago
> or even provide terrorist strikes. I'm sorry, Lloyd's will _what_??
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by Domenic_S 3mo ago
Yes it is! I've been down the mmWave rabbit hole for the last 6 months, making sensors to put around the house to control automations for lights and so forth. They're pretty great. For my use case the advantage over PIR is they do
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by Domenic_S 3mo ago
You're full of awful takes, aren't you. Yale's E360 Digest is not a buddy mentioning a topic in passing. Have some standards.
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by Domenic_S 3mo ago
It's a playground, some grass, a parking lot (a "parking space" is for one car), a basketball court, a baseball diamond, and what looks like a decent paved, tree-lined trail that goes all the way past the animal shelter to
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by Domenic_S 4mo ago
> 1) it's not hard to do your own research. If you're here, I assume you know how. What an awful take. The point of news shouldn't be "assume I'm right and the readership takes my word for it". It should h
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by Domenic_S 4mo ago
But you just said "The benefit is to people watching the prices " -- but if the odds haven't properly converged what information does watching the prices get you before-the-fact? Maybe I'm just not getting it, could you
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by Domenic_S 4mo ago
Hmm, not following. The insider trade in this case was small enough to not change the lines meaningfully, no? D4vd's chances of being #1 went from <1% to >99% nearly overnight, was a huge upset. Polymarket might be different, but
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by Domenic_S 4mo ago
I think the modern version is Snap Circuits, although I think I like the one pictured in GP better.... https://shop.elenco.com/consumers/snap-circuits-pro.html
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by Domenic_S 4mo ago
> I fail to make sense of the claim that there is such an “explanatory gap.” It regards what we would understand if we were to understand something that we currently do not understand. Forgive the muddled question, but: How can we know
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by Domenic_S 4mo ago
> a bit of experience with LLMs make it obvious that’s not what’s going on here I feel like that overstates the point quite a bit. There's a lot that's similar: neurotransmitter release is stochastic at the vesicle level, io
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by Domenic_S 4mo ago
> Cyber: Of, relating to, or involving computers or computer networks (such as the Internet) You left out the part of speech for that entry, which is "adjective"; as in "the cyber marketplace", not "the cyber&quo
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by Domenic_S 5mo ago
> Trusted Access for Cyber program Using "cyber" as a noun there seems language coded for government. DC has a love of "the cyber" but do technologists use the term that way when not pointing at government?
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by Domenic_S 5mo ago
I use this usb/dp switch https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098TVP9ZL no monitor switching needed, although i did hook up a hub for more usb ports.
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by Domenic_S 5mo ago
any recommendations? claude absolutely fell on its face editing my stls (while claiming success)
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by Domenic_S 5mo ago
You didn't just nail it ------------ you cut to the core of the issue.
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by Domenic_S 5mo ago
I ran several Gemma 4 quants on my 24gb mac mini, and with proper context size tuning they're quick enough I guess, but I would really love to see them working well on an iphone with 2/3gb of ram...
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by Domenic_S 6mo ago
Yep, I've been writing it that way forever, it just tends to get autocorrected. > In informal contexts, a hyphen-minus (-) is often used as a substitute for an en dash, as is a pair of hyphen-minuses (--) for an em dash, because th
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by Domenic_S 7mo ago
Huh? The FDA's main guidance document on this topic, issued in 2007 with no major overhaul since [0], states that comparative efficacy or effectiveness data is valuable when: - The comparator vaccine is indicated for the same populatio
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by Domenic_S 8mo ago
yeah, e-waste recyclers suck, they love to ship it all to the 3rd world where piles of circuit boards get tossed in an open fire and stirred by kids to reclaim the metals. Here's a slightly old investigation finding 40% of ewaste being
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by Domenic_S 8mo ago
We have it in California, just for monitors for some reason, but on Jan 1 a new law covering battery-embedded devices took effect. That new one specifically doesn't tax vapes (???) https://cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees&#x
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by Domenic_S 1y ago
As soon as i saw "And honestly? They're all wrong." i knew chatgpt had done the heavy lifting
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by Domenic_S 1y ago
“Should be” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there - I have heard reasonable arguments either way - but it misses the point: whether the personal tax rate was all-time high or an all-time low, personal tax revenue stays roughly the same hist
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by Domenic_S 1y ago
NPR did in their February article about DOGE; their story is ostensibly that out of everything claimed, NPR could verify “only” $2B in cuts which they present as meaningless: > NPR's analysis found that, of its verifiable work compl
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by Domenic_S 1y ago
Hard disagree. Compared to the OECD average, we collect almost double in personal tax revenue as a proportion of total tax revenue. What's more, historically personal tax revenue as a % of GDP stays roughly the same - regardless of
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by Domenic_S 1y ago
We already have Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, and have since March 2018. These new tariffs exclude steel (since we tariff it already).
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by Domenic_S 1y ago
The argument is that increasing government revenue doesn't automatically mean We the People benefit; it usually means more pork and other ways of funneling money to benefit the people with the power to funnel it.
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by Domenic_S 1y ago
> taxation and wealth redistribution remain an effective way to bolster a societies resilience Tangentially: It’s wild how inconsistent the public and political reactions are to different ways of getting revenue. Take this common patte
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by Domenic_S 2y ago
> they are just using a "normal" BLE address and then reverse-engineering a key from that. It's really clever - the BLE spec limits message size, so Apple uses the BLE address as part of the message (the first part of th
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by Domenic_S 2y ago
Same, announcements are kind of flaky. My usual command is "Alexa, announce <whatever to announce>" - half the time she asks what I want to announce, 20% of the time she announces "announce", 30% of the time it wor
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by Domenic_S 2y ago
> It could have introduced for example a limit on grant overhead on all future grants So exactly what they introduced, except not applying to current grants? > forced universities find saving in admin/sports etc. Aren't

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