StrangeATractor

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Seaweed farming for carbon dioxide capture would take up too much of the ocean(technologyreview.com)
8 points by StrangeATractor 3y ago|5 comments
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
I usually just pull off at a truck stop for sleep if I'm traveling, but even those have been getting filled up lately. Plenty of exits will just have semis lined up on the shoulder because there's no room anywhere else and they ca
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Ask HN: Which email client are you using?
1 points by StrangeATractor 3y ago|2 comments
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
How do you even represent HDR colors? I've tried Googling this and I can never really find an answer. Is it basically just eight hex digits instead of six?
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
I wouldn't fuck with the FAA, their interpretation of what they say is what's really the law, not what's written in the FAR. About 30 years ago a pilot in a floatplane was on step as he went under a bridge (he was still in
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
The teacher may start off a class with a question like "what is the most efficient way to satisfy this problem given these constraints?" Some people would know the answer immediately but couldn't do a proof for it hardly at a
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
I have to say re: pipewire that it's one of the few (redhat?) projects of the past 15-20 years that doesn't seem to have generated a ton of hate from users so it must be pretty good all around.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Classes like this were funny. I often found that people who just knew the answer immediately had a lot of difficulty doing proofs, and the people good at doing proofs usually didn't arrive at the solution very quickly or seem to have a
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
They tried to blackmail MLK to get him to kill himself. A department created originally to fight the mob started acting exactly like it. There's no way a reasonable person's faith in an organization like that could ever be restore
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Honestly every time the FBI is in the news I get confirmation they're a bunch of lying incompent sleaze bags backed and protected by the state.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
This is ridiculous and really only happens because the cost of securing your customer (or citizen) data is higher than the cost of losing control of it. If the cost of losing data to hacks was, say three times higher than the cost estimated
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Great. Let's see what sort of response this gets from the gov't. At some point we need to start treating data as a liability.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
GP mixed up vim with emacs.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Mag isn't too bad, I believe you also get acclimated to it (haven't taken it in a while). IME it's not much different from having a fiber-heavy diet.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
It's about equally extreme in the level of accountability as well (for better or worse).
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Hah, I brought this up here a few months ago and was quickly dismissed. I wonder if opening GPT and DALLE to the public was partly intended to pollute subsequent data for anyone that gets into AI down the road. Suddenly a lot of publicly ac
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Not even thinking about trying this without source code.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
It's a mixed bag. Everything you do IRL gets photographed and uploaded by your friends without your consent for future potential employers to scour through, Twitter becoming the whole world's HR department, your name, address and
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
or save scum it to get the loot. I got umbra gear not too long after getting out of the sewers in Oblivion by opportune saving.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Great! But I imagine a lot of jobs we'd expect to be gaining will be automated. With the state of AI and robotics this trend will accelerate. We also lose a lot of interdependency which has its own problems.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
I'm going out on a limb, but I can't see a downside to making an "ADA for the web". Any for-profit company of a certain size or revenue has to have their content available in plaintext, including audio and videos being t
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
...because it breaks vi.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
That's not so outrageous, Google gives you different search experiences based on your user agent.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
If you pay with cash you never get a tip prompt.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
I mean, you could be picking up human shit instead.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
I want to go to the site of the CP-1 reactor. Not much left but a plaque, but that's where the modern age really began. Apparently you can buy some graphite from the CP-1 as a paperweight, but I'm not sure how legit it is. They sa
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
I'd like to see a graphical educational program, mainly for adults, that takes an arbitrary git repo and shows you what different git commands actually do as you're doing them. Having an interactive visual aid would alleviate most
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
I must be smarter than all of you, I never solve any difficult problems.
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
The only problem I have with going mouseless is selecting text (for copy/paste) that isn't in a tmux buffer. Copying from a pdf or web browser, you're SOL without a mouse. To my knowledge, there isn't a way to do this un
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by StrangeATractor 3y ago
Doesn't Hanford still have some leaking holding tanks on site? There was supposed to be concern about the waste making it into the water table or Columbia IIRC.

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