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by adolph 4d ago
Oh yeah, I forgot what the table layout stuff used to be like. Since the back has a shine gradient across the back, each position would need all the possible characters. iirc, in that period an article on A List Apart [0] proposed something
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by adolph 4d ago
It is interesting to think about the socio-technical reasons to make a serverside roundtrip for each keypress. Another approach might be to load up the dictionary client-side and use javascript to swap letterforms in various pre-determined
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by adolph 5d ago
There is/was an X-Prize for that. Looks like finals were last June. https://www.xprize.org/competitions/wildfire
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by adolph 5d ago
To clarify, Red Adair and company did take part in the remediation effort in post Gulf War Kuwait: Many consider his crowning achievement to be his central role in containing the Kuwaiti oil field fires of 1991 that threatened planetary
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by adolph 5d ago
This done to enhance light gathering, right? Normal color CCDs have per-pixel filters so lose some light in order to gather the light at the same time? The most common method is to blanket the CCD pixel array with an alternating mask of
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by adolph 6d ago
The paper doesn't seem to mention Canada anywhere. Columbia has coastlines on the Pacific and Caribbean. I can see how the adjective stack could lead a person astray tho. In the 1970’s this species was common in the Bay of Panama,
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by adolph 6d ago
For your consideration, a cephalopod joke I made while stopped in traffic considering the name of an SUV: Q: What do you call a mischievous mollusk? A: A Naughty-lus
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by adolph 6d ago
You might find the recent Theories of Everything podcast interview [0] with Peter Godfrey-Smith interesting. 0. https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/peter-godfrey-smith-thi...
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by adolph 6d ago
I don't think it is bizarre since a panel of lab tests are physiological indicators that may result from the various health and fitness metrics currently measured/collected by iPhone. There are lots of tie-ins from Apple products
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by adolph 7d ago
Is anyone else intrigued by the $129 "panel of over 50 biomarkers, aimed at enhancing preventive health insights?" This was mentioned in the Apple Health segment. [0] I checked out Quest's website and there wasn't an obv
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by adolph 7d ago
I took the tethering demand as Apple chickening out from Watch doing to iPhone what iPhone did to iPod. Having used a cell plan watch for a while, I can almost do away with the full phone aside from it being a requirement to manage the watc
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by adolph 7d ago
One might say the same of newyorker.com: The company, which has six trackers monitoring access to a single web page, frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off for reading an article for free, echoing the language of the social media industr
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by adolph 8d ago
> wish cameras rolled constantly in cars and on body As I understand it, there is a tough balance. Given presumptive release, always-on cams might disincline vulnerable populations whose cooperation is socially useful. > large stickin
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by adolph 8d ago
From the article, page 3: I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with what happened. The reply was, “Why would you ruin your career?” I replied that I am an academic, and asked why he thought goi
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by adolph 8d ago
The article isn't an explicit claim that these Christians were the Buddha, but that the story told about them is an apparent retelling of the Sidhartha story. It closes with: All this tells me that there’s something about our relat
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by adolph 8d ago
Article specifically mentions the term "pervert glasses" US police and federal agents are not alone in their fear. Concern among the public and privacy experts over Meta’s smart glasses, widely dubbed “pervert glasses”, is gro
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by adolph 8d ago
Here is an interesting quick read about the Australian experience with body worn cameras (BWC). I selected it from the search results since many of the US-centric results are sourced from DoJ or similar which may be seen as less than object
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by adolph 11d ago
Interesting: Just south of the launchpad lies Bukkekjerka, a protected Sami cultural monument. Prior to Christianity, sacrifices were made within a cave facing the sea. In most recent times, for the past half-century, there has been an
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by adolph 11d ago
I think I mis-spoke when I wrote "blame-free" because while I come from a psychological-safety inquiry perspective, the term isn't quite descriptive. The purpose of dropping "blame" is that stopping inquiry there wi
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by adolph 11d ago
This is a interesting point. I gave some thought to the nature of what was being processed. In some ways another New World agricultural product gone industrial, cocoa, brought about some companies that at a minimum rival the tobacco compani
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by adolph 11d ago
Reading through this and thinking about the problem in a blame-free way leads me to see the tobacco companies as a through-line for product packaging optimization that transcends any specific use. "The first patented cigarette-making m
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by adolph 11d ago
Yet, our organization was hundreds of people, and the system had grown so large and complex that it had become impossible to learn how it all worked. Which is what makes Bezos' service mandate [0] a classic exposition of Conway
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by adolph 13d ago
There is a financial product known as malpractice insurance in which the outsized cost of a malpractice case is spread out over a risk pool of people with similar risk exposure. In any case, this cost is not directly part of the "hospi
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by adolph 13d ago
I remember the Econtalk episode with the co-founder, "Keith Smith on Free Market Health Care" [0] 0. https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c...
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by adolph 14d ago
Last I checked Takeout is a single zip file. Once you have a photo repository of a certain size, that approach becomes difficult, no?
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by adolph 14d ago
> So congestion revenues are essentially arbitrage? There are significant capital costs to moving power. As I understand it, an example within the US is the relationship between the regional transmission operator (RTO) SPP and MISO, who
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by adolph 14d ago
> the attackers had card-sniffing malware installed on every single cash register Part of the attack was physical, aka skimmers. I still remember the relatively elegant inspection tool blogged by Target Tech on HN 3 years ago: Target&#x2
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by adolph 14d ago
> give everyone an RSA keypair Effectively this allows the keypair issuing government (and thus whoever collects breach data) the ability to impersonate you. Seems like a terrible idea.
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by adolph 14d ago
Another interesting aspect to this story is the flow of value from US Treasuries to gold. Total gold held by central banks globally was valued at approximately $4tr at the start of 2026, surpassing, for the first time, the roughly $3
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by adolph 15d ago
> They didn't make their GPUs for crypto. Sure they did and still do. They did a good job of managing the bubble but participate in the market nontheless. Read the above article: Nvidia has promised that its new lineup of cryptocur

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