anabab

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by anabab 1mo ago
> nobody [citation needed]. Project Pacer might be controversial and uneconomical, but still interesting.
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by anabab 1mo ago
Or use a bunch of fonts shuffling letters. So the text on the page and ASCII text under it do not match Otoh, how do LLM read PDFs? Text is likely to be shuffled anyway from my experience. Do they not (simply) OCR? But then the white font t
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by anabab 1mo ago
My pixel fold 9 got 3 hardware failures (battery, speaker and folding sensor) and was warranty replaced for a fold 10. While it was being replaced I was using a non foldable phone and was totally missing the folding experience (large scree
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by anabab 1mo ago
2 bit 160x144px ought to be enough for anything
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by anabab 1mo ago
That's an option in Google maps
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by anabab 2mo ago
The year is 2026. Surely the orbits of all the satellites are known well enough, and optics are modelled well enough for telescopes to know which few pixels to ignore at any given moment?
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by anabab 3mo ago
ACs are uncommon, yet red tape is plentiful.
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by anabab 3mo ago
> new Integer(10) == new Long(10) // compiler error, used to false wait, really? I thought introducing _such_ incompatibility was not allowed
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by anabab 3mo ago
Looks like those in favor of small government should not vote - to apply evolutionary pressure instead of rewarding unacceptable behavior
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by anabab 5mo ago
wiktionary is better for this usecase since it tends to have a richer coverage of various meanings
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by anabab 6mo ago
> There's absolutely no military benefit to bombing a girl's school. Objection. For a hypothetical actor wanting to set the world economy on fire there might be a benefit of enraging the enemy to lower the risk of early deesca
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by anabab 6mo ago
the 2009 collision was well documented and there are interesting reports online e.g. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20100002023/downloads/20... which has a chart of apogee/perigee of debris. Th
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by anabab 6mo ago
fresh water
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by anabab 6mo ago
thats in a scenario with soldiers pushing into no mans land under permanent drone control. Israel demonstrates much lower stats when enemy hides underground. I would imagine having no boots on the ground will lower the numbers further.
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by anabab 7mo ago
> The dwindling stock of unused true Polaroid film is getting absurdly expensive as a result. what's the point? ain't all of this stock expired, with photos ending up just blobs or being gamble at best? (even for film stored in
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by anabab 8mo ago
How do goldbacks fit into this? They contain gold (up to 3 grams, a non-trivial amount), they are accepted by a (small) number of businesses, and they are supposed to be reused for further transactions.
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by anabab 8mo ago
But why is silver with export restrictions (Shanghai) trading above silver without said restrictions?
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by anabab 8mo ago
Yes but no. The looks are also important. They want 80-99% to stroke their ego and nice pictures to claim legitimacy. The latter seemingly being useful both internally and externally.
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by anabab 8mo ago
Are there mechanisms in place that will prevent them from delaying this decision until, say, 2029?
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by anabab 8mo ago
Ah, it is all Mercator's fault
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by anabab 8mo ago
Time traveler here. Eventually there would be DPI blackboxes. You do not have to be 100% successful there, blocking 99% and playing cat and mouse with the remaining 1% might be enough.
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by anabab 8mo ago
IIUC the critical use is by military units, so a process to list all the serial numbers shall be quite straightforward
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by anabab 8mo ago
A government may introduce a list of identifiers of devices allowed to operate in their territory. With relatively frequent verification to prevent the use of captured devices.
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by anabab 8mo ago
> They are, but archiving without publishing is pointless. One may collect/archive now (when the data is, well, "available"), and publish later, when copyright expires and the material will likely be harder to obtain.
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by anabab 9mo ago
the attitude of at least checking the code before running it, I suppose? Or is the curl | sudo bash approach more preferred nowadays?
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by anabab 9mo ago
So you are saying there would be a limited resource becoming exponentialy more expensive over time? I guess there might occur a demand for such a resource? And mayhaps in that case the holders might decide to exchange it for some other asse
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by anabab 10mo ago
What would be the best way to grow some small towns into new metro areas?
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by anabab 1y ago
Check "valcambi combibar". Its a gold plate pre-divided into 1g pieces you can break away (like a chocolate bar). 1g is ~100 of money today, which would be enough for a weekly supply of groceries for a person in HCOL areas.
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by anabab 1y ago
Prior art: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21883875
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by anabab 1y ago
I wonder how much of that 12% is due to USD tanking 10%

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