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by arbitrage 2y ago
No, light is EM radiation. Not all EM is light.
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by arbitrage 2y ago
Reddit attracts a lot of trolls. Managing the reddit takes work (moderation, keeping up with stupid reddit drama). With a project discord, you're filtering out people immediately -- typically only people who want to be there wind up th
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by arbitrage 2y ago
You're gonna break that necklace if you clutch your pearls any harder.
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by arbitrage 2y ago
Fastmail is a paid solution, and you are comparing it to the ad-laden version of gmail. They are absolutely going to be different experiences. You do in fact appear to be heavily biased based on your previous involvement with google, it sho
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by arbitrage 2y ago
t;dr: it's Japanese
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by arbitrage 2y ago
Do you talk with them, or talk at them? Are you the only one giving feedback? What feedback do you get from the employee you've been failing to connect with?
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by arbitrage 2y ago
> Not sure what to make of this. One possible conclusion here is that you are not as discriminating of a music listener as you assumed or thought you were.
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by arbitrage 3y ago
The machinery is all commoditized and the same. Plumbing as a trade has been around for thousands of years. The level of sophistication here is limited.
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by arbitrage 3y ago
You're exaggerating about light-bulbs. There is no way LEDs last less than incandescents. If you are experiencing this, its possible your wiring is bad. You should call an electrician and have them check that out.
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by arbitrage 3y ago
Tachyons aren't a thing. Tachyons are sci-fi nonsense. Nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light. This does not hold for the universe itself. It can and does expand faster than the speed of light, using specific
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by arbitrage 3y ago
That's a mouthful. The title should be "Hubble Tension almost certainly not caused by measurement error."
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by arbitrage 3y ago
https://archive.is/mgu2l
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by arbitrage 3y ago
Google didn't slip. Google's stock price fluctuated. Which is a normal occurrence. There's a difference between the two, and the headline is really close to click-bait.
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by arbitrage 3y ago
This article mentions nothing about twins being affected asymmetrically by schizophrenia. Any model of the disease needs to account for that. Also, this gem: "You also can’t point to any individual lung cancer patient and say “smoking
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by arbitrage 3y ago
Oh wow, I can block already watched videos on youtube, at long long last. Thank you so much!
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by arbitrage 3y ago
Hold the fob under and in contact with your chin and aim your face at your car. The beam gets focused in a specific direction when you're using your head to amplify the signal. This is how you get improved distance with your head. Your
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by arbitrage 3y ago
Did you read the linked article or abstract? > Participants' demographics, including education and familiarity with LLMs, did not predict detection rate, suggesting that even those who understand systems deeply and interact with the
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by arbitrage 3y ago
Good point, and the answer to that is possibly not. But, considering that it isn't ideal to publicize this sort of thing during market hours anyway, regardless of your public/private status, my takeaway is that OpenAI felt that th
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by arbitrage 3y ago
I find it particularly scene breaking as well. Stephen King does this a great deal -- he seems inordinately fond of name-dropping electronics. I don't think authors get paid to include name brands as adverts. I think what you and I are
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by arbitrage 3y ago
This article was not about recycled plastics. It's about plastics that can be recycled. Subtle difference, there.
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by arbitrage 3y ago
This has been my experience contributing to F/OSS, as well. Upstream maintainers loooooove stealing your code. They are exceptionally unpleasant to work with, overwhelmingly so. "Sorry, I like my version better" is almost ver
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by arbitrage 3y ago
Get over yourself, they did it together. The allieds invaded France. Russia would've been made a vassal state of Germany if it wasn't for the US.
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by arbitrage 3y ago
You can eat the rind. Some people do. That's not typical, however. > The p-Chip micro-transponder is a grain of salt-sized silicon chip containing a unique identification code that is attached to the silicon substrate. It will pro
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by arbitrage 3y ago
A dermatologist has been consistently difficult to get an appointment with for twenty years in some places.
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by arbitrage 3y ago
>> I [...] uninstalled snapd (forgetting lxd used it) Okay, but that's a "you" problem, not anything related to the actual software.
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by arbitrage 3y ago
> in those days you could sink Ethernet with a faulty PC That is still possible in the modern era.
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by arbitrage 3y ago
I mean, blame is probably better assigned "because capitalism", not "because Linux".
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by arbitrage 3y ago
> and there's a reason why SF has famously terrible urban design. ... which is?
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by arbitrage 3y ago
I believe that at first it was a game for him. Eventually he got tired of running, and this may have been a way of taunting his pursuers and forcing an end-game situation that he overestimated his chances against. He was not prepared for f
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by arbitrage 3y ago
I too have worked in tech before, during, and after the hiring boom; but not for any of these companies. I have seen very much of the sort of make-work that is described in the article. It seems our anecdotes might cancel each other out.

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