artificialidiot

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by artificialidiot 3y ago
A car is not just four wheels strapped to an engine.
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by artificialidiot 3y ago
What's with the constant bad mouthing of EVs that I've been seeing on social media for the last 3 months? They have been on the market for the last decade and there are no unknowns about them. Is the competition with chinese EVs s
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by artificialidiot 4y ago
They emit UVA which has less energy and body has better defenses for it, but it is not as readily blocked as UVB or UVC, although some would imagine the resin and pigments for this application are designed to absorb UVA more. I think most r
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by artificialidiot 4y ago
I never thought I would feel nostalgic about j2me. So cute.
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by artificialidiot 4y ago
I think it boils down to "early exit" v.s. "single return" style. More than likely, the average programmer will pick the style they've been taught at school or whichever was preached more. I think early exit constru
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by artificialidiot 5y ago
1. Air filter 2. Dehumidifier
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by artificialidiot 5y ago
Yeah, it is actually silly if you don't have a decent DEM, though you can get away with a geoid approximation if you only want to render a pretty picture for someone navigating to the nearest ATM.
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by artificialidiot 5y ago
There is a side mirror on the car. Use it.
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by artificialidiot 5y ago
TYPO3 CMS
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by artificialidiot 5y ago
I used my E6 for almost ten years (replaced the battery once). 3~4 years is just the life of the lithium battery. Nowadays it is the software's fault that perfectly serviceable devices are out of use. I give about 1½ years before they
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by artificialidiot 6y ago
you won't be able to pump at a gas station but you'll still be able to buy cans of racing blends.
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by artificialidiot 6y ago
Nokia X worked pretty good without google. Shame it was killed along with Nokia itself.
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by artificialidiot 6y ago
I am working on an app that needs some GIS features. Spatialite and GDAL cover my use case. You can even eliminate GDAL if you don't retrieve data as binary but it is useful in other places too.
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Opera: Phantom of the Turnaround – 70% Downside(hindenburgresearch.com)
12 points by artificialidiot 6y ago|5 comments
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by artificialidiot 6y ago
I like rolled oats with yogurt and spices (pepper, chilli and thyme mostly). Not sweet, not slimy..
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by artificialidiot 6y ago
iirc panasonic had one generator. small scale internal combustion engines are popular because power to weight ratio allows the same design to be used in other equipment and it has near instantaneous power regulation.
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by artificialidiot 6y ago
I think that blue bar is just for lubrication. You can shave just with water if enough of it is there
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by artificialidiot 6y ago
Riding a bike works like that. 2-3 minutes is a huge difference in terms of power output required. Headwinds can sap your power. Going slightly above your average feels like a headwind. A coach potato like me can output about a hundred watt
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by artificialidiot 6y ago
I agree to all points. For point 6. Mapbox is a big contender for ESRI's current position. For 8. Openstreetmap, GDAL and associated open source ecosystem offers a solution to proprietary format and API of the month problem to a degree
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by artificialidiot 6y ago
Half the world economy is dedicated to run the automotive industry. Not happening anytime soon sadly..
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by artificialidiot 6y ago
Well I did a better research and yea, you are right. Traditionally, all bottles have something like "80 proof" on them. Apparently, it is not English proof but French proof which is same as ABV.
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by artificialidiot 6y ago
It is not 80% alcohol, it is 80 proof which is 40%. Article is wrong about effectiveness.
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by artificialidiot 7y ago
cat whisker detector
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by artificialidiot 7y ago
Yes. If you examine PNG format, it actually uses pixels around a pixel to predict its value and compress the difference, which is much closer to 0 values. It actually uses zlib to compress just like gzip.
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by artificialidiot 7y ago
FirefoxOS
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by artificialidiot 7y ago
You have a good point about tech getting bigger. What worries me is that tech starting to profit more from war. Surveillance , GIS, AI, chips, robotics... are already a huge area and expanding. It is not a stretch to imagine a scenario like
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by artificialidiot 7y ago
low effort intelligence collection. I wouldn't mind "investing" into those companies if I were an agency employing who are basically incompetent crooks.
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by artificialidiot 7y ago
my own experience is that I have to eat a sickening amount of meat to get enough minerals so I started to get some supplements. apparently vegs that I can buy are little more than starch and sugar.
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by artificialidiot 7y ago
one who reports harassment today will report illegal conduct tomorrow. not good for doing business nowadays. you must be domesticated to be any use to coroporations.
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by artificialidiot 7y ago
It is fun to watch cars changing lanes like maniacs as if it matters.

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