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by bigallen 2y ago
Maybe it’s a prepaid annual membership and the owner forgot/died/didn’t cancel?
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by bigallen 2y ago
It’s a play on words. It helps to break it down into syllables. Each group answers one of the patient’s questions Cont In ue Per sist
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by bigallen 2y ago
This is one of the many comments I see on HN where I genuinely have no idea whether it’s satire or just high-level technical talk. I assume the latter, but I don’t know enough to disprove the former
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by bigallen 2y ago
If someone wants to do the hardware audit for free, or in exchange for some kind of promotional exchange, is that a bad thing? I’d breakdown a lot of devices if I could get a duplicate one intact, for free
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by bigallen 2y ago
For what it’s worth, I really really enjoy flying over places I did/will travel to. Last year, I had a backpacking trip of Yosemite valley planned I was very nervous about. I flew the route a few times (in an F-22) and it calmed me dow
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by bigallen 2y ago
I absolutely love the landing page of careers.reef.pl/ . Maybe I'm just a noob, but I've never seen a website look like a terminal emulator before.
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by bigallen 2y ago
Physics aside, I think the FCC is very, very slowly considering removing the "no encryption" aspect of ham radio. The arguments against encryption seem to be weak, and revolve around "if we don't know what people are say
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by bigallen 2y ago
"maybe nobody will know how bad all the pianos are. And then we'll all have slightly worse pianos than we would otherwise have." But not really. Because if I truly cannot tell the difference between two objects or the way the
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by bigallen 2y ago
Are you in USA? I'm seeing words like "private" and "cryptographic" in the github. What's the interaction with ham radio rules about no encryption?
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by bigallen 2y ago
I think the point they’re trying to make is that determining who is a criminal and what kind of punishment they deserve is a very difficult task that depends largely on perspective.
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by bigallen 2y ago
Dissenting opinions are Not Tolerated
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by bigallen 2y ago
Yikes. Chill out
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by bigallen 2y ago
This is so interesting. I have learned more from a years’s use of chatGPT than from two decades of googling. Yeah, AI has drawbacks. But AI has never displayed an ad to me and only once displayed a cookie banner, and that’s worth quite a bi
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by bigallen 3y ago
Why are you roping Elon into it? Doesn’t SpaceX and other satellite broadband kind of make this map irrelevant?
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by bigallen 3y ago
It’s probably better to repurpose the energy of the kick than to push off what has been kicked up
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by bigallen 3y ago
Who benefits from an autism diagnosis, and what are those benefits?
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by bigallen 3y ago
I will be devastated when (hopefully if!) this happens. If I use a standard search engine to look up a question, I typically get endless “okay” results with piles of moneygrabbing shit mixed in. If I ask chatGPT, I get a contextually releva
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by bigallen 3y ago
Wait, are you saying you just trade the wireless functionality from the built in Bluetooth to an external Bluetooth dongle?
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by bigallen 3y ago
That is a great risk that I, a conscious, responsible human being with agency, should be in charge of managing. Not my fridge
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by bigallen 3y ago
Wouldn’t the state emissions system throw an error if a vehicle’s O2 sensor was reading 0/null?
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by bigallen 3y ago
> if the large tech behemoths were broken down into smaller focused companies, they would create much more value for everyone. Is this a “true right now” statement or a “true now and always” statement? I have a tough time seeing smaller,
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by bigallen 3y ago
Respectfully, I suggest that part of the purpose of Government Communications is to be formal. That is, to be explicitly separate from the mundane day-to-day work. Governmental rulings, especially at the Federal level, affect a lot of peopl
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by bigallen 3y ago
Trades still include hard work and rule following for a long time. And many trades have a culture of crusty old assholes being in charge and then turning the young entrants into the crusty old assholes. I think there will still be a large
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by bigallen 3y ago
How do you integrate the 48V system with the existing 12V system when doing aftermarket/DIY work? Do you add a 48V inverter? A buck-boost DC-DC converter? between the battery (or main fuse block) and the 48V system?
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by bigallen 3y ago
This is the coolest thing I have seen all day! I’ve been using Jared [1] running on a Mac VM to send and receive iMessages from my locally hosted AI. If I could just use a python library that would make my life significantly easier [1] htt
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by bigallen 3y ago
Are you saying evolution prefers a social caste system? And that our destiny is to become more stratified?
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by bigallen 3y ago
Seems like it was a joint effort between USA and Israel https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/confirmed-us-isr...
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by bigallen 3y ago
> When you talk to a client, a colleague or a loved one we’re on the verge of you conversing with a model that mostly represents their image and voice (you hope) Wow, this threw me for a loop. There’s not much difference between talking
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by bigallen 3y ago
Doesn’t this kind of rub you the wrong way? The government telling you “hey, private citizen, we decided we are going to manage the EM spectrum, so you'd better follow our rules if you want to transmit anything.” I understand it’s to h
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by bigallen 3y ago
Ha! What’s the terminal velocity of an apple? Sounds like weaponized fruit to me

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