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by blaze33 9d ago
No, you would be cooked, but I had a hunch that obviously people already tried to see how long you could stay inside and yes there was a competition in Finland exactly for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sauna
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by blaze33 10d ago
"We value your privacy" → "Your private data is valuable" (I guess)
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by blaze33 13d ago
Whole years! You'll are so lucky! The reincarnation roulette gave me this: 49 BCE, he lived 1 month, dying of dysentery. I guess I'll stop complaining about my life then...
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by blaze33 19d ago
I also heard the same thing, hence my surprise, but I guess I wouldn't rule out the possibility of a company simultaneously being paid for installing bloatware and also charging the customer for it...
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by blaze33 19d ago
Apart from the OS I got reimbursed for 4 or 5 additional items between 6 to 15€ each as far as I can remember, I don't have the details as she only told me on the phone and have no record of it. The original invoice had the following l
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by blaze33 20d ago
In 2011 I got a 143€ reimbursement from Dell for an E6420 laptop that I had bought for 910€. Maybe I got lucky but I called the customer service, told the lady I did not agree with the Windows license terms, fully ready to argue my case and
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by blaze33 1mo ago
Seemed to me https://www.marinetraffic.com was the reference for tracking ships, and it's up.
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France's constitutional authority strikes down social media ban for under-15s(france24.com)
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by blaze33 1mo ago
For at least a few years, "common sense" has been hijacked by populist politicians, now it just means whatever simplistic idea that fits their worldview, even when it's not complicated to see that said idea is clearly misguid
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by blaze33 1mo ago
The three six rule is a low bar for dating: you should also have a 6 pack. If you only want three sixes, here are 666 cents I keep in my pocket!
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by blaze33 2mo ago
You can go to the source website https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=nino3.4 There's is an interactive chart that's easier to understand
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by blaze33 2mo ago
If it works it could reduce the electricity price in the evenings and mornings. Now if I take the french grid example that I know best, for the past 7 days the usual spot price is around 100 to 150€/MWh but between 9am to 6 pm it is gr
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by blaze33 2mo ago
I guess you can have both positive and negative externalities. I went back to re-read reflectorbital.com, indeed if you're only lighting a solar farm in the middle of nowhere maybe the light pollution is not so bad outside of the targe
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by blaze33 2mo ago
One question I have is about apparent magnitude: given the satellite's small size (relative to the apparent size of the moon) it would have to be very bright to match the luminosity of the full moon on the surface. In this article: ht
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by blaze33 2mo ago
I once worked with smart meters for electricity consumption that do run 24/7. Leap seconds were not an issue but we had a very similar one now that I think about it: DST shenanigans! Like how much time is there between 2 and 3 am? Usua
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by blaze33 3mo ago
> age verification doesn't have to be a nightmare dystopia But I feel there's not a lot of trust that whatever implementation we could end up with wouldn't be such a dystopia. The real world equivalent would be checkpoints
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by blaze33 4mo ago
The Man vs Horse marathon is interesting but in a real race we have no actual chance of winning. There are horse endurance races where the winner arrived in 7,5 hours after 160km[1]. That's a sub 2-hours marathon almost 4 times in a ro
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by blaze33 4mo ago
It doesn't seem like owls have infrared vision, in that case an IR camera looks like the easiest way to go.
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by blaze33 4mo ago
I understand the moral argument, yes tell me about your product or company from time to time, can be interesting or even funny sometimes but it should stop there. I always use an adblock where possible. 1. I've seen too much ads trying
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by blaze33 4mo ago
Previous discussion (2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15772065
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by blaze33 5mo ago
Someone, somewhere, probably has a "% of commits co-authored by copilot" KPI.
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by blaze33 7mo ago
> My NFC chip data — the digital info stored on the chip inside my passport Do we know how they get that? Because my fingerprints are also in there, so...
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by blaze33 7mo ago
I love the logo, go ahead and click it!
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by blaze33 7mo ago
As much as we speak about slop in the context of AI, slop as the cheap low-quality thing is not a new concept. As lots of people seem to always prefer the cheaper option, we now have single-use plastic ultra-fast fashion, plastic stuff that
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by blaze33 9mo ago
Ah nice to know! In my defense I only searched for the English version. That being said, Robespierre was a key participant of 'La Terreur' where tens of thousands of people where hastily judged and executed and he himself ended up
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by blaze33 9mo ago
Ok so this "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument is so recurrent I once went looking where it came from. The oldest account I found is in a religious book from 1832 [1]: "We must have nothing to hide, nothing to fear&qu
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by blaze33 11mo ago
Pretty sure virus creators could just pick a real ID leaked by the "adult only logins" shenanigans, whereas legit app developers probably wouldn't want to commit identity fraud.
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by blaze33 11mo ago
Nice project! Reminds me of a startup whom I met the founders several years ago: they had a system of hexagonal wooden tiles you could put on a device to play a specific songs (also maybe videos). I'm not sure the project is still aliv
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by blaze33 1y ago
I understand but frankly "doesn't do anything if there is no illegal material" reminds me too much of the old anti-privacy argument "nothing to hide, nothing to fear". It is about control and purpose, "my OS wa
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by blaze33 1y ago
I regularly see similar articles with similar comments here, but there's one thing I still don't understand: From the European Convention on Human Rights[1]: ARTICLE 8 Right to respect for private and family life 1. Eve

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