calciphus

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by calciphus 6mo ago
Only if they keep refusing to pay bug bounties!
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by calciphus 8mo ago
If you like this sort of restoration, the BBC show "Repair Shop" is a lovely and wholesome show where master craftspeople fix people's family heirlooms. In the US it's all available on YouTube, elsewhere on various servi
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by calciphus 10mo ago
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by calciphus 11mo ago
Or if it was just valuable tracking data for them to have. You don't need a law where there's profit incentives. Rewards programs track plenty.
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by calciphus 11mo ago
But won't someone think of the shareholder value?
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by calciphus 1y ago
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by calciphus 1y ago
Take a look at "A City on Mars" https://www.acityonmars.com/ for a detailed analysis and a pretty entertaining book!
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by calciphus 1y ago
Really? I use active elevators in SF literally every day. Embarcadero and Montgomery Bart stations. Where in the city are you with no active escalators?
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by calciphus 1y ago
It is unlikely that the amount of debris would reach Kessler Syndrome-levels of orbital pollution, which is what you are describing.
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by calciphus 2y ago
6.5 minutes is soft boiled for a large (in US egg sizing) egg. Soft boiled eggs don't have fully set yolks or firm whites. These are the kinds of eggs you use for ramen. If you want a fully set yolk you need more time (about 10 min or
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by calciphus 2y ago
I read this as "what caused this statement to appear in the summary". Was it the source materials or the LLM base model / hallucination?
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by calciphus 2y ago
Interestingly, Washington State (US) banned this back in 2017. I remember when I was younger actually getting these kinds of farms pointed out on a boat trip. The boat captain mocked them because they still legally called themselves "w
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by calciphus 2y ago
LA is one of the most car-centric cities I've ever seen. "we can have less parking" would require a fundamental shift in culture. Doing it right after a major fire where people are alive precisely because they were able to pu
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by calciphus 2y ago
Not arguing, but what is UE in this context?
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by calciphus 2y ago
By that logic, also the CO2 footprint of manufacturing and transporting the fuel for an equivalent ICE vehicle, which is always conveniently left out of such calculations.
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by calciphus 2y ago
Sometimes headlines change after publishing. In this particular case it matches for me (without translating).
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by calciphus 2y ago
GP started with the premise "we don't need one printed in the 21st century". A more generous reading of that argument might be "we don't need one authored in the 21st century", not that textbooks would never ne
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by calciphus 2y ago
I suspect "MRI-strength electromagnet" falls into a different budget category than "medical grade and certified imaging system", including but not limited to "MRI removed from hospital and junked because it's n
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by calciphus 2y ago
I don't mean to post a low-effort response, but Betteridge's law of headlines seems to apply here. If the answer to the question posed in the headline was "yes" they would have stated it as such. Instead it seems that &q
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by calciphus 2y ago
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by calciphus 2y ago
I'm no expert, but I'd assume "cleared for emergency evacuation in space" means "if the alternative is imminent, certain death - this option is better".
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by calciphus 2y ago
My understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) is that the tariffs are based on the source location of the battery components. Assembly doesn't matter unless you start mining lithium in NAFTA? That's why it's gonna hit some
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by calciphus 2y ago
I've known more than a few ex-religious of varying types who in young adulthood have to find an explanation for why: - they are not at all who the faiths they were raised by said they should be - they know there's not actually any
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by calciphus 2y ago
This is typical of displays - but not of holograms, which have historically been able to display only a single static image.
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by calciphus 2y ago
Chop shops to steal what? Tires? Window glass? There's not much to part out on an EV.
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by calciphus 2y ago
I get value from not having to carry keys. That's less bulk for me. I carry no keys at this point I my life, and it's great. Locks are a societal agreement, not an impenetrable shield. My car is not a fortress or a safe. It's
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by calciphus 2y ago
So the business school awarded money to develop a morally ambiguous (but likely profitable) "study aide" app, and the school ethics board said that creating and using it violated their cheating policies. Sounds like the most reali
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by calciphus 2y ago
If we are doing anecdotes, a single tab Google doc with Grammarly running can easily surpass 4Gb of ram, especially if the doc is over about 30 pages. Use cases like that are not particularly uncommon.
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by calciphus 2y ago
Surely if you're concerned about privacy, an indelible public record of all transactions you made in and out isn't the way to accomplish that?
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by calciphus 2y ago
All Teslas have this. There are several "helpfully automatic" features that do not make for good times in a car wash: windshield wipers, folding mirrors, touch to open charging port, regenerative/automatic braking (on the mo

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