crimony

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by crimony 1mo ago
I like that both 0:00 and 24:00 exist. If you say "midnight, August 12", do you mean at the start or the end of the day? There might be a convention, but I don't know it so others probably don't either. With 0:00 and 24:
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by crimony 6mo ago
"there is an in-group for which the law protects but does not bind, and an out-group to which the law binds but does not protect"
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by crimony 8mo ago
Microsoft Word automatically converts dashes to em dashes as soon as you hit space at the end of the next word after the dash.
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by crimony 1y ago
If I remember correctly the military / aerospace shy away from this spec because the connector with the pins is on the backplane, with the sockets on the cards. So if you incorrectly insert a card and bend a pin you're in trouble.
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by crimony 1y ago
You have four sides to each pixel cube, have you considered black, white and two grey levels?
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by crimony 1y ago
I suspect it because with a single piece axle the torsion forces trying to twist the wheels into negative camber are taken by the axle and the forces on the two wheels negate each other, leaving the frame to only have to deal with vertical
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by crimony 1y ago
This is the 90 minute documentary about the development of this particular locomotive. https://youtu.be/c-CbY2d3O1c
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by crimony 1y ago
It's worse only if AI turns out to be of high value. In that case only large companies that can afford to license training data will be dominant.
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by crimony 2y ago
Conjoiner Drives come to mind...
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by crimony 3y ago
They use Midazolam in Australia, which is great as it's very sedating and causes anterograde amnesia, so you don't remember a thing.
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by crimony 3y ago
Honestly the picolax part of the prep is okay for me, I hate the low fibre diet of the prior 3 days. White bread, boiled skinless potatoes and chicken breast. Nothing with any colour or texture. Blech.
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by crimony 3y ago
My dad was also colourblind, and it was only when my mum saw the blood in the toilet that he got tested (at 57). Stage 4 metastatic bowel cancer. He got 8 more years of life but I wouldn't say they were all good years. He died nearly 2
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by crimony 4y ago
Orthodox Christians in the Southern Hemisphere already celebrate Christmas in summer, as do other Christians. #borealocentrism
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by crimony 4y ago
I can't help being amused by this comment, which seems to to be arguing: "This isn't a One-True-Scotsman fallacy, a true One-True-Scotsman fallacy would be <insert narrower definition>, your claim about this fallacy is
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by crimony 5y ago
I clicked on those links to see Spectrum Analyser noise floor plots and was sorely disappointed.
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by crimony 6y ago
I believe this question has been addressed and clarified as limiting the moderation of content to the news organisations' own Facebook pages only, not a general ability to moderate discussion of their articles posted elsewhere by priva
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by crimony 7y ago
I'm regularly reminded of the "Alan's editorializing" commentary in the "units.txt" file, which contains gems such as: [in candela := cd]: "I think the candela is a scam, and I am completely opposed to it