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by dsukhin 2y ago
For those unaware, if you want to use the latest Office Suite (2024), but don’t want to pay a monthly fee, Microsoft still offers a one time purchase [0] for $149.99 which is now cheaper than the (new) one year subscription (with no cloud s
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by dsukhin 3y ago
The data is indeed public [0]. But beware, it’s huge to download; it’s also available in a hosted/queryable interface on Google Earth Engine [1]. [0] https://scihub.copernicus.eu/twiki/do/view/SciHubWebPo
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by dsukhin 3y ago
This causes some interesting knock on effects on society: 1. more pollen (as mentioned in the article), leading to more more allergies, leading to more allergy med sales 2. no free fruit growing in the streets for kids/others to eat he
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Botanical Sexism(en.wikipedia.org)
39 points by dsukhin 3y ago|6 comments
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by dsukhin 3y ago
This is an amazing educational experience for students but it is also such a great way to crowd source hyper realistic 3D world replicas - it reminds me of the Minecraft replica of MIT that cropped up at the start of COVID. I really hope th
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Supreme Court End of Term Statistics(scotusblog.com)
1 points by dsukhin 4y ago|0 comments
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by dsukhin 5y ago
There is a discussion on that thread about the bounty being rather small compared to the damage it could have caused the crypto market and/or Coinbase’s stock/reputation. It’s low relative value is even being cited as a risk to fu
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by dsukhin 5y ago
You are doing exactly the right thing by reaching out and asking for advice in communities you are a part of that may be able to offer you a job or a connection to one. One piece of advice however would be to include a link to a resume or p
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by dsukhin 5y ago
The email domain where the messages originate is from some sort of federated identity management system that was created in 2010 (here is a proposal deck [0] with technical details). Found this program simply by searching Google for the sen
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by dsukhin 5y ago
I can speak using MIT as an example and I assume Harvard is the same way for the same reasons. Big research institutions that were present when IP addresses were being allocated got A LOT of IPs by simply asking for them. Apple has the enti
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Mysterious blue flashes lit up the sky after Mexico earthquake(usatoday.com)
10 points by dsukhin 5y ago|2 comments
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by dsukhin 5y ago
Not to mention that the "single quote" in the article is hardly from a "unknown" author (Charles Dickens), this BBC article on the same topic [0] has several other quotes from well known literature in the same period. [0
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Humans used to sleep in two shifts(sciencealert.com)
48 points by dsukhin 5y ago|60 comments
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by dsukhin 5y ago
Yes, they get enough donations to cover their costs, just like Uber has enough VC cash and loans to continue its operations. It's non profit tax status is not strictly relevant to the fact that you typically need at least as much as mo
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by dsukhin 5y ago
I've considered this question a number of ways. The fact that capital holders are gatekeepers to innovation is unequivocally worse for federated innovation, but it has created an interesting class of companies which may never need to
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by dsukhin 6y ago
It's worth comparing Bitcoin's proof of work to other schemes of maintaining currency value to understand this in a relative sense. The Military Industrial Complex which arguably is the mechanism by which the dollar maintains its
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by dsukhin 6y ago
A DNS record lookup points to ddos-guard.net which provides both hosting and DDOS protection (like cloudflare) and is based in the Netherlands. I don't think they care much about Parler or free speech for that matter. They might not ca
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by dsukhin 6y ago
This is fascinating, I didn't realize there was a spec for this for the web. But this begs the question: Apple Privacy Labels "caught on" because Apple has unilateral control to enforce them in the App Store. If ostensibly th
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by dsukhin 6y ago
The most insidious part of mega bills is the surprises that get snuck into them that I'd like to believe would have been adequately thought about and debated if someone actually had a chance to read them. The article suggests the CARES
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Turritopsis Dohrnii, a.k.a. the Immortal Jellyfish(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by dsukhin 6y ago|0 comments
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by dsukhin 6y ago
This appears to be a two part question. Part one is how space efficient the language representation is (words, sounds) and part two is how much mental RAM is needed to extract meaning. In a traditional CS setting this would be an example of
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A 5-story building in Shanghai 'walks' to a new location [Video](cnn.com)
3 points by dsukhin 6y ago|0 comments
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by dsukhin 6y ago
> A user could log in daily, cough into their phone, and instantly get information... While this model is indeed extremely useful and interesting work, this seemingly casual quote gives new meaning to how unsanitary our phones really are
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by dsukhin 6y ago
Really any cheap VPS provider with cPanel should do what you are asking to provide unlimthed domains, aliases, users, mailboxes, catch alls, forwarding, etc. if you are not looking for anything more complex than IMAP support. Just be sure t
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by dsukhin 6y ago
Off topic: the consent dialog on this page was hilarious and simultaneously a great social commentary on the typical dark patterns. > In order to offer an "ad-filled experience" and maximize our profits, LinuxReviews would very
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by dsukhin 6y ago
Interestingly, newer version Fitbit devices also sport an SpO2 sensor, but they have dragged their feet on enabling direct readings or the expected sleep apnea detection features. The delay seems to have come from the worry of the perceptio
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Tour the Minecraft Institvte of Technology (MIT)(technologyreview.com)
1 points by dsukhin 6y ago|0 comments
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by dsukhin 6y ago
Not to disagree with your premise, but if you scrolled back to the top, the cookie consent box reappears. It just hides so you can read the article when you scroll which by itself isn't bad. It's not clear it assumes consent but i
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by dsukhin 6y ago
Agree, this is transparent, self aware, and takes responsibility. Kudos to Twitter. It's in stark contrast to how FB wrote the post this week about their SDK crashing a bunch of third party apps. Some PR firm did all sorts of verbal gy
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by dsukhin 6y ago
I clicked, pleasantly surprised and expecting a post-mortem. Instead it's a corporate PR admission of guilt and non-apology. If your audience is developers who implement the SDK, a more detailed explanation is the only respectful optio

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