evoke4908

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by evoke4908 2y ago
> Because insurance would then just lowball the cost of everything. They do . Many, many billable items are priced to the limit that insurance will pay. Insurance and providers have agreements on the prices they can charge for certain p
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by evoke4908 2y ago
If you're launching a fleet of drones, discretion is probably not a major concern. A coded sonic pulse could have exceptionally long range. Sure your enemies would detect it, about half a second before they detect the drones. A more pr
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by evoke4908 2y ago
Your main challenge will probably be measuring the distance between neighboring drones as accurately as possible. AIUI you could recover signal from unevenly spaced receptors IFF you know precisely where each receptor is. After that it&#x27
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by evoke4908 2y ago
Or they can't afford to sell the cards at consumer prices. If they take a loss in the consumer segmet, they can recoup by overcharging the datacenter customers. That's how this scheme works. The card is most likely not profita
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by evoke4908 2y ago
I made that choice several years ago. All new PCs I buy/build are AMD only. The hardware is a bit finnicky, but honestly I prefer a thing to just be broken and tricky as opposed to nvidia intentionally making my life hard.
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by evoke4908 2y ago
> I have the freedom to read what I want. You're telling me I don't You don't. This is not a legally protected right in any US jurisdiction. Period. > This isn't about freedom of speech Correct, because this isn&#x
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by evoke4908 2y ago
They just read the title, not the article, then confabluate an entire world view from three words that are entirely untethered from the actual constitutional meaning.
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by evoke4908 2y ago
Counterpoint: being useful to a more successful species is a staggeringly effective evolutionary strategy. Nature is chock full of symbiotic relationships and it's a perfectly valid ecological niche. Symbionts exist whether or not the
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by evoke4908 2y ago
Please feel free to point out which parts of the comment are incorrect.
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by evoke4908 2y ago
It's been 25 years.
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by evoke4908 2y ago
I thought this was just default with XFCE in general
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by evoke4908 2y ago
C# is the first thing to come to mind. If you so choose you can more or less inline C and trample all over memory, or you can write very strict, statically typed, safe code.
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by evoke4908 2y ago
Your assertion seems to be that Google's location service must be the best, and there's no way a trivial method can outperform it. Have you considered that google might just perform poorly compared to other methods?
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by evoke4908 2y ago
He executed a man who has murdered unknown thousands of innocent people. How many of his victims had children?
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by evoke4908 2y ago
> the term carcinogen is very broad No, it is very much not. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carcinogen > I think you just mean the bad ones can cause harm There are no "good" carcinogens. Th
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by evoke4908 2y ago
Claiming that text is fiction does not change the fact that it contains illegal and potentially harmful advice presented as truth. As a legal defense, this is on par with "copyright not intended"
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by evoke4908 2y ago
That's how American law works. The law as written has very little to do with the law as practiced. Everything comes down to how courts interpret the letter of the law as it relates to the messy reality of meatspace. Writing the law is
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by evoke4908 2y ago
Forget about the particles for a second. This is about fundamental quantum fields. The fields can randomly fluctuate from the vacuum state into a more ordered state where virtual particles are created. The conjecture here is that a given vo
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by evoke4908 2y ago
Sounds like a layperson's poor understanding of an explanation from someone else who also doesn't really get it.
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by evoke4908 2y ago
My CEO has been letting the AWS bill go unpaid, apparently not understanding that our entire business and all of our IP will simply vanish if our S3 bucket gets deleted. Zero backups of any kind I manually pulled a backup of everything but
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by evoke4908 2y ago
That CEO didn't seem to have any qualms about killing people
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by evoke4908 2y ago
I'm real interested in how a trial goes. Can you even find enough people in America who haven't been bent over by insurance to form an unbiased jury? I find it hard to imagine any jury would convict him.
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by evoke4908 2y ago
As bad ideas go, this has to be one of the best.
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by evoke4908 2y ago
By amounts so small as to be effectively zero even over the span of centuries. The article admits that tidal forces from the moon slow earth's spin by orders of magnitude more. Big, steaming, juicy nothingburger
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by evoke4908 2y ago
Doesn't a PLA just boil down to a truth table that you can dump the same way? Or am I thinking of the other kind of programmable logic chip used for this purpose? GAL, I think?
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by evoke4908 2y ago
We've been using RS232 since 1960. I have 100% confidence that in a thousand years there will still be engineering terminals in starships emulating a VT100
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by evoke4908 2y ago
Someone's about to learn about the Streisand effect
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by evoke4908 2y ago
It's really very extremely simple. You're in charge of a safety-critical business. You make decisions that trade safety for profit. People die. You are charged with murder and go to jail for a very long time, just like any regular
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by evoke4908 2y ago
How is it any different from ordinary parallel compilation? Make will happily use dozens of CPU cores for compilation, even if linking and other operations must be synchronous. Even if a GPU core is slower than a CPU core, you have vastly m
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by evoke4908 2y ago
All of the screaming text on the site trying to explain to you why no one online trusts them but you definitely should is an enormous red flag that makes me very much not trust them one bit.

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