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by fbdab103 2y ago
It is not obvious to me that this is correcting for the differences in bicycle vs escooter users? Or the total number of users over time. By and large I expect someone riding a bicycle to be fitter than the average bear. In contrast, someon
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by fbdab103 2y ago
I might have a work use case for which this would be perfect. Having no experience with word2vec, some reference performance numbers would be great. If I have one million PDF pages, how long is that going to take to encode? How long will it
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Fraud against private companies happens all the time as well. There was an infamous case about a guy who sent fake $100+ million total invoices to Facebook, Google, etc[0]. If they had just stopped after a single interaction, probably would
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Is the kernel really the differentiator there? seL4 is a Proven microkernel that is some 9000 lines of C. This ancient SO post[0] claims Linux is 140k lines. The kernel is just a tiny component of the many things required to get an OS up an
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Especially when the goto gaming wiki site host is straight-up internet cancer.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Nah. Microsoft did a great job handling Minecraft imo. I am still peeved that my lifetime license "mysteriously" broke during Microsoft's account transitions. Trillion dollar company lacks the manpower and technical c
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Every F500 company with historical Oracle installations built before the open source offerings were actually competitive. Even if every one of those decided today they were going to ditch Oracle, you are talking about multi-year initiatives
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Why does the article not say how much that thing weighs? It looks hefty, though I suppose a human heart is also probably dense.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Is this then a done deal? Or can the Supreme Court somehow decide there was a half-sentence in a Federalist Paper which argued the opposite and invalidate the ruling?
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by fbdab103 2y ago
You were not kidding. On the front page of this moment is "14,000 3v Lithium CR2032 Coin Batteries" held in two barrels with a weight of 200 pounds. A tremendous bargain, if you can snatch it at the current bid of $20.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
For 4, I would always start with RF. You have fewer knobs to turn (aka degrees of freedom with which to hang yourself), but still get within spitting distance of XGBoost.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
One company is trying the approach of placing the panels flat on the ground[0]. So long as you put a fence around it to stop local wildlife from crushing them, seems easy enough. Maybe give it a monthly sweep if it is more prone to collecti
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Half of the US voting population is still cheering cries of, "Drill baby drill". There are significant entrenched interests who are fighting renewable development wherever possible. It is only because the economics of solar panels
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by fbdab103 2y ago
That the oven timer is oven adjacent seems a must.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Incredibly common in the US as well to use different units per item. All the better because our garbage measuring system can make unit switches significantly trickier.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
I do not understand why people act as if demonstrating bubble sort is going to forever taint minds and lead to disaster. When I was sitting in CS101 (or...probably data structures?), the professor was asking how you would sort an array. I &
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Games are notorious for vendoring a dependency and never upgrading it again. If you use an internal API, it is not like you are forced to be on the upgrade treadmill where the sands suddenly shifted and the secret API does something differe
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by fbdab103 2y ago
From the link, suggestion to set hostname to `localhost` That is probably fine, but it makes me feel uneasy. Something has to break if you do that, right?
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Practically nothing in Latex comes out of the box. Sure, you can bang out markdown-esque formatted text, but the moment you need something more complicated, say URLs, graphics, resize the margins, etc you are likely going to be pulling in a
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Better than that, the printing press is a stupid simple idea that could have been invented basically as soon as you had writing. Wooden printing blocks were used for hundreds of years before the press. As soon as someone had the idea to use
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by fbdab103 2y ago
The article shows a related model with a passive heatsink bolted onto it. The heatsink roughly doubles the volume of the thing, but passive seems possible. If nothing else, the spec sheet says it can go up to 60C.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
On one hand, it must be baller to work on assembling spacecraft. On the other, wearing those gowns all day must be terrible.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
From the sustainability link: High coal prices mean that most coal plants in China are operating at a loss. In 2018, almost 50% had a net financial loss.2 Things have only gotten worse: data from the China Electricity Council suggests t
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by fbdab103 2y ago
It is a global market, why in the day of the internet, would someone cut you a 30% margin? There might be some hassle crossing international borders, but gold is not generally illegal where there is an outsized risk in moving it.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
So, resale market on stones is trash. What is to stop an intrepid jeweler from purchasing grandma's/ex-spouse's/whatever's precious jewelry for 10 cents on the dollar, and reselling it back into circulation as &quot
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by fbdab103 2y ago
I am intrigued at how much thought went into "copper". Was the thinking that everyone's eyes would glaze over at such a common material? My initial reaction would be to use a different rare element. However, a rare element mi
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by fbdab103 2y ago
It is a really fair question, and I do not think it is totally clear cut. There are some cancers which are significantly more treatable than previously, but the numbers are also getting juiced from other directions. We are detecting cancers
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by fbdab103 2y ago
The author's resume already stands above most. I think this is solving a real problem. Even the PSF, which frustratingly does not take a stance on the matter, is somewhat considering a very similar idea in PyBI.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
In 2014[0], someone stole the German Defense Minister's fingerprint from a picture. We are well past the point where you can assume your biometrics are secure. [0] https://www.theregister.com/2014/12/29/g
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Not sure it is a 1:1 equivalent, but this site[0] claims global chromium production is at 41 million metric tons while lithium is 180,000 metric tons. So, the supply chain already exists. [0] https://www.statista.com/statist

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