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by ftrobro 1y ago
> allthough one would think they'd get 0% alcohol related cancers I assume "alcohol related" in this context means that alcohol consumption increases the risk for those types of cancers, but you might still get those types
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by ftrobro 1y ago
Perhaps a reference to Pangea Proxima? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea_Proxima Life might very well exist on earth even through those conditions, but not to the extent we have today.
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by ftrobro 1y ago
Unreliable as in noisy in a way that I could not fix with temporal averaging. I tried to guide a robot arm to pick up the top object in a bag of evenly colored objects, but RealSense gave me randomly fluctuating values and rather large unde
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by ftrobro 1y ago
I've tried to use Intel RealSense in the past but found the output to be unreliable. I had much better results with Chronoptics KEA: https://www.chronoptics.com/products/kea
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by ftrobro 2y ago
Is "ateljé" (meaning art studio) really the correct Swedish translation here? I suspect "etta" (meaning one-room apartment) would be more suitable.
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Birds have developed complex brains independently from mammals(phys.org)
32 points by ftrobro 2y ago|6 comments
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by ftrobro 2y ago
Unfortunately sometimes even experienced people make mistakes that a recent graduate should not do (but in practice sometimes does). AI models can help avoid mistakes that in hindsight were obvious and should never have happened.
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by ftrobro 2y ago
Domesticated cats survive so well in the wild that they have eradicated several other animal species: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats-kill-a-stagg...
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by ftrobro 2y ago
Privacy is a safety concern. If some government agency can control your car remotely, chances are that others also will find a way to do that.
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by ftrobro 2y ago
Integers are simple to parse, but from_chars is a great improvement when parsing floats. It's more standardized on different platforms than the old solutions (no need to worry about the locale, for example whether to use comma or dot a
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by ftrobro 2y ago
Rust was created at Mozilla and currently 11.7% of the Firefox source code is in Rust: https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ That's down from 12.49% at the peak in July 2020 so I assume the conversion work was
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by ftrobro 2y ago
Roughly the same as the difference between a country and a business.
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by ftrobro 2y ago
I assume the charter issued by the king in 1347 declared limitations of liability for the owners of the company.
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by ftrobro 2y ago
Stora Enso has 20000 employees and roots in the 13th century. In the 17th centry Stora produced two thirds of all copper in the world. "The oldest preserved share in the Swedish copper mining company Stora Kopparberg (Falun Mine) in Fa
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by ftrobro 2y ago
This and possibly unknown similar flaws is a good reason for not advertising ssh: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/regresshion-vulnera...
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by ftrobro 2y ago
Don't most websites send passwords in plaintext for login and rely on the connection being HTTPS for having any security at all? I don't like that, but seems to be very common, so I'm not surprised about the plaintext part of
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by ftrobro 2y ago
Indeed, not many facts in that article. For example it claims that "Estonia is unique in the amount of land still covered in trees" (50%), and yet that is only 5th highest in Europe [1]. Finland has a tree coverage of 73% [2]. A h
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by ftrobro 2y ago
In southernmost Sweden, just above Germany, solar production is only 5% in December compared to June. In northernmost Sweden the sun doesn't even rise above the horizon for most of December.
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by ftrobro 2y ago
Prices were high two years ago, but that is no longer the case. A lot of solar power came online last year. Currently the price is negative: https://www.eon.se/el/elpriser/aktuella
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by ftrobro 2y ago
GeForce Now works great. I subscribed for a while to play Cyberpunk 2077 on a remote 4080 and it felt like playing on a local computer. But with much higher settings and framerate than I get on my local GeForce 1080. > Finally, there is
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by ftrobro 2y ago
Interesting that electricity prices are so different than in southern Sweden even though the distance to Germany is less than 100 km and our grids are somewhat connected. Here in southern Sweden the cost has been negative during daytime for
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by ftrobro 2y ago
I assume it could be or is part of link time optimization when compiling an application rather than a library?
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by ftrobro 2y ago
I used to get nausea when playing Doom in the nineties, it never got better. But I never get nausea from fps games with slower movement. I suspect the problem with Doom is how quickly you can change direction while running. You can run quit
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Glass made magnetic in room temperature(dn.se)
2 points by ftrobro 2y ago|0 comments
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by ftrobro 2y ago
Isn't sun burn damage and nuclear reactor damgage the same type but at different magnitudes? If your skin becomes red and hot a few hours after being exposed to the sun it's because your immune system is killing off cells that had
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by ftrobro 2y ago
This train tunnel below Malmö in Sweden was finished in 2010 six months earlier than planned and at a cost 10% below budget. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Tunnel_(Malm%C3%B6)
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by ftrobro 3y ago
If the only idea was to help home-owners keep their homes warm then companies would not have gotten the same tax returns. This page lists the reason for the tax returns as "För att stödja elkunderna ekonomiskt och för att mildra effekt
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by ftrobro 3y ago
Regarding electricity tax returns, not making the names public was a very good idea because of course some newspapers had headlines like "Look at how high tax returns some rich bastards got, it's a scandal, they could never use th
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by ftrobro 3y ago
The Swedish government doesn't check that the registered address is correct, and if someone you don't know chooses to register at your address then you won't know about it, and even if you did there's no way for you to g
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by ftrobro 3y ago
I probably can install Linux, but I'm fairly certain Xcode would still refuse to install... The upgrade from Win 7 to 10 was seamless, replacing MacOS with Linux would be like replacing the computer.

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