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by goblinux 2y ago
The CDC website was gutted in Jan 2025 following the Trump administration’s opening salvo of executive orders. This deprived American (and global) healthcare professionals of valuable information. There has been loss of faith in the CDC an
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by goblinux 2y ago
Michael Lewis wrote a book called Flashboys all about it. If your network speed and processing power are faster than the competitors, then you can move faster than them on any trade. Really interesting stuff
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by goblinux 2y ago
The hard part with 2FA over SMS is that it's no longer considered secure [1]. I want a dumb phone too, but with all the security tools we need (password manager, 2FA apps/tokens, encrypted messaging, etc.) it's becoming less
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by goblinux 2y ago
I think something like yoga or dance would qualify. If you’re exclusively looking for things where you can put your hands on stuff then maybe a petting zoo?
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by goblinux 3y ago
How do y’all avoid lawsuits and stuff? I always wonder that about Palantir and Anduril and all those other companies. Did you have to ask permission? Or is this just a run it til there’s a lawsuit because you’re in a different industry thi
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by goblinux 3y ago
This doesn't actually map methane leaks. It finds oilfield equipment and infrastructure and guesses how much it might leak and how that leak might diffuse. There's not like a special sensor to see methane from the satellite like I
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by goblinux 3y ago
Isn’t that the plot of Skyrim?
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by goblinux 3y ago
I have never had my car door fall off mid road trip though
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by goblinux 3y ago
If you’re interested in a deeper dive, this is basically a summary of Peter Attia’s Outlive https://peterattiamd.com/outlive/ It’s a good book, I’m currently reading it now. The premise is: if you want your later years
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by goblinux 3y ago
Anyone else hear this in Withers’ voice? I just finished BG3
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by goblinux 3y ago
The INSANE thing to me about naming your company Palantir after the artifact from Middle Earth is the story behind the seeing stones. By the Third Age - when the events of the Lord of the Rings take place - several of the Palantiri (plural)
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by goblinux 3y ago
Just called the number holy cow it’s real. I love obscure infrastructure stuff like that
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by goblinux 3y ago
I think it’s the Moneyball strategy - teams prefer home runs to base hits even if it means more strikeouts Now baseball is shifting away from moneyball back to base hitters because they made their product super boring and stale. I think ens
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by goblinux 3y ago
1000% they don't want to make art, they want to make content
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by goblinux 3y ago
is anyone else weirded out that it simulates breath? like this is a robot, not a real woman, but it pauses to take a breath to mimic human sound. on the one hand i like it. she sounds like a real podcast host and person with a nice, profess
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by goblinux 3y ago
I guess that’s why they call it window pain
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by goblinux 3y ago
Is there another way to be European than by geography?
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by goblinux 3y ago
Industrial software perpetual licenses are really perpetual. Those things will outlast the company that wrote them and they don’t have claw-back mechanisms
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by goblinux 4y ago
Makes sense. I think it's funny that by you providing a major employer where you don't work nerd sniped a couple of us into guessing the other players in the space.
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by goblinux 4y ago
Gotta be Keyence? My favorite machine vision use case is the tomato sorter. This is one I found from YouTube, not affiliated https://youtu.be/j4RWJTs0QCk
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by goblinux 4y ago
My dishwasher has a beeper for when it’s done like a microwave. It drives me up a wall!! I don’t care when dishes are done, I don’t need to attend to them urgently. They can sit there clean until I’m ready for them. There is no way to disab
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by goblinux 4y ago
I would love to be able to listen to news podcasts in this.
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by goblinux 4y ago
It was 100.3 KJKK Jack FM which I’m realizing was only in the DFW area. I figured it was syndicated Here’s a link to what I’m guessing is their site: https://jack.fm/listen-to-jack-fm/ Here’s a YouTube video which is e
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by goblinux 4y ago
Just downloaded. I loved JackFM back when I listened to terrestrial radio in the car - it was a station with a snarky robot dj and it was great. Thanks for making this!
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by goblinux 4y ago
i think it’s because choose and chose are pronounced different from loose and lose- but autocorrect has no idea the difference or context of use and so people throw whatever out there
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by goblinux 4y ago
Also what is that seat back, is it his backpack or has he pulled the emergency flotation device out from under his seat already?
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by goblinux 4y ago
Ew yeah the more you look at it the weirder it gets. Like what's between his fingers, or what is that keyboard layout? Is that supposed to be cash sitting on the armrest, or like a plane ticket?
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by goblinux 4y ago
I had no idea Rockwell made calculators back in the day. Did they do consumer electronics like this before they bought AB?
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by goblinux 4y ago
87% of american teens imessage/sms/texting is king in the US
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by goblinux 4y ago
It's built on a bayou. New Orleans was built on a swamp https://www.bayouswamptours.com/bayou-vs-swamp-whats-the-dif...

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