grkvlt

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by grkvlt 2y ago
in big cities in the uk (edinburgh, london, etc.) paying with a contactless tap of a debit card each journey will never result in paying more than the cheapest daily, weekly etc. travel pass. single tickets are gbp 2.00 and a daaily pass is
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by grkvlt 2y ago
Have a look at MareNostrum [0] then. It's in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, in an old de-consecrated church, and looks awesome! 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MareNostrum_4_supercomput...
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by grkvlt 3y ago
you realise it is possible to mail unsealed, open envelopes, right? doesn't seem that tricky...
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by grkvlt 4y ago
see also synechdoche [0] as a figure of speech, or "container for the thing contained" as james thurber's english teacher explained... 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
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by grkvlt 4y ago
just like colossal cave [0] YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT. YOU ARE IN A LITTLE MAZE OF TWISTING PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT. i remember getting lost in that maze, and didn't realise that the subtle
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by grkvlt 4y ago
For those, like myself, who don't quite know enough Greek grammar to work it out properly, I looked up the definition of _Entomophagy_ ... it is derived from the Greek words 'entomon' (insect) and 'phagein' (to eat)
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by grkvlt 4y ago
no, the bit about having no money was a response to a claim that the advice was 'actionable' and i pointed out a situation where in believed it was not actionable dute to practical financial constraints. however, my statement abou
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by grkvlt 4y ago
true. but, it could also mean they are demonstrating traits that make them a more desirable candidate! for example, if they have recently made the decision to stop smoking cigarettes, thereby making a positive change in their lifestyle an
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by grkvlt 4y ago
i guess, and intent is important as a factor, at least somewhat mitigating. teaching that actions have consequences based on their outcome, nom matter how well intentioned, is important though, as is the lesson that life is unfair, or at le
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by grkvlt 4y ago
> If you stop to listen to a musician or street performer for more than a minute, you owe them a dollar if i am a child, with no money, or am un- or underemployed with very little money in the form of disposable income, then this advice
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by grkvlt 4y ago
i find it incredibly hard to believe that you "didn't ever do anything wrong on purpose" since you disclosed the fact that you were once a child. are you perhaps meaning something along the lines of "didn't ever th
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by grkvlt 4y ago
< https://dat.foundation/ > is apparently deprecated in favour of < https://dat-ecosystem.org/ > which is impressive since it only became the dat foundation in december 2019 ...
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by grkvlt 4y ago
except the company haven't changed their policy, which is stated in their terms; contract; conditions of carriage and small print inter alia, which has always been that: account sharing is not allowed. now, they may have previously ign
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by grkvlt 4y ago
> Netflix decided to crackdown on password-sharing: my brother moved away some months ago and has been using our Netflix account, and we don't want him to pay Netflix for himself So you're upset that you are no longer able to f
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by grkvlt 4y ago
ok, so in TVs? makes more sense, thanks! also i learned about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._2020 today...
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by grkvlt 4y ago
> Quantum dot film are becoming common now (they have been used for a while, but are mainstream now because Rec. 2020) not really, there are essentially zero quantum dot based white light products commercially available right now, apar
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by grkvlt 4y ago
> until literally today you know this research was published in 2006, and is based on earlier work (from the citations you can see papers from the early 1970s onwards) which suggests the ignorance might be more localised ;)
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by grkvlt 4y ago
> To extend this conclusion from the dead fish experiments to mechanical devices, and to demonstrate the applicability of these results in an engineering context, we also show that a flexibly mounted two-dimensional rigid foil, through f
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by grkvlt 4y ago
you could create some kind of modulated visual signal that activates only on the side that the vehicle intends to move towards?
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by grkvlt 5y ago
sure, touché, i may well have my very own issues, this in no way stops me being correct though. also, in no way did i suggest you are a lesser or inferior person, you are just wrong. we all are, occasionally. in your case, the thing you are
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by grkvlt 5y ago
i think i recall reading a RAND study or similar that calculated the most cost effective megadeath per dollar, and it turning out to be equipping a very large number of people (paid minimum wage) with a stout piece of 2x4 wood, and instruct
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by grkvlt 5y ago
the criticism is that it is necessarily entirely coincidental, due to there being no possible mechanism for these signals. if you really are under the delusion that you are predicting volcanic eruptions based on dreams, perhaps speak to a m
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by grkvlt 5y ago
surely you need to know where you are not, to know where you are. if the difference between where you are not and where you were, or vice versa, is correct, then you are being targeted by the missile.
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by grkvlt 5y ago
it's already illegal to cause a plane to crash, regardless of the mechanism used, and the legality of the mechanism generally has no bearing on its effectiveness...! but, gps (or other gndss) spoofing or jamming is effective, and i t
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by grkvlt 5y ago
I hadn't heard this before, and was curious (especially since the paper being discussed is from 1996, 25 years ago) so I did a quick Google to see what was out there. This paper [0] describes how Goldberg first mentioned the idea on th
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by grkvlt 5y ago
So, something like AX.25 [0][1] on the amateur radio VHF and UHF bands, which is free (once you have an appropriate license) and there is widespread citizen maintained and managed infrastructure, such as repeaters. [2] 0. http://
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by grkvlt 5y ago
i think he obviously just melted the plastic handle, you just can't melt aluminium (let alone steel) with even a gas stove's burner.
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by grkvlt 5y ago
how do you imagine this working for the manufacturers of, e.g. hardware security modules? in fact, for any product, the manufacter can just claim the product consists of one 'part' and the service notes state 'obtain new part
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by grkvlt 5y ago
> legislation that forces manufacturers of consumer goods to provide an estimate of product lifetime according to some agreed standard isn't this exactly what a guarantee or warranty is? we have this now, where the manufacturer is l
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by grkvlt 5y ago
this is a little trite and definitely isn't universal, let alone well defined (as to what 'love' means in this context) so doesn't really help anyone trying to understand more about what makes good taste (or good design,

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