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by hackingonempty 4mo ago
> Much of Western thought traces back to serious work by Church theologians Western thought traces back to the Greeks. Aquinas refers to Aristotle as "The Philosopher." Aristotle died over 300 years before Jesus was born. &gt
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by hackingonempty 4mo ago
The Aerovelo Eta, used to set the human powered speed record, has an MPGe of 9544. https://www.aerovelo.com/eta-speedbike
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by hackingonempty 4mo ago
> It is a theory that we think in the brain. As far as I understand it, and please prove me wrong, there are other, valid theories? It's unscientific to discard theories purely based on belief. You seem to be arguing from a certain
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by hackingonempty 4mo ago
We understand the fundamental laws of physics well enough to say there is not some mysterious soul influencing the brain. Just like we can say that the moon is not made from cheese. > Modern physics, in other words, provides evidence fo
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by hackingonempty 4mo ago
I thought it was well known in the industry that CEOs are liars as this is exploited in the standard method of leveling the stage at a tech conference: have the keynote speaker rehearse then make adjustments until he has lies coming out of
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by hackingonempty 4mo ago
https://www.costcotravel.com/
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
> Prompting Claude generates something that did not exist, through decisions the model makes about structure, naming, pattern, and implementation. LLMs don't make decisions. Their output is completely determined by an algorithm usi
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
Maybe LLM coding agents change the equation by making it much easier to adapt and use foreign and probably incomplete code. Getting you closer to competing with the original authors in a shorter amount of time than generating new code from
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
Nobody disputes that I own the copyright in a sound recording I made just by pushing the red button on my recorder. So it is a mystery to me that copyright to any sort of human conditioned machine generation is in dispute.
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
We just have different ideas of what constitutes "mere mortals." 1 in 150 high school students or even 1 in 500 from the general population doesn't sound super human to me at all. Talented, yes but not god like.
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
There are thousands of these high schools all across the USA. The top high schoolers in California so far this year are doing 1600m in 4m7s. https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/rankings/list/168546/..
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
Here's a random high school in Northern California. Everyone on the team is beating 16.7 seconds in the 100m. For the 1600m there are six kids with times under 4m30s and another seven with times under 4m40s, all in the last month. h
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
> four wheels would double the rolling resistance and thus the effort required to push the cart Rolling resistance = Crr * N where N = the normal force a.k.a. the weight bearing down on the wheel for a slow moving cart. If you use the s
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
One of my hobbies is looking up old prices in the BLS CPI calculator to see what they would cost today (March 2026 is the latest data.) The June 1940 photograph along Hwy 1 in Maryland had $0.05 hotdogs ($1.17) and $0.10 burgers ($2.34). Th
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
> Nobody likes to be told they're wrong I like to be told I'm wrong. While it is true that I am a nobody it means I'm about to learn something.
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
"In 1969, Schenck was largely overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio, which limited the scope of speech that the government may ban to that directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action (e.g. a riot)." - Wikipedia
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
A single Ambisonic B-format recording can be shipped and at runtime decoded into any coincident or near-coincident stereo pair pointing in any direction or into any surround sound format. It is a universal format that encodes the direction
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
When I saw the article I recalled a doctor who worked at the sports stadium. Probably every stadium has a doctor on duty because there are medical emergencies any time you get 50,000 people together. Sometimes people die while they are st
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
The artists think it is fair that they are now getting some of that money that used to go to scalpers. Very few are opting out of the dynamic pricing and "Platinum" tickets that are driving prices up.
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
That fact is betrayed by the the similarity of the shapes of atomic orbitals and the sensitivity patterns of Abisonic B-format channels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonics#Higher-order_ambiso... https:/&#x2
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
You are correct that it is a rough estimate but my point stands. While most of us will never experience the shock of someone dying at work, it is an every day occurrence at the scale of Amazon.
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
Amazon employs around 900,000 people in logistics. The crude annual mortality rate in the USA is around 911/100,000. If there are 900,000 employees working eight hours a day then around seven people a day are dying of natural causes o
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
Ex Parte Garland was decided in 1866 “The power of pardon conferred by the Constitution upon the President is unlimited except in cases of impeachment. It extends to every offence known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
> spherical harmonics can have uses beyond lighting This math is also used in Ambisonic surround sound though newer techniques use planewave expansion. For games, the full-sphere encoding of Ambisonic B-format can be decoded for arbitrar
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
How does this compare to G-Stack?
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The President's pardon power is enumerated in the Constitution and has been litigated extensively. https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C1-3...
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
> It should also be said that they could do anything at all to prevent these professional scalpers from scooping up all the tickets at once Oh they did something about it. The ticket brokers can't scoop up all the tickets because m
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
> A reasonable opposition party would declare the pardons invalid. Is that a valid interpretation of pardon power, does that undermine the legitimacy of our laws? No, in the USA the pardon power belongs to the President. Only a constitu
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
> one could be forgiven for assuming federal crimes committed by this administration will not be prosecuted while this administration is in power. Nobody in this administration is going to be prosecuted no matter who is in power. https:
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by hackingonempty 5mo ago
from the NYT: > The jury determined that Ticketmaster had overcharged consumers by $1.72 for each ticket. I'm already planning what I'm going to do with the $0.20 refund I receive for each ticket I bought.

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