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by hirundo 3y ago
My cheap home thermostat has that frustrating +/- 5 degrees F accuracy. Is it very difficult to build an inexpensive 1 degree sensor?
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by hirundo 3y ago
Citizen Schmidt? https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/h...
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by hirundo 3y ago
Why is it "Forbidden by Gravity" but the "sub-Plankian unknown"? I thought that the Plank length was a hard limit like the speed of light. Is that not true, and there theoretically are unknown features smaller than that?
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by hirundo 3y ago
You could get the same distribution if everyone is assigned a random amount of selfishness regardless of wealth, but some people are better at achieving their selfish goals than others, or just luckier. How could someone know that the resul
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by hirundo 3y ago
Finance used to be the driver of marriage, and now that it is less so there are fewer marriages.
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by hirundo 3y ago
Wealth follows a Pareto distribution, and there are many Pareto distributions of things that are not caused by selfishness. https://www.thelangelfirm.com/debt-collection-defense-blog/2... If selfishness isn't a go
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by hirundo 3y ago
"Using theoretical arguments and statistical tests we find, as in Dagsvik et al. (2020), that the effect of man-made CO2 emissions does not appear to be strong enough to cause systematic changes in the temperature fluctuations during
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by hirundo 3y ago
I agree. Rule of law is critical and requires consistency. But given the choice I'd rather live in a jurisdiction where law enforcement tends to use their discretion in favor of less rather than more centralized control. That bias towa
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by hirundo 3y ago
We have no garbage pickup in the county, we haul it to one of four collection areas. Those cost $140/year plus about $7/100lbs, so no doubt some more thrifty neighbors are burning household trash instead, but I just burn slash and
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by hirundo 3y ago
And it's self-reinforcing. I live in a rural county the size of Connecticut with just 5k people in it. The people that choose to live out here are frequently the ones who particularly value that extra freedom ... including law enforcem
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by hirundo 3y ago
The absence of a shibboleth is a shibboleth identifying an outsider.
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by hirundo 3y ago
You just spoiled my excuse to watch Die Hard again.
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by hirundo 3y ago
I suggest that air ducts should not be considered part of Nakatomi Space. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/PlayingWith/AirVentPa... Because rather than being inventive uses of architectural spaces they&
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by hirundo 3y ago
This is a great read, and a situation where an astute IT entrepreneur could make a fine business in return for doing much good. The main superhero power needed here is "software developer". I've been in the same position as t
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by hirundo 3y ago
I went shopping for a new bed the other day and hadn't for decades. So I got some future shock when I found out that they now not only have wifi and bluetooth, but also artificial intelligence. The salesman pitched me an $11,000 Smart
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by hirundo 3y ago
I was standing at a Home Depot self-checkout, looking all over for an employee to help me with an item, finding nobody. The guy next to me was waiting too and I asked him "does anyone work here any more?" He said "I guess we
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by hirundo 3y ago
I got hired for a remote job in 2011, and have yet to meet any co-workers in the flesh, including the guy who hired me. I've spent plenty of time looking at him, talking to him. I've seen him at his worst and best. We know lots of
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by hirundo 3y ago
From the graphs in the article it's clear that the omitted days were very close to each other, almost a vertical line in some. That seems to indicate that these are from particular events, rather than just chopping out inconveniently h
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by hirundo 3y ago
A two-state solution is contrary to the policy of the government elected by the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Election. No further elections have occurred. Recent events indicate that this government still prefers a one-state solution.
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by hirundo 3y ago
Think of requiring a minimum amount of hallucination in AI output as a safety mechanism, like mixing the distinctive odor into a propane tank. The odor is a signal that there's a gas leak that must be dealt with. A high minimum amount
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by hirundo 3y ago
> ... and is clearly an unbelievably, and unambiguously traumatic video that has no valid “free speech” argument, Strong disagree. That kind of content is very effective at changing attitudes and shifting political pressures, which is th
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by hirundo 3y ago
"According to Section 102(b) of the Copyright Act of 1976, no “idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery” is eligible for copyright protection." "Copyright law generally protects
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by hirundo 3y ago
I've been watching too many Baldur's Gate Youtube videos on how to build a character, and one guy talks about the "power spike" when your character gets a particularly useful ability, like an extra bonus action per turn.
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by hirundo 3y ago
CSI was just ahead of its time. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/zoom-and-enhance This will be a large upgrade for surveillance cameras.
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by hirundo 3y ago
My ResQLink does not require a subscription. https://www.acrartex.com/resqlink-personal-locator-beacons/
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by hirundo 3y ago
"My solution is to close the tab and to read a book." Exactly. Exchange off-the-cuff zero cost near-anonymous speech with well considered, edited, personally identifiable speech with a significant cost to publish. Without knowing
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by hirundo 3y ago
Want to travel back in time? Go work for a small company. Our two dozen souls are human resourced by the COO, who hires and fires, and a manager of the basic paperwork. There are no layers to fight through, you just call the boss, and he&#x
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by hirundo 3y ago
I recently read a layperson's history of entropy, "Einstein's Fridge". A recurring theme is that discoveries in that field take many years to be accepted. Boltzmann, for example, was just ignored for many years. But they
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by hirundo 3y ago
They list some plastics as "Ideal" for the X1C and "Superior" for the X1E, seeming to imply that superior is better than ideal. Such are the wages of marketing hyperbole, it can leave you with no way to express an improv
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by hirundo 3y ago
I run a wood stove all winter long and some years never turn on the central heat. I wonder how much of the extra risk is offset by * lower fire risk from burning the fuel surrounding my house for the last few years. * more exercise fr

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