nbernard

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by nbernard 18d ago
When I hear "Bias toward action", it reminds me of von Hammerstein's typology: > I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever
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by nbernard 1mo ago
The problem is a Faraday box only attenuates signals. And it usually does not attenuate all frequencies identically. So your test may seem successful, but the box not be enough closer to a tower, or if your neighbor added a new AP, or if
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by nbernard 1mo ago
> How about a Faraday box, by the door? Not as easy as one may think. If you put a phone in a generic waterproof metal box (metal junction or biscuit box for instance) and call it with another one, most of the time it will still ring...
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by nbernard 1mo ago
Indeed. That's one of the reasons why the "Before Present" time scale (that uses 1/1/1950 as the epoch) is sometimes called "Before Physics" (another one being that 1950 is less and less "present&quot
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by nbernard 1mo ago
> Jevons paradox happens when the cost of a resource goes down, but the total spend on that resource goes up. I would argue that is not Jevons paradox but standard supply and demand (and this "reverse Jevons paradox" too). Jevo
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by nbernard 1mo ago
Just received mine. Sure, the interface is far, far slicker than what is available on the Librem 5, but there are already hints of "you are not really the owner of the device" (for instance default "safety" contacts in t
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by nbernard 2mo ago
> This is actually the biggest reason I own a Remarkable 2/Kindle Scribe, let's me "destroy" the book while also not having to worry about losing my notes. Well... I'm mostly back to paper after losing most of th
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by nbernard 2mo ago
> I imagine all of collective known knowledge as a sphere Which is finite which is depicted by boundaries or surface of the sphere And the sphere is growing . Uneven growth in all directions 4pi steridian. Why a sphere and not just a cir
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by nbernard 3mo ago
Indeed. When publishing in a scientific journal, you usually (have to) give them an exclusive licence on your article.
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by nbernard 3mo ago
Be aware that genetic algorithms are a type of evolutionary algorithms: Do you actually want to learn about genetic algorithms specifically, or more generally about evolutionary algorithms ?
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by nbernard 3mo ago
Some Linux distributions (Debian for instance, so probably most Debian-based ones too) have sets of legacy drivers for older nvidia cards.
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by nbernard 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-Line
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by nbernard 4mo ago
At the same time, EU mandates that new cars must have a system able to call help if it detects a crash with the driver not responding... And I suspect most manufacturers will argue that telemetry data are not PIIs until taken to court, so s
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by nbernard 4mo ago
Good luck having people forward an email a) with headers and b) in a way that doesn't break the signature...
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by nbernard 5mo ago
They are common in France, but not in such packages: There are restrictions that prevent you from buying more than than 8g/day (theoretically at least, I don't believe they are strictly applied in practice).
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by nbernard 5mo ago
Probably. When available, reader mode can also be activated by clicking the little "page with text" icon on the right of the address bar.
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by nbernard 5mo ago
From your PoV maybe. I would be restless knowing that I may be silently losing important emails because they triggered some blackbox filter in such a way that they didn't even end up in my spam box...
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by nbernard 6mo ago
The point is that fetchmail doesn't need an admin once it is configured.
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by nbernard 6mo ago
> Ë with diaeresis is the easiest case to deal with. The diaeresis (the two dots) signifies that the underlying “e” is pronounced as /ɛ/ (as “e” in “bet”, i.e. the open e), no matter what comes around it, and is used in groups
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by nbernard 6mo ago
I believe it is the same project that was discussed here a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385935
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by nbernard 6mo ago
> God, I feel like I am going to be on a list after clicking that link. It's a poor life that doesn't put you on a few such lists!
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by nbernard 6mo ago
It does indeed, yet if the review makes it clear that the text of a book is not at fault, that the crappy print on demand edition is the issue, it should not matter too much. It would even give them arguments to ask a few pointed questions
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by nbernard 6mo ago
> The current solution? Just return the item. Yes, and write a low stars review explaining the problem. Returns alone don't hurt future sales of identical items.
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Nitrogen, Ammonia, and the Strait of Hormuz(science.org)
7 points by nbernard 6mo ago|0 comments
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by nbernard 6mo ago
Good point! It shows that the settlements are far too low and that the victims should get a lot more. If a few cities/states were to default due to debts coming from such cases, the others would start to take notice...
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by nbernard 6mo ago
IIRC, it is nerfed out. It is more open core than actual open source, and the paywalled features of the online version are missing.
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by nbernard 7mo ago
Yeah, that's why M-discs were created. Which only displaces the question to "will there still be drives to read them?"...
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by nbernard 7mo ago
Some (old?) spam filters may be triggered by html only emails.
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by nbernard 8mo ago
The humans are neither a race nor conscious. They're humans.
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by nbernard 8mo ago
Sounds literary, if a bit grandiloquent, more than anything. It was once considered "good style" and books from the XIXth and XXth centuries are full of such sentences. See the works of James Jeans, John McPhee, Carl Sagan, and th

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