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by nerdsniper 4d ago
The lack of hurricanes also means that heat is not being removed from the Gulf of Mexico. Therefore, future hurricanes are likely to be more powerful and more frequent. https://news.wfsu.org/state-news/2026-08-31/r
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by nerdsniper 5d ago
> the high end RAM could theoretically operate at 16000Mbps Just to nit, HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) is RAM operating in the terabits per second range.
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by nerdsniper 9d ago
shitty CAPTCHA’s and simple checksums have been ruled to be “effective measures”, so this would probably be too. However, Section 1201(f) is designed to allow developers leeway in reverse engineering to make "independently created comp
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by nerdsniper 11d ago
As others have mentioned, the NASA soldering standards / workmanship standards (which I can no longer find an easy link to) were the most helpful for me. I was really bad at soldering before finding those. Now I'm merely mediocre,
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by nerdsniper 11d ago
No in my case it was literally just 20 processes or so. It didnt fill the default window size.
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by nerdsniper 12d ago
Windows LTSC / IoT comes pretty damned close. It's the only version I install. I'm always shocked by the <20 processes running in Task Manager on a clean install.
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by nerdsniper 12d ago
> There also seems to be a lot of ‘privacy’ tools popping up on github lately. FWIW, O&O ShutUp10 dates back to 2015, with the launch of Windows 10. This isn't v10, it's "Shut Up, [Windows] 10!". O&O Defrag ha
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by nerdsniper 13d ago
Google was pretty amazing for about 15 years, not 1 to 2. Google rocked from its launch (1999ish) until around the time it shut down Google Reader (2013ish).
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by nerdsniper 13d ago
It's 30mg per vial. In addition to that being the going rate for 300mg total...the calculations and final price for 20 weeks match up to 300mg total, not 300mg per vial.
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by nerdsniper 15d ago
Clearly you don’t have a family member who uses CGM’s. They are extremely sensitive to RF disruptions, and often fail for mind bogglingly dumb reasons. 2s on / 2s off would completely disable all of their functionality until the interf
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by nerdsniper 15d ago
Interestingly, Executive Order 12770, signed in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush, established the metric system as the official system of measurement in the USA. Google still defaults to miles for some reason. I get that these cases have
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by nerdsniper 18d ago
This is completely incapable of measuring individual milligrams. Just because it claims to and shows a digit for it doesn’t mean it can. Even $500 analytical balances like [0] can struggle with 1mg resolution, but I’d trust them a lot more.
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by nerdsniper 20d ago
USA wiped out malaria in the 50s using DDT which also made the California condor go extinct in the wild. During the 70s-90s DDT became illegal to use in most countries around the globe. I’m not sure the USA would have been successful eradic
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by nerdsniper 20d ago
I heard that this is to be paid out over 10 years. If that’s true, then they actually are only paying $12.6B in present value, assuming a 9% WACC.
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by nerdsniper 22d ago
> Maybe once LLM improvements asymptote further? Maybe! But it also doesn't require the rate of improvement to slow down. As long as some current model is eventually "good enough" for general use, it could still be a marke
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by nerdsniper 22d ago
People who aren’t logged in are still (very arguably) users, IMHO. They see ads, and make Reddit money with their eyeballs.
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by nerdsniper 22d ago
In fairness, that’s still massive.
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by nerdsniper 23d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424924
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by nerdsniper 23d ago
Heard and fixed. Thanks Dan.
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by nerdsniper 23d ago
I don’t either, but these are the only benchmarks Xiaomi provided!
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by nerdsniper 23d ago
M5 (iPad) AnTuTu: 3.5 million XRing O3 AnTuTu: 5.5 million --- M5 iPad Geekbench Single-Core: 3,556 M5 Max Geekbench Single-Core: 4,300 XRing O3 Geekbench Single-Core: 3,945 --- M5 iPad Geekbench Multi-Core: 15,285 M5 Max Geekbench Multi-Co
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by nerdsniper 23d ago
They’re talking about open-weight models you host yourself. Which are fundamentally incapable of spying on you unless you give them network access. We also haven’t seen any evidence of open-weight models exfiltrating data over side channels
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by nerdsniper 26d ago
Defcon was always the most government-aligned conference. Historically, BlackHat was Defcon's slightly more counter-culture counterpart/foil. These days, I don't think anti-establishment hackers have any physical conference g
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by nerdsniper 27d ago
These days there’s often a tiny neural net inside good hearing aids which decides which frequencies to amplify by how much. That way they can dynamically detect and remove background noise and isolate actual speech. Among many other feature
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by nerdsniper 27d ago
ADA accommodations regularly change what can and cannot be used during an exam. This is not the “gotcha” you think it is. Any lawyer making an argument along these lines probably used AI to pass the bar. For example, a blind person could st
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by nerdsniper 28d ago
the latter. (great circle distance)
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by nerdsniper 28d ago
I did some intercontinental work and found it easier to say (mostly in my own head) that I was “eleven megameters” from home, rather than “seven thousand miles”. I blame my nerdiness and willingness to be slightly weird. But I do enjoy the
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by nerdsniper 28d ago
Given that tires have a range of warranties from 40,000 miles to 80,000 miles ... it's possible that the tires are wearing 25% faster but the consumers aren't noticing because it's still around the normal 40k-80k mile range.
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by nerdsniper 28d ago
One might similarly note the awe-inspiring destructive power demonstrated by tanker trucks of fuel catching fire and causing interstate bridges to collapse. https://archive.ph/VadwU : Tanker Truck Fire Collapses Bay Area Ov
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by nerdsniper 29d ago
EV's have 100% reduction of NOx/tailpipe VOCs, 100% reduction in soot/tailpipe particulates, 70% reduction in brake pad dust (due to regenerative braking), in exchange for 25% increase in tire wear. Vehicles are capped at emi

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