ninjinxo

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by ninjinxo 1y ago
In Australia, if a company fails to nominate a speeding fine for a company car - either refusing or not maintaining records - then the fine is multiplied compared to that for an individual.
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by ninjinxo 1y ago
An N100 minipc or second-hand Dell Optiplex doesn't cost too much more than a rasp-Pi ($100-200), has a lot more power, and will only pull about 10W idle. My optiplex shows as 8.191 kwh last month -> 11w average.
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by ninjinxo 2y ago
If voters are split 60-40 on an issue, that doesn't mean that the odds are 60-40. You should instead be asking, what are the odds that that X voters could change their vote.
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by ninjinxo 3y ago
But is it still piracy if you compress them and serve only a likeness of the original?
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by ninjinxo 3y ago
Better off watching CGP Grey's video "The Better Boarding Method Airlines Won't Use" which has more discussion of the topic, more simulations, and puts forward better methods that are either faster or allow families to r
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by ninjinxo 3y ago
I really appreciated this joke. For the non-Australians, we don't really say parmigiana either, it's parmi or parma and there's a lot of playful debate over the naming.
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by ninjinxo 3y ago
If I were the hacker, I'd edit maxwellhill to have email address ghislainemaxwell@gmail.com just for the shitstorm it'd create, context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29838084 Aside from that, email address
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by ninjinxo 4y ago
I'll ask the dumb question - he'd already taken his money out, what financial advantage is he meant to have then gained by encouraging others to do the same?
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by ninjinxo 4y ago
Yep, and if they're willing to limit deposits, they're liable to limit withdrawals too.
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by ninjinxo 4y ago
What if sleep is the best cognitive exercise?
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by ninjinxo 4y ago
To be fair, Valve were sued into enacting their return policy by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), and no longer offer flash sales because of it. Linux support is nice though.
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by ninjinxo 4y ago
No, dota has a paid subscription ($5 p/m) which gates gameplay features, many of which would be really useful for newer players - ingame coaching, item suggestions, hero pick suggestions, death summary, live gameplay tips, avoid player
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by ninjinxo 4y ago
You mean the company that pioneered: Microtransactions, real money loot-boxes, gambling, NFT marketplace, battlepasses doesn't milk it's users? Dota used to have $35 "arcanas", a high quality skin for a single hero which
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by ninjinxo 4y ago
It's not profound to say that sustained (infinite) growth is unsustainable, but it is of interest when it's within a conceivable timeframe. It's not worth reading however, because the author whimsically extrapolates energy us
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by ninjinxo 4y ago
What is an ant to man, and what is man to a god; what's the difference between an AGI and an (AIG) AI God? The more someone believes in the dangers of ai-alignment, the less faith they should have that it can be solved.
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by ninjinxo 4y ago
Oh whoops, good pickup; I'd like to say I tried to simplify it for the explanation and brevity, but I completely overloooked that 1xn = n.
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by ninjinxo 4y ago
Since Peter is given the product of the two numbers, he should instantly know the pair if both numbers are prime, but since he doesn't it rules out pairs like (7x11) = 77 and (2x53) = 106. Sandy knows the sum and has now been told that
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by ninjinxo 4y ago
Reminds me of this problem: Two numbers are chosen randomly, both are positive integers smaller than 100. Sandy is told the sum of the numbers, while Peter is told the product of the numbers. Then, this dialog occurs between Sandy and Peter
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by ninjinxo 4y ago
You're not adjusting for inflation (cash + increases in electricity costs), ambitiously assuming an equivalent 10% return on other investments, or re-investing the amount saved per year in your calculations (that $1650 you save in the
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by ninjinxo 4y ago
Read Agner Fog's optimisation manuals. https://www.agner.org/optimize/#manuals
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by ninjinxo 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system
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by ninjinxo 5y ago
Twitter is for robots.
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by ninjinxo 5y ago
1) There was a hypothesis (reddit comment, not medical) that a degree of myocarditis might be due to people not resting for the few days after vaccination - especially young men and kids, ignoring very mild fatigue/symptoms to play spo
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by ninjinxo 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaser_Taser_Energy_Raiser_Met...
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by ninjinxo 5y ago
"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other." -Frank M.
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by ninjinxo 5y ago
Aren't there usually provisions to override requiring all party consent, if it becomes reasonably necessary as criminal (not civil) evidence or for your own legal/physical protection? Edit: I looked into it, nope, Florida is utter
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by ninjinxo 5y ago
Doesn't even come close to following ISO3103 standards, this hot-water study is just a lot of hot-air.
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by ninjinxo 5y ago
I think it may be a GPT3 blog: > Noise is necessary for our brains to function in an orderly fashion. In the book The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver says that “The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.”7
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by ninjinxo 5y ago
Those apps aren't at all accurate: https://www.dialux.com/en-GB/news-detail/luxmeter-app-versus... Value for sunlight should even be higher, the bulb is only a little too high. https://en.wikipedia
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by ninjinxo 5y ago
Feels somewhat disingenuous to combine the data for men and women, not sure about that discrepancy between surveys either: https://i.imgur.com/BVJvRx6.png

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