satori99

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Australian police officers can be tracked via taser and body-cam bluetooth(abc.net.au)
17 points by satori99 5mo ago|2 comments
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by satori99 7mo ago
As an Australian, I am so grateful for compulsory voting.
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by satori99 9mo ago
> Should Australians brace themselves ? Australians are currently paying him billions for 2nd hand nuclear submarines (which are not likely to ever be delivered), so that they can protect themselves from their biggest trading partner.
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by satori99 9mo ago
My first thought was about Children Of Men https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/ (Which is a harrowing, yet brilliant, film)
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by satori99 10mo ago
Mel Brooks did not even try to defend against this. He is a huge admirer of her. He thought it was appropriate to pay her and apologise for any offence she may have taken from the gag. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQe
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by satori99 11mo ago
It is wealthy people in highly affluent harbourside suburbs who are the customers for cocaine in Australia. It is not being consumed by 'junkies'. https://au.news.yahoo.com/affluent-suburb-called-drug-issue-...
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by satori99 1y ago
The 'flys' are the enormous curtains and backdrops used in theatre productions. They are raised and lowered to set new scenes in a production. They need a large space to be raised into, above the stage--which is known as a fly tow
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by satori99 1y ago
I wasn't sure what you were discussing. Like, what is a fly tower? So I went down a barbican rabbit hole and found this part of a video, where one of the theatre fly techs describes the same thing as you! https://youtu.be&#x
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by satori99 1y ago
Indeed "It turns out that GPS must account for both special relativity and general relativity to deliver position at 1-meter level and time at 100-nanosecond level to its users." https://www.gpsworld.com/inside-the
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by satori99 1y ago
I recall reading Kay Cottee's account of her solo unassisted circumnavigation in 1988. She was the first woman to do so. Part of her preparation was removing the labels from all tinned food, and then re-writing what was in the can with
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by satori99 2y ago
> The use of mathematics to produce sounds resembling real instruments quickly became obsolete once we could just go out and sample the real thing. Sampling is a boring, brute-force approach to sound synthesis, but it’s a relatively stra
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by satori99 2y ago
The article mentions Sydney harbours 18 foot racing skiffs. These are very light 3 man racing vessels with far more sail than boat. They are very fast and require all 3 crew to be suspended on trapeze wires far from the hull, just to stay u
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by satori99 2y ago
> A lot of prescience is just paying enough attention Terry Gilliam said much the same thing when talking about making Brazil in the 1980s. "People think I am a prophet and that Brazil described the world we’re living in now a f
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by satori99 2y ago
Jessica Watson's attempt (16yo) was non-stop, but fell just short of the required 21,600nm for an official record. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Watson
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by satori99 2y ago
This trial has its own website too. https://www.avatartherapytrial.com/what-is-avatar-therapy
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Avatar Therapy(avatartherapytrial.com)
1 points by satori99 2y ago|0 comments
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by satori99 2y ago
What you really need is a Non-Linear Junction Detector. These can detect an unshielded device with transistors, even if it's off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_junction_detector
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by satori99 2y ago
This is how Australia's public broadcaster is funded. But it means politicians directly decide its budget, which makes it a political football.
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by satori99 2y ago
Typically, they were managed based on level of fame, health, and age. Any notable persons named in recent news reports for matters of health were kept near the top of the pile. There was nothing pre-prepared for Princess Diana's death
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by satori99 2y ago
> draft obituaries ready for all living celebrities, which have to be constantly updated I was responsible for doing this for a news radio network 30 years ago. Mostly I was able to stay on top of things, but Princess Diana really ruine
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by satori99 2y ago
My understanding is that pagers are typically radio Rx-only, and that it is not possible to track their location like a cellular device -- which is likely why Hezbollah chose to use them. Though it would be possible to add this ability when
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by satori99 2y ago
I'm not sure that Infinite Fun Space is used to simulate the real. I got the impression that IFS is where Minds go to unwind and play in synthetic universes with rules of their own imagining. And that humans cannot really even properly
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by satori99 2y ago
A Culture Mind would be deeply offended if you called it "An AI" to its avatars face :P
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by satori99 2y ago
> You might want to live there, but I wouldn't. Virtually all humans in the books [...] are kept as pets by the ships, for amusement, basically as clowns. I got the impression that the Minds are proud of how many humans choose to
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by satori99 2y ago
Do people at Antarctic research stations ever hear this sound?
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by satori99 2y ago
The last Australian deep desert tribe to discover that their continent had been colonized by white people was in 1984. When they realized that extended family members from other groups had been living with running water (and sugar!) for yea
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by satori99 2y ago
Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon made reference to a hacker dubbed The Digi-Bomber, as he could make his victims CRT monitors implode in front of them by remotely forcing a dangerously bad configuration.
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by satori99 2y ago
Why not both? My Atari 800 came with a BASIC and a Logo cartridge. Logo was the thing that got my attention first because it could draw pictures on a TV screen right away, but writing BASIC programs and storing them on a cassette tape was t
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by satori99 2y ago
NSW is home to the largest number of gambling machines anywhere outside of Nevada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_in_Australia#New_Sout...
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by satori99 2y ago
There were others in his league who have been mostly lost in history. When von Neumann first published a description of a stored-program binary computing machine in 1945, he cited only one paper -- which was co-authored by Walter Pitts; ht

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