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by showerst 1mo ago
This was honestly more secure than I expected. Nothing that would survive defcon but that’s a neat sync protocol.
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by showerst 1mo ago
I really disagree about the lighting, as they were installing it the contrast between the bright, navigable newly lit stations and the dim, grimier feeling older ones was stark. I wish it were a tad warmer hued, but the brightness is great.
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by showerst 2mo ago
Depends on the type of button, but conductive tape can work - https://alexmeub.com/automating-capacitive-buttons-with-swit...
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by showerst 2mo ago
With any luck, by the time we're serious about sending big spacecraft out and about we'll have figured out a workable fusion drive. You'd still need to launch them from space since they're a little spicy from a "don
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by showerst 3mo ago
Amazon, Walmart, Etsy... my kingdom for a marketplace that doesn't become just a dumping ground for shady fly-by-night dropshippers.
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by showerst 4mo ago
Yes, but the AI that is metaphor is comparing to does not create more food. More to the point, it may not create more jobs. After a few decades of turmoil the industrial and agricultural revolutions netted out far more jobs. The verdict is
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by showerst 4mo ago
Here's a fun collection of Soviet maps of DC - https://www.wired.com/2015/07/secret-cold-war-maps/ Someone on reddit got the actual maps but the link has bitrotted, wayback saved some - https:/&#x2
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by showerst 4mo ago
I didn't feel like this article necessarily idolized it; the author seemed pretty even-handed about strengths and weaknesses. The interesting question in all of these kinds of things is "are there ideas we can take to gain the str
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by showerst 4mo ago
There's a wikipedia page with a few more details / rebuttals from various sources - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aligned,_Multiple-transient_Ev...
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by showerst 4mo ago
I mostly agree with your points, but I think the involuntary incarceration is a major rock and a hard place situation. There are definitely people for whom it would be a compassionate (and often societally optimal) thing to do. Giving the g
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by showerst 5mo ago
GBY is Gesher Bnot Ya'akov, an archeological site in Israel, it’s in the first paragraph of the abstract.
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by showerst 5mo ago
Pretty cool, although the heatmaps have a little of the "this is just a population density map" effect. https://xkcd.com/1138/ It would be cool to modify them to be per-capita, although I imagine adjusting ar
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by showerst 5mo ago
How about Taraxacum officinale, the common dandelion? It’s not quite all across the globe but pretty close, and is so adapted that it is not considered invasive any more in most places.
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by showerst 5mo ago
Feature request: Let me filter and alert based on a distance, not just sort. e.g. "Lathe" within 100 miles of Baltimore. GovDeals lets you do this, but their distance filter is very inaccurate.
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by showerst 6mo ago
Giving your customers the idea that you really need the money is terrible advice. They will think you’re insolvent and start looking for alternatives. It’s better to just be persistent about “reminders” and for saas set up a clear, well com
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by showerst 6mo ago
I've been working on legislative data for 15 years now, on open source scrapers with OpenStates and running a commercial product targeted at professionals (competitor to those in the article). We tried for years with OpenStates to run
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by showerst 6mo ago
Unfortunately that just isn't true in large parts of the US. Many cities have no public transit, and no accessible grocery stores. Being able to live car free is pretty much limited to (expensive) major cities and some (expensive) mid-
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by showerst 6mo ago
Wow even as a bit of a rocket nerd i'd never thought about it that way, that's pretty cool!
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by showerst 6mo ago
"Space" is 100km. The moon at its closest is about 350,000km. So the jump from the former to the latter is... significant.
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by showerst 6mo ago
I think I phrased this poorly. Obviously nobody is genetically "better" than anyone else, but that's what many Pronatalists think.
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by showerst 6mo ago
Pronatalist also usually implies a racist/nationalist angle, some of the reason you want more births is because your people are genetically better than immigrants in some way. This isn't universal, but it's often true.
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by showerst 6mo ago
I agree with this approach in general, but in reality this is just thinly veiled layoffs. If you have thousands of career employees with houses and kids in school and you tell them to move to Ogden Utah or lose their jobs, they're goin
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by showerst 6mo ago
A thou on any decent mill is no problem. Given the teeny tiny endmill the author was using, I suspect they were using a small mill with a very fast spindle. Maybe something like a Taig or a Sherline. Edit -- I see on another post the author
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by showerst 6mo ago
I just want to second this; a ton of parents I know had kids ready to do it earlier but waited until a major holiday/break when everyone would be home anyway to knock it out.
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by showerst 6mo ago
A friend wanted to try this, but no daycares would do it.
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by showerst 7mo ago
Yesterday they came out with a five thousand dollar laptop with 128GB of ram. You can spend 20 grand on a mac studio. Companies can address different market segments. The software has taken a nose dive, but I don't think it's rela
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by showerst 7mo ago
How does this not fall afoul of states with two party consent laws around recording conversations? Particularly since California is one of the strictest states.
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by showerst 7mo ago
The people behind changes aren't actually as attributable as it sounds though because amendment text gets collaborated on, so showerst might propose an amendment with the key parts of LPisGood's wishlist in it, and then the bill i
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by showerst 7mo ago
I don't mean that _all_ AI built stuff is useless, just that the number of products where 'marketing budget' is the bottleneck is dwarfed by the number of tools that aren't that special in the first place. If you have a
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by showerst 7mo ago
This AI boom is just a hyper-version of previous tech booms (web 1.0, VC, crypto, etc). You have an enormous number of people who just want to get in and build something, but the products they are pumping out don't serve anyone's

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