throwawayben

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by throwawayben 1mo ago
what makes him/them a war criminal?
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by throwawayben 2mo ago
send an unending chain of them and you solve the transmission problem _and_ they don't have to slow down as you'll always have another on the way past whatever you're targeting
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by throwawayben 3mo ago
couldn't it be different when scanning becomes very cheap and quick and it's the delta over n scans that gives signal?
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by throwawayben 1y ago
Could you explain more? It appears economically self evident to me that it would improve the situation but I'm not in the industry and there's probably much I don't understand. I would say that improving transmission seems li
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by throwawayben 1y ago
it is insane to me that they rejected moving to zonal pricing. zonal pricing would give incentive to move power demand closer to production, create costs to nimby-ism, and give the benefits of lower costs to those who live closer. but it mi
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by throwawayben 1y ago
0 based is much simpler for any mathematical calculation done with the indexes. only reasons I can think where you need to handle it is when getting the last index from the length of the array or when interacting with the user. With 1-based
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by throwawayben 1y ago
I will always have a case that has a cut-out for the camera so it still lays flat and it's otherwise thinner (or the case is thicker and thus more protective) than it would be if the camera didn't stick out slightly
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by throwawayben 1y ago
yeah I had a deep fake Kier Starmer tell me about some investment opportunity with guaranteed returns.
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by throwawayben 1y ago
the best author-read audiobook I've listened to recently has been Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky[0]. He did a really good job and I would never have guessed it was the author himself. As you say, it's a very different and dif
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by throwawayben 1y ago
it's 2 hours
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by throwawayben 1y ago
I had a joint account with an ex who now lives abroad and I no longer have contact with. I talked to the bank and there was no way to close the account without both of us present. Recently they released a chat bot on their app and so I aske
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by throwawayben 1y ago
"if you multiply by 1 it's always the same so that's pointless - I should remove that"
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by throwawayben 1y ago
Dual failure of the locking mechanism is extremely unlikely. These are not switches that are regularly used so a muscle memory issue also seems very unlikely (but is still the most likely non-suicide scenario)
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by throwawayben 1y ago
I played this a few years ago. Despite being born in the UK to a British father my character wasn't previously British due to parents being unmarried and being born after 1983 but before the 2006 rules update. I'm not totally sure
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by throwawayben 1y ago
pretty sure it's just a hash of some text they can reveal later, to prove that they had something at this point in time. not referring to any release or commit
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by throwawayben 2y ago
Very nice but I keep losing my progress on a game with swipe gestures on android accidentally triggering back functionality when I pull a card from right to left, even with installed PWA version
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by throwawayben 2y ago
I'll stick with my hoverbarrow, don't need all this AI stuff. https://youtu.be/OmJ-8JMw_l4
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by throwawayben 2y ago
it took me a moment to remember where I knew that name from. I only knew of him from his science fiction, co-authoring the Rama sequels with Arthur C Clarke
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Make sunsets – cooling the Earth through stratospheric SO2 injection(makesunsets.com)
2 points by throwawayben 2y ago|1 comments
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by throwawayben 2y ago
I always thought that desalination of sea water was too energy expensive to be worth it but apparently it's only about 3 kWh/m^3, meaning for an average water consumption of 150l/day you're looking at under 0.5kWh per pe
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by throwawayben 2y ago
I remember convincing my dad to get a 3dfx voodoo2 because I really wanted to run UltraHLE. That was a seriously impressive emulator
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by throwawayben 2y ago
I think it's just the "s" that got added: "the air is unable to [...] stay attached"
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by throwawayben 2y ago
surprisingly there is a very similar precedent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiter_(simulator) something about space fight simulators perhaps
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by throwawayben 2y ago
Nice rogue-lite, got to level 10 before dying multiple times and giving up
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by throwawayben 3y ago
Some of the earliest experiments in this area were for the US army in the 1950s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiller_VZ-1_Pawnee https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Lackner_HZ-1_Aerocycle
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by throwawayben 3y ago
Wikipedia has a quite detailed history section: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
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by throwawayben 3y ago
https://360gigapixels.com/london-320-gigapixel-panorama/ Reminded me of this super high resolution panorama photo from it. I think it was a quite impressive achievement at the time (2012)
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by throwawayben 3y ago
ground speed doesn't matter. if something comes off the aircraft it'll be in the same relative air current
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by throwawayben 3y ago
the display would also need to show what's getting sent to other aircraft, because that's useful situational awareness for the pilots that would be lost if the messages were directed. accidents have been avoided by pilots noticing
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by throwawayben 3y ago
with this kind of spinning display you'd need to multiply the frame rate you want by the angular resolution you want. So if you're happy with only 20 different angular views and only a 20fps refresh rate of the 3d display then th

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