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by tofof 11mo ago
This is how Nintendo engineered a legal argument disallowing 3rd party cartridges original GameBoy. The cartridge needed to display the Nintendo logo on startup which was checked pixel for pixel, otherwise the GameBoy wouldn't proceed
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by tofof 11mo ago
Radiation units are fiendishly tricky to convert between. Here, the only indication is that after decontamination their hair was still reading 300 counts per minute. CPM are instrument-specific and doesn't mean that's the correct
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Inaccessible Island Rail(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by tofof 1y ago|0 comments
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by tofof 1y ago
Always has been. Julie of the Wolves is a Newbery winner and the sexual assault in the first quarter of the book is central to the entire story. The Giver is another, and deals with euthanasia and infanticide (literally 'abortion after
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by tofof 1y ago
Embarassingly, as I reread this 11 days later (wondering where I got a 20 point score bump from), I notice I once again said the exact opposite of cone and rod. I seem to be cursed to do this every time I mention them even though I am extr
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by tofof 1y ago
So tired of defending against this same, old, completely wrong intuition from people especially those saying "do the science" to justify their ignorance instead of looking themselves since the science has already been done and it&
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by tofof 1y ago
Women (here I mean XX individuals) have two different alleles present for each of the green (OPN1MW, also the OPN1MW2 duplication) and red cones (OPN1LW), since these are found on the x chromosome. X-inactivation means that only one gets ex
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by tofof 1y ago
Presumably because the price was about 5x higher to begin with than any the competitors at the same tier of performance? Perhaps it's better to get paid anything at all than to just lose 100% of the customers.
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by tofof 1y ago
Can you elaborate? All I see is a lot of ghosting of the home screen items still showing all around the text, eating up the contrast ratio so it's much worse than a cheap TN panel and visually distracting, and a lot of redraw delay. I&
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by tofof 1y ago
Those wanting to duplicate the electronic bbq idea can build themselves a HeaterMeter. https://github.com/CapnBry/HeaterMeter/wiki
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by tofof 1y ago
It depends, what are you charging for the new features in the update/version? Twenty years ago, you'd put out a new version and I could go find what new features it had and decide for myself whether those were worth the price you
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by tofof 1y ago
I disagree that evolutionary arms race is a specific term of art; we have many specific terms of art but 'arms race' is a broad generalization popularized by Dawkins as a pop science writer addressing a lay audience. Actual terms
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by tofof 1y ago
While I do like LLMs for these tasks, unfortunately this one failed you but was a near enough miss that you couldn't see it. What you were really looking for is the Red Queen problem/hypothesis/race, named after a quote fro
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by tofof 1y ago
> If you haven't read it yourself how do you know... This vacuous objection can be raised against every single piece of information any human has ever learned from elsewhere, recursively, back to the dawn of communication, regardles
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by tofof 2y ago
Can you explain what burned you? I imagine many of us are trying to sift through the raft of alternatives, and waterfox is a frequent mention, so data about pros and cons is valuable.
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by tofof 2y ago
While this is confirming that Mozilla is already outright selling data, it at least DOES provide clarity on the issues around the acceptible use policy. That language had been so broad that it forbade most use of the browser. For example, &
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by tofof 2y ago
It's against ToS to watch R rated movies.
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by tofof 2y ago
(A sibling comment is wildly off the mark, and rather than reply and have my information buried far down the page, I'd rather it stay visible:) The lead/caesium iodides are from the perovskite photovaic material (eg CsPbI₃, FA₀.₅M
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by tofof 2y ago
Because the Talalay and Dunlop processes involve vulcanization at 115+ C to turn the material into a foamed rubber, which denatures the proteins that the immune system recognizes and overreacts to. Denatured protein - think egg white once i
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by tofof 2y ago
This continues the pattern of all other announcements of running 'Deepseek R1' on raspberry pi - that they are running llama (or qwen), modified by deepseek's distillation technique.
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by tofof 2y ago
It's unfortunate that he doesn't understand complexity analysis and has taken it upon himself to write an article that requires it as an underpinning. In particular, I stopped reading at > the discrete logarithm for elliptic cu
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by tofof 2y ago
Oh? Which pepper species and carrier mammal are involved here? Edit: DERP duh you mean humans. :D Literally made the comparison without recognizing it, too. /Edit Not challenging you, just curious and not immediately finding the answer
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by tofof 2y ago
Liquid capsaicin treatments for bird seed are an effective squirrel repellent. They also illustrate the evolution of this protein: birds have no receptors for capsaicin, while mammals do. Birds eat seeds mostly intactly. Their digestive sys
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by tofof 2y ago
And yet last night youtube broke itself on my Nvidia SHIELD by turning all video thumbnails into a larger size than the entire screen, such that no text or title is video nor even the entire thumbnail itself. So instead of scrolling a feed
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by tofof 2y ago
I have no idea why you're being downvoted; https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371%2F... is one of many good studies that show that the 'French Paradox' is little more than socioeconomi
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by tofof 2y ago
I assume you have a subscription? Does that let you turn on or off different topics? I am not interested in the large amount of space devoted to armed conflicts globally, for example.
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by tofof 2y ago
At least the toggles even for free users let you immediately disable market stuff, right alongside changing theme.
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by tofof 2y ago
No, no definitely nowhere near half, don't be so pessimistic. It's at least 90%. ;)
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by tofof 2y ago
Even if you're just doing a 2-body problem around the moon you'll get wildly wrong orbits over a timespan of just months if you treat the moon as a point mass (the way that's relatively safe to do with Earth, in comparison).
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by tofof 2y ago
Ipod classics have a spinning rust hdd. They are heavy. The 2004 4th gen 40 GB is 176 grams and is a bulky 110 cm3. That's quite a bit more than my pixel 5, which is 151 grams and just 81 cm3. In fact, could buy nearly any old phone an

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