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by usefulcat 4d ago
There would also need to exist sufficient demand for video, which hasn’t happened yet.
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by usefulcat 4d ago
Those numbers are in units of "Consumption per Real Dollar of GDP", which is defined as follows: "Calculated as energy consumption divided by U.S. gross domestic product in chained (2017) dollars". I don't know exac
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by usefulcat 5d ago
> The pilot monitoring saying go around should have caused an immediate reaction Is there evidence that PM ever called for a go around? I mean earlier, when it would have actually been possible, not 15 seconds before the end of the fligh
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by usefulcat 7d ago
iPhone 11 coming up on 7 years old in December, still at ~85% capacity. Really it mostly depends on how heavily you use it, and maybe to a lesser extent charging habits (charging slowly, not charging to 100%, etc).
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by usefulcat 13d ago
Depends on the details of the license, no?
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by usefulcat 14d ago
> Jet fuel cannot be stored in the wings in this zone. TFA describes a fuel leak resulting from a piece of the turbine disk passing through a fuel tank located within the wing: "When the fragments of the IP turbine disk passed throu
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by usefulcat 15d ago
One more data point--I'm using Firefox on an M1 Mac mini (MacOS 15.7.7), and this web site destroys the responsiveness of this system in a way I have literally never seen before (4+ years) from anything, web site or otherwise. I opened
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by usefulcat 19d ago
The problem with this comparison is that it only really serves to water down the very real harms of actual gambling. Unlike sports gambling or casinos, the stock market actually does have some legitimate utility, as compared to being (at be
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by usefulcat 19d ago
The fact that those problems occurred prior to Doge underscores the stupidity of Doge cutting FDA resources.
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by usefulcat 20d ago
"Since Trump’s announcement, Detwiler said, online discussion has fueled confusion about what is happening with beef imports and the recall." Articles like this one aren't exactly helping either.
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by usefulcat 21d ago
> They increase prices for foreign goods Not only for foreign goods. If there's a tax on imported X, domestic X producers can now charge more because the foreign producers must raise their prices to pay for the tax. Another way to l
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by usefulcat 29d ago
There is no amount of maintenance that can avoid all mechanical issues. Take bird strikes, for example. Regarding "carry insurance": margins in the airline business are notoriously slim. They compete very heavily on cost, because
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by usefulcat 1mo ago
The US political system is now so deeply divided along partisan lines that it's increasingly difficult to imagine what "an impeachable offense" would look like. Impeachment requires that many members of Congress are willing t
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by usefulcat 1mo ago
> The group is expanding into areas including cryptocurrency holdings and clean-energy investments. Wait, what? Clean energy investments, from the Trump admin? Sounds like a protection racket.
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by usefulcat 1mo ago
Solar and wind account for a significant portion of electric generation in Texas.
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by usefulcat 1mo ago
"You'll never have to eat lunch alone--or at a bad place--again" Classic SV
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by usefulcat 2mo ago
I had an LED porch light that lasted ~10 years. The fixture had light and motion sensors, so it wasn't on during the day or all night, and often it was not running at full brightness, but still it was on a lot. I was surprised it laste
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by usefulcat 2mo ago
We bought a trampoline when our oldest was five. He didn't ask for it, we were just guessing. We got a good deal on one from Craigslist or similar that was brand new, still in the box, so probably like $50 or something. He loved it and
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by usefulcat 2mo ago
I would have thought that std::optional would have been a likely candidate for use with the Pop() method?
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by usefulcat 2mo ago
If it's possible, sure. But sometimes it's not possible, as with the brother's eyebrows or the horizontal slats on the gable in the first picture, both of which were invented by the AI.
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by usefulcat 2mo ago
Shout out to my local KUTX ( https://kutx.org/ )! This is the kind of station that (I think) the author is mourning the loss of. They have human DJs, a great variety of music, and since they're a public station they have
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by usefulcat 2mo ago
KUTX is 98.9, KOOP is 91.7?
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by usefulcat 2mo ago
If they’re opt-in, how could the new defaults be a problem for backwards compatibility?
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by usefulcat 2mo ago
No, I'm much older than that. I was in college in the early 90s when the internet first became known to the general public. I guess I just don't consider internetification to be that impressive. I mean, sure, it's nice that I
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by usefulcat 2mo ago
Like Trump, he excels at self promotion, and a lot of self promotion is about being able to lie fluently. For such people, lying comes as easy as breathing. No wonder they do it all the time.
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by usefulcat 2mo ago
> It is more probable than not that, within the twentieth century, an ultraintelligent machine will be built and that it will be the last invention that man need make, since it will lead to an “intelligence explosion.” It’s not uncommon
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by usefulcat 3mo ago
I think "self promotion" is a better description than "seeking approval". IMO people who are seeking approval tend to not go out of their way to be assholes quite so often ("pedo guy" incident, for example).
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by usefulcat 3mo ago
Veritasium made an episode not long ago describing the design and manufacture of turbine blades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxVdC7pBQM
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by usefulcat 3mo ago
> Companies always want to charge as much as they can get away with. In any market where competition exists, companies compete against other companies for customers. Any company that doesn't (for whatever reason) maximize it's
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by usefulcat 3mo ago
So true. We have one older, rather large machine in a data center that's been up for.. (checks uptime): 963 days. It has IPMI but at some point something stopped working and now we have to physically go to the data center to restart it

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