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by v7n 3mo ago
It seems to me like a social score system is a direct upgrade to this in certain ways: participating in undesired behaviour will cause you headaches you cannot really solve with money. Too bad it "naturally" slips into mass surv
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by v7n 5mo ago
Neat! I've occasionally looked into getting into DIY microfluidics, and one of the lowish-tech ideas I've seen is etching/engraving CD cases or other polystyrene sheets and baking them: this makes them shrink quite predictabl
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by v7n 11mo ago
I'm sorry you feel that way. I'm not a native speaker but neither do I use any of those tools to write my comments here. The community I have the privilege to be involved with in Kenya is facing many challenges when it comes to
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by v7n 11mo ago
If you're talking about fairly modest sums ($10k to 100k) and Kenya in particular is on your radar, I think we should discuss this further. I'm not Kenyan myself (European), but I frequent the area and have a solid network and res
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by v7n 11mo ago
Adding a data point here for posterity, in hopes that someone researches this topic deeper. I recognise myself from the above, apart from "intuitive feelings" as I don't quite get what shi.. the person meant by that. My mothe
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by v7n 11mo ago
Always happy to share! I came across this while planning a 3D scanning (photogrammetry) rig. Perhaps you'll be the one to figure out gravity can be modelled as a rotation around an axis in a fourth dimension, wrapping clingy spacetime
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by v7n 11mo ago
I was immediately reminded of the anti-twist mechanism, perhaps unrelated but "reset rotation, twice/half" comes up there as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-twister_mechanism
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by v7n 1y ago
I think you might be aiming too low. Tasked with writing a "perfect and most useful program" this would surely yield something more than merely writing 42 to stdout.
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by v7n 1y ago
WhatsApp has a critical advantage in Kenya from my experience: telecom operators such as Safaricom include quite generous WA bundles in their customers' subscriptions, allowing one to use it even though they would otherwise be out of c
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by v7n 1y ago
Since I'm not seeing any other references, here's a timestamp for a YouTube video where an ex-undercover op is interviewed and such thing is mentioned: How FBI Undercover Agents Actually Work | Authorized Account | Insider https
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by v7n 1y ago
The remarks at the end about cover-flip-etch and controlling oxides with gases do make me wonder about applications in fabricating microfluidic chips with integrated catalysts and/or electrical leads &c. Cool stuff!
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by v7n 1y ago
Since I was a child I have been very susceptible to exertion headaches and indeed coughing/sneezing can easily trigger this. They last from a couple of hours to the entire day, being gone when I wake up. The pain is not as bad if I lie
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by v7n 2y ago
It's not exactly what OP wants out-of-the-box, but if anyone is considering building one I suggest taking a look at this.¹ It is really easy to tinker with, can run both on devide or in a client-server model. It has the required speec
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by v7n 2y ago
I gave this a shot using speech-to-speech¹ modified so that it skips the LLM/AI assistant part and just repeats back what it thinks I said and displays the text. For longer sentences my perception is that Moonshine performs at 80-90% o
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by v7n 2y ago
My understanding is that this has always been the intended purpose of this system and these guidelines are just about agreeing on a mutual interpretation of some dense legalese. If that's correct then I'm not too upset about this
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by v7n 2y ago
The headline got me worried, but after reading the article it became clear that was purposeful with weasel words like "states can now collect". There seem to be no new databases or new actual mechanisms in place, it's just ab
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by v7n 2y ago
I'm an overpaid consultant and I think scrum is easier to sell because it can be appealing to management as a selling point per se. Personally I strongly prefer kanban though.
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by v7n 2y ago
My father taught us this as a simple conjecture of sorts that somehow always stuck with me: "in a frozen lake the warmest layer of water is at the bottom and it's at 4°C". Now there might be a plethora of cases where this i
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by v7n 2y ago
In addition to paying attention to references, perhaps it makes sense to always keep e.g. player inventory state in there, but something that can change every frame, like player position data, should perhaps only be synced just prior to the
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by v7n 2y ago
Distribution is in itself a problem, yes, but there's also the geopolitical angle of depending on foreign imports to feed a nation.
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by v7n 2y ago
I'm considering the possibility it's just a humorous and slightly absurdist excuse to not remove the hat. Or an inside joke. The real reason might be more convoluted and/or personal, like having a gorbachevesque birthmark the
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by v7n 2y ago
Sounds very reasonable. These very large and influential companies require some special oversight imo and I do think the EC is probably the right org for the job.
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by v7n 2y ago
I wonder if the efficiency is indeed unchanged, or as quoted in the article "keeps all that force". If so, and if the added weight is really minimal, I wonder if this could be applied to EDF aerial vehicles such as hobbyist RC pla
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by v7n 2y ago
Everyone knows that one aspiring Austrian painter and do not know most other heads of states. I'd say not falling into disrepute is a clear secondary goal for many corner cutters.
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by v7n 2y ago
Forfeiting sounds intentional. How would you know the nationality of all participants in a conversation?
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by v7n 2y ago
Have you thought of some of the people that might lose their jobs because of that?
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by v7n 2y ago
Technological advancements have always disrupted industries. Should we stop innovating just because some way of doing some thing might become less profitable? Absolutely not.
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by v7n 3y ago
The "reasonable person" tool is really useful here, and not at all unheard of in the US of A.
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by v7n 3y ago
Both, in a way: Aldi South is known as just Aldi in the US, while Aldi North owns Trader Joe's.
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by v7n 3y ago
You can write a program that has the capability to run isolated WASM modules written by others, without caring about the source language. Export some functions from your host program and you have a neat system for, say, user-written extensi

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