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cynar

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  • AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains

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  • PhD level and up are notorious for over specialisation.

    My university had a personal assistant, dedicated to 2 professors. Half their job was to make sure they made it to lectures on time. They still managed to be late sometimes.

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  • Isn't that basically what Huel is?

  • House committee advances bill to ban chemtrails

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  • They are, but clouds disproportionately reflect IR. Basically the energy comes in as a mix of high, medium and low energy light. The earth re-radiates as low energy IR. Clouds trap this keeping the warmth (and energy) in.

    Clouds and CO2 act in a similar way.

  • If real life loaded like a video game did, what would the loading screen tips be?

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  • This only works if the group size exceeds the Dunbar number. Below that, you will quickly be kicked out.

  • Thoughts about my (potential) first server?

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  • The rule of thumb with servers is

    • Performance
    • Reliability
    • Power usage
    • Noise
    • Size

    The trick is to remember you don't actually need much performance. A home server isn't generally a powerful machine. What matters is that it is always there.

    A raspberry pi would actually make a wonderful server. It's power efficient, small and quiet, with enough grunt to do most jobs. Unfortunately, it falls down on reliability. Arm servers seem more prone to issues than x64 servers. Pis also seems particularly crash prone. Crashing every 3-6 months isn't an issue for most pi usages. When it's running your smart home, it's a pain in the arse.

    I eventually settled on a intel NUC system. It's a proper computer (no HDD on usb etc), with a very low power draw. It also seems particularly stable. Mine has done several years at this point, without a crash.

    Bigger servers are only needed when you have too much demand for a low powered option, or need specialist capabilities 24/7. Very few home labbers will need one, in practice.

    It's also worth noting that you can slave a powerful, but power hungry system, to a smaller, efficient one. Only power it on when a highly demanding task requires sorting.

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    Wishes

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  • True love is being willing to give almost anything for the other person. It is also being unwilling to accept that, because you would also be willing to do the same.

    Somewhere in the middle you find what is best for both of you.

  • What advice or tips do you have which sound like nonsense but really work?

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  • The uses of "ACHOO syndrome"!

    Aka the photic sneeze reflex.

    Apparently not everyone has this reflex.

  • The sun is a deadly laser...

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  • The other option is a "barbeque roll" a favourite of sci-fi starships, from authors who have done some homework.

    You're basically trying to balance half way up a waterfall.

  • The sun is a deadly laser...

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  • It also needs something that can form complex molecules. The lightest element we know of that can form these is carbon. That didn't appear in reasonable quantities until the first stars exploded.

  • Trump promised RFK Jr. would ‘restore faith in American health care.’ A year in, trust has plummeted | CNN

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  • A relative of mine had a condition where he couldn't get rid of excess iron. The treatment? Blood letting. Once his levels were back down to normal, donation every 3 months.

  • No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare

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  • Fully agreed that it needs to be done right. I'm definitely not the best person to try and write it.

    It also needs to be area specific. A predominantly republican area would need a different message to a predominantly black community.

    Has Amazon ever actually said it wouldn't sell the results of face tracking to data brokers? I can easily see it happening. It's a lot of tasty data to them.

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    Omnipresent

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  • Dating isn't about fitting in with the 95% of people that don't match your vibe. It's about finding the 5% that do.

    Wear your weirdness proudly, it left fellow weirdos find you!

  • No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare

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  • A better option might be a leafleting campaign.

    It would need to bypass the "I've nothing to hide" effect. E.g. "Does your friend have an ex they don't want to know where they are? Facial recognition would easily put them on your doorstep. Would you like a visit from them?"

    Leaning on the ICE issues right now would also work in some areas.

    If someone mocked up a few variants for different demographics, that could actually help.

    Also, does anyone know an easy layman alternative to ring, that is more ethical?

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  • It had far less of that at the start. It was a boiled frog effect for me. I realised I was just fighting through corporate trash to find a few gems, rather than filtering trash from a sea of gems.

    The loss of 3rd party apps just gave me the impetus to jump ship.

  • Will carrier drone and mesh nets be the coms of the revolution?

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  • Unfortunately, most mesh networks rely on civility for long range. They just don't have the power to punch through.

    It would be relatively easy to jam large areas.

  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • In its defence, that assumed it was properly funded. Its actual funding was very limited.

    I believe most of the critical problems have been solved. The only major one left is keeping the reactor walls stable. They have a tendency to transmute, which causes multiple problems.

  • Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So

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  • They are excellent in the hobby world. It's generally when you need to do a bit of quick logic, an ESP32 can be dropped in to do it. E.g. change the colour of an led depending on a sensor.

    They also form the core of a lot of IoT devices. Simple sensors and relays that can connect to WiFi and throw up a simple web interface. ESPhome, tasmota and WLED exist to make this extremely easy.

    They are basically the hobbiest electronic multi tool. Powerful enough to do most jobs without bothering with code optimisation. Cheap enough to throw in and leave there.

  • The TV industry concedes that the future may not be in 8K

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  • 8k was always going to have issues and likely die.

    When it comes to TVs most people don't like sitting too close. The bigger the TV, the further back you want to sit. Anyone who's sat in the front seats of a cinema can attest to this.

    While the human eye doesn't have a resolution, we can work out an effective one from our ability to discern angular differences. Combined these, and the 'optimum' resolution for a TV is actually just under HD. In the real world, the extra pixels of 4K help, particularly after compression.

    Basically HD is good enough for uncompressed video, 4K helps with compression artifacts. 8k offers nothing new.

  • Reinventing something that worked just fine

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  • It's still a bit behind on voice control, but home assistant can deal with both. Without all the spying.