bacheaul
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7 months ago
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on: Try and
Pro tip: Duolingo is a game and basically a dead end for properly learning a language. If you want to really learn, you need to build intuition, and that only comes from huge amounts of level-appropriate input. Find yourself some good native language podcasts that are targeted at language learners and native reading material. Search for "Refold" for a better strategy (no affiliation, it's just awesome), and make sure that whatever you do, you enjoy it. Language learning is a marathon, the fun is in the journey, not just the destination.
bacheaul
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11 months ago
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on: The Dingo's Fate
bacheaul
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1 year ago
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on: Killed by LLM
I read that as the pass mark being able to identify human vs machine more than 50% of the time. At 50% it's no better than randomly guessing.
bacheaul
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1 year ago
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on: The Forest Service Is Losing 2,400 Jobs–Including Most of Its Trail Workers
Spaceflight is not what you want to be picking as a point of comparison if you want to talk about funding government agencies.
> The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion, according to a former Pentagon official. That's more than NASA's budget.
https://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137414737/among-the-costs-of-...
bacheaul
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1 year ago
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on: Tech failure nearly caused massive flood in Amsterdam
and Australia...
bacheaul
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1 year ago
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on: Boeing's starliner docks at ISS after five thrusters unexpectedly shut off
bacheaul
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1 year ago
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on: Companies with return-to-office mandates face losing their most valuable workers
For you. Everyone's different, and I have no problem closing my laptop and psychologically switching from "at work" to "at home" almost instantly. But I absolutely appreciate that other people need the physical separation and temporal separation to make that switch. I don't begrudge anyone that wants to work from the office and commute each day. Please, do what works for you, but that's not what works for me.
bacheaul
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2 years ago
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on: Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier (2022)
Yep, we actually bought a bunch for our house after reading this article. Bang for buck for the device, filters, and power usage is difficult to beat.
bacheaul
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2 years ago
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on: Show HN: Whataaabout.com – unique activity ideas for the holiday break
Having bought basic archery gear for 3 people in the last year, unless you're talking about a toy longbow, $20 is not going to get you anywhere. Even buying the absolute necessities for a basic barebow recurve setup, let's list things off:
Riser, plunger, arrow rest, limbs, string, arrows, finger tab. That's the absolute bare minimum. You'll also probably want an arm guard unless you don't value your forearms. You can't do this for less than US$150-$200, unless you find someone basically giving away second hand equipment.
bacheaul
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2 years ago
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on: Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules
> Don't talk to the police: Regent Law Professor James Duane gives viewers startling reasons why they should always exercise their 5th Amendment rights when questioned by government officials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
bacheaul
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2 years ago
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on: The position of a watch influences accuracy (2020)
Yes! On average, my Orient watch runs about 15-20s fast per week when I lay it flat on its back at night. But when I position it crown down at night, it runs about 4s slow per week. I usually check it every Sunday morning, and if it's running a bit slow, then I'll put it on it's back for a couple of night to let it catch up. Haven't had to pull the crown out and adjust it for about 2 months now with this system.
bacheaul
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2 years ago
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on: No Man's Sky just keeps getting better
Not to be too pedantic, but I think you have one too many zeros on that, unless you're playing 18 hrs a day, every day.
bacheaul
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2 years ago
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on: Mars Cyclers
Those two vehicles have very different flight profiles, so comparing them is of limited value, but yes, that is the plan.
bacheaul
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3 years ago
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on: DIY Spacecraft Models
Also have to mention another big collection of these types of models which you can download and print for free at
https://axmpaperspacescalemodels.com/.
They've been on my "one day" list for a while now...
bacheaul
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3 years ago
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on: Elastic Cloud password complexity has an “OR” condition
More likely, people who are here are forced to implement security policies adopted by cybersecurity teams that have long since left the company, and the current cyber teams have no incentive or desire to changed said policies.
bacheaul
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3 years ago
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on: Earbirding – How to Visualize Sounds
After listening to some of the samples and thinking how nice they were, I've just also noticed the morning bird calls outside my home office window, which my mind usually filters out and ignores...
They're lovely!
bacheaul
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3 years ago
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on: OpenStax: Free and Flexible Textbooks and Resources
My wife has the Chemistry 2e books for her uni courses. She absolutely raves about them. Yes, compared to her other Chem books, the printing feels a bit cheap, and the typesetting feels like it could use some work, but in terms of content, they seem to hit the mark.
bacheaul
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3 years ago
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on: PostgreSQL 14 Internals Book
> If you want to use any part of this document and/or any figure, please contact me. If you work at Amazon, you cannot use and refer to this document because of the copyright violation issues.
This is an interesting inclusion, would they be referring to copies of this book being sold on Amazon? Or usage in their documentation? I'm genuinely curious what the issue is with them...
bacheaul
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3 years ago
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on: How to watch Australia’s first commercial space launch live
bacheaul
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3 years ago
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on: Cost of ultra-rapid EV charging increases by almost 50%
Rather than free, I'd say the marginal cost would be more like what you could otherwise sell the electricity back to the grid for. eg. if you're paying $0.25/kWh to buy from the grid, and selling back to the grid at $0.06/kWh, then you're really "paying" $0.06/kWh in opportunity cost to charge your vehicle from your solar panels.
