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alacritas0

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About alacritas0

medical physics grad student

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    Comment #49131358

    This may also be subject to survivorship bias, and there may be a portion of firefighter arsonists who escape prosecution or conviction

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    Comment #49031179

    yes (through a plugin), and yes (if you set it up)

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    Comment #48441258

    I need to remember this when I buy gifts

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    Comment #47692595

    If you add 5.1kΩ pulldown resistors on the CC lines for USB-C, you can get the standard 5V without a handshake although current may be limited by some chargers without negotiation.…

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    Comment #40400381

    I don't know if you have already played it, but https://contexto.me/ is probably the best UI I've seen for semantic word guessing games. It is simple enough that it can fit on a ph…

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    Comment #40056137

    integrated GPUs are not powerful in comparison to dedicated GPUs

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    Comment #39684993

    the link is working for me. it's showing a court opinion

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    Comment #39649113

    homogeneity is only optimized for a small volume within the bore. Regardless, the superconducting coils will still experience a change in Lorentz forces as sequences are run, and n…

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    Comment #39489172

    What's bad about the sticky property?

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    Comment #39384792

    high pixel count != good quality. With all of the smartphone cameras, the sharpness in the details is poor that the image quality is comparable to a mirrorless with half the resolu…

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    Comment #39367281

    It does, and it's a very good game, but this feels like plagiarism with how similar it is -- artwork style, mechanics, even UI is essentially identical to the GBA games

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    Comment #39354797

    this sounds like progress, but it is still very bad except for highly repetitive music like the EDM examples they give, and even then, it still can't get tempo right

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    Comment #39354724

    this can produce some pretty disturbing, but interesting music using the prompt "energetic music, violin, voice, orchestra, piano, minimalism, john adams, nixon in china": https://…

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    Comment #39351211

    Even though this is tangential, I think it's important to note that this experiment should be called as the Millikan-Fletcher oil drop experiment to acknowledge Harvey Fletcher's c…

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    Comment #39347493

    i wouldn’t consider a quarter century of work by the field a crisis

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    Comment #39340355

    what are you talking about? it's fine on firefox, and I don't expect an academic department to test on every browser

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    Comment #38452594

    I read it as: for the same calculation, what would have previously taken 5,000 CPU cores * hours ran on a supercomputer can now be run in 2 milliseconds on a desktop. Or about roug…

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    Comment #36092161

    And if it is ever needed, let's hope the stockpiles and logistics are in place to allow for quick distribution of the drug to broad portions of populations which are affected. We s…

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    Comment #36092123

    This is factually incorrect. This HOPO 14-1 chelates f-block elements, many of which are radioactive, without depleting other metal ions from the body which are essential for metab…

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    Comment #35574671

    dithering improves efficiency because it reduces the bit depth