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cozzyd

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About cozzyd

Experimental Particle Astrophysicist @UChicago

http://cozzyd.net

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    Comment #49226228

    if they have agents write the scrapers you better believe they're playing every evil trick in the book

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    Comment #49142652

    yes, people (some of whom I know) have looked at this of course: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403212... but it's somewhat risky, since if the power goes ou…

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    Comment #49132820

    Yes but the South Pole burns jet fuel. Not much wind and 6 months of darkness. The hut point peninsula is consistently windy though and the turbines are pretty! https://photos.app.…

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    Comment #49132629

    Without cubic furlongs I don't have a good intuition for the amount

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    Comment #49132614

    Just wait for the new reflecting pool standard of official water.

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    Comment #49128176

    i just saw this for the first time today in Romania...

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    Comment #49111087

    C compilers are already so fast... Now a fast C++ or rust compiler would be useful.

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    Comment #49109725

    Or they're self conscious about their use of AI so they take a maximalist stance to compensate.

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    Comment #49093332

    don't you just love having a point cloud so dense that it's completely unreadable? it seems a lot of people don't know about histograms...

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    Comment #49092189

    heh, from my address in downtown Chicago, I get 2.34 miles in the shortest direction and > 3000 miles (aka don't reach 100k within the US) in the longest direction (slices of lake …

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    Comment #49088152

    like, not in a browser?

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    Comment #49086553

    no support for native GUI?

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    Comment #49055460

    Python startup time is a problem. I don't know about ts but I bet it's worse.

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    Comment #49000675

    probably buckeye fans

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    Comment #48999126

    Used this on our balloon payload! Works like a charm with microchip ICs.

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    Comment #48998401

    and for Romania, which has far, far more than are listed

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    Comment #48994243

    yeah, like my university's whole accounting system...

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    Comment #48979447

    I think it's better now but PDF viewers used to ignore the interpolation method for bitmaps, resulting in colormap histograms turning super blurry depending on how they were saved.…

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    Comment #48973746

    And so can I using the convenient Firefox VPN...

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    Comment #48970402

    I'm not concerned with CPU use/wakeups while actively using it, but with it sitting idle doing nothing.

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    Comment #48970369

    Otherwise an idle TUI wouldn't halve my laptop's battery life. Maybe that's an exaggeration but not that much, based on looking at wakeups in powertop.

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    Comment #48914343

    But Gemini is bundled with various plans, like the ones that give you more storage for photos.

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    Comment #48911275

    you should be careful about the times it doesn't say honest!

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    Comment #48911166

    I'm fine using my mobile browser for things. What I'm not fine on is using the, um, internet intent thing that comes up when you click on a link in slack or email or something and …

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    Comment #48899681

    SLOC should omit comments no?