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rooftop delivery bays might become a thing

> But if we could build an uninterpretable machine learning model that beats any hand-built traditional ‘physics’ model, would it really be physics? At that point I wonder if it wo…

Thanks for releasing, I've been looking for something exactly like this to help plan out my PCT hike. Google Earth Pro for linux has become less usable with each release.

> A typical American might read hundreds of books over the course of their life Probably only if you count books like green eggs and ham.

I realize it's allegorical in nature, but one of the conclusions made in the article is > Reaching the absolute information is individual and simply any human being is able to achi…

They were extinct in the wild in the late 80s. There's under 500 in the wild now. Of all the things that might trigger people, I suppose condor extinction is pretty understandable.…

Cats and wind turbines present dangers to different types of birds, with the turbines being a danger to larger raptors including condors - so I think your comparison is an oversimp…

https://yourworldoftext.com has a similar aesthetic, although JS-based

I've been reading about this roach backpack for ~25 years - is this approach (connecting to antennae) a dead end? A version is commercially available as a type of learning toy. htt…

Similar story. Was in a caravan with friends on a road trip and apple maps had us going onto a dirt road to save time. We go overlanding a lot, so dirt roads aren't weird, but we d…

also, just doing your research on any platform other than Amazon helps.

Agreed - but if they're no longer able to effectively testify in court, they'd presumably no longer be able to do real police work - at best they'd be put in some administrative du…

True enough - and sadly this complexity and subtlety is sometimes taken advantage of in order to create propaganda, such as to create sympathy for various issues.

I wonder why this mentality doesn't apply to other parts of society, like our police forces (i.e. shut a department down when an officer kills an innocent), or corporations that ca…

you'd still be exposing the database system itself to the public regardless of the credentials you were using for the email service, as opposed to keeping it all within a VPC which…

That 16K Sphere in vegas could be worth checking out

> To be clear Russia is already using cluster munitions in Ukraine. I'm not sure what your point is. Are you implying it's justified because Russia is using them?

It's also disturbing that they might be tracking who your friends and family are even though you never told them.

Do we ever learn what the 'racist remark' was supposed to have been?

iPhone user since the original version. I'd take him up on the offer in a second.

and another great opportunity to tell everyone what OS you use

How do you define mass emails though? I don't think the people who are sending out a hundred emails are really a problem as far as spam is concerned. On my other account here I hav…

Automatically signing you up for a newsletter is lame, but I've emailed people here in the past asking for opinions on new projects - I don't consider that spam. I'm talking like 2…