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jakob223

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About jakob223

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    Comment #27234592

    Not when moving at any significant speed - most of the sound of a vehicle going faster than 10mph ish is tires.

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    Comment #27125105

    As far as I can tell Apple has not released an update for my Airport Express since 2018 :/

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    Comment #22366924

    It's on everyone. But our political and economic systems don't encourage the producers to care about the ethics of their products unless the consumers care.

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    Comment #21527462

    The emphasis on a lot of these sentences is all wrong; I wouldn't want to listen to an audiobook by this engine. It's still super impressive/terrifying though.

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    Comment #21325249

    If Exxon and all the other fossil fuel companies had not spent large sums of money to suppress climate research, perhaps we would have started moving away from fossil fuels and bec…

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    Comment #20802013

    I imagine that that difference is going mostly to recoup R&D costs at e.g. Impossible right now, who is making the patties.

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    Comment #20530386

    Pineapples are fun! I for one appreciate the encouragement to purchase fruit more often

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    Comment #20119700

    Most of the examples in the video they had the subject record the audio separately from the generated video. In one or two of them they cite some audio-generating thing.

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    Comment #19687413

    The flavor text provided by the organizers made it sound like they intended there to be an easier solution - that way you only need to visit a location in one of North America, Eur…

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    Comment #19687409

    The later keys are expected to be harder, so if someone is able to get 400 of them total, it would be very surprising if they were stuck on one of these first three.

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    Comment #19174355

    Dropbox does an AJAX request when you enter your username, and it's fast enough that when you get to the password field it's already greyed out if you use SSO.

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    Comment #19096505

    Why is the fee only on yellow and black car rides, rather than on all cars? Shouldn't we prefer non-private vehicles on the street instead of ones that will do parking?

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    Comment #18721190

    Choose the points of non-smoothness to be in the Bermuda triangle. Everyone knows it's not safe to fly there.

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    Comment #18721046

    Consider 2 scenarios: A) I pay you $x per year not to listen to music on youtube. B) I give you $x per year. Simoultaneously, Youtube starts charging $x per year to listen to music…

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    Comment #17913047

    Not necessarily - if I have a website that is trying to offer information to people about something, then it's better for everyone if it's more navigable/undersatandable, which ses…

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    Comment #17564159

    Can you link to some information on that?

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    Comment #16665326

    What exactly is docker cloud and how does it fit in the docker workflow?

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    Comment #16665321

    Consensus for every computation would be 2x as expensive, but you may be able to achieve something like it with randomly assigning 10% of the calculations to be double-checked, and…

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    Comment #16538103

    Since nobody seems to have any idea how much these things actually pay after costs (see: this correction and the original study), it's plausible that people would expect this to pa…

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    Comment #16523086

    Does "organic" include GMO-free? I thought it just meant pesticide-free, and I don't take any issue with GMO foods.

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    Comment #15794786

    ergh why are we reinventing buses as an app