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> We know that some people without access to medical care will die. That actually sounds like an argument for allowing patients the option of a "fast lane" to their hospital for te…

I haven't done it myself yet, it's on the to-do list. There is a lot of academic material on PID autotuning, not always with neural networks but that seems the most straightforward…

It's worth having a self-contained option available. For something like a drone, you don't need all that much computation for on-the-fly PID tuning in response to changing weather …

Even if that were true and it were also true that privacy features would harm shareholders, then lobbying to make those privacy features mandatory would itself be acting against sh…

In the voice assistant example, the server is one of the endpoints. The point they're making is that E2E doesn't really help there if you can't be sure who is looking over shoulder…

Even though you're technically wrong (the best kind of wrong), I can see where you're coming from. Even microcontroller ICs without enough memory to store this comment are real com…

Depending on their attitude, I don't think you should necessarily treat a lowball offer as an insult. The problem isn't that the user is offering (say) $10 for the work, but that n…

Yes, I would look for something like that if I had an expensive city-bike. But the availability of trackers doesn't seem to have much effect on thefts or the perception that bikes …

I wonder if there is more that bicycle manufacturers/dealers can do to prevent theft or help recover stolen bikes - not because they're obligated but just to improve sales. Especia…

I think either most people are exaggerating about their ability to visualize or I have this impediment to a degree. My mental "images" are extremely faint, distant, wavering, ghost…

Adding to the creepiness factor, they think I'm 9 and want my location.

To me it seems our ability to preserve and share knowledge is far more important for our intellectual pursuits than the individual brain is. E.g. it took hundreds of thousands of y…

Well of course not if your number system doesn't even exhibit fractal resonance in holistic projective encodings, given the angular momentum of the universe.

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I've disabled search history and Google still tends to give me the most relevant results. Perhaps they also do some customization based on session cookie or something (I know YouTu…

I thought you were going to say everything goes on the heap.

> Think about finding an extraterrestrial storage device like this from our perspective. Let's suppose the aliens already did this, but instead of a small disc, they wanted to send…

I've noticed similar crawling out of the woodwork when the harmful effects of coffee, sugar, and other sinful addictive drugs are discussed.

That's the difference between creating and publishing. To publish is to contribute your ideas to the public domain, where they may be picked up and used by others. You're under no …

An MMO server could be set up in 50 years with bots taking the place of most of the players to a mostly convincing degree, although I think the knowledge that those are just bots a…

You can't get very far in life if you assume every acronym you encounter is irrelevant to you if you don't already know what it stands for.

Medicare fraud is something like $60 billion or 10% of total spending. It's conceivable that the rest of the government would approach some multiple of $100 billion, even having lo…

If you're sued, I believe it would have to be for unauthorized distribution (as with BitTorrent), not just downloading a pirated copy. So you would have to somehow argue that your …

And silently delete that inane byte order mark anywhere it appears, at least within Visual Studio.

I was really just illustrating that the same incomplete (bordering on dishonest) portrayal of the movement of labor can also be applied to the movement of capital.