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It seems to me like a social score system is a direct upgrade to this in certain ways: participating in undesired behaviour will cause you headaches you cannot really solve with mo…

Neat! I've occasionally looked into getting into DIY microfluidics, and one of the lowish-tech ideas I've seen is etching/engraving CD cases or other polystyrene sheets and baking …

I'm sorry you feel that way. I'm not a native speaker but neither do I use any of those tools to write my comments here. The community I have the privilege to be involved with in K…

If you're talking about fairly modest sums ($10k to 100k) and Kenya in particular is on your radar, I think we should discuss this further. I'm not Kenyan myself (European), but I …

Adding a data point here for posterity, in hopes that someone researches this topic deeper. I recognise myself from the above, apart from "intuitive feelings" as I don't quite get …

Always happy to share! I came across this while planning a 3D scanning (photogrammetry) rig. Perhaps you'll be the one to figure out gravity can be modelled as a rotation around an…

I was immediately reminded of the anti-twist mechanism, perhaps unrelated but "reset rotation, twice/half" comes up there as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-twister_mechan…

I think you might be aiming too low. Tasked with writing a "perfect and most useful program" this would surely yield something more than merely writing 42 to stdout.

WhatsApp has a critical advantage in Kenya from my experience: telecom operators such as Safaricom include quite generous WA bundles in their customers' subscriptions, allowing one…

Since I'm not seeing any other references, here's a timestamp for a YouTube video where an ex-undercover op is interviewed and such thing is mentioned: How FBI Undercover Agents Ac…

The remarks at the end about cover-flip-etch and controlling oxides with gases do make me wonder about applications in fabricating microfluidic chips with integrated catalysts and/…

Since I was a child I have been very susceptible to exertion headaches and indeed coughing/sneezing can easily trigger this. They last from a couple of hours to the entire day, bei…

It's not exactly what OP wants out-of-the-box, but if anyone is considering building one I suggest taking a look at this.¹ It is really easy to tinker with, can run both on devide …

I gave this a shot using speech-to-speech¹ modified so that it skips the LLM/AI assistant part and just repeats back what it thinks I said and displays the text. For longer sentenc…

My understanding is that this has always been the intended purpose of this system and these guidelines are just about agreeing on a mutual interpretation of some dense legalese. If…

The headline got me worried, but after reading the article it became clear that was purposeful with weasel words like "states can now collect". There seem to be no new databases or…

I'm an overpaid consultant and I think scrum is easier to sell because it can be appealing to management as a selling point per se. Personally I strongly prefer kanban though.

My father taught us this as a simple conjecture of sorts that somehow always stuck with me: "in a frozen lake the warmest layer of water is at the bottom and it's at 4°C". Now ther…

In addition to paying attention to references, perhaps it makes sense to always keep e.g. player inventory state in there, but something that can change every frame, like player po…

Distribution is in itself a problem, yes, but there's also the geopolitical angle of depending on foreign imports to feed a nation.

I'm considering the possibility it's just a humorous and slightly absurdist excuse to not remove the hat. Or an inside joke. The real reason might be more convoluted and/or persona…

Sounds very reasonable. These very large and influential companies require some special oversight imo and I do think the EC is probably the right org for the job.

I wonder if the efficiency is indeed unchanged, or as quoted in the article "keeps all that force". If so, and if the added weight is really minimal, I wonder if this could be appl…

Everyone knows that one aspiring Austrian painter and do not know most other heads of states. I'd say not falling into disrepute is a clear secondary goal for many corner cutters.

Forfeiting sounds intentional. How would you know the nationality of all participants in a conversation?