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was_a_dev
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About was_a_dev
Was a dev.
Now a physicist.
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Comment #49002807
Biometric data in UK passports is nothing more than the digital storage of the information in your passport (name, age, passport number, facial photo). The UK government does not c…
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Comment #48978552
As an aside, I always find it amusing that as a British person that have visited both the US and the Schengen area since the new entry/exit system. Both the US and EU have taken my…
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Comment #48918966
What a brilliantly depressing graphic
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Comment #48918810
> freedom of movement to the EU (that the British hated so much) A generalisation that only applied to, at most, 52% of the voting British public
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Comment #45653898
I played the Map mode and got the same page several times, and then the game ended with half my "life" left. It was really fun but I passed a lot of rounds just on memory
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Comment #45513262
There were reasons, they just weren't good ones
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Comment #45062337
Interestingly I just got what seems to be a complete and coherent answer from GPT-5 mini. No refusal, many steps given
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Comment #42793722
Free to US citizens would be a better policy, the state investing in its own people.
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Comment #42517990
The idea (in theory being the key word) is by injecting into the stratosphere minimises acid rain production and maximises cooling requiring less SO2
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Comment #42305043
In this context, its not so much the prejudice but the exploitation of such students and the devaluation of the degree as a result.
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Comment #41845923
The most challenging axis in my opinion is the roll axis of Super Heavy, if there is a roll angle error, the pins could not sit properly on the chopsticks and the whole booster sli…
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Comment #41739078
We're not good at building nuclear power stations, partly because we haven't the skilled workforce to do so. A lot of the (finanical and time) investment for Hinkley Point C has be…
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Comment #41444299
In the North East of England, theres a point where these houses aren't even worthwhile purchasing to rennovate. Houses can be purchases easily for £60k but require at least that to…
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Comment #41442866
I'd say 1/3rd is a rather large chunk of an SSDs TBW if its just for hibernating. In practice, for reasons you outlined, it would be a smaller amount but I would only find 1-2% tol…
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Comment #41308247
Being able to track a bus via GPS works well like this. It doens't matter if the bus is 20 minutes late, if you can check that the bus is 4 minutes away. A bit like usnig the metro…
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Comment #41308210
I guess the reality is, as a passenger, you either wait several minutes on the bus at a stop mid-route. Or you wait much longer at a bus stop in a crowd waiting for four buses to s…
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Comment #41233180
99 years or 999 years. AKA a leasehold
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Comment #41223008
Nothing wrong with paywalled content, given its still accessible. Especially in this case where several archive links have been provided
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Comment #41185471
I'd learn. My capabilities aren't static with time
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Comment #41046067
I imagine having stereo video would also help generate a depth map from disparity?
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Comment #41031783
Given it is on the border of Europe, geography alone is a sufficient answer.
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Comment #41027947
While not as much skin, we sadly have more skin in this game as I'd wish The election of the next President will have a large effect on the security of Europe with respect to both …
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Comment #40977867
If your video source is of a static scene that the camera is moving through. You could try poly.cam Upload you video directly to the website for Gaussian splat processing
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Comment #40974436
Buy an microSD card from Amazon, use the packaging the microSD card originally came in [1] - it is a solved problem. Plenty of scope to add your own branding [1] https://postimg.cc…
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Comment #40930038
Does anyone know if these chemical are removed via distillation processes? Not that I plan on distilling my own tap water, but just curious how "pure" distilled water can be