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compass_copium··on Russia Bans Roblox
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compass_copium··on Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
It looks very nice. It's a nifty project. However, as the particular kind of weirdo who has a bookmark to https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ on his phone's desktop and checks it multiple times daily, I will point out that this UI doesn't add much that the color-coded plane icons on ADS-Bx don't already do, and it is more difficult to quickly visually glean information from.
compass_copium··on Molly: An Improved Signal App
Shouldn't your client have no problem saving a chat history? It is, by definition, able to read every message you send and receive.
compass_copium··on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
What a quality car manufacturer!
compass_copium··on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
Nonsense.

A QC operator may be able to carry out a test with as much accuracy (or perhaps better accuracy, with enough practice) than the PhD quality chemist who developed it. They could plausibly do so with a high school education and not be able to explain the test in any detail. They do not understand the test in the same way as the chemist.

If 'understand' is a meaningless term to someone who's spent 30 years in AI research, I understand why LLMs are being sold and hyped in the way they are.

compass_copium··on ADS-B Exposed
Possibly training flights; they will often do racetrack shapes like that for long periods to maintain proficiency with the aircraft type.
compass_copium··on The Molecular Basis of Long Covid Brain Fog
>The headline overstates the finding.

On a long covid news article? What are the chances!

compass_copium··on Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it
or breaking numpy by importing your api key from a little file you wrote called "secret.py" :P
compass_copium··on If you are harassed by lasers
Zenni sells one now, with privacy as a selling point
compass_copium··on The thousands of atomic bombs exploded on Earth (2015)
Hmm, I remember reading that the Soviets had significantly better preparations for civilian protection in nuclear war than the US (including more bunkers in cities), but I'm struggling to remember where. Possibly Raven Rock (subtitle: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself–While the Rest of Us Die) by Garrett Graff.
compass_copium··on The thousands of atomic bombs exploded on Earth (2015)
It's not very nuanced analysis to say the Russkies don't give a fuck and focus only on them when their enemies (who wanted them annihilated) tested more bombs and directly killed civilians in war with them.
compass_copium··on The thousands of atomic bombs exploded on Earth (2015)
Those dirty commies... American testing had absolutely no consequences for its own citizens or others.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Tooth_Survey

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll

compass_copium··on VIM Master
ed Master when?
compass_copium··on Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry
https://www.politifact.com/iraq-war-polls/
compass_copium··on I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic
BSA made the decision to allow girls on their own and it's been fantastic for the program.
compass_copium··on What's in that bright red fire retardant? No one will say, so we had it tested
This is much cleaner--35 /ppb/.

Really irresponsible and bad journalism.

compass_copium··on Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers
DDoS the hell out of any IP address running an AI scraper bot

If someone makes a SETI@Home style daemon I'd contribute my home internet to this worthy goal

compass_copium··on Converting a Go-Kart into a Deathtrap
Indeed, there are two on the back of the kart...
compass_copium··on Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data
Is there a legitimate reason for them to forward paypal emails? Why not just not let that happen under any circumstances?
compass_copium··on Deferred resignation email to federal employees
Looks to be the plan.
compass_copium··on Deferred resignation email to federal employees
For low-wage employees who spend almost all of their income on goods and services, yes.

For highly compensated employees who save the majority of their money, no.

compass_copium··on Deferred resignation email to federal employees
Yes, but they can get the same effect by buying military hardware--and that has the added benefit of making Raytheon management and shareholders richer. When you just directly pay an employee with government money, there's no way to do that!
compass_copium··on 47% of 160 Top Selling Protein Powders Tested Exceed P65 Limit for Toxic Metals [pdf]
I will! It's nature's sweetener, I've always said :)
compass_copium··on 47% of 160 Top Selling Protein Powders Tested Exceed P65 Limit for Toxic Metals [pdf]
The point is not that you are eating dirt. The point is that you are constantly surrounded by small amounts of things that are not good for you. Take a plane? Eat a banana? You are exposed to radiation. Drink water in certain parts of the country? You are exposed to small amounts of uranium. Is any of that good? No, but it's unavoidable to be exposed to small amounts of naturally occuring toxins and it's not worth worrying about.
compass_copium··on 47% of 160 Top Selling Protein Powders Tested Exceed P65 Limit for Toxic Metals [pdf]
It's only "alarming" because it's presented in an alarmimg way. If the headline had said "Protein powders found to contain 2.5% as much lead as undisturbed dirt" you would not have found it alarming.
compass_copium··on 47% of 160 Top Selling Protein Powders Tested Exceed P65 Limit for Toxic Metals [pdf]
No, it does not.

>plants actually take up very little lead in their stems and leaves, and are safe to eat

They might have, for instance, lead on the level of 1 ppm, which poses no significant harm to your health.

compass_copium··on 47% of 160 Top Selling Protein Powders Tested Exceed P65 Limit for Toxic Metals [pdf]
Nope, just an analytical chemist who's worked in 3rd party testing labs.
compass_copium··on 47% of 160 Top Selling Protein Powders Tested Exceed P65 Limit for Toxic Metals [pdf]
Yes. There's also no world where you don't take up miniscule amounts of toxic, naturally occuring chemicals.
compass_copium··on 47% of 160 Top Selling Protein Powders Tested Exceed P65 Limit for Toxic Metals [pdf]
Twice the P65 level is 1 ppm lead. That translates to 35 micrograms per serving.

Lead is a naturally occuring element. Clean dirt contains 15 to 40 ppm lead.

You grow plants in dirt. Guess what happens? They take up a little bit of lead. Ideally I would like to eat 0 micrograms of lead, sure, but I'm not worried about tiny unavoidable amounts of lead from my food.

compass_copium··on I will never need to buy a new computer again
>It's possible that Windows 11 with its TPM requirement may finally force a hardware upgrade of those dinosaurs but I read there are hacks to get around that.

This is what killed a lot of computers in my company's laboratories.

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