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drilldrive··on The Trump Campaign's Unorthodox Email Tactics – Do They Work?
I think more remarkably though is that readers kept up the 10% reading rate, in contrast to Biden's 20%, so the total emails read ended up being much higher on Trump's part.
drilldrive··on A few kilograms weight loss nearly halves the risk of diabetes?
I feel like the best way to lose weight is to make your own food for your whole diet, keeping processed foods to an absolute minimum. This alongside being aware of drinking mostly water instead of sugary drinks and keeping snacking to a minimum should lead to more gripability on one's diet, since tracking what one eats is much easier to remember when one cooks his own food. If this doesn't quite work, perform a calorie calculation once to be sure it lines with the dietary calculators to actually decrease caloric intake.
drilldrive··on US Commerce Department delays TikTok ban following court ruling
Just in time for a Biden Admin to instate an executive order to remove the TikTok ban entirely.
drilldrive··on macOS Big Sur
I have had similar hundreds of tabs before, though I try to keep to a few dozen nowadays. The source tends to be a cluster of tabs (say 10) associated to a single subject, full of articles and tools I am using related to it. Frankly an obvious solution is to have a "rough-assortment ephemeral bookmark-group" where I can shift-select say 7 tabs at once and keep them for later, with an easy deletion cycle at will. And it would be good for this method to keep track of my local data of the tabs (scroll position, typed entries, ect.). Bookmarks (in Firefox at least) suck for this in contrast to just working directly with tabs, since you need to bookmark each tab individually + name it + sort them, meanwhile the tabs are grouped together nicely alongside interest-groups I hold for them, and can scroll for what I want or type in the address-bar.
drilldrive··on macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
This demonstrates the limits of Apple's campaign towards vertical integration of their services. Once they make a simple mistake on their part, you are at the mercy of Apple to make it right again.
drilldrive··on Newton’s 'Principia' Had a Surprisingly Wide Audience, Historians Find
How many people alive today have read Newton's Principia?
drilldrive··on Honda claims it will launch the first Level 3 autonomous production car in March
My mother crashed in bumper-to-bumper slow traffic playing PokeMon Go a couple years ago. I wonder how much a self-driving car would have helped avoid an accident.
drilldrive··on Honda claims it will launch the first Level 3 autonomous production car in March
I imagine a good chunk of crash scenarios are along the lines of "easy for human intervention, difficult to program an AI to learn" such as broken/misleading road-aids (traffic lights) like the OP comment gave. These would be laid along a user-manual for licensing like a standard drivers' license I imagine once the AI restrictions are more obviously understood.
drilldrive··on RIP Google Music
>I've cancelled my netflix account a few times; and I might be about to do it again.

At what point is it "cancelling" instead of "renewing your subscription"?

drilldrive··on RIP Google Music
An odd one out here myself (I don't listen to music), but as a young adult I use my 20 dollar mp3 player for most audio needs. Though I also do not own a smartphone, so for a mobile player I am forced to an mp3 player, I would still use the mp3 player if I had a smartphone since the disjoint is quite helpful here. Never used spotify before.
drilldrive··on Bill Joy developed vi on the ADM-3A, but why did it use `hjkl`?
"The Ctrl key XORs the first [bit]"

Did the Alt key work similarly? How are these two keys and Fn key differentiated today mechanically?

drilldrive··on Companies Offer Creative Solutions to Worker Burnout During the Pandemic
Everything in the article is dealing with voicing burnout concerns and prevention. But what about employees who have undergone burnout? I feel that reintegration is a key point here too.
drilldrive··on RIP Google Music
As with anything Google, is it really generosity when you become part of their botnet? Seems they got what they needed from the userbase information-wise and packed-house.
drilldrive··on Screw the Mars hype. Here's why we should move to Venus
Frankly what competitive advantages does Venus allow for of these sorts of floating cities in contrast to on Mars or just Earth?
drilldrive··on Evidence suggests state Senate candidates were plants funded by dark money
That's pretty wild, is it a testing-run scheme for larger races perhaps? Who is behind it?
drilldrive··on Facebook Is Swamped with Misinformation
Reuters is one to talk jeez
drilldrive··on YouTube Down Worldwide
where do I send that line? And how do I download and operate youtube-dl from PyPi?
drilldrive··on YouTube Down
That was my exact thoughts seeing MM too yeah, the Roman M symbol meaning thousand clears it up though. Just a historical oddity.
drilldrive··on YouTube Down
Why MM, is it the standard for million akin to "k" is for thousand?
drilldrive··on YouTube Down Worldwide
Though youtube-dl was taken off github too, so that is down as well.
drilldrive··on That 'murder hornet' nest scientists found and destroyed had nearly 200 queens
Would missing this nest have lead to a proliferation of Murder Hornets in the United States?
drilldrive··on Rolls Royce plans UK class of mini-nuclear plants
Here is an easier argument for the nuclear anti-support: Green parties across the globe are spouting Chinese propaganda to further China's hold on the energy market (since they own 99% of rare-earth metals + a good grip on otherwise "green" energy manufacturing).
drilldrive··on My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
Holy cow, that is nuts. Like I could actually buy that myself if I wanted? USA really needs a privacy amendment to the constitution quite badly.
drilldrive··on One pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrong
What I mean to say is polling as a major industry for political campaigns is done after this election. The current people running these public polls have no place of confidence anymore: donors should not take them of value, and public opinion should ignore polling. They had their chance this time around for survival as an industry but roundly threw that away.
drilldrive··on One pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrong
Frankly, this has an obvious answer: The people who answer polls are not representative of the population at large. Yet this was known decently enough since 2016. But more at the heart of the issue here is pollsters are providing a service not to inform but to persuade (both the public and donors); internal-polling is actually what matters. And instead of reformulating the service with more accurate questions for total populace (who will your neighbor vote for?), the pollsters doubled down on the standard methods and made (roughly doubly!) a larger polling error than 2016. I mean the Maine senate race was on average ~15 points off the final result[0]. Frankly this was the race for the pollsters to prove themselves that they can self-correct, as they have demonstrated to be unable to do this, it is clear they just should be abolished.

[0] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/senate/me/main...

drilldrive··on My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
Oregon has one of the worst voter-registration online systems in the country however, a date of birth + residency will give access to party registration of the individual, alongside some other information I believe.
drilldrive··on Longest-running oil spill in history releasing more than 4,500 gallons per day
Glad to see Joe Barton dishonorably not to go for reelection[0]. [0] https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/30/politics/joe-barton-re-electi...
drilldrive··on Longest-running oil spill in history releasing more than 4,500 gallons per day
I am confused. What does your first link refer specifically to Louisiana?
drilldrive··on Earbuds are bad for your hearing
Sounds like the market is ripe for a startup for semi-hearing-aids of sorts.
drilldrive··on How Anne Wojcicki’s 23andMe Will Mine Its Giant DNA Database
Anne Wojcicki, ex-wife of billionaire Sergey Brinand whose sister is CEO of Youtube is at the helm of the most invasive and extensive data set known to man. Don't fool yourselves: DNA databases form the bedrock of de-anonymization so crucial to the Surveillance State, containing the non-consentiory grounding of your existence and your lineage. And let us not forget the easiness of collection, for a sample of sputum suffices.
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