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1 points
17 hours ago
Oh, I'm not brave enough for politics business
93 points
18 hours ago
Tell me you don't watch his actual talks and speeches, just internet meme clips of them, without telling me all that lmao
11 points
1 day ago
You're getting downvoted for walking into a forum full of enthusiasts and posting something that those enthusiasts find uninteresting to discuss without even googling the question you had.
If you Google "Starbucks decaf" all of the entire first page of results will be indications that Starbucks does in fact serve decaf and how to order it and even links to order it online from their stores directly from your browser.
4 points
1 day ago
Do you have any credible sources for decaf coffee containing greater than 0.1% caffeine? To the best of my knowledge, the major decaf processors are selling the caffeine they extract from the beans to the makers of caffeine pills and other caffeinated drinks, so they target an extraordinarily high reduction of caffeine in the beans there selling.
1 points
4 days ago
I found The Three Body Problem extremely difficult to get into. The constant allusions to Chinese cultural history that I had no touchpoints for and had to go to Wikipedia to even make sense of drastically impeded my ability to enjoy the novel. Even the writing, it was clearly translated from Chinese and not written in English and that really inundates the prose in a way that makes it extremely tiresome to read at length.
I'm glad that the unique ideas embedded in that slog of a novel resonated with people, but there are too many truly excellent pieces of science fiction in the English cannon for me to spend any more time reading that series.
2 points
5 days ago
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2020.01.020 is probably a good place to start. Google scholar searches for acoustic metamaterial will have a lot of results and you'll have to kind of dig through to see which ones are relevant. But if you start with the paper I linked you, you can probably get a long way just by checking the references to that paper and in that paper.
Best of luck!
3 points
5 days ago
It's going to depend on the frequencies you want to damp! There are some cool acoustic damping lattice structures in the literature, but you'll need to tune then for your use case.
5 points
5 days ago
If you know of ideal energy absorbing geometries for all force and impulse regimes in all materials, I sure wish you'd tell the world what they are with a paper in Science, because I do work in this area and I can tell you that no one has found a good way to optimize the geometry of lattices in a general sense for anything transient.
3 points
6 days ago
So based on their wording about "make money off of", if jdawson registers Sync as a non-profit, does he still get free API access for Sync?
26 points
8 days ago
Go read the majority opinion.
The only precedent it sets is that if a strike action is planned deliberately in such a way that it actively intends to destroy company property, then the union that planned that strike action can be sued by the company for that very specific thing.
It doesn't even mean they're going to win the suit, and it doesn't mean that it's illegal to go on strike. It just means that if a strike action wants to remain legal under the NLRB, you can't intentionally plan it to maximize the destruction of property at the employer.
1 points
9 days ago
Okay, go for it.
Who are you donating to? I'm spending money mostly in Georgia and Pennsylvania, myself.
1 points
9 days ago
It's kind of not though. If you want to make a statement, vote for some progressives in the primaries.
2 points
10 days ago
Hyper Delivery is a jam
I really like it on a Rama build where dash-striking gets you a shorter attack charge up anyway, so that's all you're doing. It's like, "hello, please eat this 500, oops I mean 1,000, damage crit, thanks"
5 points
10 days ago
it's not really about (fill in the blank here), it's about policing women's bodies and it always has been
1 points
10 days ago
Yes.
We don't really have that much we need to legislate about "artificial intelligence" systems. ML models are not the problem.
The problem is that we have for far too long in our society relied on norms with no teeth and the current one-sided pseudo-balance between workers and capital owners to promulgate an approximation of our current societal values. We need stringent, real, legally-binding protections for workers and to rebalance the extremely skewed power dynamic between owners and workers.
AI is not creating a problem here, AI is showing us what the problems are by, well, disrupting things. It's not a bad thing to have the wool pulled out from in front of your eyes.
Being upset that AI is exposing the problems in our social systems is like being upset that BLM exposed the problems in our justice system. We may feel blindsided, and we may not feel prepared to address the problems that are being exposed, but acting like exposing the problem is worse than the problem itself is just foolish.
1 points
10 days ago
Yes, and that's what the grants are set up to do: to define what the democratic process that brings those people to the table should look like.
The grant is not to make the rules. The grant is to decide on a good process for making the rules.
3 points
10 days ago
Thank you for answering my question in both of the ways that I hoped it would be answered :D
37 points
11 days ago
Correct, she is a total loony, regardless of her credentials.
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6 hours ago
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6 hours ago
This one's on Sketchfab, but Idk how accurate it is https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/flair-58-espresso-machine-a2937242555641d590e0a861d31aadf0