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I wonder if this could be used to increase the effectiveness of LIDAR in vision applications. Rather than continuously scanning the entire FOV, prioritize areas with more brightness changes. Kind of like how animal eyes have low resolution in the periphery for event detection but high resolution in the center.

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The US did try to annex the province of Quebec in 1775 but retreated after failing to take Quebec city (which was the biggest city at the time and controlled access to the saint Lawrence river). That was probably the closest Quebec got to joining the USA. The other two attempts (1812 invasion and 1837 rebellions) were even less successful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Quebec_%281775%29

5 years agodiscuss

By default lineageOS comes with neither Google play services nor microg. The choice of what to install is left to the user.

MicroG is a bit more complicated to install since it requires package signature spoofing, which official lineage builds don't enable since it's seen as a security vulnerability.

5 years agodiscuss

You have to click 'Request full-text PDF' then enter an email address

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Nowadays it seems to mostly be a way for "ethical" fund managers to justify the higher fees compared to simpler index funds.

5 years agodiscuss

Two of my relatives had Nexus 5 and the power buttons on both devices stopped functioning shortly after the warranty expired

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That's one of the main plot elements of The Ministry for the Future.

5 years agodiscuss

That's a bit of a tautology isn't it?

5 years agodiscuss

That's how it's supposed to work in Canada. Most of the land is crown land managed by the government who should carefully manage it but in practice lease it to anyone as long as it brings in money.

5 years agodiscuss

Southern Ontario has forests?

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I was under the impression that western suppliers stopped exporting to Turkey after the Artsakh "conflict" so that they now manufacture most parts themselves (reverse-engineered or not)

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You could argue that 2 of these wars (as well as the standoffs in the Mediterranean with the Greek navy) are aiming to remediate the oil/gas problem.

5 years agodiscuss

By the time you experience symptoms you've already been contagious for a few days. It's like trying to detect fires by looking for piles of ash.

5 years agodiscuss

I'm curious, what type of application would require printing strings over 2GB in size?

5 years agodiscuss

I like to think that most readers don't get instantly alienated as soon as they read something criticizing them a bit too harshly

5 years agodiscuss

I used the word culture but I really meant population in the sense that the original commenter used it (i.e. a group of people replacing or displacing another, rather than imposing their customs on another).

5 years agodiscuss

>I wonder can it instead of "transmission" be that the fire-capable just out-competed the rest and dominantly spread all over the place as a result

One argument against that is that transmission is much more frequent than replacement in human history. We have countless examples of technologies (agriculture and writing notably) being transmitted to different cultures, whereas the examples of cultures out-competing and replacing others through technology are rare.

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About half the time in my experience

5 years agodiscuss

That neighborhood is hip _because_ rent is cheap

5 years agodiscuss

If I read the abstract correctly they found an inverse correlation between coffee consumption and brain volume, but since it was not a longitudinal study it doesn't prove that coffee is correlated to brain shrinkage?