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That sucks, and someone should do something about it. But to be clear, these findings are simply that the MRLs (“Maximum Residue Levels”) allowed by current regulations are higher.

There is no actual data reported from testing levels.

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The “God committee” from the history of hemodialysis comes to mind as relevant.

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While single-use packaging isn’t always ideal, we aren’t exactly fighting a battle with micro-paper pollution. It biodegrades comparatively simply.

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Just like Tiffany and countless other surnames. Things change.

Alibaba releases 100+ open-source AI models and new text-to-video generator - SiliconANGLE (siliconangle.com)

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China’s Alibaba Group Ltd., today announced the release of more than 100 new artificial intelligence large language models open source as part of the Qwen 2.5 family of models....

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Any aggregate rating of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is going to basically be useless

The whole damn bot is useless spam for Ground News, which sells paid subscriptions. I’m still not convinced they aren’t paying off the admins.

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That would make it the most precise military strike of all time.

Pretty sure that honor still goes to the R9X Slap Chop. The pager explosions, on the other hand, injured thousands.

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Fully-automated outdoor vending machines for pizza from scratch already exist and aren’t new. It doesn’t seem like a huge stretch to adapt that to roll something into a burrito instead of baking it.

www.letspizza.com

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Like many other pieces of functionality, Google could surely push this out in a Google Play Services update.

At least until they cancel it later.

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Is Pushbullet still a thing?

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The Bill of Rights (amendments 1-10) specifically addressed debate over ratification of the Constitution.

…m.wikipedia.org/…/United_States_Bill_of_Rights

Calls for J.D. Vance to resign after he admits that he created pet-eating story about immigrants (www.nj.com)

Just about every time J.D. Vance — the most unpopular vice presidential nominee in American history — opens his mouth, he ignites a firestorm of criticism and likely shaves another point off the Republican presidential ticket’s polling numbers....

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He thinks it’s okay to make up harmful stories because the late night comedians won’t leave the couch thing alone. What a maroon.

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Moving down the stack, Unix systems have never been big on supporting arbitrary drivers: remember that Unix systems were typically coupled to specific machines and vendors. NT, on the other hand, intended to be an OS for “any” machine and was sold by a software company, so supporting drivers written by others was critical. As a result, NT came with the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS), an abstraction to support network card drivers with ease. To this day, manufacturer-supplied drivers are just not a thing on Linux, which leads to interesting contraptions like the ndiswrapper, a very popular shim in the early 2000s to be able to reuse Windows drivers for WiFi cards on Linux.

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It’s a wonder that someone hasn’t implemented a similar wrapper for WDDM. I suppose they’d rather force the vendors to play nicely.

Treasury recovers $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from high-wealth tax dodgers (apnews.com)

The IRS has collected $1.3 billion from high-wealth tax dodgers since last fall, the agency announced Friday, crediting spending that has ramped up collection enforcement through President Joe Biden’s signature climate, health care and tax package signed into law in 2022....

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But I also get why the IRS doesn’t want to walk up to Congress right now, hat in hand, and say “We spent more money prosecuting them than we gained” or anything close to that, and give the GOP ammo for defunding them again.

www.cbo.gov/publication/60037

Actual outlays for enforcement. Outlays for enforcement activities in 2023 were less than projected. Most of the expenditures from the enforcement account stem from labor costs, and through 2023, the IRS hired fewer revenue agents (the enforcement staff who handle complex audits) than it had planned. That shortfall suggests that the IRS has encountered greater difficulty in hiring auditors than it anticipated. CBO expects that the IRS will be able to use all the mandatory funding that it designated for hiring in later years, but because of the delays in hiring and training new auditors, revenue collections from enforcement activities are smaller in CBO’s February 2024 projections than they were in its previous projections.

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Besides the fact that present-day battery technology makes this impossible, modern smartphones display a very obvious indicator when apps are using the microphone.

Hotword detection notwithstanding, as that happens at the hardware level.

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I hate that this takes up space in my brain

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Monsters. Elmo identifies as a Monster, not a Muppet.

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You aren’t being downvoted “simply for bringing up points that might happen to not fit the hive mind mentality.” You’re being downvoted for making up a contrived excuse that was easily disproven by the fucking thumbnail, let alone the article, for your own titillation.

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They were keeping their promise of 10 years of Lightning ecosystem support. Dropping the old iPod connector was highly controversial.

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The two are not mutually exclusive. The downvote button is not an “I don’t like this” button.

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If any KDE developers read this, we seriously and strongly recommend that the KDE team takes a long, close look at Deepin. DDE shows both how pretty and how functional a Windows-style desktop can be, without needing Plasma’s multiple overlapping options. This is what we’d hoped to see in Plasma 6, but didn’t get. It’s probably fair to say that Deepin is the most sophisticated implementation of a Windows-like interface on any OS these days. It’s considerably more flexible and configurable than Windows 11 itself, and it makes Cinnamon, MATE, Budgie, and the others look clunky and old-fashioned. Don’t get us wrong; this grumpy old vulture is happier with the relatively austere and Spartan Xfce, but for those who want something that’s shinier out of the box, DDE shows how it ought to be done. Even Microsoft could learn from the Chinese developers.

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Purolator

TIL there is a logistics/shipping company that shares a name with an oil filter manufacturer.

Scientists Develop World’s Fastest Microscope — It’s So Fast It Can Capture Electrons Moving (www.zmescience.com)

Their attosecond system involves a powerful laser split into two components: a fast electron pulse and two ultrashort light pulses. The first light pulse, called the pump pulse, energizes a sample, triggering electron movement or other rapid changes. The second pulse, known as the optical gating pulse, creates a brief window to...

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It may or may not have one, at least until we observe the results

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It makes about as much sense as the typical ones anyway. Or, like, the output to nmap --help or something.

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I can. But I can’t hear it at all.

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Except in glacier, because English is fucked.

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I’ve been hearing the Donkey Kong song in my head for the last 6 hours. If you know how to make it stop, I’m all ears.

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Hurr durr what if I just multiply the whole thing by 4a for some reason? Oh and then after that I’ll add b² to both sides, just for shits and giggles. And for good measure, I’ll move a few numbers from one side to the other, and that leaves me with 4a²x² + 4abx + b² = b² - 4ac.

And then golly gee! Wouldn’t you know it? That just happens to let the left side factor neatly into (2ax + b)²! So I’ll just take the square root of both sides…

No!

No!

Bad!

This is fucking voodoo. I hate this shit. It’s like trigonometric substitution.

Math is procedural. Math is algorithmic. Math is repeatable.

“If these numbers looked a little different than they do, I could solve this. Oh, wow! If I just sprinkle these magic values into my problem, everything works out great!”

Oh yes, I can see how if you just plug in this shit you pulled out of your ass, everything works out great! But when you aren’t around for a fecal transfer, I have no idea how to come up with that.

I was top of my class in math. But that voodoo shit never made any sense to me.

And there is absolute value of zero chance I could figure all that out in the heat of the moment if I forgot the quadratic formula. I had to work backwards from the formula to even get all that in the first place.

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Thanks for the alternative explanation. Completing the square never made much sense to me either, so I never would have arrived there.

Best way to save battery? (kbin.earth)

stock pixel os had a feature where you could "pause" unnecessary apps. any way to do that? on graphene os currently. I already use saver tuner on extreme, but I don't need Google play services, or my email, or any of that. manually disabling the app also removed it from the home screen which is less than ideal. thanks guys....

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The pause feature doesn’t actually stop the app from running. It just pauses notifications.

You’re looking for something more like Greenify.

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A paste of baking soda and water on cotton balls worked well for me, albeit tedious.

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salesman

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So: Because an electron with an exactly defined position must have infinite kinetic energy

There are an infinite number of velocities I can use to get up off the couch right now.

That does not mean that I will get up off the couch at infinite velocity.

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