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brianorca , to workreform in Panera Bread exempt from following California’s new $20 minimum wage law due to relationship with Gov. Newsom: reports

Until every other company figures out how to make and sell bread. “Would you like a McLoaf with your order?”

brianorca , to worldnews in Pakistan woman in Arabic script dress saved from mob claiming blasphemy

Pretty sure that no Christians, of any era, would lynch you for having “pulcha” on your clothing.

brianorca , to news in A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial-recognition technology

It does also estimate age and gender, so there’s some potential for data mining. But not much.

brianorca , to nostupidquestions in Do satellites have different levels for direction they are traveling?

Orbits are circles or ovals, and the satellite must always be moving to stay in orbit. But the time to go around depends on the distance, so there is a distance where the satellite takes 24 hours to go around, which matches the Earth’s rotation, which is geosynchronous. A subset of these is called geostationary, when the orbit is a circle around the equator, so it stays in the same spot of the sky. (Then we can aim a ground antenna just once and don’t have to adjust it.) Satellites at this distance add 1/4 second delay to any signal because of light speed. This orbit is very tight, since it can not vary in altitude by more than a few hundred meters. (More than that would cause them to drift east or west out of the assigned spot.) There are a limited number of “slots” in this orbit to keep the satellites safely separated and to prevent their signals from overlapping. Most of these are used for communication, especially TV. A few are for weather, as they can watch an entire hemisphere constantly.

Other satellites operate in a lower orbit. Here the orbital period can be as low as 90 minutes. Most of these orbits are inclined so they pass over most of the earth instead of just the equator. The orbit (circle) stays in one angle while the earth rotates underneath. Satellites here get better images because they are closer to Earth, but take a day (or more) to see everything. They also have greatly reduced light speed delays. These orbits eventually decay because of tiny amounts of air at that altitude.

brianorca , to insanepeoplefacebook in Sovcit got ripped out of his car this time.

Indiana actually does require a license plate and fee for a horse drawn carriage. Most other states do not at this time, though there are proposals in some.

brianorca , to world in 31,000 Ukrainian troops killed since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, Zelenskyy says

Russia standard procedures seems to be to put a bandaid on the wounded and send them back, or else leave them where they lay. They are not using the modern battlefield medicine practices that resulted in higher ratios of wounded to dead in most modern Western warfare.

brianorca , to technology in Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students

Article says “the machines are capable of sending estimated ages and genders” so it’s not recognizing individuals, but perhaps adjusting the sales pitch for who it sees walking by.

(But it’s a collage campus, so most students will be around the same age. Maybe it pitches different things to teachers?)

brianorca , to lemmyshitpost in Gorillas are actually very gentle unless provoked by overpriced footwear or long lines for cheap beverages

The snakes could go down the drain of a toilet in the other restroom, and come out inside your restroom.

brianorca , to world in Denmark to send its 'entire artillery' to Ukraine, the country's prime minister says

It’s what they were planning on day 1 of the 3 day SMO. Fortunately it did not go to their plan.

brianorca , to til in TIL the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through immigration in Hawaii when they splashed down because they had left U.S. borders.

That’s already the case due to a treaty.

brianorca , to nottheonion in Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount – Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions

A settlement would cost less, can be kept private, and doesn’t set precedent. Now they have an actual court case judgement, and that does set precedent.

brianorca , to linux in AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source

Nearly all such software support CUDA, (which up to now was Nvidia only) and some also support AMD through ROCm, DirectML, ONNX, or some other means, but CUDA is most common. This will open up more of those to users with AMD hardware.

brianorca , to technology in OpenAI's GPT Trademark Request Has Been Denied

iPhone is like ChatGPT. But trying to trademark GPT would be like trademarking “Phone”

brianorca , to noncredibledefense in Quack

It houses the two antennas. One is for searching the sky for a target, the other gives more precise angles for putting the gun on target. It can operate semi-autonomously to destroy fast moving targets.

en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS

brianorca , to news in Why U.S. renters are taking corporate landlords to court

Of course they are free to set their own price, but when the system tells them they should charge a higher price “due to market conditions” of course they take the easy way out instead of actually researching the market. So it’s both, but mostly the first because they are lazy.

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