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_sigma··on Weight-based motor vehicle tax
Inded Subaru is still AWD in all the ICE product line. However, Subaru only has the SUV EV ported over from Toyota (it reviews poorly). It's sole hybrid is in the Crosstrek which essentially only exists on paper. Subaru is losing the EV/hybrid/PHEV game. It's very sad to see (as a huge Subaru fan).
_sigma··on James Lovelock has died
A news release https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/27/james-lo...
_sigma··on Elementary OS 6 Odin
https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/
_sigma··on First AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English
I've never heard of this before. Can you elaborate on why this is the case? I tried googling the word but only this post shows up.
_sigma··on Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffled by updates
I mean, isn't that a reasonable default? If you use a 3rd party alarm client, such as a sleep monitor, then you'd lose that alarm upon reboot.
_sigma··on Camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second
The paper is OA, and the supplemental has the videos. S5 and S6 are the best.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-018-0044-7#Sec14

_sigma··on Firefox Lockbox
>The language we have today is the balance marketing, security reviewers, and engineering could reach for the masses to feel informed without being overwhelmed and confused.

It would be fantastic to have a 'more details' page, where the nitty-gritty is detailed for those who care.

_sigma··on Pocket Casts acquired by NPR
I've had good success with the beta web client
_sigma··on Facebook Container for Firefox
it is linked elsewhere on this page, but this will do that https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
_sigma··on Intel brings a six-core i9 CPU to laptops
Scientific dataset processing with R and python frequently pushes up against 16GB. Having more room with 32 or 64 would be fantastic.
_sigma··on Dyson sphere
Looks like some ^ were eaten in that. This has the same quote, makes much more sense. http://security.stackexchange.com/a/25392
_sigma··on Main is usually a function – when is it not?
>But perhaps the less radical approach would be to pay them enough such that they can take the time to judge the work on it's merit.

I assume you have not TAed: I'd like to agree with you, but the realities are it is poor pay for crappy work. Most students don't care about their work. Most students seem to be unable to follow basic instructions. I go out of my way to help students if they care and stay late at labs for these students, but I have no patience for wasting my time because someone wants to show off and deliberately make my life harder. As is, when I'm being paid for 6hrs of lab + marking/week, and I am already spending 8+hrs a week because students can't format their assignments properly, don't write in complete sentences, etc, I have zero interest in patting this guy on the back. Instead, I have to do more work for no pay so he can feel clever.

_sigma··on Main is usually a function – when is it not?
Not at all; TAs are paid poorly, have other more interesting work (i.e., their research) to do, and spending the time to deal with 'clever' is not a good usage of time. Sure the student learnt more, but that doesn't mean this is what they should have handed in. Have fun on your own time, but don't waste the TAs time.
_sigma··on Scroll Slow. Have Fun
Furmark always does it to my cards. Perhaps of interest. http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-review...
_sigma··on Show HN: SineRider, a game inspired by my TI-86
On [1] I'm not able to load anything. I just see the header text and an empty black square. Chrome 38.0.2125.111 (64-bit) on Fedora 20. [1]http://sineridergame.com/SineRider.html
_sigma··on Why Asus trackpad driver sets the CPU speed at maximum during scroll
I use Karabiner [1] to make my constant jump between OSX/nix/Windows more easy by remaping ^C/^V (amongst others) without having to actually swap control and command keys via OSX's utility. [1]https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
_sigma··on Pencil
The new Mendeley iOS update is a vast improvement over their previous version. May be worth a look
_sigma··on Syntax Off (2012)
This is a fantastic example! Took me having to turn on code highlighting to catch it.