No? Barcodes and QR codes do not have enough information for unique identification. (Well they could but they start getting bigger and bigger)

But the real issue is needing these codes tracked and audited in a public manner. Instead of having a third party company trusted with all the cheese, you use a Blockchain with a public ledger. This doesn’t even require much processing power since there’s no incentive to mine as many blocks as possible.

I hate cryptobros but logistics is a good use for the tech. Tech is tech, not all use cases are bad.

I had a 6 month gap and I said I was taking a sabbatical (which was the truth). No one batted an eye.

Which they are: https://www.grants.gov/learn-grants/grant-reporting

Grants are an incredible way to advance technology, create educated citizens, and boost the economy. Private industry also benefits since they don’t have to risk their own R&D budget. And in some areas, the private sector will not touch since there’s not a obvious way to make profit. Although they will still use that public research when it suits them.

The GOP wants you to be ignorant of how everything works and get away with blackmailing institutions they don’t like.

They’re in the form of grants that give research to help society.

Imagine if the government wants to know the effects of microplastics on the brain. The grant is a way to hire researchers at universities to answer this question.

The alternative is just employ scientists full time, but that’s expensive. And how do those scientists get trained in the first place? Using grants while in university.

No, NPR will survive. Losing the grants suck. But the vast majority of its revenue isn’t from grants.

I’ll be upping my donation.

Not only this but I pick my cat up so she can smell things she normally can’t reach. Or get to a bug on the ceiling.

Just one more lane bro.

Toto washlet. Heated water/seat, adjustable pressure, oscillates, semi aimable, etc

Never had a call end with a chatbot/call tree solving anything. The only times I call is because I know a need a human override with something.

(I understand there’s probably a large portion of their call volume that can be solved via bots.)

Pretty sure this is false in most countries. You are required to disclose purchases and declare values, even for personal use. If they hit a certain thresholds, you’ll have to pay a tax.

Now I’m sure most people just ignore this, because practically they don’t know which items you carried with you and which you purchased. But it isn’t legal.

TIL about former presidents! Nah I just took !fuckcars@lemmy.world to heart.

This sounds like shaders used in graphics pipeline, which is something you code. So probably using a LLM.

No longer drive but yes.

The drivers around me, including those in front, might not realize it’s a turn only lane. It also shows them that I know it’s a turning lane and shows my intent.

Inside a p-trap. Or if I have something like fishing line, further down the pipe. Wherever I can tie it down and be obscured by all the gunk.

Sure, ideally, unless they’re doing something more sophisticated. VW passed emission tests by detecting they were being tested.

Some potential easy to implement gotchas: minimum mileage, geo fencing, how much braking is used

This isn’t ewaste. This is reusable paper and erasable pens. The OCR comes from an app on your phone.

Sure the whole concept is a bit suspect and wasteful. But there’s nothing here that’s ewaste.

We are viewing it as a POV of inside a meme. But from the duck’s POV they’re reading an incorrect POV meme because the “you’re” is intended for the duck, not us.

Yep, Dutch with manufacturing in Taiwan. So not super relevant to this thread.

System 76 is US based including keyboard manufacturing. They’re a small company that gives a lot back to the open source community.

You can always go for smaller/niche companies. System76 and Wooting come to mind for keyboards.

You have to do research and pay a premium. But you’re way more likely supporting a business that cares about its employees.

In general consume less. And when you do need to make bigger purchases, do your research.

Correct.

The 1st century started at 1 A.D. and included 100. 2nd century started 101 to 200. Etc etc. If you change the 21st century to be 2000. You would to shift everything down. Eventually making the 1st century 99 years. Or creating a year 0 or using 1BC.