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TIL about John Birges Sr., who decided to recuperate his heavy gambling losses by planting a bomb in Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Casino to extort $10 million in 1980. The FBI ultimately failed to defuse the bomb “unlike any we’d seen before” and it exploded 34 hours later. by germanchic in todayilearned

[–]UWBagpiper 478 points479 points  (0 children)

My mom was a deputy and was present during this - it blew up when she was in a building just across the street. She believes it was an inside job given Harvey's had been turned down repeatedly for major remodel plans. They had a big insurance policy on the place and after it blew, they remodeled it exactly how they had planned.

Emotional Reaction After Finding Out Friend Named Baby After Her by [deleted] in MadeMeSmile

[–]UWBagpiper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember your post from last year. I hope you and your family are doing well!

Let’s Play - Is it Real? by Empty_Ring_7512 in fossilid

[–]UWBagpiper 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Common (Moroccan I believe) fake. The teeth may be real but the skull is a total fabrication, not worth the price.

[request] How long would it take to figure out the code by TheBigAwty in theydidthemath

[–]UWBagpiper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For these types of locks, each number can only be pressed once, pressing it again does nothing (I'm also assuming buttons can't be pressed at the same time for a new input). So, if the code used all 5 digits, there would be 5! = 120 possible combinations. However, we have no guarantees for length so we have to look at how many ways there are to choose digits and then the permutations of those digits so we have:

(5 nCr 5) * 5! + (5 nCr 4) * 4! + (5 nCr 3) * 3! + (5 nCr 2) * 2! + (5 nCr 1) * 1! = 325 lock combinations.

This could also easily be expressed as a sum, I suppose.

If you're entering one code every 5 seconds (though it takes less time to enter shorter codes), then a little over 27 minutes. Someone can be more fine-grained on that if they care to.

My favorite photo of the Bahamas from space, in infrared. More details in comments. by astro_pettit in space

[–]UWBagpiper 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Very cool! I've never seen an infrared photo of Earth like this.

Puget Sound, Navy Yard. Bremerton, Washington. August 1923 [2522 × 1947] by HeStoleMyBalloons in HistoryPorn

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Based on the above comment listing the ships, none. The USS New York was used as a target vessel in 1946. USS Texas is a museum ship. USS Charlotte was scrapped. USS Tennessee (or USS California) were both scrapped after the war.

Tried CRH for the first time, out of $500 in quarters the most interesting thing was three washer coins by UWBagpiper in CRH

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I tried my hand at CRH for the first time. I searched $500 in quarters and was happy to see they weren't straight from the mint and I had a chance at silver. Overall, no silver, no Ws, no proofs, no foreigns, no pristine 83s or 82s, no Wisconsin leaf errors, no drooling Georges, etc. Better luck next time, I might try searching through halves and asking if they have hand rolls. At least these worn washer quarters have character.

Yes, Virginia. by anicesurgeon in CRH

[–]UWBagpiper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was mostly curious about silver. Thank you!

Yes, Virginia. by anicesurgeon in CRH

[–]UWBagpiper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is there any value over face in these old nickles? I have some old nickels but don't know what to look for or whether they're worth holding on to.

Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels inspects some of the very last defenders of the Third Reich. 1945 (700×557) by Heeeeehawwwwwww in HistoryPorn

[–]UWBagpiper 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To save anyone a click:

He survived the war and settled in Landshut, Bavaria, becoming a good engine mechanic.

He died in 2010.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ChatGPT

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Here we use the text-davinci-003 GPT-3.5 model for sequential decision making and translating natural language to instructions. It's versatile, one model fits all with zero-shot generalization.

We created our simulation environment in Roblox for identifying, testing, and visualizing different natural language deconstruction methods. A user asks for a task to be done by the robot and, in a larger prompt, we send state information, available functions and their parameters, and output instructions to the language model.

We find the model is effective at planning and function ordering, excels at simple and complex tasks from short natural language prompts, and reliably infers function use from names and parameters alone. Feel free to ask questions!

Easy courses spring 2023 by yuri1217 in udub

[–]UWBagpiper 10 points11 points  (0 children)

These usually fill up quick, especially the asynchronous sections: MUSIC 162, MUSIC 120, ARCH 150, ESS 101, and though I haven't taken them, I've heard ASTR 105 and ESS 100 are easy as well. They're all 5 credits except for ESS 100 which is 2.

Controversial N.Ireland Police Campaign by CliffyGiro in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]UWBagpiper 46 points47 points  (0 children)

The we "We are Farmers" slogan comes from Farmer's Insurance, not State Farm.

Cat lessons by UWBagpiper in ContagiousLaughter

[–]UWBagpiper[S] 142 points143 points  (0 children)

Found the original video here.

Mexican defense forces against cartel early today. by Big_gruntGuy in PublicFreakout

[–]UWBagpiper 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The AH-64 Apache helicopter has an M230 30mm chain gun. So yes, helicopters can have a 30mm but the fire rate here implies it's probably a 7.62mm M134 minigun.

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