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by AStonesThrow 1y ago
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/alerts-watches-and-warnin... https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusia... https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/subscription-
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People of Earth and of every inhabited planet hate Elon with the hate of a thousand suns, and therefore, the Sun itself has become anti-Elon, and is generating anti-Elonic particles. On Friday we detected an Elonal Musk Ejection from the Su
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I'd be interested to know how you traced this. I dove into the rabbit hole, and used ssllabs.com for a client browser check. I compared the client with the server to note that the server, very strict in its protocols, accepts only TLS
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Speaking as someone who has made up myriad "screen names" and email addresses and forum usernames, and someone who has struggled with the validity of his own given name, I considered why it is called a "given name" and h
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Artificially cutting high cholesterol levels is like killing the astronauts to solve a CO2 buildup.
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Alright, well, is it reproducible? He seemed to be engaging it in a Socratic method. You couldn't just read a one-sided script to an LLM without thinking on your feet in this regard. He was able to lay significant groundwork through a
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Well, now we can own more clothes! And we can wash them more often! And rather than specialist washerwomen, everyone can/must use the laundry-room robots!
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You know how all the channels and pages with (official) in their titles are usually not? Well I pressed "Play" and began to wonder if the ChatGPT voice and dialogue were faked. My mind numbed as she snappily fielded all questions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doom_ports
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I've never had to ask a giraffe for my money back, and I am unaware of any sloths actually working at the DMV, nor dolphins evaluating my job applications.
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Microsoft has faced this issue with Windows licensing. I would say that it was noticeable with Windows XP. If Windows was licensed to a particular hardware computer, how would you define that computer? Being a common practice to upgrade RAM
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Ironically, Chrome treats me to: ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH So the privacy of egbert.net is especially ensured?
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The protocol or scheme is the "http" or "https" keyword. The colon is a separator . The "//" introduces the "authority component" or host. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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I think you misspelled "Congress with bipartisan support" there
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio#Literary_analysis The structure of the story of Pinocchio follows that of the folktales of peasants who venture out into the world but are naïvely unprepared for what they find
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Chris Siebenmann has shared many thoughts about crawlers, aka spiders. https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/?search=spider https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/?search=crawlers It's i
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That is not a fact; there are stars that are moving closer to us, and the Andromeda Galaxy is expected to "collide" with the Milky Way at some future point.
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Many years ago I committed to setting everything to 24hr clocks. Even when I still had a standalone digital alarm clock that plugged into the wall; in fact that was the impetus to change. Because it was very easy to miss a little "PM&q
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Forsooth! "Palimpsest of Horological Technology" shall heretofore be the moniker by which I dub a rag-tag band of madrigal performers, and/or the Macguffin from Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny ! Growing up in San Diego
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The only thing worse than an LLM for making stuff up and giving fake numbers is an LLM "Detector". They are so full of false positives and false negatives and bogus percentages, as to be actively harmful to human trust and academi
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Pringles also contain corn, rice, and wheat. https://www.pringles.com/en-us/products/pringles-the-origina... Lay's Classic contain only potatoes, currently with a grab-bag of oils: https://www.peps
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Gmail has no desktop app, though it has mobile apps. The web or PWA Gmail has more features and settings than any third-party desktop app would offer when using IMAP or POP. Gmail is a custom-designed first-party app. If you read mail from
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This article has given me the impetus to go around and shut off all the "Smart" features and integrations that I accepted in the past. Lately, Gemini became like Clippy, and I've been blocked by modal dialogs that tell me I&#
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I was surprised that this was a grammar treatise. I hear it often in a variety of businesses, too, but haven't been particularly annoyed at the phrasing. In fact a native Russian speaker using it, sounded like perfectly normal English.
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iPhones only. For a brief, shining moment, there was an Android-free Autobahn. Express lanes to the Apple Store.
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The "silly familia's basilica" is in good company: there are 1,881 minor basilicas. That is relative to the 4 major ones, which are all in Rome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilicas_in_the_Catholic_Chu
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I don't know what threshold to aim for here -- by the way, neither of those two minor basilicas are cathedrals -- but let's navigate a few Wikipedia categories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:20th-ce
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مها https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maha_(name) How cute, the script even looks like a little flower on its side, with a bent stem? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maha_bint_Mishari_Al_Saud महा (mahā)
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Why mine for Bitcoin, when you can fold some prions at home? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home
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A CD and MP3s consist of recorded performances. A player piano roll contains the instructions for a performance, basically a transcription of sheet music, or a recording of someone performing a work. (Didn't read court findings for sco

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