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They share characteristics (ie the "advanced knowledge" aspect), but differ in how these are applied: they deliver and maintain their own systems.
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I vaguely remember a quote from someone at Bell Labs explaining that, when they left, one of the hardest things was realising they couldn’t just turn on their home computer and just pick up what they were doing exactly where they had left i
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Some are convinced sensory stimulation needs to be perfect. But in my own limited experience, including some fun "walk the plank" demo between two abandoned buildings they had at MiddleVR, it doesn’t take much. The goal isn’t to f
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I personally don’t know any auto maker that has a good, or even just not noticeably bad, track record at making consumer software. Considering that, I have no reason to believe they are even capable of producing a somewhat reliable average
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Oh ! It was you? Thanks for that! It was great. The teenager in me still fondly remembers the beach wallpaper.
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Yes and no. See gerrymandering. See abstention rates and voter apathy. Politics, like any system, can be gamed. Considering the incentives and interests at play, it is no surprise that it is. Taking into account how long these systems or si
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Wether or not laws and policies have, in practice, anything to do with what people want, is still up for debate [1] [2]. It could also be argued that such laws and policies have mainly been enacted by states in order to eliminate threats to
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> but they somehow did it year after year instead of just a few times And without ever learning to read or write sheet music. It’s just trivia, but it never ceases to amaze me.
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Not the parent, but I vaguely recall our ethics teacher mentioning some associations advocating for hearing impaired people have, at least in some European countries, advocated against cochlear implants in young children, mostly on ethical
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TripMode is great in those cases.
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Depending on the remoteness and risks, I would go for a better case and a backup simpler and more reliable device.
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Considering how hard it is to actually fix any accidental damage to brain cells and nerves, and the far-reaching consequences of such damage, I am always amazed to see how many are eager to just plug something into it and let some arbitrary
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ASML
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I was thinking of something along the lines of "payroll management". But otherwise yes, there probably are some special, advanced, use cases.
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Some even display a pop up telling you to please go install Chrome if you want to use their B2B SaaS service your company just purchased.
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I recall a big part of Iceland’s economy is processing aluminium. Basically producing as much as, if not more than, the US. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/us/politics/american-comp...
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> unless you have to remember it or put it in by hand Or spell it out while in distress. But it seems w3w fits best in the "interesting but ultimately bad idea" bin.
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Adresses are anything but standard, many words can easily sound alike, and in some places that address couldn’t be properly spoken by a someone not familiar with the language. That’s when there even are adresses for your location. Many plac
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Just tried asking for resources on one of its answers. Not only did I get links; I also got them in a clean markdown format. ˋˋˋ Certainly! Here are some resources that might help you further understand working with SceneKit and textures: 1
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Considering the state of IoT (eg IoT botnets), I am not sure this will be reassuring to most. Unless it was sarcasm?
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A 100 years ago we didn’t have software. Oil was all the rage and had only started being massively available two decades ago. Ford had recently started. And IBM, then CTR, was just 12 years old. I wonder how things will look in another 100
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> I can can practice explaining the solution in a way that helps me describe the solution to humans too. That too. Also had some interesting results asking it to rephrase, structure and improve whatever description I’ve written for the p
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I’ve had some interesting results using GPT4 to generate mermaid diagrams from descriptions of my architecture or processes. Plus, the output being code, it’s easy to fine tune when the inevitable mistake creeps in every once in a while. It
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That wasn’t my point and doesn’t change anything about GP’s own merits or lack thereof. I was actually trying to show it does have some merit by pointing out that, despite being generic, said ramble targets all the governments we’ve had o
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Or Chirac and Balladur's 1995 presidential campaign accounts. The only recently released the Constitutional Council’s archives, 25 years later, and it’s been quite enlightening. Our Supreme Court "equivalent" basically appr
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> The GP in question is a generic ramble about distaste for current government. For the last 4 presidents and their ~15 governments (20 years), both "left" and "right". But I agree said rambling remains quite generic
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Also, at some point some users ended up with other users’ chat history [0]. So they’ve proven to be a bit weak on that side. [0]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/21/23649806/chatgpt-chat-his...
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I’m not hung up on equality. I’m hung up on the huge gap between some and the rest of the world. Which, to me, reflects a huge gap in power and freedom. One decides what the other does. One can decide how much the other will earn. One can d
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> A farmer’s dog may be eating the scraps, but has a fundamentally different role in the farm as an enterprise than the animals the dog is herding. And yet they are both animals, often get treated as less than most people, the shepherd d
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If you want to get pedantic, we could more precisely define the upper-class as those who extract value from others, and the lower classes as those from which said value is extracted from. Were we to push that to the extreme, the only upper-

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