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by MandieD 3y ago
Also, a general formula for estimating how much additional storage space will be claimed per MB/million words ingested would be helpful.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Competitions like these raise interest in small-scale, and thus more humane, sheep-raising, as well as awareness of products from their far more expensive wool.
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by MandieD 3y ago
But wouldn't they be exceptionally waterproof after that? Or is the smell also impossible to get rid of?
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by MandieD 3y ago
Also, what's the threshold for Special Ed, and are any such students exempt from testing? However, I don't doubt that extra time training teachers to teach phonics would help their students turn those letters on the page into sens
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by MandieD 3y ago
So who gets cited for interfering with a crime scene in this case?
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by MandieD 3y ago
If everyone had to go through a jury trial (which I kind of agree that they should), what's your threshold for allowing them to remain out of jail before trial? How much are you willing to give jurors as a stipend for missing work? How
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by MandieD 3y ago
Your relative’s sad story reminds me of a short story I read a few years ago about a miracle pill that leaves about 90% of its takers perfectly slim and able to stay that way eating anything, after a few truly disgusting initial days of el
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by MandieD 3y ago
I think many of us working in software can be overconfident about how easy it is to scale things, probably because of the peculiar progress in the improvement of integrated circuits and the commensurate increased availability of raw comput
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by MandieD 3y ago
I wouldn't say that autocorrect and autocomplete are well understood by most users, but are well-accepted and not feared and/or fetishized. Telling my non-tech relatives and friends that "ChatGPT is extremely fancy autocomple
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by MandieD 3y ago
It's also common British slang for television... but maybe.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Taking up amateur radio has given me an idea of what mass-market consumer electronics might have cost if economies of scale hadn't kicked in so thoroughly.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Thank heavens the person who bought that domain is Chaotic Good.
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by MandieD 3y ago
The steerable rotors amateur radio operators use with large directional antennas might be of interest. The EME (Earth-Moon-Earth) and radio satellite communities in particular have many automated antenna rotation solutions.
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by MandieD 3y ago
That’s what TV (first, broadcast, and then, cable) was like in the 80s and 90s, and was a small part of why we jumped at internet video. For TV, there were devices that promised to automatically lower the volume when commercials came on - I
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by MandieD 3y ago
I have agnostic/atheist friends who are “better Christians” than many of the professed Christians I grew up with in Central Texas, and the country I live in, Germany, is currently more of a “Christian” country than my home region, desp
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by MandieD 3y ago
Even among “Old Order” Amish, various communities may reject individuals and households possessing certain kinds of technology, but a community as a whole might, for example, share a cellphone that members can use for specific purposes (and
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by MandieD 3y ago
"Convenient" is the true "c"-word.
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by MandieD 3y ago
At least in Germany, a very large portion of new BMWs, Mercedes, Audis and even boring things like Toyotas and Fords are corporate leases, often driven by individual employees who get them at their employer's negotiated rates and somet
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by MandieD 3y ago
The whimsical swinging shutters you see in the US: yes. The mechanically or electrically-closed rolling shutters called "Rolladen" in German, and installed on all but the cheapest new construction in Europe: when properly installe
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by MandieD 3y ago
Anything that requires the use of a smartphone discriminates a bit against the large group that is the most reliable voting block in most western democracies: people over 70. Yes, lots of them have and fluently use smartphones, but plenty o
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by MandieD 3y ago
There are billions of people living in situations between the poorest parts of the EU (yet still in better circumstances than the majority of the world) and war-torn starvation in Sudan, and things like this are for them. Plenty of people w
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by MandieD 3y ago
Fixed.
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by MandieD 3y ago
This is inspirational for my gaggle of non-tech, super-senior relatives. Thanks so much for sharing.
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by MandieD 3y ago
Real US church with a long history, prominent historic members (John Adams and family) and a rather open attitude towards the existence of God/gods: the Unitarian-Universalist Church. My agnostic childhood best friend sends her daughte
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by MandieD 3y ago
It might feel that way if your main experience of Germany is Berlin, but is not a risk for any of the rest of the country, including Munich with its fairly strong English-speaking expat community - Germans speak German to each other, and wi
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by MandieD 4y ago
Immigration is even more of a local matter than I thought it was! I was used to each town having its own immigration office, and the slightly different levels of service and organization, but thought that the B1 exam or degree from a German
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by MandieD 4y ago
Observation of Berlin from the weekend I spent there last month: literally the only place I was better off speaking German rather than English was a Turkish cafe. Everywhere else? Too many people understood English far better than they did
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by MandieD 4y ago
Fixed
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by MandieD 4y ago
This really was excellent and just what I was looking for to explain what LLMs are to non-CS people. Thanks!
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by MandieD 4y ago
"The gap between Target and Williams Sonoma" is a decent summary of my frustration with an awful lot of product selection in both the US and in Germany.

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