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autokad
3y ago
I completely disagree. in the long run, a company is not going to remember you gave them a lot of notice before leaving. your coworkers aren't likely to remember either, at least in terms of your ability to get references. at the same
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autokad
3y ago
if we could manufacture the telescopes on the moon, we could build massive ones (and size matters). And, why not have both?
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4y ago
> 12mph than two SUVs at 40mph. 12 mph is the speed of a beginner bicycler. most bikers go faster then that. most pedestrians are hit by cars going under 40mph and SUV's only make up about 8% of the total market. These facts don
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4y ago
it depends on what you mean. I seen the hospital data (can't share it) and per capita bikes send more pedestrians to the hospital with series injury than cars - however cars have a higher kill rate. One such woman walking down Locust W
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4y ago
> Cars are simply massively overbuilt for their average use case. Reducing weight of vehicles is a very achievable goal that will cut emissions dramatically while also having additional benefits like global supply chain material and emis
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4y ago
I took the basics of a dream I had, and asked it to turn it into a short story. the result was pretty good. Is it using stuff already to seed its responses? sure, but thats what we do to. Nothing you do or say wasn't taught to you. But
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4y ago
chatgpt doesnt just feed us back answers we already taught it. It learned relationships and semantics so it can apply that knowledge to do something novel. For instance, I took the basic of a dream and told it to turn it into a short story.
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4y ago
hospitals can be challenging. lots get shut down, and the smaller ones have severely misplaced coordinates because these surveys go out to the hospitals and a clerk will fill them out with an address, and that address gets geocoded. The add
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4y ago
I built a similar website when working for a research lab ~2009. The lab is now closed, and thus so is the website but you can see some screen shots in this old time article: https://content.time.com/time/health/ar
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4y ago
all the incentives for promotion or getting a high rating is on creating a new product that has cross team impact. Even if your new product improves your team / current product, No - that doesnt have cross team impact, no promotion &#x
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4y ago
when I was doing research on ratings, one thing I noticed: no matter how popular or unpopular a show, its an almost certainty that the number of viewers viewing something goes down over time. The first season almost always has more viewers
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4y ago
or ... there are consequences for never investing in yourself. if you treat work as work, that's all you will ever get out of it. a career is one of the most important things in a person's life and should not be taken as unimporta
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4y ago
I don't believe the moon has a dark side and light side. both sides get light / dark. The moon is locked with earth, not the sun. I could be wrong though
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4y ago
> You don't have to deal with the oil supply chain that has issues, from geopolitics, wars, environmental disasters, gas stations. Instead you just slowly upgrade the electrical grid and add more renewable energy production. electri
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4y ago
In their 20s and 30s, my siblings pursued their own interests and desires, but unfortunately, this approach did not lead to success. Now in their late 50s and early 60s, they find themselves lacking the necessary skills and experience to ke
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4y ago
The success of this approach hinges on the assumption that no one else is doing it. However, even those who quietly quit still rely on others to provide the goods and services they desire. There is a concern that this could lead to a snowba
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4y ago
city gardens things make no sense (when it comes to eating said items). Soil in cities can become contaminated by various pollutants such as heavy metals, pesticides, industrial chemicals, and automobile exhaust. These contaminants can have
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4y ago
I find the description of dark matter confusing. I hear statements like "dark matter has negligible interaction with ordinary matter". So, how do scientists know that dark matter exists? "The answer is that our galaxies spin
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4y ago
I've always wondered that. like wouldn't uranium, gold, and other heavier elements be more dominant the closer you get to the center of the core? but they are pretty confident on this iron thing
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4y ago
would I? I wouldn't. Why not? I think something is going to happen that I am not allowed to talk on social media about, otherwise I would do just that. edit: see, just the very mention of it gets me downvoted.
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4y ago
yeah, what's really amazing is how 'they' go after all these companies for 'profits' yet no one says a damn thing about Moderna's 65% profit margin (after paying taxes). And this isn't on top of small numb
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4y ago
the questions are more important than the answers. there is nothing to give an answer to if there are no questions. If you have a backlog full of questions, its just a matter of figuring out how to get answers to them. there is nothing you
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4y ago
the best way to fail is to not be what your customers want. SO's hostile attitude towards people who ask questions is comical considering the site only existed if people had done so.
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4y ago
I think the biggest problem is that people don't properly account for how much tech has to spend to fend off competitors. these are often ignored with statements like 'well they are losing money to grow their market share, but loo
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4y ago
It appears that you are engaging in a logical fallacy by utilizing capitalism, which I assume is not something you hold in high regard, to silence someone's perspective during a discussion and attributing the blame to capitalism. Capit
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4y ago
> I don't think that most of the people who equate hate speech with violence are literally requesting assualt charges be brought First off, they are. but if you are saying: loose your job and ability to make a living, losing your ab
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4y ago
lockdowns, there's 1.
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4y ago
It goes through all that just to set up its ultimate agenda at the end, blame the right: > people on the political right often criticize public investment as wasteful and corrupt, but the reality is that the retreat of the state hasn’t r
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4y ago
can't be any worse than the crap they are putting out there now. I don't care if its written by a human or not, if its good, fine
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4y ago
its no fad. I use to spend an hour going over an email to management. make it less technical, make it sound nicer / polite, etc. now I can take a sentence and say 'make this more succinct. ok, but take that and make it more polite
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