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by bryant 1y ago
Yeah fair enough. lol
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by bryant 1y ago
It's a pretty sad reflection of the times that there's a need to create a throwaway account to talk about long COVID symptoms, but this is a good personal anecdote to draw attention to what's likely happening. In my case, I o
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by bryant 1y ago
> This is another article in a long tail of anti-American and anti-Western content that has been cropping up online for about two years now. It's getting to be a very popular subject. 1. Finland 2. Denmark 3. Iceland 4. Sweden 5.
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by bryant 1y ago
Imperialist here. Freedom fries was funny.
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by bryant 1y ago
for what it's worth: add 9 degrees F (or 18 if it's easier to remember) for every 5 degrees C (10 C, easier), and peg 32F to 0C. You get: -40F=-40C -22F=-30C -4F =-20C 14F =-10C 32F = 0C 50F = 10C 68F = 20C 86F = 30C 104F= 40C a
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by bryant 1y ago
The biggest thing stopping me from getting these is knowing that a derivative of Meta's Orion AR prototype will release to manufacturing in the next few years, and this just feels like a stop-gap. But the wrist/hand control is the
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by bryant 1y ago
I don't think many people would mind a 1b acquihire to be honest.
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by bryant 1y ago
Probably an area for Cloudflare to offer it as a service. Content type X, blocked in [locales]. Advertised as a liability mitigation.
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by bryant 1y ago
can you clarify your specific concerns around lab-grown salmon that you feel have not been accounted for with the regulatory review that was performed? Referring to your "poisons the populace" comment. Do you have evidence substan
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by bryant 1y ago
> to orient toward the unfolding of possibility in others This is a globally unique phrase, with nothing coming close other than this comment on the indexed web. It's also seemingly an original idea as I haven't heard anyone co
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by bryant 1y ago
I misspelled "defunded" so that could be why. I tease. Folks have strong opinions on the topic.
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by bryant 1y ago
https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/22636-bird-flu-screwworm... > Among the GHS projects killed were some dedicated to *monitoring and containing avian flu and New World Screwworm in Central America, monitoring* avi
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by bryant 1y ago
The comment below yours by njovin represents the likely truth: that this is another empty promise designed to carry Apple through to the end of this term before they can call the whole thing off with only mild losses.
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by bryant 1y ago
> But they are never based upon any objective criteria, and are never (nor ever were intended to be) reproducible in any scientific fashion. This is also why review aggregators exist: if I'm just getting into a thing, such as watchi
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by bryant 1y ago
This feels best summarized as: • Product A has limited features but does them well. If the customer is okay with the features the product has, the reviewer can recommend it for this customer. • Product B has more features but is impacted by
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by bryant 1y ago
If there's an argument to be made that the damages are too high (I'm not making this argument, to be clear), it might be with the compensatory damages prescribed by the jury at $129 million, but then that begs the question of what
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by bryant 1y ago
Do cars normally allow people to prevent emergency braking with the throttle depressed? I haven't actually tried this for obvious reasons, but if their defense is that the safety mechanisms were disengaged with the throttle being ful
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by bryant 1y ago
This is by far the correct outcome. Given how long Tesla has been giving users the impression that the software would be superhuman (since 2013 with "Autopilot", and unrelatedly since 2016 with "full self driving"), th
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by bryant 1y ago
> This, eventually, woudl lead to lower prices for consumers... What incentive would Amazon have to drop prices after vertical integration is done?
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by bryant 1y ago
> And the people using it multiple times a year delete it afterwards? The people wouldn't, but in the environments I'm thinking of, security policies might. What you're leaning into is a high-risk backup strategy that woul
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by bryant 1y ago
> If nobody has the repo checked out, what are the odds it's important? Oh boy. Tons of apps in maintenance mode run critical infrastructure and see few commits in a year.
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by bryant 1y ago
> I've always wondered why that behaviour emerged.. Speculating: there may be parallels between this and other fields with entirely unnecessary artistic expression. Think watchmaking where watch movements with superlative finishing
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by bryant 1y ago
Companies are rushing or skipping a lot of required underlying security controls in a quest to be first or quick to market with what they think is transformative applications of AI. And so far, probably very few have gotten it right and gen
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by bryant 1y ago
People grew up making fun of others for being overweight. Suddenly a medication making it treatable (and possibly providing an explanation for why the prevalence of obesity skyrockets in developed countries) validates the idea that it'
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by bryant 1y ago
The 21st century has, among all the other craziness that's happened, proven that people do need to be told what to believe and why to believe it. Doing otherwise leaves a vacuum someone else will fill, often with assertions in an oppos
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by bryant 1y ago
> It's most needed in areas with patchy or no internet, but those areas are likely to be the opposite of the areas with lots of participating devices. In fairness to op, the proposed solution seems best intended for comms blackouts
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by bryant 1y ago
For those who don't want to Google: • https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1113/jphy... • https://www.pnas.org/content/106/21/8665
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by bryant 1y ago
A few weeks ago, I processed a product refund with Amazon via agent. It was simple, straightforward, and surprisingly obvious that it was backed by a language model based on how it responded to my frustration about it asking tons of questio
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by bryant 1y ago
Ugh, and unfortunately, this meme makes perfect sense in this context.
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by bryant 1y ago
Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_bounty_program

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