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by ccooffee 3y ago
Is the title here editorialized, or is Axios doing some weird AB testing? The article I'm seeing is about the bill passing the Washington House, and concludes with: > What's next: To become law, the bill must clear Inslee'
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by ccooffee 3y ago
I'm not the person you're responding to, but my "strong magnets aren't lethal to people" knowledge is based (in part) on a Veritasium YouTube video[0] where they visit the "World's Strongest Magnet" a
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by ccooffee 3y ago
> given that the brain has an easier time fighting infections [than bones] This doesn't match my understanding at all, but I'm not a medical professional. As far as I know, the brain relies heavily on isolation for protection.
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by ccooffee 3y ago
> In one encouraging sign, some of the most recent attacks failed against users who had activated Apple’s recently introduced Lockdown Mode, which stops some communications from unknown callers and reduces the number of programs that are
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Wood takes a very long time to saturate enough to properly sink. A partially-floating log in the ocean is sometimes called a "deadhead" log (supposedly named because the bobbing motion of the lighter end of the log resembles a hum
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by ccooffee 3y ago
https://archive.is/20230417125200/https://www.ft.com/content...
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by ccooffee 3y ago
This is such a vague comment to be useless for GP. Do you have some issue with carbs? High calorie foods? Something against processed foods? Gluten? Plastic sensitivity? Why was it a blessing? What made you start appreciating it? etc. etc.
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by ccooffee 3y ago
"Iron deficiency and sleep - A scoping review"[0] did a literature review and found many studies linking Iron Deficiency to poor sleep outcomes for various particular sleep disorders. It summarizes the findings with: > iron inv
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by ccooffee 3y ago
According to an Apple support page[0], > With Apple Watch Series 3 or later with watchOS 8, you can measure and track your Respiratory Rate.2 With Track Sleep with Apple Watch turned on, when you wear your Apple Watch to bed, it will aut
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Do you have an alternative recommendation for "strong" reminders? "Counting five breaths" is a tool I got from some mindfulness resource. Focus on the breath as much as you can and count the exhales. When you get to five
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by ccooffee 4y ago
That's a very good point. I'm currently suspecting that the numbers quoted in Blakewell's article are the "hot carcass" weight (i.e. subtracting bone, head, and organs from the total weight). An Aurochs (wild ancest
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by ccooffee 4y ago
I hadn't heard about rice fields emitting methane before. I was able to quickly find an article, "Methane emissions from global rice fields: Magnitude, spatiotemporal patterns, and environmental controls"[0], which states: &g
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by ccooffee 4y ago
Well, they've got fancy procedures in there, too: > So what our colleague Duyan Tao did - he, at an early stage, around 10 days after the [by-human-hand] pollination, went in there and dissected out the very young embryo that was de
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by ccooffee 4y ago
I have no experience with LLMs, so here's some website feedback to be taken with a chunk of salt: 1. The Youtube video at the bottom of your page is very tiny and cannot be fullscreened without first loading the video in Youtube. The v
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by ccooffee 4y ago
Is this a categorical question? I.e. "is it possible to create a 3D twisty puzzle that works on computers but not in the real world?" I can easily imagine a 3D twisty puzzle which allows self-intersection. (To be less cheesy, you
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by ccooffee 4y ago
I had been unaware of measurement according to "moles of photons", though I suppose it's not surprising. I've never really understood what a mole is other than "we decided to pick this number as a constant multiplie
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by ccooffee 4y ago
They aren't hiding that, though? Literally the first graphic on the page shows their claim of a "word error rate" on test data has an error rate of around 14% in the best case compared to the state of the art at 15% (for en-U
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by ccooffee 4y ago
I found this webpage[0] (and those it links to) to be a good bit of context on what this all means. (And then ran off to do a bunch more searching!) tl;dr: CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) is one of two major detectors of the Large Hadron collid
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by ccooffee 4y ago
This is a good summary of the author's point. In a historical context, it may be the case that the only useful way to enforce "quiet skies" was to put a speed limit, but that doesn't account for changes in technology tha
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by ccooffee 4y ago
Your comment reminded me of a Youtube documentary about "the missing American particle collider"[0]. The documentary touches on some Fermilab drama, but most of the content is aimed at politics (and in particular, how presidential
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by ccooffee 4y ago
Short certificate lifetimes (e.g. 1 hour) is not valid-for-a-single-request as the GP asked. I'm having a real hard time wrapping my head around how Public Key Infrastructure could co-exist with every public key being a nonce. I'm
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by ccooffee 4y ago
The non-profit-oh-wait-just-kidding nonsense feels like an existential risk to OpenAI. I agree that Altman may be (unintentionally?) protecting himself from lawsuits, but I don't see it being enough to avoid the spotlight. I expect som
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by ccooffee 4y ago
I don't understand how ChatGPT (or similar interactive agents) function, so I'm very confused by your experience. Was ChatGPT just a replacement for internet searches (e.g. instead of searching for a spec sheet for your model micr
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by ccooffee 4y ago
"Ever" is an exceptionally poor word choice in Zuckerberg's email. Imagining a scenario where something bad is being done (intentionally or not) isn't that difficult. I believe there are circumstances that NOT whistleblo
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by ccooffee 4y ago
This is still specialist/amateur grade stuff (requiring you to build/maintain/debug the system yourself). I'm optimistic about the technology continuing to develop and eventually becoming mainstream. Having a robust alte
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by ccooffee 4y ago
Thank you for sharing this (novel-to-me) viewpoint. I've been attracted to permaculture by the calm-but-optimistic tinkering that so many content creators in that space espouse. Is there a good starter resource you would point to as be
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by ccooffee 4y ago
I am regularly surprised at how "cheap" mega-engineering projects are compared to the things we (USA) already spend money on. Here's some examples of expensive things: * USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier: $13.3 billion [0] *
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by ccooffee 4y ago
I've eaten seaweeds before in several formats, and they're surprisingly versatile. But they're "further out there" than kale, so I appreciate that the nytimes didn't want to push that angle. And, in case you&#x
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by ccooffee 4y ago
Under 18 U.S. Code § 1702[0], it would appear to be illegal on-its-face for USPS mail to be inspected by prison authorities. > Whoever takes any letter...before it has been delivered...with design...to pry...or opens...the same, shall be
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by ccooffee 4y ago
Thank you. This is an actual article with details, not just a few photos in some social media website.

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