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Which begs the question: why wasn’t it shaped like a ^
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Lower latency would change things a lot more than higher speeds.
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A tattoo on my thigh says I don’t
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Groundhog Day, I’ve been watching it every day since it was released.
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> Nowadays I am starting to believe that the term has caused more harm than benefits, because it suggests there are two camps "IMGUI" vs "RMGUI". The reality is there is a continuum of possibilities over multiple unre
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A cousin got diagnosed with it recently so I looked at the recent research. I found some interesting bits about the zika virus targeting the same stem cells as glioblastoma - which is why zika causes developmental problems in foetus’ brains
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I can’t relate to neither the article nor the comments here. I ask and follow people’s advice all the time, and people ask and follow my advice all the time. I need a new car? I’ll ask to the guy-I-know-who-knows-about-cars. My in-laws want
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2y ago
If you use javascript in your startup, use Observable: https://observablehq.com
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Yes they sell for quite a bit, and the buyer may not have the same idea of “fun” than the original guy.
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Yet, catastrophic failures like this happen, and people move on. Sure, there is that one guy who spent 10 years building a 10-fold redundancy plan, and his service didn't go down when the whole planet went down, but do people really ca
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The delicate art of treating ADHD
(theguardian.com)
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Fast-food for education. In my opinion, the whole AI trend is another round of industrialization making low-quality options for the poor. - You're too poor for meat? Here is some hyper-processed, growth-hormoned burgers. - You're
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https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/display-the-relat...
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> One reason is because we think that other, more inexperienced, programmers might have an easier time with visual programming. If only code wasn't as scary! If only it was visual! Excel Formula is the most popular programming langu
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I really wish these were 3D simulations. The 2D ones are always a bit off to me...
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I've seen people use an electric whisk to unreel a string to which the key was attached. Seems less risky than the parachute thing.
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Sure, just don't call it a "whoops-a-daisy" when we're talking about severe poisoning of potentially hundreds of people.
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Ok, cool, but what the hell happened? They had a guy in charge of signing-off the launch, he didn't sign off because of 3 problems he identified, and they still launched. wtf?
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Depends which way your spine is bent but for me psoas stretching works well.
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Psoas stretching is difficult to get right but works miracle for me
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I think that if this had been available in France, people would have used it to copy games big time.
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> I used to think that alot of physics was bs until I found a tutorial on Box 2D physics. Haha. Thanks Newton for Angry Birds.
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ChatGPT, can you remove the unnecessary violence expressed in this article please? Fucking internet.
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Break something every day.
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> what if we had a restaurant named China Wok in Springfield, USA? Hardly unique. Add the state, you say? Probably still not unique. Ok sure, but then you have 2 restaurants which are indistinguishable from one another in your database.
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Er. The fact that I don’t realize that there could be a wrong way to lower and raise window blinds tells me that I may be doing it wrong too! Would you mind sharing what you did wrongly? For my part: I think I learnt at age 35 the differenc
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Before everyone shouts that the correlation may be spurious, I would like to say that some drugs (e.g. Parkinson's disease drugs), can have significant psychological side-effects, like increasing impulsivity and reducing risk aversion
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This reminds me of Borges’s short story Pierre Menard, author of the Quijote in which a 20th century author called Pierre Menard steps in the shoes of Cervantes so much so that he actually re-writes Don Quijote, line by line, not because
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This is quite suspicious. There were tons of articles relaying the rumor that he was fired for obscure reasons. Why would Altman not deny them, and why would pg wait until now to say it wasn’t true? The reason pg gives is uncontroversial.
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2y ago
So this commitee is three businessmen and one lawyer, right? They don't even try to pretend anymore.
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