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by jalk 4y ago
Since you call 911 anyway (hopefully) the person there is very likely trained in guiding you through the CPR / ventilation procedure - and will also be able to help you determine if you need to do chest compressions at all. I.e. the
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by jalk 4y ago
I have said it for many years: At some point there will be people who will only eat synthetic food, because they don’t want to harm plants/fungus etc. - working title is “Syntheanians”
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Because the whole thing has a certain survivor bias smell to it.
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I'm curious, when and where was that?
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who are "they" in this context?
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> the way we define intelligence is such that if we find or invent something that combats human intelligence we immediately redefine it to exclude that aspect. And what makes you so sure the opposite won't happen? E.g. GAI will be
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by jalk 4y ago
I imagine a circular saw with 1 inch teeth will do far more damage to human flesh than a grinding disc
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by jalk 4y ago
Exactly and you shouldn’t have traveled to the US after 2007 if the biometrics was your concern. Fingerprints and photo have been captured by the immigration officer at the port of entry, regardless of visa type, since that time. Received
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by jalk 4y ago
Potentially also as way of storing excess wind/solar generated energy
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by jalk 4y ago
But please remeber that (from your first link): Processed meat was classified as carcinogenic to humans(Group 1). Tobacco smoking and asbestos are also both classified as carcinogenic to humans(Group 1). Does it mean that consumption of pro
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by jalk 4y ago
So now Bezos has the longest one.
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by jalk 4y ago
I have only ever known boiler plate code as that kind of code that is needed to stitch things together, initialize libraries and so on. So not exactly copy/paste, but rather "formulaic" code that has not yet been deemed worth
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by jalk 4y ago
Is it naïve to think that clinical trials have show that modern medicine is more effective? And the active molecules in those plants have been identified and can probably in many cases be synthesized more easily than extracted from the plan
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by jalk 4y ago
I personally pack things at the bottom and throw them out when I find them years later :(
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by jalk 4y ago
OT: Those image captions are weird - the first image of the VW logo has: > A Volkswagen logo is seen on one of the German automaker's cars in a street in Sydney, Australia, October 8, 2015 The specificity seems out of place and sme
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by jalk 4y ago
That’s was not my takeaway: >… the rendering, brushstrokes, and colors are the most surface-level area of art. I think what people will ultimately connect to in art is a lovable, relatable character. And I’m seeing AI struggling with tha
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by jalk 4y ago
Yes absolutely, but if the hardware requirements for running docker currently doesn't fit on a keychain (a physical one that is), perhaps its not the best choice today for secure password storage.
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by jalk 4y ago
Where were you when the cities were altered to be more car friendly. Those car owners should just have moved to some place where their cars didn't bother others /s
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by jalk 4y ago
Could it be that the majority of the 1.7M is for getting the design "approved" and the clones they install elsewhere will be at a fraction of the cost.
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by jalk 4y ago
Why spend days of actual work when you can spend years automating / customizing your workflow
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Which humans are terrible at too
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by jalk 4y ago
I read "not care to invest themselves beyond what is necessary" as in meaning invest themselves into the job - not a general statement about the person. I have friends who are like that - they work their expected hours, but don&#
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by jalk 4y ago
The Making Sense podcast episode with Russ Roberts[1] touched on these points with a reference to Charles Darwin who at some point made a pros/cons list of getting married. All the pros were rather boring practical things. Roberts argu
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by jalk 4y ago
Yes - building intuition around a subject is key (the aha moment perhaps), which is exactly what Grandin struggles with in the abstract disciplines.
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by jalk 4y ago
> Because each channel had an effective base bandwidth of 10 MHz and a TV program used 4 MHz, it was possible to house a TV program and a small number of telephone lines on the same channel simultaneously Only a few telephone lines on
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by jalk 4y ago
The New York Philharmonic Orchestra introduced blind auditions due to racism concerns - in the 1970ies. New York Times launched a campaign in 2020 to put an end to blind auditions as the orchestra is not diverse enough.
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by jalk 4y ago
3rd reason is that you clothes will last a lot longer (the tuble-dryer lint-tray sais it all)
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by jalk 4y ago
> [I would guess "faint orange" was chosen because it's unobtrusive, yet you can't honestly claim it's hiding] I imagine the fluorescent ink was chosen so it's easily readable on all background colors - well
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by jalk 4y ago
They were using a ThinkPad from 2000, therefore I was guessing RS232 and not RS-424 or other industrial ports. A laptop for that age would also have a parallel port, so in theory it could be some bespoke parallel protocol, but pretty unlike
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by jalk 4y ago
There is something wrong with the description of the laptop use (besides calling DOS a language) - on one hand they are running windows 10 with Win98 virtualized. Then they mention Thinkpads circa 2000. I'm pretty sure Win10 won't

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