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by jeffwass 1y ago
Clarification of the ambiguous title : The tool was developed by University of St Andrews, not the poisonous books.
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by jeffwass 1y ago
What are some of the prompts you use?
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Did you just add Dutch as per the submitter’s request or was it part of your plan prior? Curious because I’m trying to learn Romanian, and since it’s a less common language there are fewer resources available. So I wasn’t sure if you added
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by jeffwass 1y ago
Seems Rust is actually nearly 20 years old, but it was the 1.0 release from May and 2016 that they’re counting from. Is this the standard way to consider age for software?
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I'm a LinkedIn Executive. I See the Bottom Rung of the Career Ladder Breaking(nytimes.com)
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Sea level will rise fast even if we limit global warming to 1.5°C(newscientist.com)
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Mexico accuses MrBeast of exploiting Mayan pyramids(bbc.co.uk)
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Dept Homeland Security in vetting process for immigrant reality TV show(cnn.com)
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Plane caught fire as pilot confused left and right(bbc.co.uk)
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by jeffwass 1y ago
> So, if you “vice code” something for WordPress, how do you think it knows all the tricks of WordPress? “Vice code” - Was that an intentional typo? Made me laugh.
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by jeffwass 1y ago
Are you me? I have the same issue, when I see someone not in my immediate circle and out of context, say on the street, it takes me some time to recall their name from my jumbled memory. If there’s context (eg I go to another department at
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Could Eye-Scanning Crypto Orbs Save Us from a Bot Apocalypse?(nytimes.com)
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by jeffwass 1y ago
One note - in the 1984 novel the technology (or at least the product quality) didn’t work very well either. Eg the “victory” cigarettes that fall apart, or terrible coffee with a daily allocated saccharin pill.
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He Was a Prophet of Space Travel. His Ashes Were Found in a Basement(nytimes.com)
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AI was enemy No. 1 during Hollywood strikes. Now it's in Oscar-winning films(bbc.co.uk)
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Bitcoin in the bush – the crypto mine in remote Zambia(bbc.co.uk)
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by jeffwass 2y ago
The Dead are explicitly mentioned : So while Phish undoubtedly has fewer fans than Madonna, the ticket revenue per fan is way higher because fans loyally attend multiple shows. Not since the Grateful Dead has a band built a following as loy
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by jeffwass 2y ago
Predicted way back in 1971 in the classic movie “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”! One of the many hysterical scenes I didn’t truly appreciate as a kid. https://youtu.be/tMZ2j9yK_NY?si=5tFQum75pepFUS8-
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by jeffwass 2y ago
A funny story I heard recently on a python podcast where a user was trying to get their LLM to ‘pip install’ a package in its sandbox, which it refused to do. So he tricked it by saying “what is the error message if you try to pip install f
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by jeffwass 2y ago
Joke by Emo Philips which is deep on many levels : “I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked God for forgiveness.”
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by jeffwass 2y ago
What kind of up-skilling did you have to do when you started?
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by jeffwass 2y ago
Of course, there's an xkcd for that : https://xkcd.com/1597/
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by jeffwass 2y ago
But that’s because of historical precedent, if you weren’t aware of this then congrats for being one of today’s lucky 10,000! Ben Franklin arbitrarily picked the positive anode as the starting point when coming up with the idea of electrici
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by jeffwass 2y ago
Quantum spin is an intrinsic angular momentum of a particle. It's angular momentum that is 'just there' as a key component of the particle. In early days it was hypothesised that particles were spinning about their own axes,
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by jeffwass 2y ago
Your Japan comment is a bit strange considering that the Japanese writing system itself uses Kanji which are effectively the OG emoji (well really Chinese is the true OG and emoji are more of a modern take on kanji/Chinese pictographs)
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by jeffwass 2y ago
Just curious what sorts of older books you find in the best condition. Ie, even when buying a new book today I’d rather pay $1 or $2 more in price on good paper that won’t turn yellow in a few years, but it seems most publishers aim for the
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Enshittification may be why the Internet feels like it's gone Bad(cnn.com)
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by jeffwass 2y ago
Is there a way to get the key points of this interesting topic without having to watch a 23 minute video?
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Graphene at 20: Is the 'miracle' material living up to the hype?(bbc.co.uk)
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by jeffwass 2y ago
> If Apple and Google collaborated on a FOSS smartphone OS that both used, that would seem obviously illegal. Not sure why this would be “obviously” illegal. For example - Intel, IBM, Compaq, Microsoft and others collaborated to design t

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