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One confounding factor that I didn't see pointed out in the paper was the fact that Facebook changed over the years; old school Facebook was very much centered around interactions with friends, while the feed eventually started to have
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The value is showing that one has reached that destination by overcoming obstacles and having sufficient skill to get there. Removing the need for skill and overcoming obstacles makes reaching the destination pointless.
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We had a bug at a previous employer that would cause many of the main database replicas to crash. We isolated it to a collision in the code that serializes query predicates, which happened about one time out of 2^32ish queries. So yes, rela
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> But these people above often ask for slides because they don't plan on listening but do still plan on judging you based on your talk that they didn't listen to, so you're forced to slap every piece of information on them
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There's also https://recalendar.me/ that does something similar and is open source. It does struggle with larger documents, but everything happens locally.
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You can always put (local area code) 867-5309, as long as you don't care about accumulating grocery points.
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For California specifically, there's proposition 13 which caps the rate of increase of property taxes for housing to a rate that's below inflation. For areas like the Bay area where the cost of living is high (making city employee
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> "Although some might cling to the belief that POTS offers still better call quality, consumers have reached the opposite view: as noted, the overwhelming majority primarily use mobile wireless service for their voice calls,"
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> I've been told that Ford/Lincoln is using licensed Toyota drivetrain technology too. I heard that too but couldn't find a recent source that they still did when I researched that a little more than a year ago. From what
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> The next step will be having a designated spot for it to stay while I'm home. I put my phone charger in a drawer by drilling a hole in the back in order to run a power cord. I found that just having the phone on silent and out of
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There's a lemon laws for cars in many places, where if it breaks too much you can just return it to dealership for a refund. No such thing for appliances, unfortunately.
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Same, I'm looking into using home assistant as a replacement. Out of curiosity, what are you considering as an alarm replacement?
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Four day week as in four days of ten hours or as in 32-ish hours a week?
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TVC
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Costco pays well for retail though.
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My comment talks about how the solution space for a toaster and a plane are completely different. A simple thermal fuse to prevent catastrophic failure of a toaster is an example of a solution that works for a toaster. It's cheap. If t
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The worst thing that can happen with a toaster is that it catches on fire, while a plane can crash and kill hundreds of people. While that doesn't make Boeing any less responsible for engineering proper solutions instead of a complianc
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Alternatively one can just use grid paper and some scissors. I bet you learned a lot writing that program as a kid though!
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A few things with regards to safety that aren't mentioned in the article. Get laser safety goggles that are appropriate for the wavelength of your laser, and get them from a reputable source. Always wear them whenever the machine is p
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That's really cool, I didn't know that was a thing!
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This may cause your drains to clog though. Compost or trash can is better from that perspective.
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> If you stop protecting them as investment accounts, you nuke the retirement accounts of 100 million people. The alternative is that the younger generations defer or forego having children due to housing insecurity.
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There are definitely some products for which it would be doable, for example Midea makes a lot of the microwave oven models sold in the US.
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Part of it is that it creates an incentive to create wasteful systems, only to "optimize" them later to rack up a bonus. Even if it gets changed to only pay out for reducing spend incurred by other engineers, it's possible to
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> My question is if it can be used to destabilize truth, how can AI help make inherent truth (true from all/most angles and interpretations) stand out more? I'd say that it can't, because it's not an AI problem, but r
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> I think people tend to think of worst-case scenarios with minimalist screen-centric approaches and pretend like they are frequent occurrences. But, they are. In intermittent rain one wants to be able to adjust the wiper speed, not pres
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It's an interesting design direction considering the current model year has a physical button to turn the infotainment screen off; it's the button between the volume knob and the source button in this interior shot https:/&#
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You can rebase your development branch or cherry pick commits from master into it. And if QA finds something, there's nothing preventing testing another release to figure out where the issue is. Git bisect is useful there too. There ar
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Is Google actually a frontrunner in this race? I remember Bard was pretty unimpressive when it came out, is it improving fast enough to be competitive?
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Ozone depletion was a relatively easy problem to solve though, since it was replacing some chemicals with different ones, but didn't require much in the way of behavior change.

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