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Sometimes the person talking to you isn't in the store, they're at a call center for lack of a better word. I heard they were testing it at high volume locations and I assume they rolled it out somewhere by now.
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Lichen covers ~7% of the surface area of Earth. "They can even live inside solid rock, growing between the grains. It is estimated that 6–8% of Earth's land surface is covered by lichens. There are about 20,000 known species."
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The thickness of the outer crust is easy to visualize. It ranges from a few minutes walk to an hour at city street speeds. Nothing close to 12,000kms. "Under the oceans (and Hawaiian Islands), it may be as little as 5 kilometers (3.1 m
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An office only needs one central water/sewer connection for the bathroom and kitchen. Renovating concrete floors to add additional water/sewer connections - and renovating the main water intake and sewer lines to handle the additi
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As long as it's segregated that way. Someone was able to gain access to their Dr's office's network by accessing the wifi-enabled fish tank thermometer. I forget if the details of how exactly they accessed it, but it was an e
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All those sci-fi stories where they have to go find, buy or trade some alien species for more fuel for their ship finally come true. Picturing a small keg battery with a handle on top that has LED's on it. You insert and twist into the
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Tiktok China is supposed to be educational and informative. Tiktok America is entertainment only. The theory is that China is poisoning the minds of young Americans by not developing interests in educational things.
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Disco, Arcades, rock and roll, sockhops, radio...
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Have you tried not being poor? Life coach is dependent on the opportunities available to that family, otherwise the life coach might just be left with cutting the only entertainment or treat food the people buy to alleviate some of their da
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Will AGI be one system, or the final boss that controls all the AI subsystems? I think when AGI arrives, there will be so many AI tools out there we won't notice another one. AGI seems like a moving goalpost target that always changes
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No breakthrough for sure, but the usability at an adequate level for almost any text or code generation, doesn't mean we need full AGI to start breaking society. If feels like people are expecting robocop, but owning an electric table
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Today's software programs are written by humans for humans. We'll rewrite those to be by AI for AI. Craziness is incoming technologically and societally.
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I think it's a response to the incoming AI revolution. Just because someone writes in your name and your style online won't mean it's you when ChatGPT or the next version can clone your writing style in seconds. Being verifie
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Everyone on your street or apartment building cooks, cleans, washes and cares for, ONLY, their little cubicle of people. Even if you're 5 ft away physically our society doesn't allow for sharing of any of that repeated labor - unl
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It's like having wood sawing as a woodworking exam, when power saws have just been invented.
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Or did you have low vitamin D, because your elderly and live in a home and don't get enough sunlight.
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Don't listen to your brain, it doesn't even have arms, stop letting it push you into things or hold you back. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMY6dDMx7/
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They should, a global darkening of the skies due to an unknown volcano or volcanoes (or something else that spewed massive amounts of dust into the atmosphere).
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I mean, we have all those fossil fuels. They must have had them, their names right on them; why didn't they use those?
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The Carrington event where a solar flare turned telegraph wires into those electromagnetd you build in elementary school. The current from the storm electrified all the telegraph cables. This would be bad for anything we've built that
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So you use the Wadsworth constant on movies? "The Wadsworth Constant is the idea (and 2011 meme) that one can safely skip past the first 30 percent of any YouTube video without missing any important content." I don't quite th
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There was an accident over Brazil? Each plane was at the exact same height, and given their digital altimeters they were at the exact same height and one planes wing clipped the one going the other way. Only the smaller plane crashed.
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I've never bought any hardware before but am a programmer, any shopping list you or anyone could provide would be appreciated. Canada.
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So we want to build a simple game. Light up one tube out of 10. Ball needs to pass through tube. Once the ball has gone through another tube lights up. Goto step 1... More can be added to the game, but that's the starting basis. How wo
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Any suggestions for remotely switching LEDs on and off within a system that can also read the camera.
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I want to build a game with - a wireless led (a 5-light length of a led strip would work) - a camera or other module to tell what color ball is in front of it And a controller to change multiple of the wireless LED lights based on different
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This is a whole chapter in "How to win friends and influence people." Someone says something wrong in passing? Ignore it, move on. Someone says something you disagree with? Evaluate if the inevitable unresolved and probably heated
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1000% Same experiences with psychedelics, haha.
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Same. Insulting nicknames from elementary into highschool. Same 15 boys due to small classes at private Christian school. Married the first girl who showed me positive attention. I didn't know what a friend for me was, so we're ma
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Seinfeld. George gets married because of a typo into an AI handwritten letter service he sent to his girlfriend.
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