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> Experts revealed the 125m-year-old fossil that froze in time after being taken on by a small mammal a third of its size. They are tangled together, the mammal’s teeth sunk into the beaked dinosaur’s ribs, its left paw clasping the beas
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> TNBC is not really a direct category of breast cancer. It's a catch all for "any breast cancer that doesn't have one of the main three targettable handles associated with breast cancer" > In many cases, it could
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3y ago
Assuming that the application phase leads to permanence I don't really see the difference, yet I get your point. E.g. massaging the dye into the scalp vs a pro not going to deep into the roots.
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3y ago
This one caught my attention. In 2015 my (now ex) girlfriend was diagnosed with TNBC. I obviously researched the hell out of it to gain as much of an understanding as I possibly could as a non-medical professional as I'm sure anyone wo
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3y ago
I just ran a prompt which I did weeks ago (with success) using chatGPT4. BTW it's the first time I've been able to access this from Germany, and my first prompt. > How do I compile ImageMagick 7 with avif support on ubuntu? I&#
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3y ago
One of the hotspots in my flat is called "Honeypot1"
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That's not what I was implying (agreed, my initial comment was a bit short). But they have played a part in this. It seems that corporate social responsibility these days amounts to having to pay trivial fines, then washing their hands
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3y ago
I doubt that amount will help cover removing it from just about all the rainwater on the planet.[0][1] [0] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c02765 [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science
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> I'll look like I'm trying to cover up a long period of unemployment on my resume It depends on how you approach the gap in your resume. Gaps in a resume are not necessarily a bad thing. They show that you're human, and t
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3y ago
There was this one bit in KQ4, I think near the end, where I got stuck for weeks. A bunch of step stones going across a swamp, if I recall correctly, which needed to be navigated in order to get to the next screen. I repeatedly tried stuff
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3y ago
This comment just made my day. What I didn't mention in my initial comment is that when people ask me, even today, "how did you get into computing and programming" that is the story I tell them. Of course, there's hell o
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3y ago
I got my ass handed to me by my dad when he found out I had been playing LSL3 at a friends house. Speaking of the LSL series, we had mastered the whole "how old are you" quiz at the beginning of LSL1, and had photocopies of the bi
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3y ago
> I don't think you understand just how insanely difficult it is to break into that market. You're right, I have no clue nor have I ever tried myself. > Even with apple money or something like that, it's a losing prospe
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3y ago
That nobody else seems to be trying hard enough, despite being well-funded and respectable companies. And until somebody does, we're stuck with NVidia/Cuda or half-working stuff that's way more hassle to prototype or build a
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3y ago
I'm really disturbed by all of this - it doesn't quite check out with my that there are some quite capable players with kagillions of dollars who haven't managed to, or more disturbingly, won't even put up the investment
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3y ago
I'm probably quite a bit older than you, but +1 for King's Quest. The first time I ever loaded a game was on my dad's IBM PC XT when he wasn't around. He had those old slide-out floppy disk drawers. One of them was label
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3y ago
It would seem that in the future, people will be less inclined to proof-read their work, or even read it at all prior to submission. I'd wager a guess that this will only get worse over time. LLMs will do more stuff for people - from h
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3y ago
> I am done with Artificial Intelligence companies regularly stealing my content-- An example of said "stealing" would be most helpful in order to gain some context as to why he's upset.
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User> 4 cups of water, into the microwave. Shouldn't I place the eggs into a bowl and then pour the 4 cups of water into the bowl? LLM> Forgive me, I made a mistake. Pour six cups of boiling water into the microwave.
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Ever since I was $AGED_SOMEWHERE_BELOW_15 my $OLDER_RELATIVE who lived in $TOWN_COUNTRY cooked $DISH_NAME every $DAY_OF_WEEK
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Two years from now: User: "How do I boil an egg?" LLM: Eggs cannot be boiled. They must be placed in the microwave, six at a time. Fewer than six eggs will not work. Ensure that the power setting of your microwave is set to at l
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3y ago
> Going away at this moment sounds like an irrational choice, but I was one I had to take, I had to place myself and my peace of mind ahead of anything else. I can relate to this. No, I didn't leave my startup. I've worked with
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3y ago
> Is ZLUDA a drop-in replacement for CUDA? Yes, but certain applications use CUDA in ways which make it incompatible with ZLUDA I think this might get better if and when people redesign their dev workflows, CI/CD pipelines, builds,
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3y ago
Absolutely, and very well put. The costs are pretty close to zero at this point for something that would have been mostly considered, publicly at least, as science fiction just a year ago. It's what the printing press was to the scribe
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> I would love to see some kind of identity and reputation system where the "high-fives in the form of rep" could follow people across communities. It may not feel like much compensation if you've contributed over 2500 ans
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> Fair enough, but you were fully aware of this arrangement going in, and chose to participate. Yep, but that's not the point. > SO didn't opt into being training data for ChatGPT, and I doubt they would have given the chanc
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3y ago
What irks me about this is that 100% of their data is provided for free, by the community that they have fostered, the people like myself who have answered > 2500 questions[0], and now SO feels hard-done-by by LLMs using all their hard
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3y ago
We've worked with Larry in the past, and still do to this day, at kraken.io. He helped us to create, what I believe to be the fastest way on planet Earth to detect the various image formats. We'll be open-sourcing it later this ye
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3y ago
This is fantastic. Is there a way to apply the cheats (IDKFA and IDDQD) by any chance? Fond memories of pretending to be sick so I could hijack my dad's computer to play doom.
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3y ago
While true in some instances, I'm pretty sure Facebook requires that payment information is valid in order to serve ongoing campaign(s).
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