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About your self-driving car point, I feel like the approach I'm seeing is akin to designing a humanoid robot that uses its robotic feet to control the brake and accelerator pedals, and its hand to move the gear selector.
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Something about how you have to keep repeating "There is no seahorse emoji" or something similar reminded me of the Local 58 horror web series where it seems like the program is trying to get you to repeat "There are no faces
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I don't have any serious evidence, but the idea of "bloated administration" has been a meme for many years and I remember this humorous article describing it as a new chemical element floating around since around a decade ago
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1y ago
I hope that wasn't Cormac McCarthy's stand-in because the Judge character is like some type of supernatural violent being.
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1y ago
It ideally doesn't need to be a privacy-invading thing, but rather a way for administrators troubleshoot issues a bit easier without having to get on a screensharing call. I think maybe what makes it difficult is that Gmail might be us
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Is it just me, but doesn't it seem like the concept of Frank as a business just sounds like it wouldn't have lived that long and that it might even be predatory? Frank got in trouble with the Department of Education because they u
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1y ago
Do you have any suggestions for supplements to the Japanese course on Duolingo? I feel like I'm almost ready to make the leap after having built up a good streak and slowly realizing that some of the Duolingo sentences apparently sound
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1y ago
I have no clue if the reactions are real, but there are some videos online of people showing their grandparents gameplay from Grand Theft Auto games trying to convince them that it is real footage. The point of the videos is to laugh at the
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1y ago
If I understand the situation correctly, the official solution does have the same name, but it's not published on npm.[0] As far as I know, npm doesn't actually allow packages to share names if they are both going to be in the pub
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1y ago
I personally became suspicious about this article being written with the help of LLMs when I read, "Day after day. Week after week." This is pretty far down in the article, but it felt weird to read this because it was near the en
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1y ago
Thank you for sharing this article. I had never learned of this type of fan before, but I always wondered about how the people from Europe who weren't used to the heat would have coped with it, especially with how in recent times there
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1y ago
How do we square this with what happened when imperialist people went into areas with much hotter weather to establish colonies? Were the colonists less efficient back then when air conditioning didn't exist yet? Or could it be that th
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Oh, that makes more sense. That is an interesting thing to examine, but I wonder how useful it is. It reminds me of a tip I heard about improving at chess by actually counting all legal moves in a position so that you ensure you're not
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1y ago
This year it looks like Germany is higher on the scale. I am surprised by Mexico being really high.
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Is there really no ZIP code that is non-contiguous? I think it might depend on the visualization provided by services, but it looks like on Google Maps, searching for "92014" seems to generate borders around two areas that look li
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1y ago
Another interesting one is `10022-7463` which is commonly communicated as "10022-SHOE" because of how the letters are represented on a U.S. telephone keypad. This is the floor the houses the shoe department of a store, Saks Fifth
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1y ago
Your point reminded me that around the time when the pandemic first started, I saw a YouTube video on physics titled something like "Corona and Arc Discharge" and it had the contextual note that is sometimes added to videos. I thi
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I don’t have a firm opinion one way or another about that idea that a “great teacher can teach any subject” but it does bring to my mind the other idea that teachers are increasingly becoming “learning coaches” who aren’t only transferring
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1y ago
This is a good point to know about. I'm not too sure about how non-profits can be categorized in terms of "small" or "large", but typically when we are talking about SaaS costs, well that would depend on the number
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I'm actually part of some Slack workspaces that are on the free plan which hides messages (including DMs) older than 90 days. It is actually quite cumbersome then because if someone sends a valuable message, I have to remember to scree
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1y ago
Well now I'm convinced that this confusion is the root of the billing issue. Is there not a way that the clients (i.e. the students they are helping) could be added as some kind of "customer" instead of an "internal empl
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There must be some kind of mistake, or some details getting left out here. Usually Salesforce (the parent company) is pretty nice about offering discounts to nonprofits. If they are losing the discount, could it be that maybe it's beca
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I generally agree. Some of the things I don't want to do are actually pretty complex and require my full attention so I wouldn't be able to listen to a podcast or music with lyrics. Maybe I'm in a weird situation that require
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Were there any further login attempts that they tried to do to access your Google Account? It almost seems like the attack being described in the article is very sophisticated that the attackers aren't just contacting random people but
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Would this actually work if it's more of a targeted attack? It seems like not, because they could just kind of lie to your call-screener.
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You mean to say that if it were enabled on my Google account, then the TOTP numbers for my other accounts are visible via authenticating into Google Account on some other unknown device? Sounds like it could be convenient if you lose your p
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Can someone please explain to me what it means for authenticator codes to be “cloud-synced”? Is that solely dependent on whether you’re using the Google Authenticator app while signed in to your Google Account? Is it possible to not have th
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Do you have any other small examples of stuff I could try out to test-drive the Gemini integration for Google Sheets? My colleague tried it out to get it to make a chart, but it ended up failing at the task. It was hard for me to evaluate i
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I read this two or three times and have no idea what you are trying to convey.
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Earlier this year, he was also the guest on the first full episode of the "This Is Gavin Newsom" podcast.
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