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541.
by m12k 6y ago
Yeah, even with those limitations, it's still possible that the relationship between plaque buildup and Alzheimer could be similar to the one between smoking and lung cancer - you can get the latter without the former (randomly or trig
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by m12k 6y ago
Me too, at first I thought it was a follow-up to that post the other day about Linus Torvalds' 'more elegant' linked list implementation using pointers to pointers.
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by m12k 6y ago
The problem isn't free speech in itself. The problem is the amplification of that speech by algorithms optimizing for "engagement" which practically speaking ends up being synonymous with "conflict". The medium lend
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by m12k 6y ago
This feels like something from the early days of the web - and I mean that in a good way.
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by m12k 6y ago
Any guesses regarding the hackers? Russia? China? North Korea? Someone else?
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by m12k 6y ago
Only if you have a choice. Most people don't have a choice of what tools to use, they are dictated by their employer. And employers may have other priorities (e.g. checking off "serverless" on their bullshit-bingo-card before
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by m12k 6y ago
> ZDD stands for zero-suppressed binary decision diagram but this is unimportant It's not just you. This article is written in the "terse yet barely comprehensible" fashion of someone wanting to cut to the chase, but leavi
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by m12k 6y ago
https://howlongtobeat.com/game?id=10273
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by m12k 6y ago
> better sound Technically we don't know that yet. I mean, I'm not impressed with the price/value of e.g. Beats, so I'm not super hopeful, but I'll still withhold judgment until the reviews are in.
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by m12k 6y ago
Dunno, sounds like something a Shiriff would do. But seriously, yes, that's despicable, that and the "jewellery law" and others like it. When I say it takes courage to orient ourselves toward the world, I didn't just mea
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by m12k 6y ago
As a Dane, I've always felt that we should accept, maybe even appreciate, that our lot in the world is to be the Shire, while other countries get to be Gondor and Rohan. As LOTR so beautifully showed, if we have the courage to orient o
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by m12k 6y ago
Do you use any of this affiliate 3rd party software yourself or did you roll your own solution? I'd like to make an affiliate sales program for my SaaS too, but it's hard to figure out where to start. I don't want to invest a
553.
by m12k 6y ago
IANAL but it's probably covered by fair use. Otherwise "Let's Play Videos" on YouTube would not be possible(and they actually show all the content in the game, while this shows single screenshots). Same goes for games re
554.
by m12k 6y ago
> "Specifically, if you take 10 million people and just wave your hand back and forth over their upper arms, in the next two months you would expect to see about 4,000 heart attacks. About 4,000 strokes. Over 9,000 new diagnoses of
555.
by m12k 6y ago
Have you considered an Asus Zephyrus G14? It comes with a Ryzen 9 4900HS and Linus (Tech Tips) seemed very impressed with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYqG31V4qtA
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by m12k 6y ago
Mirror: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...
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by m12k 6y ago
> How does it help a bird to have four sexes? By making procreation harder to achieve, you intensify the selection effect, since only the fittest individuals will be able to achieve it. So maybe it can be thought of as a kind of extra la
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by m12k 6y ago
You can - use this to generate a regex, then run that regex through one of these libraries: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22133/126183
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by m12k 6y ago
Back when I took my cs degree I learned about the AI winter - the decades that came after we came up with effective planning, reasoning and problem solving algorithms, but realized we couldn't use them on anything in the real world, be
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by m12k 6y ago
I read somewhere that unlike GPT-2, GPT-3 "understands" addition. So if you feed it "74 + 129 = " it will come up with 203, even if that specific math problem never occurred in any of the text it was trained on. That to
561.
by m12k 6y ago
I mean, it's an amalgam of text written by humans - it's not even trying to make a plane that flies, it's trying to make a plane that looks like all the planes designed by humans - and largely succeeding. I'm sorry that&
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by m12k 6y ago
There's something ironic about the corporate overlord tricking its consumers into pooling their resources with their community (and probably getting bitten by the data caps that other corporations impose).
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by m12k 6y ago
IANAD but my guess is maybe a stronger immune response in the first dose makes the immune system respond so quickly to the second dose, that it doesn't have time to get anywhere and interact with enough of the body to have much of an e
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by m12k 6y ago
"There were no hospitalised or severe cases in anyone who received the vaccine" Does anyone know if there's data for this and the other vaccines, whether any of those that still end up infected under the trials have had any o
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by m12k 6y ago
As William Gibson puts it, the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed.
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by m12k 6y ago
Just the other day I was telling a friend how the main CRM-like functionality I'm missing in my private life, is a way designate friends that I want to stay in contact with, and then nudge me if more than X days had gone by where I had
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by m12k 6y ago
Git is hard because it precisely models the complexities of concurrently modifying source code on multiple computers. It explicitly models all of the concepts and operations that are relevant in that domain - branching, merging, my local ch
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by m12k 6y ago
They might also want to massively price segment. Basically they don't want to quote you a price until they've got a feel for where your pain point is. If you're a whale, they want to reserve the right to bleed you dry by not
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by m12k 6y ago
I read somewhere that the iOS division has a culture of secrecy from the beginning, and this now permeates the whole software org, meaning that teams are more siloed, and crucial coordination and integration doesn't happen until far to
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by m12k 6y ago
I think this page should link to https://opalrb.com/ - the .org domain seems to be squatted by some casino.

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