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by mft_ 2y ago
/citation needed Is there evidence that everyone else in the world would be “addicted” to alcohol if they consumed a single drink (one unit, 25mL of 40% spirits of equivalent) for more than 364 days? I really think you shouldn’t be t
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by mft_ 2y ago
I don’t disagree with your overall point, but I’m sure there are significant strings attached to the money from NASA. Like, successfully launching lots of things into space for them. And developing a new human-rated space capsule, giving th
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by mft_ 2y ago
It has always been black and white that the number of calories consumed relates directly to weight gain or loss. Everything else is about tangentially-related issues. Eating 'better' food (and there are many definitions of '
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by mft_ 2y ago
> I wish I could try Ozempic. Maybe it would fix me. But I'm not diabetic, so my doc won't give it to me. Wegovy (which is the same drug, with a different name) is licensed for weight loss, if you fulfill certain criteria: adu
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by mft_ 2y ago
Very interesting! Somewhat related, years ago I worked in an office that switched to hot-desking, and I spent a while trying to figure out whether was there was a way to automatically generate a map of who was in the office, and whereabouts
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by mft_ 2y ago
Just draw the rest of the owl.
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Honestly, this example holds true for roughly half of the Python ecosystem; and you can square the level of frustration if it's also anything coming from Google. (This pattern is relatively easy to understand: smart people creating som
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by mft_ 2y ago
Thanks for the very comprehensive reply! For snapping, I was missing being able to drag the side of an object (not on a corner or midpoint) and have it snap to any parallel line it encounters. You're right that using a corner or midpo
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by mft_ 2y ago
Hey, I've just spent an hour creating my first design with Cuttle - and I'm very impressed! You're right that it has a very short learning curve, especially coming from a hobbyist CAD and programming background. A few random
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Again, that it sounds ridiculous rooted in the conventional reality of today, doesn’t necessarily mean he’s wrong in his vision. Again, the Russians laughed at Musk. The legacy space companies didn’t produce reusable boosters when they clea
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by mft_ 2y ago
I don’t disagree with the overall premise, but I’d characterise Apple’s move to include more buttons in the iPhone as desperation - they’re increasingly running out of ‘innovations’ to justify each new generation of iPhones being worth an u
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by mft_ 2y ago
Indeed; but laughing at the scale of someone’s ambition (or vision?) might just mean that one’s own is too narrow or limited. After all, there are lots of narrow-minded, un-visionary folks out there. Just because there’s an anti-Altman&#x2F
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by mft_ 2y ago
Eh; the Russians laughed at Musk, before he started SpaceX; too.
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by mft_ 2y ago
IME, Plugshare is of variable value. Good in Germany; terrible in Mallorca, for example.
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Maybe also browser dependent? Constantly janky on Firefox/Windows/8840HS laptop; janky on Chrome while loading new locations but then mostly very smooth.
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You're assuming that because something costs $99, it's automatically going to be better than options which are cheaper of free?
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by mft_ 2y ago
Try Steve Ramsey: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBB7sYb14uBtk8UqSQYc9-w He's got a very nice approachable style (almost the Bob Ross of woodworking?) and has some great beginner videos. He also sells a course
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by mft_ 2y ago
If you want something that just prints , and want to spend absolutely no time fettling or upgrading the printer, then either Prusa (which I can speak to) or Bambu. Bambu has leapt ahead of Prusa in terms of features, though. They’re more e
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by mft_ 2y ago
I’ve been thinking something similar recently. We’ve had people who are skilled voice mimics for ever, and they mostly exercise their skills for comedy/satire, and not for misrepresenting people’s opinions. IANAL either but I guess thi
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by mft_ 2y ago
I’m interested; are you suggested this is a bad thing, or just highlighting something of interest?
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Or, the delta depends on the nature of the problem/prompt, we’ve not yet figured that out, there’s a relatively narrow range of prompts with large delta, and so finding those examples is a work in progress?
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I’m hopeful that the ‘working outdoors’ issue may be solved within a couple of generations of AR glasses. Something that can project one or two virtual monitors at a workable resolution, without totally cutting off the outside world, and wh
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I’m struggling to understand your point, or to imagine many examples which support it. I agree that brief minor parking infringements may occasionally make people’s lives more efficient; but I can’t think of any examples where traffic lig
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by mft_ 2y ago
> Your dismissive personal attack is not welcome. Apologies - I wasn't intending to be "dismissive", and no "personal attack" was intended. I'm simply reflecting on the tone of the several comments you&#x27
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by mft_ 2y ago
> How about not lying. If you don't know, just say you don't know instead of making shit up. I think you’re missing the ‘human’ angle here. ‘I don’t know’ is rarely an acceptable position for an expert, especially a doctor. And
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I think that came much later? That would obvs then make #3 much more likely.
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> > The doctor wrote in the my medical journal: “During his hospitalization, he took medication on time, and even without IV fluid therapy, his blood calcium levels were normal. However, once he returned home, his blood calcium levels
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I think you've maybe misread his comment.
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A minor point to feed back: for me, https://www.buttondown.com/ fails to load, while https://buttondown.com/ works.
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I work in a scientific field, and I was analysing a large amount of data related to clinical trials. Part of the work required categorising the data fields, and while traditional Excel approaches were helpful, ultimately I had grind throug

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