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by rippeltippel 9mo ago
The article doesn't say what those lasting marks are, nor their possible effects. Does anyone have any details on that?
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by rippeltippel 10mo ago
Junior deals with "if" statements. Senior deals with "what-if" statements. <EoF>
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by rippeltippel 10mo ago
> In fact, 30% of companies that laid off workers expecting savings ended up increasing expenses, and many had to rehire later. Such as (cough...) Amazon?
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by rippeltippel 10mo ago
> Perhaps flowery language expands your ability to express yourself? What you call "flowery" is actually "expressive". Different words, although related, convey subtle differences in meaning. That's what literatu
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by rippeltippel 11mo ago
I think the point is to avoid roofs to fall at all: that's what anti-seismic regulations are for. They saved countless lives in places like Japan. They may not prevent all deaths, but can be an effective damage containment strategy. Wh
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Diluting GDPR will entrench Tech Giants' power(theguardian.com)
2 points by rippeltippel 11mo ago|0 comments
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by rippeltippel 11mo ago
Whenever I see these articles on HN, I'm now primed into thinking "it means rats brains" and I'm usually right. I truly appreciate the research in this and other fields (e.g. Alzheimer), but clickbait titles like those g
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by rippeltippel 1y ago
Thank you for pointing that out, I was about to ask the same. It's giving my OCD a hard time reading it.
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by rippeltippel 1y ago
What does it mean for airline pilots? From what I read, they are exposed to more than 400 CPM thought the year.
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by rippeltippel 1y ago
LLM-Busters!
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by rippeltippel 1y ago
CSCI 4321: Unlearning Vibe Coding
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by rippeltippel 1y ago
Art and Philosophy are hardly regarded as science, either. Actually, less so. Yet...
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by rippeltippel 1y ago
I've been using Bruno for a couple of years, there are some rough edges but overall it's very good.
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What chefs and doctors eat when they're sick or hungover(theguardian.com)
1 points by rippeltippel 1y ago|0 comments
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Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars(theguardian.com)
5 points by rippeltippel 1y ago|1 comments
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by rippeltippel 1y ago
Original article was posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45508672
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Nanoparticles help removing Alzheimer's buildup(nature.com)
6 points by rippeltippel 1y ago|1 comments
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by rippeltippel 1y ago
I've been using a very similar convention for years (roughly a subset of markdown), never thought of giving it a name. My convention benefits from out-of-the-box syntax highlight, though.
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OxygenOS/Android bug exposes SMS/MMS(theregister.com)
2 points by rippeltippel 1y ago|0 comments
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by rippeltippel 1y ago
Life was so much cheaper in the '80, when you could travel in time with just 1.21GW.
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by rippeltippel 1y ago
Sounds more like "reconstruction" than "restoration". I appreciate many original parts may be too damaged, but it risks becoming an archeological Disneyland.
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by rippeltippel 1y ago
> and ad blocking The possibility of shooting ads directly into the retina is probably the main driving force behind smart glasses.
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by rippeltippel 1y ago
It's Google we're talking about. Likely the left hand has no idea of what the right hand is doing. And it's got far more than two hands.
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by rippeltippel 1y ago
It's also noteworthy that DTN can be used on Earth too, especially in remote places with poor/unreliable data connections. There's some interesting literature about those applications, which was my first approach to DTN when
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by rippeltippel 1y ago
Here's one possible reason for layoffs: https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-resea...
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by rippeltippel 1y ago
Author of the initial versions of DTNPerf (iperf for DTNs) and some related papers. I moved on to other areas of SW engineering, but glad to know DTN technology is still looked after. I recently learned that ESA are looking into that as wel
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by rippeltippel 1y ago
What's ineffectual in Proton products? Could you please elaborate, as I'm considering moving to their suite?
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by rippeltippel 1y ago
My understanding of a "digital twin" is not as something that aims at simulating human biochemistry. It's rather a model that captures specific aspects, not necessarily biological ones. There's a good amount of literatur
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by rippeltippel 1y ago
Aging well requires a both biological and lifestyle interventions. One company called Nuraxi [1] is geared precisely to support that, They aim at studying the super-agers in the Sardinia "blue zone", and build digital twins (for t
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Dropping the First Atomic Bombs(theguardian.com)
3 points by rippeltippel 1y ago|0 comments

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