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shawabawa3
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11mo ago
What model do you have? My daughter has the Cochlear N8 and the rechargeable battery lasts 20 hours > Sometimes the cable frays and you find that out with sound cutting in and out Is there any way you can know about this, e.g. from the a
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11mo ago
that's the Med-El's Rondo processor they referenced (there's also the Cochlear Kansu), so presumably they know of them and have tried them For what it's worth in the UK the NHS no longer provides the off the ear models (
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11mo ago
but they've asked all the AI models this question. Whatever you tell an AI model is also in its training data
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11mo ago
Usually when a small blog goes down it's not a DDoS, it's that a post has gone viral (e.g. hits the front page of HN), and it going down can absolutely cost a lot (depending on the goal of the blog)
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11mo ago
> 3125 throughput Max throughput on gp3 was recently increased to 2GB/s, is there some way I don't know about of getting 3.125?
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1y ago
Kids buy a $2.50 case in the hope of winning a $20k cosmetic item Then there are the third party gambling sites where you bet items on matches in the hopes of spinning up your cheap items into more expensive ones
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1y ago
any company of non trivial scale will surely launch ec2 nodes during the day one of the main points of cloud computing is scaling up and down frequently
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1y ago
for what it's worth, we were unable to login with root credentials anyway i don't think any method of auth was working for accessing the AWS console
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1y ago
our eu-central-1 services had zero disruption during this incident, the only impact was that if we _had_ had any issues we couldn't log in to the AWS console to fix them So moving stuff out of us-east-1 absolutely does help
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1y ago
> Now imagine for a bit that it will never come back up. See where that leads you. The internet got its main strengths from the fact that it was completely decentralized. We've been systematically eroding that strength. my business
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1y ago
but the cause of that could be anything, including some kind of config getting wiped due to a temporary power outage
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1y ago
hah, that's funny as the outage seems to be caused by DNS issues
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1y ago
>It didn't help that some services had their deploy trains (pipelines in amazon lingo) of ~3 weeks, with us-east-1 being the last one. oof, so you're saying this outage could be cause by a change merged 3 weeks ago?
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1y ago
the highest availability service i think is S3 at 4 nines you might be thinking of durability for s3 which is 11 nines, and i've never heard of anyone losing an object yet
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1y ago
That's company taxes only, not individuals, a huge difference
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1y ago
There are multiple issues, transmission is one, but supply+demand being out of sync is another E.g peak solar is around 2pm, peak demand is around 7pm Grid storage (including EVs and smart heat pumps) absolutely help with this second proble
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1y ago
Most normal home freezers have a way of setting temperature, e.g. mine can go from -16 to -24 So maybe -30 is difficult but it wouldn't be that hard to have the existing temperature range on new models be dynamic based on electricity p
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1y ago
The idea behind it is that everyone who supplies energy gets paid the same E.g. it would be unfair to pay wind farms 10p/kWh and gas turbines 20p/kWh when the electricity they supply is the same and fungible If there was enough gr
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1y ago
Accuracy is a nonsense word in this context Tests have a sensitivity (1 - percentage of false negatives) and specificity (1 - percentage of false positives) "Accuracy" usually refers to sensitivity. If specificity is near 100% and
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1y ago
> How can it intuitively know what "traumatic over-training" should mean for LLMs without ever having been taught the concept? Because, and this is a hot take, LLMs have emergent intelligence
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1y ago
If Russia nukes Ukraine (or anyone else) NATO would declare war on Russia, that's the only reason Russia is not using them
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1y ago
AI and tech companies Collapse might look a little like the dot com bubble (stock crashes, bankruptcies, layoffs, etc)
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1y ago
What car? I've driven like 5 modern rental cars in the last year and none of them locked out the touch screen while driving, and most needed the touch screen to change the temperature controls
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1y ago
If there was less tourism there would be even less demand for archeologists and the guy would have likely been forced into an even lower skilled job
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1y ago
Pins and needles is usually acute, and harmless Chronic pins and needles should be checked urgently by a doctor as it's very serious
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1y ago
This is the case in the UK, another win for our bulky plug socket
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1y ago
how long were you in jail? How did you get out?
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1y ago
> If you decide you don't want a relationship with either of those companies you will be extremely disadvantaged. Even more worrying is the inverse of this - if Google and/or Apple decide for whatever reason they don't wan
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1y ago
Also isn't there like 5-10% fatality rate?
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1y ago
i wonder if there was a single black or asian member of this particular military group, presumably not
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