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tobyjsullivan
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lgtm. Ship it
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> I don't think any good engineer ever claimed the title I don’t claim to be a good engineer but I have made the claim in the title many times. Though it’s usually in the form of a more nuanced statement. It’s about time, rather tha
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Subtitle: > It's probably still true, though, says formal methods expert Seems like click bait. The thesis is predicated on the idea that people claim this is the result of some study. I’ve never once heard it presented that way. It
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For those interested in hearing some beats, the terminal demo starts at 4:34 https://youtu.be/vfgySTaM1TI?t=274
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The article you link to specifically calls out that they can't and won't speculate about whether age is a factor in causing car crashes. Elderly people have higher mortality rates in virtually all cases of injury and illness so
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Many scientists believe the earth is, in fact, much older than that.
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You might see this text and a download button below the email form. > all visitors to the NBER website are eligible for 3 free downloads each year. You have used 0 of 3. Given the text, I assume some people may not get the download butto
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Links to many interesting demos. https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/glsl.html
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This might help https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)
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To be fair, they said "many well known businesses," not necessarily large or mature organizations. They could easily be selling to startups, some of which are notable.
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I interpreted the suggestion as the reader's own AI would rewrite the content to remove advertising messaging/bias, for example.
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Thoughtful approach in theory but, in practice, I've found people can be very intentional about trying to measure your value to the tribe (i.e., it's not only something we measure for ourselves). If the initial answers don't
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Re: changing batteries. - To change a battery, you need to not only see the notification but also be physically proximal to the device and have a fresh battery available. It can take some time to meet all these conditions and sometimes you
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> it’d be tough for someone to justify spending $30K on a single purpose camera I don't think hobbyists are the target market. Isn't that price in-line with any studio-quality camera? (I have no idea if this qualifies as a stud
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sane defaults is always the goal. The only problem is people can't seem to agree on what behaviour is "sane".
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The fact that the search works impressed me more than anything. Of course, like every great magic trick, it seems so simple once it is explained. For the curious, here's the linked blog post describing how the project works: https:&#x
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British Columbia has banned rat poison since around 2021. At least anecdotally, the impact on the local rat population has been exactly what you'd expect.
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I was about to give it some credit for being thorough, even if overly so. But then I noticed these gems: thinking about the phonetics, "strawberry" has three /r/ sounds... For example, in Spanish, it's &quo
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It's interesting to be sure. Context is everything, though. It's one thing for a random tiktok head or media pundit to be confidently wrong and it's another thing entirely if I have to work with someone who I cannot trust to
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I'm not a Google employee but I've heard enough stories to know that a surprising amount of code changes at google are basically updating API interfaces. The way google works, the person changing an interface is responsible for up
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Do they exclusively speak English as well?
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Chrome profiles, for example, isolates browser extensions, bookmarks, browser settings, and saved passwords. I haven't used Firefox containers yet but, based on the docs and demo I watched, it doesn't look like it has that level o
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No kidding. AWS's notoriously expensive data transfer is only $0.09/GB. Who's charging $2.50/GB? Are they running on a cellular SIM with no data plan?
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Sentry Metrics Beta Coming to an End
(sentry.zendesk.com)
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Trap streets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
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I think it's two of the five columns on the right in this image: https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/6352/6dc1/66b7/442f/b... Note that they are absent from this render: https:/&#
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If you're stressed over lighting $100k on fire, then you're not the target market. /s
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If a 7-Eleven is open 24 hours a day, they usually hire three 8-hour shifts (roughly speaking).
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The paper suggests Rodin Gen-1 [0] is capable of image-to-shape generation. [0] https://hyperhuman.deemos.com/rodin
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