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11mo ago
>The zero failure club: It was a big month for the zero failure club, with four drives making the cut: Seagate (...) Toshiba (...) . What amazes me is that some models are running with 500+ units, in a total of 100,000+ accumulated hours
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11mo ago
https://nitter.net/ebarenholtz/status/1988224995533685074
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LLM: Language is the only self-contained system that produces functional output
(twitter.com)
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1y ago
Stuxnet comes to mind.
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1y ago
SpaceX got so good that even test flights that go well aren't news anymore.
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1y ago
Perfect. It should be no surprise but sometimes it is: some people get really surprised when they discover that higher temperatures, extra light and more CO2 make plants bigger. Or when they find out that pre-historical times had less oxyge
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1y ago
"Tree trunks in the Amazon are getting 3.3% thicker every decade as the plants absorb extra carbon dioxide, suggesting they are more resilient to global warming than previously thought." https://www.livescience.com/
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1y ago
In my county, a company asked the Mayor if it was possible to improve some bridge because they need to carry 40t and the bridge had a sign telling it would only allow up to 32t. Their proposal was to do the construction and get tax rebates.
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1y ago
And the original report says that, for 90% of this value, no commission was paid to Apple (perhaps for the low-value obtained by the developer)
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AI's mental health fix: Stop pretending it's human
(axios.com)
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1y ago
And there's a lot of redundancy, just waiting to execute the task if anyone or some equipment fails.
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1y ago
>> Vulnerable members of society should be protected from scams. > There are three ways to deliver protection While I agree with your idea I'd like to remember that there are previous steps: teach people to be less vulnerable.
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1y ago
I'd take it in reverse order: the problem isn't that it's possible to have a computer that "stochastically produces the next word" and can fool humans, it's why / how / when humans evolved to have tec
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1y ago
Microcontrollers all the way down
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1y ago
139,000 patients, hazard went from 0.1 to 0.2%. It means that 139 new patients developed Macular Degeneration during 3 years. I would really consider the benefits of GLP-1 versus health gains to diabetic patients (specially regarding qualit
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1y ago
Yes. If your agreement with the end user says that you won't collect and store data, you're responsible for it. If you can't provide it (even if due to a court order), you have to adjust your contract. Your users aren't
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A research / open data project about the role of partisanship in the workplace
(vrscores.org)
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2y ago
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2y ago
> not always for the better Things happen and you adapt to survive it. And survival mode isn't made to make you happy, to become more generous or to expect more loyalty. And once your worldview changes for a pessimistic one, it'
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2y ago
Remembers me of https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... : "All new source code! As if source code rusted."
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Grok App for Apple
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2y ago
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2y ago
> Implementation of a surgical swear jar initiative Yes, the main goal of a surgical site is to avoid swearing > our findings are not applicable to children younger than 4 years for whom the buzz wire game’s small parts may represent
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2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varig_Flight_820 Yes, it was about safety.
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UMatrix: "is no longer available because it doesn't follow best practices"
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> According to Embodied, Moxie can’t perform core functionality without cloud connectivity. As always. Everything that relies on some cloud can become a brick without warning. And many things shouldn't require it...
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A Meta-Scientific Perspective on "Thinking: Fast and Slow
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It generated the password "5L<LP{o<DTeQ?tB" but couldn't display it because of the < ....
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2y ago
"first release candidate for the long-awaited GIMP 3.0". And, as a RC, it's better than I expected.
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Gotcha-GPT: discriminates AI- and human-generated manuscripts
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My first contact with English was listening to the Radio Canada International. Then I knew that I needed to learn it to receive news that only would be in newspapers 2 or 3 days later. Now there are none stations that I can listen at night,
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2y ago
Moto g60 128 GB - 6 GB, March 2022.
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