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The company is providing existing services to existing users for payment. The company is offering potential new services to current and potential users in the market and getting fe…

> Just today, I spent an hour documenting a function that performs a set of complex scientific simulations. Defined the function input structure, the outputs, and put a bunch of re…

If they have deeper pockets than the user, they're the ones who will get sued for abuse they enable.

I've never been worried about LLMs. I've always been worried about how people will use LLMs and how they will interpret the output of LLMs. Especially people who don't understand w…

You should make the channels change the video they're playing on a schedule, and link to a tv guide listing that shows the schedule.

I really like how there are only 12 channels, and you don't get to choose what's on. The only way to make it even more like tv from a few decades ago would be if half of the channe…

T1 and T2 are completely different diseases. T2 should not be called diabetes. It should be called insulin resistance or chronic carbohydrate overdose. I was diagnosed as pre-diabe…

Your body doesn't prefer glucose over fat. Too much glucose is toxic, so your body will focus on reducing it first. Too little is also dangerous so your body will make some from pr…

Gmail was invite-only to join and get an @gmail.com account, but once you had it you could interact with any email account user, and they could interact with you. GMail isn't a wal…

So, getting fatter as I get older is a good thing? /s

Maybe, in climates that get cold, these chargers should be indoors? It's not like they need to worry about exhaust fumes.

I'm hardly an expert, but I think "government debt" and "government investment" are accounted for the same way, but only the former is a problem. If the government sells bonds/T-bi…

What kind of software maintenance work does not create new software? Are you only deleting lines of code from the existing software?

The problem isn't that the drug results don't translate from mice to humans. The problem is that after testing the drug successfully in mice, they follow that with testing the mark…

If you can provide more info about this, I'd be very interested. What sort of breakdown are you getting? Function names and descriptions of their behavior? Or is it more like the a…

You complain about arguments that don't define "intelligence" and what it means for AI to have that, and then you say: If we create something that can do critical reasoning, all th…

Wow, you're right. The 14-day sensor didn't require one, but that's not available anymore.

The Libre sensor can be purchased without a prescription, and used with a free smartphone app. This link is for the V3 sensor. I bought the older 14-day sensors from this mail orde…

Hearing loss is a physical problem. Tinnitus, often, is a signaling problem. The signal can represent a sound that the physical sensors can't produce anymore.

Sure, but I think the transition through my stages is a sharp S-curve, and then going through your stages is a more gradual increase. And based on how many wealthy people behave, i…

There's a transition through several states: not enough, barely enough, just enough, and more than enough. It's a sharp transition; there's a small difference in income needed to g…

The connection would have to be truly ancient. We all ultimately came from the same population in Africa, and things like fire making and stone tool making are cultural ideas that …

I'm going off memory here, but I believe the link is that some moai have arms and hands still visible, with the hands holding the belly. This same detail is also visible on some ot…

I had a 4K Dell monitor as my main, a lower res monitor on one side, and a 16:10 in portrait mode on the other side, all serving two computers. The computer that used DisplayPort f…

Fructose is not glucose (obviously) so sure, changing to a sweetener with more fructose and less glucose is going to reduce your blood glucose measurement. However, the fructose ha…