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Noumenon72
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Comment #49130371
I don't agree at all. First, I was able to search for this by pasting in the comment, because I also wanted to know about whether splitting the G was what he did. So I got two answ…
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Comment #49106631
People on TikTok are getting Acanthamoeba just from wearing their contacts in the shower. I'm glad the eye seems to be able to handle most contact use.
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Comment #49089503
This conversation is at a level of triviality where OP did not think it was worth looking up and no one would have clicked through to any source anyway. I didn't even believe it wa…
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Comment #49079482
My LLMs frequently find subtle typos and never make subtle typos. I don't think that's equally likely at all.
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Comment #49079451
I will try to catch you, I'll just fail due to my equal lack of coordination. Never bring a pint of Guinness to a trust fall.
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Comment #49077544
According to ChatGPT it's the skill of taking exactly one sip such that when you put the Guiness glass down the new beer level ends up precisely through the horizontal middle of th…
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Comment #49039425
Working at a gig where I couldn't have my phone really put me on a painful dopamine fast, but helped me remember that I actually can focus. So I started working at the library and …
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Comment #49039408
This does work, especially at the library where you feel like you're drawing a little attention for going in your bag. I also put my phone in a kSafe by Kitchen Safe for 20-30 minu…
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Comment #49039348
Do you have an automated way of turning off Slack and email for the first 45 minutes of each hour?
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Comment #49016184
My Excel cut-and-paste workflow is: * Copy the text * Paste the text * Go back and delete the copied text because regular cut and paste breaks all the formulas that reference where…
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Comment #48999268
> No guardrails to prevent this in the model harness is the first red flag. Did they have no guardrails? The article says "OpenAI said the models' safeguards were intentionally red…
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Comment #48960211
This is an example of a functional cultural trait -- question and answer style should not be larded up with irrelevant pleasantries and redundant signatures that waste time for eve…
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Comment #48939213
After thirty years of house prices rising astronomically, you can't appeal to "speculation" any more. People are speculating because the underlying scarcity makes prices sure to ri…
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Comment #48900855
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Comment #48900821
You never had an option to have Google show a list of curated links or Yahoo show a simple search bar. You chose to go to the site you liked better and in aggregate the market chos…
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Comment #48900791
If you continue scrolling, that shows you think that the content presented is valuable enough that scrolling past some misses is worth it. A good scroll like TikTok carefully metes…
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Comment #48861871
"Sticky" is what I was saying. It currently can't be done because of path dependence from historical regulation to industry structure to attitudes. No broader reason. I felt your p…
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Comment #48854024
I don't think you fully grasped the concept of an option, which is why it isn't illustrative for you; no one is purchasing the right to see a movie regardless of how much it turns …
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Comment #48853963
This comment is confusing because it refers to the first paragraph and also assumes when you checked your insurance you didn't find transport there. Since the parent did have trans…
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Comment #48853922
The article explains why; regulators sometimes can't foresee that their decision to consider something fee for service will eventually prevent it from being considered as a communa…
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Comment #48853872
"Medicare pays too little" is based on the "fee for service" model; it only makes sense if you believe the group of people who actually use the ambulance should pay its full cost. …
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Comment #48851854
Yes, I disagree with Pangram on this. It's a very familiar style, so familiar that things that might look like LLM-isms in another context actually give a smooth feeling of fitting…
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Comment #48851716
If the problem was as simple as a few individuals and had no benefits it would not persist -- this is a Hollywood view of the world that won't help you understand your opposition.
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Comment #48736760
It would be better to make the Constitution unamendable than to let people like you get their hands on it. People are just not smart enough to foresee the consequences of their cho…
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Comment #48733726
My experience is that every movement pattern causes "injuries" like a sore tendon, wrenched back, inflamed shoulder that surface with every 20 pounds of added weight until I figure…