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Fascist Italy supported the Catholic Church and made it their state religion. Same thing for francoist Spain. A better example would be the chinese cultural revolution and their ca…

Isn't that exactly the Chinese room argument though? The human/computer in the room doesn't need to understand Chinese or English to translate?

It's performative art. A critique of social constructionism by taking to its extreme.

>reliable TV or movie critics >critical drinker

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Content made for disengaged viewers is disengaging.

>Changing our database schema should cause us to see errors in our frontend code. I shuddered.

> Generally the field declaration/migrations system in Django feels to me designed to lead people down a garden path towards bad and dangerous behavior. If I had my druthers I'd en…

Yes but it's in Java

I don't think so. Comments about PyTorch or llama are always extremely positive.

Garmin estimates it using heart rate, body weight and power output. It also adjusts for temperature and altitude if possible. In my experience it still varies a lot depending on wh…

Yep. Tencent (Fortnite) and Activision/Blizz (overwatch + COD) are printing money while publishers who missed the battle royale train almost all killed themselves trying to release…

Adaptive driving / glare-free lighting is legal in the US and Canada now and is supposed to reduce that problem

>Since everyone started using AI, more candidates started clearing the first round with flying colors. The platforms had to recalibrate to let in their target percentage. Is there …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut Although I'm not an aerospace expert I think OP is a bit confused. Most engines are mounted using a front and a rear bracket (and a third fo…

The dreaded multi-use path where pedestrians, joggers, dog walkers, parents with strollers, bike commuters, e-scooters, roadies, kids with training wheels and older folks on 4 whee…

Okay here are the first few that come to mind: - displaying a full screen dialog on login asking me to enable OneDrive with options being: yes/remind me in 3 days/remind me in a we…

The big issue with Win10/11 is that it contains malware marketed as features

Strategic and cruise missiles are meant to operate in doomsday scenarios without active guidance and instead use a combination of inertial navigation, celestial navigation and terr…

Not just lyrics. Searching for quotations or text excerpts is much harder and double quotes to only get exact matches also returns unrelated results. On the other hand, chatgpt 4o-…

That's why you pre-fire around corners and through doors

>That score places the IBM SWE agent high up the SWE-bench leaderboard, well above many other agents relying on massive frontier models, like GPT-4o and Claude 3. They're not even …

AFAIK you can extract the bearings from the bottom bracket with generic tools. So they should've been at least able to regrease or replace those. You can also find custom made bott…

IIRC Cabot was trying to raise money for an expedition at the same time as Columbus and did reach continental America before him.

>The conclusion followed comparisons of DNA samples from the tomb with others taken from one of Columbus’s brothers, Diego, and his son Fernando. >The knottier question of the expl…