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It’s been said that “Nigerian prince” email scammers intentionally use poor spelling and grammar in order to narrow their funnel at the top by quickly weeding out observant and war…

I really wanted to find an answer for your challenge but it seems there aren't any answers using the regular 1-26 gematria and numbers written in their ordinary English form (witho…

*inspects image* > that's a shame that's a shame ;)

There have existed hand sanitizer formulations containing Triclosan or BZK instead of alcohol, although those compounds are more commonly used in anti-bacterial soaps. Triclosan wa…

The whole paragraph except for the first and last sentences may have been composed using an LLM. > All attorneys appearing before the Court must file on the docket a certificate at…

Well, that's N=1. But we have seen that it's sometimes possible to bypass that kind of filter with clever prompt engineering. And because these things are black boxes, it doesn't s…

A couple of years ago, I was attacked by a Kiwi bot near a UC campus. This is my story. The bot and I were moving towards each other on a sidewalk, and when I came close it stopped…

I did a rough tally of the 70 removed episodes: Comedian: 45, Political Commentator/Media Personality: 8, Brian Redban: 5, Health/Fitness: 2, Scientist: 2, Author: 2, Musician: 1, …

Here's what I'm wondering, and pardon me if this is a stupid question: Why go through all of the trouble generating true randomness with a Geiger counter just to use the result as …

That logic assumes that the amount of music produced is constant over time, which it isn't necessarily. The population grows and the barrier to entry keeps getting lower.

My 2022 New Year's Resolution is to try out complete sobriety (caffeine excluded; this effectively means alcohol and cannabis). I've never considered myself to have a 'problem' wit…

Isn't CTCI basically just a workbook? It has ~20 pages of intro and then problems and solutions. So it's not really a book you 'read' anyway, it's one you work through. I think the…

If you want to look into it, this claim is generally associated with Robert L. Hastings.

We don't really know. Complex ecological systems are relatively poorly understood.

That's what I was thinking. Like playing a piano with the sustain pedal held down the entire time.

If it doesn't create a new attack surface by rendering HTML unprompted, it can't be that bad.

I have a hard time conceiving of any reason that North and South would be different in this regard, but maybe it's possible if there is a tendency for rivers to flow towards the eq…

Why does it make a difference whether your wealth is denoted by USD, Bitcoin, milk caps, or Rai Stones? If tanks roll over your capital city and your countrymen are made to kneel i…

I would guess consuming the amount of wood required to implement such a transaction history might end up proving to have disastrous results on the environment.

I understand your perspective. I love cooking as well and I like to tweak recipes and try to never make a dish exactly the same way twice. There is a happy medium in the amount of …

Likewise, the stroganoff recipe simply says to cook 'strips of beef' in a skillet. There are some cuts which you are not going to be very happy with the result if you do this with.…

"Many" may be a stretch, but at least a few of the actors did meet that description, if only in bit parts/cameos. I think the only actor to that description that played a 'major' r…

Maybe "animal husbandry" is the term you're looking for?

It's funny to me that one could look at these webpages and think they're "behind": https://www.yomiuri.co.jp https://okwave.jp They load pretty much instantaneously, run few script…