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csr86

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    Comment #49215746

    Why AI companies wont build their own RAM but prefer to pay multiple times more than what they sold pre AI boom? (And ram business was still profitable). They already make custom p…

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    Comment #48611894

    Retina is a good example of this. Zebrafish can regrow damaged retina, but while mammals have the same stem cells (Muller glia), they dont repair the retina, but form scar tissue. …

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    Comment #48418590

    I was working on a project for 2 years with about 5 engineers. It was many years before AI. It was new subject for our team, and we were pretty sure it was possible. Turned out it …

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    Comment #48372212

    I fixed this like this: 1. Right click PIP window 2. More Actions -> Configure special window settings 3. Add property -> Layer Force Popup After this it spawned always in middle, …

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    Comment #47649919

    "Tar, acclaimed to have been formed from the sweat of Väinämöinen, a central character from the Finnish national epic Kalevala, was an important medicament to the former-day Finns.…

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    Comment #47649827

    In Finland we have old saying: "If liquor, tar and sauna won’t help, an illness is fatal"

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    Comment #46565921

    I have permanent damage on my retina of other eye. I hope one day humans could regenerate their retinas as sharks and zebrafish can do. Seems strange, that fish living in deep dark…

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    Comment #46525164

    This is my biggest frustration with ads. It will surely cause fake statistics for ad campaigns too: 99% of time when I click ad, it is by mistake.

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    Comment #45278029

    If I remember correctly, a YT video from Andrew Hubermann, talks about rewards and that you should avoid excessive rewards. It can make the actual work even more painful, because y…

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    Comment #44923007

    For me best would be "right room(and tool) for the right job". If I want to program alone, I focus a lot better at home. Running "social_program.exe" in the background in my brain …

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    Comment #43882820

    Nature has come up with moving limbs on animals, but none of the trees seem to be tracking the sun. Branches are in fixed positions.

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    Comment #43170971

    Animals are not next token predictors. Most animals don't have language and don't generate sentences/ideas. It is unique feature of humans and big part of our success. Animals do h…

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    Comment #42134631

    Ability to mute individual tabs is nice. Especially when long ad starts playing on e.g Youtube. Last time I used Chrome, you can only mute all at once.

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    Comment #40945366

    Create Nobel prize category for proving existing research false

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    Comment #32037132

    Maybe one day we can skip plants and weedkillers by using artificial process to make food. Photosynthesis is not very efficient either. Less land for farms and more forests.

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    Comment #31999427

    Article talks about paradox, where twins reared apart where more similar than twins reared together. As a non identical twin, I remember we sometimes actively tried to become diffe…

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    Comment #31789723

    How the children inherited the swallowed organism?

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    Comment #24386273

    In some studies, they used things like positions and angles between bones (before and after surgery). Unfortunately questionnaires might be only thing sometimes. My message is that…

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    Comment #24386154

    I have had failed ankle surgery and have read some research papers on the procedure that was done to me. Often, the method was asessed by asking patients to score their situation b…

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    Comment #18309906

    I have exactly same experience. The company and people were not too stressful, but the project and the situation was. It was my first job after graduating, and I was doing most SW …

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    Comment #18307835

    Of course, I didn't like being super-stressed, but I was not afraid/aware of what it could do to me. It was difficult to get rid of some of the biggest stressors... Biggest one has…

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    Comment #18307673

    Yes, I had heard, but mostly about depression or burnout. While those are bad, person usually recovers to back to normal, so I was not that afraid being super-stressed. I had never…

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    Comment #18307588

    I never believed that stress could be harmful. It seemed "mental" issue rather than "real" physical problem. Until I got blinded by stress! Excess stress hormone can even damage yo…