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3 Gy is nowhere near what could be qualified as a "Low dose". "A whole-body acute exposure to 5 grays or more of high-energy radiation usually leads to death within 14 days. LD1 is…

Lies.. European market is the second biggest one, accounting for 25% the company's revenue in 2023. https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/

I had this idea when I saw someone in an ad who strangely resembled my younger mother. I couldn't screenshot and verify because the ad disappeared. That's when I wondered if Google…

"Let's please stop arguing about the image now*, and move on to more interesting points." That's rude. Let's not confuse Hackenews with a ChatGPT prompt.

It's time to admit that we don't need to work more than 3 days a week to be happy.

There are treatments that are very effective for treating psoriasis, especially those based on monoclonal antibodies. I was treated for atopic dermatitis (which is a similar diseas…

Certainly, but the use case mentioned here is not related to a performance issue. It's more about syntactic sugar when a user writes SQL in interactive mode to explore data.

Yes, that's true. After all, it's the functionality that is important, regardless of the means to achieve it. On the other hand, the fact that it is part of the syntax has other ad…

It would be really great if other languages could adopt this idea in their versioning system.

Just for full disclosure: I removed the mention of ChatGPT.

I am the author of the post. The reason is that English is not my native language, and summarizing is very resource-consuming for me, much more than if I had to do it in my native …

I think at this point we should quantify the proportion of "inflationary" updates (i.e. those that bring absolutely nothing in terms of functionality or security) versus real updat…

Does anybody know why some Starlink satellites are lined up?

I'm tired of people saying they're tired. I use ChatGPT every day and it provides results of a quality that has little to do with Google, even though I'm aware that it sometimes fi…

The criticisms regarding chatGPT remind me of what was said about Wikipedia at its very beginning, that it was supposedly unreliable. I think we will have a good laugh in a few yea…

I tried to parse the result of standardized POSIX commands for the nth time and I realize that i would be much easier if it were already done by a standardized output. I would drea…

I found the Airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/53946710 (or https://archive.ph/2fO1l )

Maybe because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research

I had the opportunity to do some modest contributions to the underlying project (v86). I wanted to implement the full SIMD instruction sets, but it was almost impossible due to the…

Many data set are stored like that (Json separated by RC): {"name":"name1", "phone":"+769989823"} {"name":"name2", "phone":"+769244563"} {"name":"name3", "phone":"+769989295"} ... …

Smoke detector are now mandatory in France (since 2010)

This is because Le Monde is not GDPR compliant.