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The suicide rate isn't uniformly distributed given gender. There are likely screenings (previous mental health history) and rejection of the most affected age group (70+) that shou…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem Facts alone won't get you to answers about what you should do about something. Whether your personal view is that the solutio…

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Clearly making a motor with induced magnetic fields both for the stator and rotor isn't the innovation here, since a large fraction of industrial motors do not have permanent magne…

KeePass is just an encrypted database file with UI around it for usability. You can keep the db on a USB drive, sync it through a cloud storage, e-mail it to yourself, whatever ...…

I figured 2x4 would be the theoretical minimum since ascii characters are 1 byte each (without extensions). 1x5 with color is impressive, even if it is sort of like a faux 3x5

After the transition to digital TV our broadcasted signals mostly look like noise, though. Maybe an outside observer would assume that our civilization ended sometime in 2010.

I'm half expecting to see "AI model" appearing as stand-in for "linear regression" at this point in the cycle.

Wait, does that mean that you could make an ASCII representation of a QR code that points to the URL that the QR code was made of?

How shocking!

Shouldn't 523 in that list of "other numbers" actually be 522?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root for those who just want the info without AI filler

> I wrote my first line of code in 1983. I was seven years old, typing BASIC into a machine that had less processing power than the chip in your washing machine I think there may b…

The opposite of down is up, so it wouldn't be completely illogical.

Indeed, 15 or 25 mph (24 or 40 km/h) are the speed limits in school zones (when in effect) in CA, for reference. But depending on the general movement and density and category of p…

It does sound like a good outcome for automation. Though I suppose an investigation into the matter would arguably have to look at whether a competent human driver would be driving…

Indeed, then this design will truly have come full circle.

I remember the pitch for Julia early on being matlab-like syntax, C-like performance. When I've heard Julia mentioned more recently, the main feature that gets highlighted is multi…

Even with text, parsing content in 2D seems to be a challenge for every LLM I have interacted with. Try getting a chatbot to make an ascii-art circle with a specific radius and you…

I think the selfishness here is related to being fine with generating a pile of electronic waste that becomes a problem for everyone else, as long as he can avoid carrying a few ou…

In 15 years: Testing shows that automotive shaped charge glassbreakers can't penetrate the armor on most modern automotive glass. Was drone-proofing civilian cars a mistake?

I wish there was an active dev community that could patch win10 going forward, but without access to source code for the kernel, perhaps that isn't really viable. Ideally I would w…

It's an interesting read. I guess the difference between this situation and the ideal case is that he would have been admitted for observation as a precaution in a world where ther…

I wonder what the prognosis was right after the operation. The article makes it sound a bit like this outcome was totally unexpected. Insulin from pigs can be used by humans, right…

I wonder where platforms like slack would land in all of this, and how would they go about akeeping people from just using their own encryption e.g. pgp over unencrypted channels? …