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frenchwhisker
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Comment #43713606
If I lost the car keys, I don’t promise my partner to find them in the kitchen.
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Comment #43676011
This was mentioned in the article: > Having spent much of his life in the hat industry, Corbett could have been succumbing to mercury poisoning. The ill effects of the mercury vapo…
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Comment #43614996
Roman wine was heavily diluted though, at least.
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Comment #43107127
Fair enough! Out of curiosity, in your words, what have LLMs achieved?
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Comment #43103275
I see what you’re getting at but it does feel like goalposts are being moved, no? By and large we can ask a computer today a question and it will almost certainly spit back a sensi…
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Comment #42841477
Though it was about the finance sector in ‘07/‘08 and its obviously different circumstances, I enjoyed the way the movie Margin Call portrayed layoffs as the author here described …
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Comment #38295612
Reminds me of a card game I played as a kid called Egyptian Ratscrew, where one of the possible rules is to slap the deck if a "sandwich" appeared (e.g. a 3, a J, then another 3), …
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Comment #37356191
I've had the same idea (er, came to the same conclusion) but never acted on it. Awesome to see that someone has! Great name too. I thought of it while daydreaming about how to conv…
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Comment #32775925
I resent that 5.501 is a possibility.
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Comment #30615686
Use “App Expose” to show multiple windows (you can configure this to a swipe down gesture). Use Command+` (backtick) to switch between windows.
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Comment #24505926
Apparently it will, according to the ESA site: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/bepicolombo-flyby/venus1flyby