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If you hook an Apple TV (or similar) up to any 4k TV, and turn CEC on (to let the Apple TV control it), and never set it up otherwise, it becomes a dumb monitor.

I fear this whenever I acidentally say too many words to a telemarketer/scam call.

I got a degree in mechanical engineering. There's these two technicians under me that for years I thought we just hired off the street and maybe they graduated high school. I have …

They were asking why the two deepest holes, despite being nowhere near each other, dug decades apart, are 99.3% of 12km and 99.5% of 12km respectively. Was BP symbolically honoring…

If the trick were genuinely useful, and was well circulated months ago, the resource-starved inference providers would have squeezed this trick dry already, instead of wasting 60% …

your title was 2 characters under the limit and i genuinely didn't know what "coms" meant until i clicked thru

Step back and think about it another way - ask which scenario is more likely: Some random person discovered a 60% across the board gain in all LLMs, using an extremely simple trick…

it's spelled "comms" although that is still jargon and the actual headline is "contact"

Ya got me. You can also show it in your friend's personal home.

Codex recently built this in - "Prevent sleep while running" toggle

As long as we're nitpicking every sense of the word "own", the strongest legal sense means you're the copyright holder, and every sense downstream of that is some lesser license. B…

How does a 120 page book contain 100,000 Whys? That's 833 Whys per page.

I don't understand why it exists at all to be honest. You can buy 4x $20 or a $100 Xbox/PS5 Store gift card at the grocery store, which redeems for any game.

It's a weird editorial choise to call them insurance and fees in the headline. Usually only the extortioner uses euphemisms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket

My comment was "if every hospital had one" rather than "if 50k hospitals had one" but either way, the math gets to the order of magnitude stated. Nitpicking how much buffer they ga…

Do you need the math typed out?

No, you stand there for 60 seconds. If every hospital had one, even if they sat idle 90% of the day, thats enough to hit that target.

Neutral observer here. A reasonable reply would have been "Good point, maybe "real wind physics" wasn't the best headline" and move on with your day. Not everything has to bruise o…