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Depends - i looked into it (with chatgpt's help) recently after getting quoted 270 euro for a spare fob for a second hand car I bought that only had one key. It seems like a kind o…

Thanks, for a minute I was wondering how to register for the online version of the course, as the dates seem limited, but looks like you can actually just jump into the content wit…

There's an "Examples" tab in the top row with some nice examples.

Think it comes from the german word for salmon, "Lachs", or at least an earlier version of the word.

https://archive.ph/LM998

Yep.

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I agree, just posted to the same effect before I scrolled down and saw your post ;-)

What I'd like to know is: who's flagging legitimate articles like this, and why..?

As well as video games, he's very influenced by sci-fi. My own theory is that he sees himself as a kind of Hari Seldon figure (can't remember for sure but think I saw him wearing a…

A coup by any other name is still a coup.

I'm guessing it's too late, first thing they'd have done is back up all the data somewhere..

Ah i see, i had tried right click and it wasn't working, but that was because I had a planet selected with its details showing, in the normal view it's fine. Makes sense not to pan…

Beatiful, maybe add a pan control, and configurable starting time + dt?

It's on gnu/linux as well, works great.

The fact that so many people believe in a supernatural deity.

Looks very good, thanks for sharing!

Nice. I wonder if the models could examine a transcript of a human debate and label the various fallacies invoked?

I don't really have a workflow but a nice tool is the OneTab browser extension ( https://www.one-tab.com/ ) which will store all the tabs from the browser windows, they can be rest…

FYI There was a good related article shared here recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40290447 It's irritating that many of the people who resist EV adoption because "it w…

There was an interesting series on TV, "Downey's Dream Cars", where Robert Downey Jr. did conversions of some of his gasoline cars to various renewable-driven engines, electric, bi…

I saw this article years ago and a switch flipped in my brain regarding plastic. https://izismile.com/2009/10/20/to_know_why_albatrosses_die_... It's egregious the way plastic is t…

YES! They could start immediately with items for which there's an alternative, e.g. cellulose kitchen sponge vs. the plastic ones. That should be at least as doable as the carrier …

Wow, nice of him to go to the effort of telling this fascinating story and just put it out there for free.

It's really a crime the way so much useful technology gets dumped as soon as one weak part fails. I had a microwave that stopped working, most people would immediately have dumped …