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peterfield

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    Comment #32950482

    Fascinating discussion.

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    Comment #32497353

    #CreativeAI is the epitome of exponential technology. Not only because of the level of details and overall quality of the images from 2022 Dall-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion (…

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    "MacAskill, however, could find nothing wrong with it." "When he met friends at the pub, he ordered only a glass of water, which he then refilled with a can of two-per-cent lager h…

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    Comment #32271348

    Interesting. That said, the word "risk" is missing. Fundamental aspect of tech/project/program management - IMHO a good framework should include that!

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    Comment #32232026

    Agreed it looks very well put together - but I'm a bit turned down by the lack of clear authorship information ;(

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    I work in medical device regulations. The way ADHD appeared is clearly not a claim, and there is not regulatory concern of any sort here in any jurisdiction I could think of. That …

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    Comment #32150156

    Congrats! I added it to my list :) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C-yRNPy59qlDkuU7YRzo...

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    Comment #32010083

    Great stuff thanks a lot

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    Comment #31973146

    Had a somehow similar experience with Strava. I am biking these days only to commute - so doing the same boring 15km urban route 2, 4 or 6 times a week (Returns). Each time my perf…

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    "The leavers classifier detects messages that explicitly express intent to leave the organization, which is an early signal that may put the organization at risk of malicious or in…

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    Comment #31021365

    Great tool - it even shaved 4 years of my thinkpad :) https://i.imgur.com/HdRVr5i.png

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    I work as an independent consultant. Few months ago, just starting, one prospective client (through their CFO/COO suggested is shaved 33% of my quoted daily rate. I offered a $50 d…

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    Comment #30740688

    Life 3.0 Max Tegmark Elevation series David Brin

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    Comment #30584426

    Yep. It also boils out the 15-20% water content of butter to make it closer to 100% fat. Once you remove these (water + proteins and other impurities) the smoke point is much highe…

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    Comment #30584392

    To my knowledge the second is still a metric system unit, not a "SW engineering geek system unit". Wikipedia agrees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanosecond

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    Do you think the kind of people who steal bikes are smart, rationale and business savvy? That they are educated about this very brand of bike? I've lived on 3 continents, and one o…

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    THX mate - my comment was just a attempt at a funny critic LOL. I actually grew up in a restaurant in France :)

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    I followed the recipe to the letter. I've flipped the steak a few times already and I'm still waiting for it to brown. The butter is not melted either. Not really surprising consid…

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    Comment #30582998

    https://openhardware.science/

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    Comment #30582963

    Not impressed at all. If any of these tubes is aluminum (I'm 90% sure the seat down tube is), a battery powered grinder can cut through it in less than 1 min. Even a handsaw would …

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    I think this illusion is based on the same effect: https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/comments/t5xwts/f...

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    Complete laggard questions: * Did SSD exist in 1993? * Why using an "approximately equal" sign (as opposed to a real = sign) between e.g. 1000ns and 1 micros ? (I would undersatnd …

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    THX a lot great idea. Table alignment is a miss on firefox :) https://i.imgur.com/6lBuwQ0.png