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Gemini fast: „Walking: It will take you about 45 seconds. You will arrive refreshed and full of steps, but you will be standing next to a high-pressure hose with no car to spray.“

Foundational models can work where so far „needs human intuition“ was the state of things. I can picture a time series model with large enough Training corpus being able to deal qu…

Well said! To add a few options - energy management (shifting loads to times when energy is cheap) for consumer/commercial/industrial use cases - energy markets, especially power t…

Zcal requires the following permission for Google Calender, Cal.com doesn’t: “… permanently delete all the calendars you can access using Google Calendar” Granting that takes a lot…

Switch to a German QWERTZ keyboard. That’ll also help with giving rusty muscle memory a fresh kick.

Zooming in on the lower basin of the pumped storage reservoir switches the map from showing the filled basin to an empty basin!

Here’s another Terminator one: https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/terminator-war-of-th...

The same applies within large companies. If you’re within a business team, and you’re requesting work from a design team/engineering team/data science team, you’ll face the same is…

https://m.xkcd.com/2606/ — mystery solved!

At least in e-commerce it’s very much possible. The company that I work for does such experiments regularly (there’s a dedicated Data Science team for measurement) and I’ve persona…

Note that it’s a clearance sale within ‘certified refurbished’, so these are not entirely new devices.

Slightly OT: Can someone elaborate on "Do not share Wifi"? What can be problematic when using a shared but encrypted (say, WPA2 with pre-shared key) Wifi? This is a common setup in…

It is. It's called "French-ruled paper" and is the school standard in France. [0] [0] https://getfrenchbox.com/what-is-french-ruled-paper-seyes-sc...

„...all major browsers“ Is Internet Explorer not a major browser anymore? I’m talking relevant as in your webpage needs to work fine in Internet Explorer . For example, my company …

Thanks for commenting - it was Ghost Inspector

Did the same thing to get a wedding registration appointment with the Berlin city administration, but used Ghostery instead of AWS+Twilio. The responsible administration department…

Agreed that long passwords are generally better. For online services (e.g., HackerNews), what's the scenario where an attacker cracks an 8 character password in 8 hours? I assume t…

As a non-infosec guy, could someone shed more light on the implications for end users? I get that the combination of password reuse, short passwords and the fact that some services…

Could someone explain why password length is so important when logging into web services? I get that it's important for encryption, but when you implement a web service that has ra…

Could a similar approach work to find the impact of foods on other health factors (sleep quality, digestion, ...) in a personal experiment? I picture logging my coffee consumption …

What's the price? Couldn't find it on the page, only the "join the waitlist" button. Any help appreciated

The EU introduced regulation to make bank accounts available to everybody - even those without a permanent address of residence [0]. The EU's members are currently passing the corr…

All on one page: http://fitztrev.github.io/make-it-rain/

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