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pneumonic

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    Comment #48289651

    You don't have to report the false positive, the link to the place to do it is just included in explanatory edit summary so that you can conveniently use it if you want to. (The re…

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    Comment #48067374

    It doesn't help that your first sentence makes you sound like a conspiracy theorist riding his hobby horse. I read on despite that, but others may not.

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    Comment #41013726

    > we are doing a "root cause analysis to determine how this logic flaw occurred" That's going to find a cause: a programmer made an error. That's not the root of the problem. The r…

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    Comment #40974922

    The problem with using gmail variants is it's easy to transform terr.yc.ody+abc@gmail.com into terrycody@gmail.com, and spammers or spammer suppliers can do that automatically.

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    Comment #38890037

    In 2000, an Alaska MD-80 went down, killing all 88 onboard. The NTSB found that it was apparently due to failing to adequately lubricate the tail jackscrew, as required by manufact…

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    Comment #37452885

    Siblings and half-siblings are not the same.

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    Comment #37263662

    There's a thread on Reddit r/TechSupport on this. Moto phones worldwide getting the notification.

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    Comment #37263646

    There's a thread on Reddit r/TechSupport on this. Moto phones worldwide getting the notification.

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    Comment #36580048

    The instructions do say: > Each day, a random location is generated, along with five photos within five miles. So the pictures are all within 53,000 feet of each other (10 miles). …

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    Comment #36331407

    That is exactly where LLMs are useful. (People thinking of them as "AI", meaning AGI is just so wrong. Writing legal briefs??) Using them to ex post facto adjust transcripts in ord…

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    Comment #36329379

    La Round, er, Laronde, seems to have a singular focus.

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    Comment #36284564

    True, but luckily they don't intrude on the community or impact the Wikipedia site too much beyond their ever more frequent "We desperately need donations" campaigns. As the Founda…

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    Comment #36008753

    > "Do not make challenges you are cannot to back up." One of his rules. I was ready to stop reading anyhow.

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    Comment #35944471

    It seems to be a blog post titled "Galileo’s great bluff and part of the reason why Kuhn is wrong." by Thony Christie dated Nov. 12, 2010, at https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/11/1…

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    Comment #35647837

    Don't waste your time on this article; it's just a collection of anecdotes with a thin thesis for which it gives no supporting evidence.

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    Comment #35647143

    Sounds like some key people will be leaving "Google Deepmind" in the next few months.

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    Comment #35646621

    > Digital with Western Digital Digital (DEC) had no substantial connection with Western Digital; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Digital#History

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    Comment #35516888

    Selection is what the article describes (solubility and structure). They don't claim that they reproduced; they're just talking about amino acids that come about by non-reproductiv…

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    Comment #30320011

    Four at a time may be overkill; the two at a time that Dordle offers (linked from Quordle) seems more my speed.

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    Comment #28103017

    “I advise strongly against trying to pursue ketamine, commercially or clinically, because of safety concerns and the risk of losing our opportunity to study it rigorously,” said Ko…

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    Comment #26718031

    > 'Among the hyphae microbiomes were... “bacterial predators” that kill and eat other bacteria by causing them to burst and release their contents.' This occurring at the surface o…

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    Comment #26599100

    Showing the change in characteristics: One way to look at this is how long it would take to read the whole drive with a serial stream of 4kB random reads. The 1980s drive would tak…