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quaestio

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    Comment #44644692

    Sheets is vastly superior to Excel for most users ;)

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    Comment #44644676

    Is it possible that prior staff at companies like Microsoft may have injected backdoor vulnerabilities? How is this auditable?

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    LLMs, though limited, may spark testable hypotheses that inspire the creation of scientifically grounded, functionally intelligent systems.

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    Man and Machine

    function Balance(dream, execution) { if (!dream.flies) return "Vision too small." if (!execution.holds) return "Structure unsound." return "Masterwork in motion." }

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    Solidworks, RFEM, other niche applications only run on Windows... I made the switch to Google Workspace and Docs years ago... At a recent company used the Microsoft largely for tea…

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    Comment #43775911

    Very cool demo... Most yachts have polar charts, and the speed is a function of sail area, heading, wind speed and direction amongst other things. Are you considering calculating e…

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    Comment #43204631

    Good question - this is updated now so all skiers move in the same direction.

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    Comment #43203099

    A little browser game inspired by classics like SkiFree—ski down a slalom course, dodge trees, and outrun a yeti! It’s made with vanilla HTML5, CSS, and JS, no frameworks. Use arro…

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    When will Copilot be able to accurately answer simple weather questions?

    User: Let's collaborate on a morning report. Copilot: Certainly! Let’s create a concise morning report. Please provide me with the relevant information you’d like to include, such …

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    Comment #40399100

    Privacy is a grey area.

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    Comment #39676839

    It would be cool to be able to use the middle mouse button to pan and zoom the canvas, like most CAD software allows. Can the units of the artboard be set - for example to mm?

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    Comment #38941302

    And what about recycled foamed PVC boards instead of plywood? They have decent mechanical properties (12-15MPa)

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    Which site has aesthetically pleasing embeddable maps?

    Please recommend your favourite website that offers the most aesthetically pleasing freely embeddable maps for professional documents.

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    Comment #34723812

    From an engineering perspective ChatGPT makes some ridiculous errors and at times seems to fabricate random guesses. When these are pointed out it simply apologises and says "oh yo…

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    YouTube Live Featuring Scammers on the front page

    How can Youtube allow an account to change its name to that of a well known crypto exchange, and someone to post a video to that account of a well known industry figure, while dire…