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I nudged a car exactly into the pool and got no credit for it. It had exploded already though, so perhaps that was the problem?

I asked Gemini pro how big it was, and it could’ve been a hallucination, but it said 175 billion parameters.

They recently released an update for my 2021 vintage OLED TV, and after applying it it now doesn’t work properly at all. It’s still usable, but only barely.

We don’t know that it’s direct remote control. It might be that they sent a command to it to back up or move forward and it figures out how to do that.

For hiccups, this always works: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1693610/

Yay! Decaf works too: Three instant coffee extracts (light roast, dark roast, decaffeinated dark roast) and six coffee components [caffeine (1), chlorogenic acid (2), quinic acid (…

I definitely agree with that. Everyone will have their movie that they want you to watch and you won’t wanna watch them because they usually suck. But some of them will be good and…

> portable masks with safe air to breath temporary when you are outside With regard to PM2.5, that already exists and is called an N95 mask.

This happened to me About eight years ago I think, and I was finally able to get someone on chat at the time who escalated it and was able to get it resolved. I think I needed to r…

Anything similar for R?

Hmmm YOU HAVE NAN% OF YOUR EXPECTED LIFESPAN REMAINING

This is why I have always thought that can and bottle deposit prices should keep up with inflation: to give the collectors a living wage.

Hunter-gatherers actually worked even less: about 1 1/2 to 3 hours a day As discussed in Stone Age Economics by Sahlins: https://archive.org/details/StoneAgeEconomics_201611 https:…

We can easily reduce this to effectively time=0 which is an infinite speedup. Since the membership of any of the local cells in the global cells is static, we only have to compute …

Interesting viewpoint on melatonin. Any references?

This is what they mean by fasting mimicking diet, and includes the schedule: https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(15)...

Right, they will audit the source code but have no IP rights to it, is my guess. Also they will probably take over responsibility for the Play and App Store accounts and be respons…

Oracle can audit the app code and also probably sandbox the back end in such a way that they can be fairly sure things aren't escaping, at least not on a large scale.

Here's what I am guessing it is: - Bytedance retains some ownership and control of the app and the algorithms - Oracle runs the entire back end on their infrastructure - Oracle gua…

FYI please spell check! Poor spelling makes things look less credible ("tedius", etc.)

Don't fall for the marketing. It's nothing special, just bacteria: https://www.foodandwine.com/news/solein-carbon-dioxide-food Basically every plant is making "protein out of thin …

By “the conversation “I mean the conversation about firefox adding default protections against tracking. These are not intended for hacker news readers or techies. They are intende…

Interesting. Because I find people who are Republican and “conservative” to be quite unattractive. And “conservative” is such a misnomer for what they are. They don’t want to conse…

Are you guys disinfecting? If so, which method are you using? If not, why not?

Javascript is used by such a large percentage of sites that having it disabled is not a viable option for most people. The point of these by-default protections is that they are su…