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It can still do something similar you just have to tell it how. Prompt: "CalcAI: I am a virtual calculator assistant that augments OpenAI's GPT. GPT may prompt me to solve mathemat…

Maybe it's from 'haute pink'?

I remember buying a magazine with this floppy disk attached, blew my mind back then. Great marketing from QNX at the time. How they did it: http://web.archive.org/web/2001110614071…

I had ketamine for a colonoscopy and had the exact same experience. I woke up feeling like I had the best sleep of my life, and filled with an extreme contentness, just bliss, that…

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There's safety in numbers. In my experience people in general are pretty smart; there're lots of wolves in sheep's clothing. Those wolves were the ones buying N95 Masks in January;…

"History is written by the victors" is not merely for the physical but for memes as well. The only alternative histories that remain must be the ones most open to ridicule for our …

Dynamic super-peers worked for (old) Skype didn't it?

Some companies are already doing the 'hot desking' thing. In ~2017 I did a contract with Ericsson, in their offices they had no assigned desks. Some days you'd show up in the morni…

Most children stop napping around four years old. Maybe there's a deeper problem at your job if people need a nap room. Just get more sleep at home, you're not being paid to sleep.…

> Lab-made coronavirus related to SARS can infect human cells. https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debat... Two of the researchers are from Wuhan Biosafety Lab (…

> Simple explanation is almost always right over complex ones. What's more likely? An amazing coincidence: - The origin of this novel disease is 20 miles from a research lab. - The…

That's great advice - but it amounts to 'be careful and qualify your opinion to show you're _not_ racist'. That's exactly what people are complaining about. The migrant detention i…

Maybe equating 'conservative views' to racism and sexism _is_ detrimental to this conversation? We're talking on an article where an employee interpreted _silence_ as racism! There…

uh, is this sarcasm? A bloom filter is the most appropriate data structure for this use-case. How is it overkill when it uses less space and is faster to query?

So you're admitting that you asked candidates to work on a project you intended to monetize? Were you lying when you explicitly told me the opposite or did you decide after my subm…

Check out Scrambler: https://github.com/jameskeane/scrambler It's basically this, but with ~100 lines of bash. As simple as it gets.

Big warning to readers: If Gravitational asks you to complete an 'engineering challenge' they are using you for free labour. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19784787

Do you feel bad about using your 'hiring process' as a means of free labour? i.e. Reading kubeadm config, reusing system certs, and automating the configuration of a VPN overlay sy…

Which London? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_(disambiguation)

I remember seeing this years ago, it's a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser

The TD MySpend app does this.

I take amphetamines to 'even out'... Stimulants affect people with certain disorders differently, as the parent mentioned (ADHD, etc.).