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The Birthday Paradox is about a group of people sharing at least one birthday between them. If it was at least 1 person out of 23 people sharing YOUR birthday then the odds would b…

Context for the article: https://cdn.openai.com/spec/model-spec-2024-05-08.html#dont-... "We believe developers and users should have the flexibility to use our services as they se…

Does this mean that 2FA was not in place? For a company handling such personal information, this seems like a minimum requirement.

When educating the general public about the risks and limitation of LLMs, I think "hallucinating" is a useful term - it is something people can understand and it conveys the idea o…

Analysis finds isometric exercises that involve engaging muscles without movement the most effective for reducing blood pressure

As an example, I am working with some healthcare data. I have to: - Start laptop - Enter boot password - Logon - Connect to VPN - Start a Citrix session in a browser - Supply a use…

Price will go up from $50 to $100 per seat. Now can only have 8 seats instead of 40 seats and only 1 project instead of unlimited projects.

Maybe this? This isn't THE biggest cruise ship ever built though. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/world-news/one-worlds-lar...

> ... can I do these trails on my full suspension mountain bike...? Yes. It will be a bit more work on the pedalling front vs a dedicated gravel bike, but I doubt you will encounte…

Yeah. Sorry about that. HN seems to auto remove the ellipses when you paste in the title.

I did that for a few of my posts and in the comments I was criticised for “editorialising”.

This is probably true for many other industries. Organisation experience / knowledge is very important in being effective in a role. When looking at productivity, organisations ten…

Of course, the flip side is that sometimes that initial step of: > "We are doing a prototype on our new mapping product, we need to write a one-off script to pull in some map data.…

We are a .NET shop and have been using DbUp ( https://dbup.readthedocs.io ) for years now. It is fantastic. We had so many false starts managing production databases and keeping th…

If you have a young family, working a 4 day week would make all the difference. At the moment I work 5 days and then go into a weekend which can be just as tiring as a work day wit…