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Comment #48501566
And neither are in the Western hemisphere.
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Comment #48291254
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Comment #47961649
OpenStreetMap has traffic lights (at least in my municipality in the Netherlands) so it might be usable for this purpose. Also, https://routeplanner.fietsersbond.nl/ has options fo…
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Comment #47637073
I think this is simply a result of what's in the Claude system prompt. > If the person becomes abusive over the course of a conversation, Claude avoids becoming increasingly submis…
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Comment #47451169
You'll enjoy this one: “Parachute Use to Prevent Death and Major Trauma When Jumping from Aircraft: Randomized Controlled Trial.” BMJ, vol. 363, 2018, k5094. https://www.bmj.com/co…
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Comment #47222101
The first documented use of the word coconut milk in English dates from 1698 ( Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 20, page 333) and the use of almond milk goes…
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Comment #47126099
They absolutely can. Millions of people can recite the Quran verbatim, word for word. That's 77797 words. There is even a title for those people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafi…
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Comment #46563265
Others can fix it too and they have. See: https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype https://github.com/CoolOppo/GDI-PlusPlus I use MacType and it works really well. You can tune many m…
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Comment #46145530
Someone managed to boot a machine from a file system on Google Drive. https://ersei.net/en/blog/fuse-root
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Comment #46088858
Is was like that in the Netherlands about a week ago. It really doesn't make a difference.
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Comment #45188137
Al Zawahiri's Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner argued that spectacular attacks should provoke U.S. overreach, bleed it economically, and expose its weakness. That was published i…
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Comment #44997443
According to the specifications the max power draw is 1650W. All of that is converted into heat so it's like a small space heater.
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Comment #44950625
It thought it was an interesting analogy, so I looked up the size of a typical sugar crystal. It's between 450 and 600 microns. So these chips are 3 to 4 times smaller than that ev…
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Comment #44875323
Going by the definition given in the wiki you’ve linked, a Sybil attack is about creating many fake identities to gain disproportionate influence in a network. A 51% attack in bloc…
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Comment #44667734
And who would want to save money, right?
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Comment #42574366
Chain of Thought. When I see people using abbreviations like this I sometimes jokingly wonder what they do with all this time they're saving.
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Comment #42348260
Not every other country in the world only uses ASCII, Ivory Coast is officially called Republic of Côte d'Ivoire.
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Comment #42213769
The cameras themselves might not, but in order to get a decent picture you will need to apply demosaicing and gamma correction in software at the very least, even with high end cam…
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Comment #41819590
100mg psilocybin is several times a heroic dose, but 100ug is far below a microdose. Do you mean 100mg of dried mushrooms?
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Comment #41644411
Mandatory in the Netherlands, since last year.
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Comment #41633382
I'm not completely sure, but that might be because of the oils in the peel. Citrus peel oil has antimicrobial properties.
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Comment #41098547
I'm not a German speaker but this is definitely not exclusive to German nor is it caused by 'excessive' capitalization. The use of capital letters to denote nouns only helps to dis…
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Comment #41047968
The Ishtar gate of Babylon is in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_Gate
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Comment #40464432
Back when China consisted primarily of illiterate peasants (only about 20% literacy in 1949) without a significant industrial base (it took China until 2000 to overtake Germany in …