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williadc

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    Comment #49030791

    Original title: This AI tool promises a 'second pair of eyes' to clinicians. Did patients benefit? This title seemed like clickbait, so I submitted an alternate.

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    Comment #48809320

    I do it the opposite way, disable my kids' devices at night, but I suspect your desired method would also be supported using native features. I have found LLMs to be very helpful i…

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    Comment #48808751

    I switched from a Google Wifi to this and found it to be just as stable, but with better range/signal strength, and easier to apply the parental controls I want.

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    Comment #48798524

    Maybe not: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/qualcomms-t...

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    Comment #48798488

    I had an Epson Ecotank for a couple of years. The printer heads got clogged all the time. We bought a series of cleaning products to address it, they often solved the problem for o…

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    Comment #48754144

    Does WinCo Foods count? https://www.wincofoods.com/employee-owned

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    Comment #48750584

    It's what CDs use, so it would make sense for mp3 encoders to follow suit.

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    Comment #48620515

    The "99 Bottles of OOP" book mentioned at the bottom was an excellent introduction to refactoring. I highly recommend it if you struggle with finding the right data models for the …

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    Comment #48536166

    ArchLinux

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    Comment #48511057

    I also experience this on Firefox 151.0.3 on Linux

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    Comment #48392612

    His manager deserves the thank you. If someone started exhibiting the issues described in this post at any of my employers past and present, I suspect they would figure out how to …

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    Comment #48353398

    The biggest blocker to this vision is the lack of libre EDA tools for "modern" process nodes. As things scale down, new types of analysis are required. The OpenRoad project has som…

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    Comment #48352849

    I suspect this revelation is why his start-up didn't succeed. The economics in silicon are brutal.

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    Comment #48352126

    I bought a Chuwi Lapbook[0] for my wife a few years ago. It was great at first, but got unusably slow running Windows within ~1.5 years. I got her a new laptop and put Linux on the…

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    Comment #48069067

    From the article you linked: > With the new Panther Lake mobile processors, Intel has managed to successfully combine the two previous generations, Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake, as th…

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    Comment #47969046

    For the same reason that Yahoo should have bought Google after the dot-com bust. AI is useful and will eventually change the world. Many companies won't be able to provide sufficie…

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    Comment #47966863

    Apple does make the product described in this article, aside from the fantasy price. It's called the iPad.

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    Comment #47433937

    This is a really well-thought out comment, and I agree with just about everything in it. One comment I'd like to call out for additional consideration is the comment on retirees be…

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    Comment #47108328

    I've been thinking about this problem for quite awhile, and recently coded up something that allows for easy conversion between today's written English, and a phonetic spelling con…

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    Comment #47096286

    The idea is that you don't want to check-in any builds.

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    Comment #47053526

    Is it your fault when someone puts a bad file on the Internet that the LLM reads and acts on?

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    Comment #46756654

    I'm shocked that SRAMs would be considered a luxury item for open silicon. They're essential for building anything that would be commercially viable, since area is far from free.

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    Comment #46231026

    `time` is a shell command that you can use to invoke other commands and track their runtime.