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8,986karma·2,607submissions·July 23, 2020
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Yes and chatgpt is incredibly heavy handed with it. This is not how most NYT articles are written.
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I actually totally agree and was going to post this until I saw your comment. The writing is strikingly ChatGPT style. So many commas, weird phrase lists (especially with 3 items): > No shrinking. …
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Yeah it's like fluid flow where once you reach choked flow or hit the sound speed, there's a discontinuous jump in resistance that fucks up everything.
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It is not easy. ESA and China are still working to catch up to Grasshopper. Other US companies like ULA, Astra, RocketLab are still struggling.
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I don't have friends so this has no use for me
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I like kilodollars for salaries and kilofeet for elevation though.
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Big exception is aviation HUDs that are much closer to AR than conventional workspaces. In HUDs, everything is overlaid with bright green lines. It must be visible in day/night all sorts of condi…
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Skimmed your comment, it's a classic example of tech worker blaming user error instead of recognizing potential disastrous effects of software. Tech has swallowed the world and has hollowed out l…
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The whistleblower in your linked article, Sam Salehpour, is still alive.
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Related: A New DNA Test Can ID a Suspect's Race, But Police Won't Touch It > Tony Clayton, a black man and a prosecutor who tried one of the Baton Rouge murder cases, concedes the benefit…
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Last one I tried was Grouper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouper_social_club You'd meet up for dinner at a local place that was usually pretty good, with 2-3 other people…
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What if larger sizes of clothes were priced higher, since they use more material? I wear a small in almost every case so wouldn't affect me, but man it'd be nerve wracking for a lot of Ameri…
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There's also the version with the NY cheesecake.
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It also makes things rotten. The difference between spoilage and fermentation/aging is whether humans like the result at the end.
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Eric Berger has a frustratingly amateur perspective on his subjects. "Telescope" is incredibly vague. It's like saying "New computers in development" when referring to superco…
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Could this be used to heal adults with the same genetic disorder?
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I bet 90% of the problem space is legacy PDFs. My company has thousands of these. Some are crappy scans. Some have Adobe's OCR embedded, but most have none at all.
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> He will easily gross > 70k this year.
Granted, this is in the Bay Area (so add some inflation there) Don't waiters in the Bay Area make almost that much? This is not a middle class wage i…
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If you read the threads in /r/construction that come up about this or adjacent topics ("trades are a guaranteed job, better than college") they usually say that the job is awful on…
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I really wonder if he's converted to neapolitan pizza at this point.
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None of these treatments has a 100% success rate. You can try EMDR on Youtube and if it worked all the time, psychiatrists would be out of a job.
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No, stop that. That's bullshit and Will Gadd calls it out: https://www.instagram.com/realwillgadd/p/CdoHJjag_QC/ …