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871karma·659submissions·March 14, 2017
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Steer by wire is ok. We had all pedals by wire for ages. Hopefully they won't screw up the implementation again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agMrewRJTow …
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There is zero evidence that Hamas used hospitals for military purposes. Unless you are saying that people use schools to get education and hospitals to get medical treatment, well then yes.
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Barents Sea between Norway and Svalbard is quite shallow. It makes monitoring submarines much easier.
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I have create a simple pdf extractor https://chat.openai.com/g/g-e3jhasATL-pdf-ninja Is there a gallery where I can view what other people are building?…
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Does anyone knows what "coming days" mean? Everybody from OpenAI says "it's enabled for Plus and Enterprise users", but it's not.
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It's a waste of money at best . People that mean harm would bypass it like 9/11 hijacker which were drunk. e.g. someone is sharing a post about killing children in Gaza or any other highly …
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META: What's the best way to convert pdfs to CSV/excel? Any new LLM tool?
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From ChatGPT plugins, OCR gives the best results so far.
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"SMRs are typically anticipated to have an electrical power output of less than 300 MWe (electric) or less than 1000 MWth (thermal)"
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What about a crossbow with a warhead that can kill 100 people?
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if they go public with the charge, cooperation was not possible/finished.
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you can shell* the nuclear plant directly for a week and you would still not expose the core. * regular artillery shells, bunker busing is a different story
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> Moreover whenever a weapon is used there is a risk of hitting a non-target. You can load a 747 with explosives and hit AP1000 and would still not destroy it. Russia could fire 1000+ rockets, dron…
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there are economic reasons (Carbon Tax). What war in Ukraine has proven is that no one is eager to shot at nuclear plants, fuel can even be transported on a plane - no gas pipelines to blow up.
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what is interesting in this page?
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> will dump in extra fuel under load to ensure the cylinder doesn't melt They dump extra fuel to prevent knock. It's hard to melt cylinders. > can't park in an underground garage…
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I think it was just natural approach while using Github
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TBH will the regulation change much? If congressmen won't be allow to own stock, they will use proxy (wife, siblings, parents, in-laws).
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yes, but there is only a single line for Honeywell AGT1500, which is a bit ridiculous. There should be a second factory on another continent in case of a natural disaster.
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It seems a join venture it would work well. US needs a backup factory in case of natural disaster, Poland in case of a war.
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but if more men don't want to get married, women may not be able to find a suitable partner. Also, there is a gender disparity in location (more men in small towns and SV, more women in NY, LA)
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new group of people vote on it. I think the same rule is in many places e.g. Brexit didn't go to vote for the second time.
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in my country most cars are stick shift ;)
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I got a coding challenge as part of the interview process. I had 2h to complete it, but I finished in 30mins thanks to ChatGPT. I wrote some test cases and told ChatGPT to generate more. I reviewed th…
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sadly my Mercedes CLA has in the engine compartment. Probably it's better to swap it with a fake/damaged one.
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I know security through obscurity is not really a security, but thieves have a limited time to action and they would drop the car if there are problems or are spooked. How you can prevent a car theft?…
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> ~27% of the energy required to run a normal car It would be slightly worse in colder climates. I wish car manufactures would allow for easy installation for range extenders in the front trunk. I…
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