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Could this have an impact on other prion diseases like variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob (mad cow) disease?

Wikipedia has a functioning appeals process in the form of RfCs, third opinions, and other dispute resolution processes (listed at [[Wikipedia:Dispute resolution]]). American police officers don'…

The Ancient Egyptian god Thoth invented writing and presented it to the King: "This invention, O king," said Thoth, "will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memories; for i…

Threadripper was an entire product line launched from below at AMD, famously. https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2017/09/05/amd-ry... …

What's the order of magnitude of the amount of data sources? 100s, 1000s, tens of thousands?

MI300X already leads in VRAM as it has 192 GB. For local inference, 7900 XTX has 24 GB of VRAM for less than $1000. At what threshold of VRAM would you start being interested in MI?

It is open and they regularly merge PRs. https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed …

Altitudes for aircraft use feet worldwide, to be fair.

The point of "No Russian" is that the mass shooting was unjustified. You're an American who has infiltrated a terrorist group, and you go on a mass shooting with them to maintain your c…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_signal Salaries going up in tech are an indication that there are not enough programmers. Most growth in the US economy is now based on progra…

Literally the post in the OP, which linked this post by Brian Krebs: > A Canadian man who says he’s been falsely charged with orchestrating a complex e-commerce scam is seeking to clear his name. H…

What's crazy about the original story is that you can buy something on Amazon with your own credit card from a highly rated vendor and go to jail because the seller was involved in a criminal e…

> A double-entry system is an accounting method that tracks money at both its source and destination. There's an entire section on double-entry accounting in the article. The tl;dr is that if …

That already happened, except Reddit, Facebook, and Hacker News don't pay for the content they aggregate. People dodge paywalls in the comments, and many don't even bother to read the story.…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver#Colloid... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria There are entire groups of people that sell colloidal …

I would imagine people would go into your house + every warehouse, and just start looting everything. Most people do not have a large supply of non-perishable goods and will likely try to take yours. …

Honestly, lots of practice. I've been playing Roblox since 2008. Roblox has also always been text chat, so if I wanted to talk trash AND get kills, I had to be fast. That + a physical inability t…

It's working out great for me, actually, as the entire Canadian tech industry is based on outsourcing. We're less of a national security risk as an American client state. For critical infras…

Because it's objectively cheaper to outsource food production to countries with low cost of living. In an economically efficient world, all food in North America would be coming from Africa ins…

Steno will get you to 200+ wpm, not 100. I've been trying to learn steno on and off for 5+ years. The problem is I already have 150 WPM on qwerty and I cannot think of a message on Teams faster t…

You're right. I was going to tell you about what a nightmare infoboxes are, but my experience is clearly out of date. I guess I'm used to a large public failure killing a project. I'm e…

Nobody can do Agile right because there's no one-size fits-all process. There are Agile approaches you can use and see if they work for your team. The motto is "individuals and interactions …

Speaking as someone who attended a public high school with competitive admissions, the students are much more important than the teachers or the education itself. Being around a group of talented and …

Criminals aren't immune to pitch decks and overspending on bespoke systems??

> Neither was the case with me. If you want intellectual stimulation, just go talk to the professors! Many of the professors don't make their own slides. They just read stuff someone else wrot…

At American gas stations, if you have a Canadian credit card, you type in 00000 because Canadians don't have ZIP codes.

A lot of younger people today would be surprised you can remove a digital clock from its case and it'll still work. Like, a phone or any piece of technology is just a black box. If it breaks nowa…

> Down side: Your peers aren't as smart, and your peers are really what push you to work on interesting projects. This outweighs pretty much everything else for me. Your ego either inflates to…