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Credit card purchases approved with wrong PIN. Bank says there's nothing wrong(thestar.com)
3 points by computator 28d ago|0 comments
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by computator 3mo ago
Not a technical talk but he gave testimony a month ago: "OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever said his stake in the ChatGPT maker is worth roughly $7 billion, making him one of the largest individual shareholders
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by computator 6mo ago
This trend story about wired headphones is possibly a "submarine" story as Paul Graham calls it[1], like a headline that "Suits make a corporate comeback": "The suit is back," it begins. Trend articles like th
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by computator 7mo ago
Although I liked the video of the artist working, I didn't appreciate that they took away the controls to pause, play, seek. Is there a workaround to get back the playback controls on websites that disable it?
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by computator 7mo ago
I have a weird long-shot idea for GPT to make a new discovery in physics: Ask it to find a mathematical relationship between some combination of the fundamental physical constants[1]. If it finds (for example) a formula that relates electro
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by computator 9mo ago
> if your ISP-side modem directly outputs digital audio, the downstream channel capacity is significantly higher But why is it higher? It's still an analog channel (the last mile from the ISP to your house), right? Doesn't it
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by computator 9mo ago
But l and I (ell and eye) are identical in Inter. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inter?preview.text=lllll%2... I never understood why a font designer would ever choose to do that. There should be an ironclad rule th
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by computator 9mo ago
The Costco one uses household current (as can be seen in one of the photos that shows a cord and a plug) and the AliExpress uses USB. I doubt that USB can supply enough power to do more than a trivial amount of heating. USB 3.1 has a max of
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by computator 11mo ago
> But oh what a difference it makes in the accounting! In the first case, where Autodesk sold the copy of AutoCAD to the dealer, that was the whole transaction; whatever happened to the copy of AutoCAD after the dealer paid for it has n
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by computator 1y ago
Can someone recommend a completely local English-language dictionary for Debian?
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by computator 1y ago
> We bought a $1 house in Italy. Here’s what happened next (CNN Travel article) > the last link is also a lie I was wondering if “lie” was too strong a word, but no, CNN is straight up lying in article’s title. Deep into the artic
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by computator 1y ago
The business model of the S1 is just wild. It mimics the PC clone industry of the 1990s. From the Wikipedia page: This product is what is referred to as a 'common mold' which means many different suppliers can produce this same m
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by computator 1y ago
It could be snaps[1]. Google for "denim jacket with snaps" to see examples that match the fasteners in the image. I too can't decide if it's a real photo or AI generated. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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BYU study: Why some people choose not to use artificial intelligence(news.byu.edu)
31 points by computator 1y ago|44 comments
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by computator 1y ago
I was going to ask what this meant about strawberries: > LLMs make mistakes that basically no human will make, like, you know, it will insist that 9.11 is greater than 9.9, or that there are two bars of strawberry. These are some famous
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by computator 1y ago
The HP 185A oscilloscope[1], 500 MHz bandwidth, was $2000 in their 1960 catalog[2]. That would be $22,000 in today's dollars. (The brochure doesn't say MHz but uses MC meaning megacycles.) It would be fun to compare the specs to a
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by computator 1y ago
Given the great distances and how small the planets seem at that scale, I'm surprised that we can see any of the planets with the naked eye. Thinking about Jupiter, it's 140K km in diameter and about 629M km from Earth. That'
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by computator 1y ago
> You have to power up your SSDs every now and then for them to keep data. What is the protocol you should use with SSDs that you’re storing? Should you: - power up the SSD for an instant (or for some minutes?) without needing to read
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by computator 2y ago
Do all trades get reported to some agency of the government (including those done in private rooms)? Do companies themselves know who owns their shares (including those done in private rooms)? If the answer is no to either or both of the ab
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by computator 2y ago
> one of the best texts on Galois Theory I have read What book on group theory or abstract algebra would you recommend to read first to be able to read that text on Galois Theory?
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by computator 2y ago
Just wanted to point out something that not everyone might realize: Unicode is not supposed to have fonts at all. Unicode defines characters that you can then represent in various fonts. It just so happens that Unicode has many characters t
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by computator 2y ago
As far as I can tell, the area of the tip of the pencil doesn't factor into any of his calculations. But why doesn't it? Is he assuming it's a zero area point like we do in geometry? Taken to an extreme, if the tip were 1 cm²
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by computator 2y ago
It's not generating backdoored code for me. What am I doing wrong? I'm running locally from https://sshh12--llm-backdoor.modal.run/ . I entered the following prompts as provided in the author's blog: You are
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by computator 2y ago
> POSIX time, also known as Unix time, is the number of seconds since the Unix epoch, which was 1970-01-01 at 00:00:00. … I think there should be a concise explanation of the problem. I don’t think that the definition that software eng
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by computator 2y ago
Love it. Removable magnetic buttons with flat flush surface underneath that’s just as easy to clean as a touch surface. The only downside is the possibility of losing the knobs.
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by computator 2y ago
Whenever I see a study about something that affects longevity, I want to know how much of a difference it makes expressed as a number I can relate to. If you were able to switch from a highly irregular sleep schedule to a very regular sch
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by computator 2y ago
> Because what is in a 9 volt is 6 AAAA But then the question would shift to: Why wouldn’t a AAAA cell have the same energy density of a AA cell? Remember that the argument is about energy density, not total energy. By the way, I thi
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by computator 2y ago
The article says that 9V batteries have fallen out of favor and links to this explanation that makes no sense to me: A 9 volt battery uses six smaller 1.5 volt cells connected in series to achieve its 9 volts. But cramming that many cells
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New DJI policy: No flight record syncing for US drone pilots(dronedj.com)
1 points by computator 2y ago|0 comments
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by computator 2y ago
Do you have a recommended list of the about:config changes to get optimal security and privacy?

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