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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academia to Industry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  sigh

  I’m so tired of repeating this ad nauseum. No, it’s not going to take your job. It’s hype train bullshit full of grifters. There is no intelligence or understanding, nor have we come anywhere close to achieving that. That is still entirely within the realm of science fiction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 1950s were wild...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone that has recently taken an infant and and family CPR class for my son who started solid foods a few months ago, this is pretty similar to how they teach it today and I’m pretty sure it would have the same effect. You can’t perform a heimlich on a baby or very small child for a variety of reasons. This method or something similar to it is both safer and more effective, since it lets gravity help dislodge the food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon figures out how dieting works⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can have nutritious, filling meals that taste really good without excessive calories, you just need to learn to cook. It’s also a hell of a lot cheaper than eating fast food all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero to hero⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, interoperability. Like every software implementation of natural numbers that include 0.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero to hero⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just found out about this debate and it’s patently absurd. The ISO 80000-2 standard defines ℕ as including 0 and it’s foundational in basically all of mathematics and computer science. Excluding 0 is a fringe position and shouldn’t be taken seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best BBQ on the block⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had snake. It’s pretty mediocre and tough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain yourselves, comp sci.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a terrible name, since it’s derived from the mathematical construct of vectors as n-tuples. In the case of vectors in programming, n relates to the size of the underlying array, and the tuple consists of the elements of the vector.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This terraforming operator is kinda smooth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The answer to smooth jazz is to play some real jazz instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows. I remember losing hundreds of hours of progress on games due to memory card corruption. Or game cartridges/CDs no longer working, requiring you to buy a new copy. Or consoles getting straight-up bricked.

  Hell, a ton of people have memories of blowing into N64/SNES cartridges to get them to work since they had notoriously unreliable connectors. But even though it was something that didn’t work great, everybody has fond memories of doing it since there wasn’t this amalgamation of voices from every direction telling you to be upset about it and clamoring for retribution. If something was broken, you got frustrated about it, complained to your friends, and then moved on with your life since there wasn’t anything else you could do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it still doesn’t change the fact that no one actually wants this shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android users who have a keen eye for design and detail, how is the whole stutter/lag situation? Esp. after a few years of use?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My pixel 7 pro is perfectly smooth and seamless. Oh and voice assistant is far faster than anything on iPhone thanks to the on-board Tensor chip.