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Bungled migration. They rushed to move people over by force and did not even give notice. They failed on the very basics of a forum i.e identity. So those who used old email accounts or burner addresses can no longer access their accounts because they did not get a chance to update their email...

The source code of the algorithm: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm-ml Twitter aims to deliver you the best of what’s happening in the world right now. This requires a recommendation algorithm to distill the roughly 500 million Tweets posted...

Pole sana to the families

Is the world finally tired of printed paper backed by US military might?

Let's see how it goes as all of it comes to the open

I agree, cooling is such an important consideration for high performance computing

The largest crypto exchange platform by trading volume has now found itself as the subject of a lawsuit. Specifically, Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao has been sued by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for alleged regulations violations. Bloomberg reported that the regulator is...

Which one would you go for high intensive computing tasks e.g. gaming, VR, ML? The gaming laptop would come with everything you need, but with limited customization options, but with a building your own PC, while you have more flexibility, you have to go through quite a hassle to get all the...

True, but google didn't replace lawyers or doctors. It made them more productive. I see the same with chatgpt and the likes

Note though he needed a vet to verify the diagnosis. In my line of work chatgpt can be very helpful, but also very wrong in some cases even though it may give the answer authoritatively. A layman would thing it is always correct but an expert would recognize when it is wrong. Fundamentally...

5 major blackouts in the past two weeks where I currently am. Possibly connected to rainfall

Thanks for the link. I'm a beginner in solar systems but I have setup a basic system that can run my computer setup. But my main issue with going big with solar is how to get rid of the battery once it's gone

I think GPT is good at fooling people also, because it will many times state some generated nonsense as fact. Law, medicine and Software engineering all require facts, not possibly incorrect approximations. So unless they can get them to generate only facts, I don't see these generative...

Chinese apps have a history of malicious activity. Even the well known wechat back in the day when it was a desktop app, it would scan all other apps running on someone's computer to look for competitor apps. At some point in time it was discovered tiktok also scans user devices to see what...

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