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I saw this picture for an ad for jigsaw puzzles online today. I really hope those hands were AI-generated. 
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Wow, I helped my friend with what turned out to be a scarily, unusually-accurate model with her exercising. For one, the rate of .698 meters to a step ( her app uses meters), is accurate daily within less than 5-6 meters, for walks of several kilometers, according to her tracker app. So, say, 5500 steps will correspond to 3843 metters, only slightly above the 3839 metters expected. I thought the total would vary more than that.
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The author of a paper titled "What leads moral people to act immorally ?" , has been accused of plagiarism.
Should have been posted in the journal " Irony".
Should have been posted in the journal " Irony".
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WWGD said:
Does the app use GPS to track her route? If so, I would expect it would be pretty accurate (i.e., the 0.698 m/step would have been calculated based on the GPS measured length of the route*, and not the other way around).
* Edit: and the number of steps, which can be recorded and counted based on the device's accelerometer.
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Good point. Not sure on the GPS issue. Will look it up.collinsmark said:
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Annoying misunderstanding about the song "Under Pressure". No, I meant the one by ZZ Top, not the one by Queen.
Whatever they may say about Yes, 90125 is the only music I've been able to read in a focused way for more than 10 minutes.
Whatever they may say about Yes, 90125 is the only music I've been able to read in a focused way for more than 10 minutes.
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That's just the help desk that was awarded to the lowest bidder.
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Ok, if you want to test my Sql skills, either don't ask me to compute a " moving average" or define it for me when you do. I computed the average correctly on the spot, but I had no idea what a moving average was.
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Just trying to calmly drive to a party yesterday. I hate driving in traffic.
It took him about six seconds to get 7 or 8 lane markers ahead. Assuming about 30 feet for each section, it works out to about a 35-40 MPH speed differential. I was going with the flow of traffic at about 60-65 MPH so he was somewhere around 100+MPH.
I knew that I had enough space to merge in front of the car that I was passing but I was carefully checking my mirrors. I only saw him when he was about two car lengths back. You can see that I slightly swerve to the right just before he passed me. I see a lot of drivers who just swerve into a lane when they're changing lanes. If I had done that, it would have been a completely different story.
It took him about six seconds to get 7 or 8 lane markers ahead. Assuming about 30 feet for each section, it works out to about a 35-40 MPH speed differential. I was going with the flow of traffic at about 60-65 MPH so he was somewhere around 100+MPH.
I knew that I had enough space to merge in front of the car that I was passing but I was carefully checking my mirrors. I only saw him when he was about two car lengths back. You can see that I slightly swerve to the right just before he passed me. I see a lot of drivers who just swerve into a lane when they're changing lanes. If I had done that, it would have been a completely different story.
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Driving above 55 in 66?
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Interstate 66.
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Isn't it the same as Route 66?Borg said:
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More than two thousand miles all the way.Borg said:
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"..., get your kicks...."Ibix said:
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It was somehow " removed" from the US highway system. Couldn't get much on what that meant.
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You are dating yourselfBystander said:
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I believe that was because it was no longer a major thoroughfare across the country. Sections of it were closed when the Interstate Highway system went in.WWGD said:
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..., and you aren't?phinds said:You are dating yourself
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I remember when I-66 ran from the beltway west, ending in Gainesville, near the Atlas steel works. Unrecognizable now.
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A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby on flights, and says it's because American Airlines' booking system can't handle her age
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Intel issues statement about CPU crashes, blames motherboard makers — BIOSes disable thermal and power protection, causing issues
https://news.yahoo.com/tech/intel-issues-statement-cpu-crashes-193504163.htmlThat would be annoying for someone whose livelihood depends on a functioning computer. That's probably most of us.
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She had her personal Y(0.1)K problem.Astronuc said:
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How so, Dubya-dubya? Also, which secure first or second tier search engine do you prefer?WWGD said:
(Apologies for responding to an older post. Still recovering from major surgery late in 2023.)
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Astronuc said:
Yep. There's truth to this. I've known about this for about a month now, being as I try to keep up on such things since I build my own computers.
It's worse than causing "crashes," though: it places the CPU (and indirectly the associated cooling systems) at a too aggressive operating point that could, over time, reduce the longevity of the systems. Not to mention waste power and muck up performance from inevitable CPU frequency throttling, and maybe eventually cause some crashing in the long run.
Here's a JayzTwoCents video demonstrating the problem and how to fix it, using an ASUS motherboard as an example. It's an easy to fix solution in the BIOS, although going into the BIOS is asking a lot (probably too much) for the average computer owner/user.
But yeah, it's bad and shouldn't* happen.
*(I mean that as a normative claim, as in "it aught not be something that should happen, even if it is actually happening.)
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Well, when I ask for, e.g., movie times for, say, movie x on October 2023, I get results for cities y,z,w on June of 2017.Klystron said:
Have a fast recovery. And Hava Nagila/Tequila.
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An animated ad that I saw on msnbc web site this morning. Soooo many questions about this dog and its owner.
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Ive seen arguments, claims, to the effect that only some types/breeds of dogs help prevent or fight break ins. Their general friendliness doesn't help in this respect.Borg said:An animated ad that I saw on msnbc web site this morning. Soooo many questions about this dog and its owner.
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People are amazed at my being able to figure out if a number is divisible by 7 even after I show them an easy trick. Just partition a number, so that each part is divisible by 7. Then, e.g., 2849, 2863 , are both divisible by 7, since each of 28, 49 , and 63 are. Similarly, 1751 is,divisible by 17. But then again, the person expressing amazement is someone who says " wow, so close!" when dividing a number by 2 and seeing a reminder of 1.