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slices··on PFAS in blood are ubiquitous and associated with risk of cardiovascular diseases
the recipients have bigger problems than PFAS, so it is a win-win deal
slices··on Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking
yes. just used Cody to get me on the right path with an obscure postgresql JSON query, it easily saved me an hour of fiddling around.
slices··on Fine tune a 70B language model at home
take a look at recent posts from https://twitter.com/__tinygrad__ re: the state of AMD for AI work
slices··on Boeing missing key elements of safety culture: FAA report
https://avgeekery.com/oldest-flying-airliners-in-the-united-...
slices··on Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI
yes, but which one of thouse thousand, how long would it take to learn how to use it, etc. Still less friction in just asking ChatGPT to do this via the same interface you ask it to do a bunch of other stuff.
slices··on Jim Keller criticizes Nvidia's CUDA, x86
Supporting anecdote: I built a PC a few years ago, and first tried multiple AMD cards. All of them worked fine while using the default windows drivers, but as soon as I installed AMD's drivers, they stopped working. Spent weeks troubleshooting, no luck.

Gave up, bought an Nvidia card, zero problems.

slices··on Culture Change at Google
aren't they still in Oz, with its govt mandated backdoors?
slices··on 24 Hours of Lemons
Did my first lemons race in 2023, it was amazing.

Some great things about lemons:

- you need a team, so instead of having to figure out all the stuff yourself (the race car, getting the car to the track, etc.) you'll have motivated people to help you

- because the goal is to still be running at the end of the 2nd day, drivers mostly look out for one another on track

- other teams are super helpful to newbs. Our neighbor in the pits welded up a spot on our cage, we ended up borrowing tools and safety equipment from 3-4 different teams, and we got lots of quality advice

- the rules and culture of the series help keep costs down as much as seems possible

slices··on 24 Hours of Lemons
yes, for sure. Used lemons cars needing some work come up regularly for $3-6k. Watch https://forums.24hoursoflemons.com/viewforum.php?id=12
slices··on 24 Hours of Lemons
for many autox runs, look for a test & tune day, not a competition event
slices··on How do we stop Meta in 2024? We fix the information loop
roman empire
slices··on Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign
just transitioned a client off mailgun due to repeated deliverability issues caused by other mailgun customers on a shared IP. The client doesn't have enough email volume to justify a dedicated IP, so there didn't seem to be anything else we could do while sticking with mailgun.

wouldn't you know it, we transferred them to postmark...

slices··on New York Times tech workers vote to certify union
this seems like another example of "tech" being used to mean "delivering online ads"
slices··on Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act
If you do so, I recommend keeping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Views_on_under... in mind
slices··on Lego has changed since we were kids (2014)
from what I've seen, kids are likely to just ignore all the colors and just grab the shape they're looking for
slices··on Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
If the screen, camera, and speed were good enough in 2016, what's changed to make them not good enough now?

(rhetorical question)

As for battery, it's a lot cheaper & less wasteful to replace the battery than to get a whole new phone.

slices··on More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
If you're interested in Malone, don't just read that hit piece, written by an author who had previously stuck to woke issues.

Wikipedia's not perfect, but his article there would be an improvement.

slices··on Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations
not whataboutism, as US dollars would be the obvious alternative to accepting crypto
slices··on The Bay Area has become a large declining tech company
> my drunk condo neighbor forgot the garage door open and it took like four or five hours for someone to actually take something from inside

In most of the US, including many moderate size cities, a garage left open for 4-5 hours would not have anything stolen from it.

slices··on Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now
the difference with the J&J isn't the payload (spike protein), it's the delivery mechanism (adenovirus vs. mRNA)
slices··on Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter
> citation needed

seriously, it's got to be more like 1000 or 10,000 farmers.

slices··on Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”
evolutionary biologists Weinstein & Heyer argue that it has the fingerprints of GoF all over it
slices··on Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand security force
Minneapolis is not getting rid of its police department.

There may be one or more options on the ballot this fall to make the department report to someone different, and/or to remove the current minimum number of officers, but even those are yet to be resolved.

slices··on Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
I don't know about the warehouses, but a family member stocked shelves at Target for years, and was paid the minimum wage the whole time. Hours were 1) part time, 2) too inconsistent to allow any other work.
slices··on 1977: Zork
So that's the solution!

That was one of life's greatest unsolved mysteries for me. The hours I spent trying to figure that out...

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