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As others mentioned already, they definitely won't be gone by the end of winter. Your lawn probably will be though, because if you have heavy leaf fall it'll smother the grass.

Maybe it'd be better if we all just let things happen and let native plants run wild, but culturally we aren't there yet.

For now I just compost them.

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Guess the Episode [Medium]

Homer enters a steak eating contest (but loses), the joke here is that the guy there (Big Red or something?) won but he's actually dead. Homer, feeling responsible, takes over his job driving his Big Rig across the country and discovers an industry secret

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Guess What. I Designed Another Knife.

I don't 3d print but I wanted to give you props for a super high effort post. This is really cool. If I did have a 3d printer I'd give this a try.

Have you thought about a version with blade storage? It's always handy to have a place to stash an extra blade or two to quickly swap out a dull one.

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505 of 700 OpenAI employees tell the board to resign.

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The board has given no real reasoning for why they fired him. Until they do, there's no reason anyone should consider this anything other than an internal power struggle that resulted in a coup.

And Sam didn't have a job anymore. Why shouldn't he go work for Microsoft? He was pushed out of OpenAI, is he contractually bound to never do something different?

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It turns out cyclists actually should roll through stop signs. Here’s why

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Is the criticism that they told drivers about how the Idaho stop worked? If the Idaho stop was going to be more widely adopted, it's a reasonable assumption that there would be a public education campaign so people knew what to expect.

Either way though, it's a study meant to test a hypothesis and the outcome suggested that Idaho's approach may be a good one.

If you're wanting an admission that the study's results may not hold up under further testing, sure. Admitted. But the study as a first step is pretty reasonable.

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SAG-AFTRA Approves AI Voice Actors, Enrages the VA Community

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It's a race to the bottom.

Yes, you can decline to opt in, but the guy next to you (or the guy next to him) will opt in and sell his AI voice package for less than it costs to employ a real person. And unlike a real person, the AI voice package can work 24/7 on 10,000 productions at the same time.

If anyone can opt in, then no one can really opt out.

Is this a good thing? For the bottom line of the people making the games, sure. And maybe 3% of that savings will trickle down to the consumer.

But it's pretty bad for the voice actors.

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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried testifies outside jury's presence

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There's something in the article about auto-delete policies.

If those policies violated a recordkeeping requirement maybe a jury could infer it was done intentionally in furtherance of a crime

Or maybe even if it was set to auto delete messages after some really unusually short period. By that I mean if you configured it to delete messages after a few days it might be hard to explain the legitimate business purpose served by such a rule.

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The Letter Q

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It was from Sidney Powell. She filed some baseless lawsuit regarding the election and claimed she was going to "release the kraken".

I think the Q crowd latched on to that and it was just particularly hashtag-able.