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7bees

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    Comment #48888144

    I mean it literally starts with "What mindless cretin thought that it should be a good idea", and later calls them a "bagbiter". If you were responsible for the change, you would f…

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    Comment #48799460

    Many fireworks are designed to explode at altitude . The biggest risk is probably if the firework is ingested into an engine (also a major risk for bird strikes).

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    Comment #48782699

    > once whatever discussion happens Yes, it seems like a very fast process when you neglect the part that takes time.

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    Comment #48782561

    I'm not aware of any organization that has the same requirements to fund its future pension obligations that the USPS has. That requirement was created by Congress as part of a sus…

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    Comment #48262547

    Curly braces are a very uncommon piece of punctuation outside of math and programming. If you picked a person at random, they will find "curly brace" (and indeed, "square bracket")…

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    Comment #48131870

    That's not what the post you're replying to said, at all. I'm not in a position to evaluate whether they were right, but you've presented this as if it proves them wrong when it's …

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    Comment #48031575

    I'm only familiar with 2 countries where this is a thing, and the US is one of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer%27s_Ring (FWIW, I'm not aware of any country where it's …

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    Comment #47990076

    I think it's an increment on this: https://www.videolan.org/projects/dav1d.html

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    Comment #47885338

    The people involved are volunteers. The rules for getting access are readily available, and clearly don't include "some random university student": https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/abou…

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    Comment #47802743

    I'm not sure I understand your comment; OpenSCAD has functions like sphere(), cylinder(), etc. Most OpenSCAD models I have seen are built up primarily from solid primitives combine…

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    Comment #47084486

    Yes, it is. The article includes a link to a comparison between the default file and the one allegedly used here. The default starts with: _You're not a chatbot. You're becoming so…

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    Comment #46881999

    xAI acquired twitter in 2025 as part of Musk's financial shell game (probably the same game he is playing with SpaceX/xAI now).

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    Comment #46773446

    > The actual ingredients are literally on the safety data sheet This is an oversimplification, in a way that is likely not obvious to a lot of people on this (software-focused) for…

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    Comment #46323280

    You can correlate microarchitecture to product SKUs using the Intel site that the article links. AMD has a similar site with similar functionality (except that AFAIK it won't let y…

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    Comment #46323136

    Intel doesn't like to officially use codenames for products once they have shipped, but those codenames are used widely to delineate different families (even by them!), so they com…

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    Comment #46323115

    It has pretty much always been the case that you need to make sure the motherboard supports the specific chip you want to use, and that you can't rely on just the physical socket a…