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    Comment #49214816

    wouldnt you want gpu, fpga, or dsp as the benchmark? its lots of parallel calculations, rather than one blazing fast one

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    Comment #49187435

    on the other hand, the vibes are off when everything is so standardized, such that maybe the affordances exist for the building, but there's nobody inside. youve avoided the proble…

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    Comment #49187408

    toyota is a late comer though. "jaywalking" is a term made up by car companies because they hate you, as a better example

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    Comment #49187390

    the car companies at the time were tech companies that paid the government to kick people off of roads and build communities that require cars to get to. the car obsession didnt qu…

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    Comment #49187372

    land use and design issue more than anything. ramps have been around for a long time, and are well known to take up a ton of space. especially if every propery gets its own ramp ra…

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    Comment #49187340

    if you take a look, i think youll find much more of your money has been confiscated to open a lot of grocery stores over time, by the federal government of the US. the government r…

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    Comment #49187309

    > it's hard, impossibly so, to construct a world where nobody with wrist mobility problems will ever encounter a round doorknob they'd like to open. its not that hard to get to 99.…

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    Comment #49187252

    > Sure, spending more on transit is a good idea, but it's not the tech companies' fault that it's perennially underfunded, it's politicians and the voters who put them there. mind …

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    Comment #49183822

    you can be critical without being abraisive or demeaning about it. a professional opinion includes some professionalism

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    Comment #49177073

    swap out to a native plants and polinators garden? chances are that the grass is bot native for you

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    Comment #49177062

    should you really have a grass lawn at that point? you might want something more native to those conditions that doesnt take much upkeep

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    Comment #49162915

    > It's like trying to retype calculus solutions — you don't learn from it ??? i entirely learned all the math and applied math by working through problems whether myself or copying…

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    Comment #49159226

    why is reproduceability the thing? shouldnt the paper be the math of the argument? the reproduction is reading the following the proof

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    Comment #49159147

    to an extent zitron is saying its not useful, but as a more nuanced opinion, "ai is not cost effective, nor is it improving profits or revenue"

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    Comment #49158417

    why have the bacon at all when you could just eat straight protein powder or soylent though? if you get both the nitrates and vitamin c from the cellery seeds, why bother going thr…

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    Comment #49158346

    it is impossible in canada to sell swedish meatballs - cant have the onion or breadcrumbs

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    Comment #49158290

    > I just don't get it! What's the appeal? its the k shaped economy. the big opportunities are great if you can get into them, but otherwise all there is is serving coffee to the we…

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    Comment #49145988

    longshoremens' unions made sure that the dock workers didnt lose jobs through the change over to containers. handling a reduction in work is one of the things a union is for

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    Comment #49136456

    same on phillips hue but maybe 3 out of 10 have died. they might not have great QA

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    Comment #49136163

    university is the last time you will be around people mostly your age without having to think about it or put effort in. Make sure you meet a wide variety of people. the most impor…

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    Comment #49129645

    thats a very location dependent scale. youd still need to include where the discomfort is measured

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    Comment #49129626

    what makes a number illogical? i havent heard of that concept wrt to numbers

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    Comment #49129597

    the pencil aspect is because its easy for a person to carry and take notes with? and you dont need to fit the car into a proper harness tester?

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    Comment #49129541

    we need a new HUMANS.md to replace the readme

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    Comment #49129533

    it would be 1M tokens worth of work, with some small report for the end