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ExoticPearTree
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Comment #49221096
I think there is a hook script that can run on the “uninstall” of an app when dragged to Trash that can cleanup stuff. On the other hand, I never had disk issues because of randon …
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Comment #49219516
Counterpoint: as a Mac user it is surreal to click Next Next Next to install a program on Windows. Same for uninstalling. Move to Trash and poof, unistalled. There is no standard w…
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Comment #49213381
EU will lag behind using AI because humans have to click something. This is what is going to happen. No discrimination, just dumb ideology at work.
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Comment #49210209
> Why don't people in Dallas want to transfer buses? I transfer buses all the time in my city, or transfer from bus to train. That doesn't mean it takes me a long time go get aroun…
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Comment #49195136
If the blades have sufficient ground clearance ;like a helicopter or higher), then yes, they would land next you. It is going to suck in winter and rainy weather though. Now thinki…
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Comment #49188094
Rovo is funny. It downloads everything it can do Atlassian servers for "analysis". And you're pretty much screwed if you link it to Google Docs or Sharepoint. How do I know this? "…
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Comment #49188033
There are two aspects to this: - what are the dimensions of a flying car? Double than a car? Triple? - are they autonomous or need to be flown manually? Looking at current drone de…
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Comment #49181567
You are comparing apples to oranges. Amsterdam is very dense because historic reasons. Streets are narrow and houses are the same. Los Angeles on the other hand was built on virtua…
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Comment #49178845
> We don't have the infrastructure, regulation or technology to have millions of people buzzing around in their astro-ford like the fifth element - this is still very much science …
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Comment #49178829
> If the thesis is "cars will approach 50% or greater utilization" then car numbers must drop barring a massive increase in road capacity for which the land does not exist. You can…
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Comment #49165802
In some countries, when you go to work there they take full fingerprints (fingers, palm, etc.) plus a blood sample for DNA. Works extremely well in deterring crime. From a technolo…
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Comment #49096415
> Good thing this isn't a concern in ones produced locally. Local ones when not in use are doing the Pledge of Allegiance on a loop.
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Comment #49096405
I hope there's a plan for local production in the US with all the banning of stuff right, left and center. Soon they'll ban Colombian coffee for being too good and making people wa…
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Comment #49082886
The Anthropic CEO has an entitlement problem. I read his opinion twice and somehow in his worldview, if any other country gets better at AI than the US, the apocalypse will come an…
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Comment #49082781
26.0 had a very annoying video jitter issue, but that was the first things that I noticed to be fixed in the next 26 release. Other than that, it worked just fine.
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Comment #49079514
Same reason we think we’re smarter than we actually are?
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Comment #49070247
> The alternative is that Netflix et. al can't be played on firefox and you need to install chrome just to watch it, which weakens firefox's market share even more. I really don't …
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Comment #49050624
In all truthness, it was in a village and I was under 6 or 7. It was the way things worked. And no one monitored the cows specifically: they would graze all day and then returned i…
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Comment #49048093
Japanese and Australian beef are on a different level than anything else I have ever eaten in terms of beef steaks.
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Comment #49045931
FWIW raw milk is actually OK. Drank it “directly” from the cows, never got sick from it. *directly = cow milked into a cup.
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Comment #49032597
That is less than 30mm on average per project. Pocket change for port infrastructure or decent railway improvements. And yet, on that list it does not say the money comes from Goog…
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Comment #49022118
So Anthropic/OpenAI is the new Microsoft and Open Weight models are the new Linux and its cancer? https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Steve-Ballmer-call-Linux-a-can... I guess it hurts t…
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Comment #49021990
How are they false? Will the EC fund the road in front of my house from the money it gets from Google? Doubt it. And the AC is real, during the heatwave a few weeks back, the EC tu…
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