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KingEllis

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    Comment #45109060

    I had never considered until now that my left thumb never touches the keyboard.

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    Comment #44329685

    Their website says 2014. Amazon says 2018. But definitely not 2024, unless I am missing something.

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    Comment #44098978

    I would not use this because of the distracting stuff on the borders. Hardly "minimalist".

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    Comment #38424910

    Can someone explain this? One three occasions in the essay, including the title. he adds a cryptic "2001 Tor". What does that mean? It does not exist in the many other mentions of …

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    Comment #38165625

    Well, either no, or I would not know, as the point is C++ programmers are not nearly as self-congratulatory.

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    Comment #37726906

    100 percent

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    Comment #36579665

    Can I guess, from one not in the field, and no one bothering to define it? "Large Language Model"? I don't think it is a "a graduate qualification in the field of law". JFCFFS

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    Comment #32874099

    About a minute in, I could not figure out if satire or self-absorbed. I stopped reading.

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    Comment #32757909

    The absence of the go binary as a tool (i.e. "go get ...", "go install ..." etc.) is odd, considering that is what has been eating Python's lunch lately.

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    Comment #30858160

    Another starting point: https://github.com/dagger/dagger/tree/main/ci

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    Comment #26597281

    > * Don't even think about using ML for this, that doesn't solve biases, it just hides them in a black box. Can you clarify: what is "ML" here? "Machine learning", ML the language,…

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    Comment #26424704

    Comparing with a similar recipe I have, those look to be teaspoons.

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    Comment #25082888

    Speaking as someone ashamed at having never taken Calculus, I didn't know there were 3 of them...

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    Comment #16790298

    > the faux screen jump when Bowman nearly touched the edge, and instead shattered the glass. It really is brilliant, a movie within a movie. > that the upright position of the mono…

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    Comment #16304781

    I have feedback on the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Cloud Image that I am hoping reaches the right ears. There is something about the way the disk is partitioned that makes the use of virt-res…

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    Comment #13233519

    I didn't know this for many years of listening to that album. But I was blown away when I found out that on many tracks, Stevie is basically playing every instrument. It's quite as…

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    Comment #11542998

    > PyPy exists and works as both an open source project and as a codebase, which is no easier to achieve than coming up with an idea. I have no idea what you are getting at here.

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    Comment #3214072

    Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip. Good.