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Comment #49127461
That sounds like a great way to attract scammers and dissuade honest people, so if it's ever been tried it must have failed spectacularly (I also searched for variations of this id…
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Comment #49121192
Of course a 1960's design isn't adapted to current weather conditions. That doesn't mean the whole technology is useless, like so many commenters imply. Any new build can and will …
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Comment #48968658
Right, this was in response to tclancy.
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Comment #48967656
Nope, and Pangram agrees with me, 100% human written with high confidence. I really enjoy this style and I think it's not _that_ close to AI output (it's much better in fact).
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Comment #48961500
Very well-written text, not a whiff of AI generation to it. Your example is not even a run-on sentence! I enjoyed reading it, many thanks to the author.
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Comment #48922152
This seemed promising at the beginning, but do yourself a favor and skip to the end to see the hilariously slow end result.
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Comment #48894036
Older editions (second hand or new) often have largely the same content at a fraction of the price...
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Comment #48891824
Accompanying blog post with some good explanation: https://note.com/frievea/n/n849abe8e46a7?hl=en
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Comment #48793759
It's a damn shame that the EU's plan to reduce our already low emissions ( (1) Based on the IPCC rule of thumb of 0.45 C increase per 1000 GtCO2 emissions, see e.g. https://www.cam…
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Comment #48717645
“This video is restricted. Please check the Google Workspace administrator and/or the network administrator restrictions”
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Comment #48628145
This style of bookmark is rare so it follows it wasn't _necessary_. But with dense text it might be faster and perhaps less error prone than locating the right place in the text? S…
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Comment #48618318
> [...] the maker was almost certainly a transcriber who used it to keep his place on the page and note the column he was writing in when he stopped. The wheel would be moved to th…
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Comment #48584011
'PowerPC DRC' appears to be the code in mame that translates PowerPC machine code into native host machine code (Dynamic Recompilation Core). https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/m…
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