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Luc

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About Luc

A French in Kuala Lumpur. Financial services software, retired.

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    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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