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PatronBernard

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    Comment #49153058

    Why are you using an em-dash though?

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    Comment #49080622

    For you personally no, but there's plenty of scandals of politicians being influenced by the Chinese, case in point in my own country: https://www.ft.com/content/601df41f-8393-46ad…

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    Comment #48847950

    It is. They are also enshittifying Komoot and EventBrite. Also by default they acquire a company and fire all staff within the week. Fuck Bending Spoons.

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    Comment #48845703

    Elon Musk, that talentless neonazi, is your hero?

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    Comment #48817958

    Doesn't seem to work very well with flat strings it seems (or I suck at knotting).

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    Comment #48567630

    I'd say it's just moved from books to influencers on social media. Still plenty of money in misleading vulnerable people.

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    Comment #48355145

    C'mon, it's the oldest trick in MBA book: make a much-used service paid, make the free version of it terrible and you force people to get the paid service.

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    Comment #48019854

    Ah yes, sustainable progress, like we're doing now?

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    Comment #48019521

    > Environmental analysis for operations? Not a fan of thinking in such terms. Why not? It's about 60 000 London - New York City flights by the way ( https://www.theguardian.com/env…

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    Comment #47121278

    Why does a robot vacuum have a microphone? Voice control?

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    Comment #46717715

    > a hierarchical graph layout algorithm based on the Sugiyama framework, using Brandes-Köpf for node positioning. I am sorry for being direct but you could have just kept it to the…

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    Comment #46079367

    Sources dude...

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    Comment #45730528

    How will people without Python knowledge know that the script is 100% correct? You can say "Well they shouldn't use it for mission critical stuff" or "Yeah that's not a use case, i…

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    Comment #45653612

    It's humbling how well-rounded Brian (and other Youtubers such as Applied Science and StuffMadeHere, HuygensOptics) is on top of clearly being a skillful physicist: electronics, co…

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    Comment #45616069

    Also prison!!!

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    Comment #45561551

    When did Zuck start caring about society?

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    Comment #44384825

    Fucking Starlink.

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    Comment #44354526

    I hate a lot of things about LaTeX (also wrote several theses in it, as well as research articles), but the math syntax definitely wasn't one of them. Why on earth would they chang…

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    Comment #44229932

    >write code Doesn't that come down to allowing it to directly regurgitate training data? Surely it's seen dozens of such solutions.

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    Comment #43253493

    Densely populated areas shouldn't have surface-area-inefficient cars as a main mode of transportation at all! Good public transport and the other 2-wheel modes should do just fine,…

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    Comment #43193955

    The thing needs a teacher, terrible technique! /s

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    Comment #42999731

    This one's ruining the planet though. Most advertisements serve to make people buy stuff they don't need.

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    Comment #42916575

    > Moloco ads is a DSP network A digital signal processing network? A bit annoying to introduce an acronym without defining it. Great article otherwise.