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Plasmoid
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Comment #49226556
Healthcare.gov was a national scandal due to poor performance related to bad requirements gathering.
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Comment #49201229
My ask for these is always the same. I just want to see how this union would work, specifically. Don't compare it to other unions or say it could be like X. Just write a few hundre…
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Comment #49184616
It's because LLMs are entropy generators. That's not a bad thing for what people are doing. But to prevent model collapse you need a way to pump down the entropy. Much like in ther…
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Comment #49149601
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Comment #49054218
The author, Derek Lowe, also writes the hilarious Things I won't work with series ( https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor... )
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Comment #48886946
Many people also don't know that Vienna was isolated and divided for nearly 50 years during the cold war. A significant amount of the available housing is due to Vienna having a ba…
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Comment #48853338
Let's encrypt is great but if you operate any kind of scale you can quickly hit their rate limit. AWS only recently started allowing you to pull the certificate out of ACM.
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Comment #48636807
That might take a while. We need to bog down the HSR first.
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Comment #48625862
Tampering with smoke detectors
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Comment #48625812
Do you actually know what Vienna did? Because the overwhelming number of people who reference the city basically just repeat a few dubious talking point about restricting rent.
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Comment #48614162
My local library has been running a tool lender library for quite a while. It's quite popular as it rents out both manual and electric tools. This is great when you need an extensi…
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Comment #48576401
> if they let you walk out maybe they really can't Toyota's have such a backlog of orders that they're marking cars up above MSRP
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Comment #48573650
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Comment #48548093
> conflict free stability is super impressive by that standard. Not much happened between 1861 and 1865?
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Comment #48524407
What happens is that economics shift from a renewable model to an extractive model. Farms are renewable so farmers maintain them over centuries. Mines are extractive so they get pu…
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Comment #48524256
We could like build more houses though
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Comment #48052597
Yeah, but what's the burn rate? If it's going down at 1 day per week then it's not so bad. If it's closer to 0.75 days per day, that's much more serious.
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Comment #47988641
> I administrate are contractually obligated to be so isolated Yeah, I've seen those contracts. They just reference a SeCuRiTy doc that's 20+ years old, and has never been re-evalu…
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Comment #47988026
> keeping backward operational compatibility It is not possible to be backwards compatibility with a larger address space
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Comment #47890359
Because there are so many applicants that have good grades. A more cynical view is that the governing boards want a way to pick and choose who they let in. So they create "holistic…
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Comment #47881585
> As per The Information, Meta employees used a total of 60.2 trillion AI tokens (!!) in 30 days. If this was charged at Anthropic’s API prices, it would cost $900M. How are the in…
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