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Reki

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    Comment #40996044

    Its in zig 0.12

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    Comment #40200683

    They're asymptotic to human performance.

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    Comment #40116086

    So how do you explain our relashionship with countries like Saudi Arabia? Because forget the bully, thats like being friends with the school shooter.

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    Comment #39829207

    the genocide ends

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    Comment #39404915

    The difference is that forefoot running is harder, but _simpler_. You dont even need highly engineering shoes to run using it, especially barefoot. You can run on bare metal.

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    Comment #38494009

    Beautiful comment. The Grope is Good would make a great band name or campaign slogan, or maybe both. Ill never forget asking a TSA guy if he was sure mmwave was really just sound. …

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    Comment #38441327

    There is no scientific evidence for being able to "train your immune system". There is plenty of evidence the opposite happens. Covid especially can cause permanent immune damage.

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    Comment #38077996

    Its ok to admit you cant truly grasp something, in fact its a mark of wisdom. The collective output and understanding of the world's scientists is equivalent to that of a superinte…

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    Comment #38013835

    I think this is great advice, but saying that PL design is done already isn't really true. Its not as hard to make a new kind of PL as you might think, but it is of course hard to …

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    Comment #37992946

    Ponder about how the universe could give rise to such a creature, and maybe accidentally discover a few new laws of physics. _Then_ he'd kill it.

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    Comment #37816302

    The thing about claiming things like this is they require a strong scientific consensus. Otherwise, if they're wrong, its just hurting people, sometimes even killing them. Many gir…

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    Comment #37640224

    Deterring crime through punishment is a myth. Their crime rates are lower than more punative countries.

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    Comment #37451631

    Testing data is dependent on actually testing people, which we aren't doing. However, more accurate measures like wastewater are very consistent with the current narrative.

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    Comment #36455152

    Jim backs his RV into the park. He does so without his vehicle entering the park. Pam comes to the park and begins to live in Jim's RV. Bob, an alien, lands his spaceship in the pa…

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    Comment #36366786

    I know I'm in the minority, but still, I didn't give up my privacy for "convenience". I bought my first phone because my employer required a way to contact me. Not to mention all t…

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    Comment #36282888

    To make better languages

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    Comment #35982048

    You would expect a machine that can reason to improve in its responses as a conversation progresses, instead of hallucinating.

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    Comment #35212744

    I think your point about research is valid, but once that is done and you have a rough understanding of a solution, you just want things to work. You dont want a bunch of ways to d…

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    Comment #35169919

    Its a zero sum sanity game and the companies trade us around to trying to win the most of it

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    Comment #35169689

    In case you dont know, there are other budget providers like Tello that will send you a sim online if you have an unlocked phone.

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    Comment #35096318

    True, but their cost is still relatively cheaper considering the profit you can make from them is more than from books. Part of this is also because they are easier to replicate.

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    Comment #35086637

    Every medium has creation and consumption costs, and it affects their average quality. Books have a high creation cost: both in time and money, relative to electronic mediums. They…

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    Comment #34824044

    What, you think people should be able to breathe for free?

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    Comment #34526334

    I could see this if he made something dramatically more complex than just running python online. The author shows pretty clearly that nothing he is working on isn't already out the…

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    Comment #32198900

    Just because paperclips are useful doesnt mean we should keep making more of them forever.