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RichardLake
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Comment #49122337
You could only allow the conversion for farms that grow corn for ethanol at first. Isn't that around 10 million hectares on the low estimates?
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Comment #47730803
Might be wrong about what Aperocky is alluding to but there is an entirely theoretical edge case. The time to the next difficulty adjustment is based on the current speed of mining…
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Comment #47561646
Hmm, never played LoL myself but is keeping track of were the opposing hero can be given were you last saw them a big part of the strategy?
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Comment #47500523
Was the file in a .gitignore by any chance? I've got my home folder in git to keep track of dot/config files and that always catches me out. Really dislike it defaulting to that ig…
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Comment #47307876
Maybe because I work on a legacy programming language with far less material in the training? For me it makes a difference because it partly needs to "learn" the language itself an…
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Comment #47307050
That isn't learning, it can read things in its context, and generate materials to assist answering further prompts but that doesn't change the model weights. It is just updating th…
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Comment #46760164
Isn't the xbox market dead after after having to code for the weaker series s lead to the last generation of consoles being outsold massively by the PS5?
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Comment #46407706
No it doesn't. It can not bind someone that has not agreed to it. A failure to agree might mean they are infringing on copy-right and is liable for damages, but it is wrong to say …
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Comment #46400458
Would you disagree with this logic? You distribute GPL code to me on a dvd. I give that dvd to someone else. I have not made a copy of the source code, so copyright does not come i…
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Comment #46262634
To quote a summery from https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/dec/14/... * 12 people are confirmed dead, including 1 gunman. Police described the figures as an evolv…
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Comment #46095721
Check the class of the fire extinguisher and if it is suited for liquid fires before using it on a oil fire.
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Comment #45479607
How is Japan's customer protection? Here in Australia it is enshrined in law that the seller, Amazon, must handle warranties and such for the expected life of the product.
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Comment #45456078
Cancelled my subscription. I can't take a risk of installing it and having a paid trial or something mean I'm using the non-commercial version for a bit.
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Comment #45423869
Only downside to this are tools that default to only acting on stuff under version control. Whenever I use rg inside my home directory I'm caught out by this.
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Comment #44918766
The possess creature was in the first game. Have you tried the original with keeperFX? It improves the UX for building rooms so if that was your issue with the first game.
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Comment #44532532
The phase "maybe you should do xyz instead" is active, not passive. Qualifying with maybe doesn't change it from active to passive. Passive would be something like "Maybe XYZ shoul…
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Comment #44061877
That depends, the dropped unit could be either a year or a month.
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Comment #43743105
I imagine it was more useful when using tables to lookup/approximate the values before calculators with trig support were a thing.
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Comment #43726249
The other point of view is that they are now forcing users to pay for both search and AI, even if they do not want to use or fund the development of the later. You used to be payin…
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Comment #43158473
Legally is it collateral damage to unrelated parties. It is cloudflare's servers providing the infringing content, and the cloudflare's servers being blocked. Does Spain net neutra…
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Comment #43112798
The enforcement of these laws should be a function of the executive. There are ways for the supreme court or congress to intervene when the executive isn't doing their job. Sadly t…
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Comment #42140597
Doesn't rust have overflow checks in debug and skips them in release?
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Comment #41470999
By `two vectors exist in a two-dimensional space` are you talking about how two (linearly independent) n dimensional vectors will span a 2d space?
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Comment #41215767
Not custom models but LLM but https://infiniteworlds.app/ is using commercial models for that kind of thing. Edit: Should warn that the site has nswf user content, may be best not …