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__float

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    Comment #49000872

    They wanted capitalism, no? Here's the competition in the market.

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    Comment #48959888

    How is this language related to Elixir? Or are you just commenting that another language has a website?

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    Comment #48928065

    Twitter (and others) had an algorithmic feed long before LLMs. These don't actually seem like "good reasons" to me.

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    Comment #48862321

    Ah, you meant differences in access to fuel, not differences in storing the waste.

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    Comment #48826111

    What are the fuel constraints the French have that we don't? Is it geographic (we have a lot more unused/undesirable than France, for example), regulatory, etc?

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    Comment #48799645

    If it is not an open source license, you should not call it open source. Imagine someone saying the same thing about MongoDB's license, for example.

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    Comment #48790508

    I'm not sure how outlandish we're allowed to get here, but IMO we have a fundamental mismatch between application operating system CPU in terms of dependencies and trust. Fixing th…

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    Comment #48786078

    Why do you need to visit Costco every week? This feels like the most inefficient combination of the city-style "shop small quantities often" and suburb-style "buy everything in bul…

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    Comment #48673690

    I live near a very congested area and watch ambulances and fire trucks (which are also too big) get stuck in heavy traffic all the time. Bikes do a lot of package and food delivery…

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    Comment #48673665

    I don't know what resolution or display you built this on, but a heads up the initial impression on my 4K monitor is that everything is incredibly tiny .

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    Comment #48668471

    Even a year from now you're still likely to need a custom firmware. The custom firmware today is more than good enough, and the devices often sell for under $70.

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    Comment #48668458

    There will be an Android (11, unfortunately) reader, the S4. (This is already visible on xteink.cn and they've teased it in social media.) There's also going to be an X4 Pro, which…

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    Comment #48648936

    There are millions of people in American cities, and tons of people move from the less dense suburbs to these cities. There are probably even more people who would move if they cou…

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    Comment #48648890

    > Commuter rail has 1/200th the economic impact of interstate highways. Ok, and what fraction of investment has it gotten? We've underfunded rail/bike infrastructure for decades, o…

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    Comment #48563111

    If someone referred to the "previous decade" in 2004, would you have said the same thing? As the calendar rolled from 1999 to 2000, we entered a new millennium, century, decade, ye…

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    Comment #48545074

    I think everyone in this thread agrees on that part already. The similarities are in an application lib to connect, and that tail net IPs correspond to device keys like in Iroh. Th…

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    Comment #48535712

    Hmm, Sumatra PDF perhaps?

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    Comment #48524536

    It's rather off-topic at this point, but I've never understood how HF can afford to be a CDN for such huge files. It seems like enterprise customers must be subsidizing a lot, but.…

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    Comment #48518909

    Do you not review the code that LLMs output? It seems that now more than ever, testing is important. But LLMs love to cheat the tests and make them superficially pass. If you're ne…

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    Comment #48370732

    iOS generally lets you reject any permission an app asks for. This would certainly be "risky" enough that iOS would require explicit user permission, and you would be able to say n…

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    Comment #48361073

    > you can actually learn a LOT by being given the answer, if you actually care to learn. Even if you "actually care to learn", this is a huge mental shortcut and you're deceiving y…

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    Comment #48254749

    You can also buy the Fully legs/motor on their own and bring your own desktop. I really disliked the bamboo desk fwiw and much prefer the thicker 1" laminate "wood" one. I wish I'd…

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    Comment #48055888

    It is very good practical advice. It also saddens me greatly, imagining what computing could look like if systems evolved differently.

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    Comment #48055861

    > desktop Linux doesn't (and won't for UX reasons) Can you elaborate?

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    Comment #48031932

    What do you recommend then? DNS doesn't usually change that often, but if you mess it up when it does, you're in for some pain if TTLs are high!