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    Comment #48643367

    More than similar. Another word for the same thing.

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    Comment #48084280

    It's crazy that license laundering is still the primary use case for LLMs.

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    Comment #47932691

    Digit is the English word for finger.

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    Comment #47914717

    Agents will happily automate away intentional friction like a confirm prompt, even if you organise it as multiple API calls. The fix needs to be permissions rather than ergonomics.…

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    Comment #47878751

    Because Polymarket creates an incentive to change the real-world result. If you create a bet on {person} getting assassinated by {date}, you greatly increase the chances of somebod…

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    Comment #47731067

    Price isn't affected by mining difficulty, only the other direction.

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    Comment #47589828

    The only thing "clear" about that License agreement is it contradicts all their other marketing about Copilot. So either that document is fraudulent or everyone else at Microsoft i…

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    Comment #47286615

    The way to do enums in SQL (generally, not just MSSQL) is another table. It's better that they don't offer several ways to do the same thing.

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    Comment #47232728

    We've all tried to ask the LLM about something outside of its training data by now. In that situation, they give the (wrong) answer that sounds the most plausible.

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    Comment #47156514

    LA is sparse by European standards, or rural by Asian standards. http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf CTRL+F for "BUILT-UP URBAN AREAS BY URBAN POPULATION DENSITY: 2025" Ameri…

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    Comment #46869631

    There are more options - Banning advertising targeted at the user rather than the context Enforcing Do Not Track Enforcing GDPR (especially sites that use cookie banners)

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    Comment #46483585

    SO also isn't afraid to tell you that your question is stupid and you should do it a better way. Some people take that as a personal attack, but it can be more helpful than a detai…

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    Comment #46443701

    Amazon paid no dividends, that's their big debt financing.

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    Comment #45407013

    There's no reason that contextual ads couldn't be automated at scale. It might even be easier than automating targeted ads, given the incredible level of research and compute that …

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    Comment #43703418

    > That is a philosophical argument completely unrelated to whether or not something is illegal. Most comments saying that cryptocurrency holders should abide by "code is law", are …

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    Comment #43336096

    F# isn't in the running for third either. Maybe top ten behind MSSQL, Powershell, Excel Formulae, DAX etc.

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    Comment #43218566

    Powershell was 2006, so I suppose the real "peak windows server UX" was 2016 when PS was relatively mature and came out-of-the-box with the latest version.

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    Comment #43024910

    What would it offer that you can't already get from DBATools, LINQ, and ORMs more generally?

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    Comment #43024748

    Exactly the reason that you should always use yyyy-mm-dd.

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    Comment #43016789

    Not in e.g. MSSQL

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    Comment #42982837

    No mention of crash frequency, non-car collisions (roll etc.), or handling either. Despite the title, the entire article seems to have missed the mark and become a marketing piece …

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    Comment #42982389

    It's Microsoft's actions which lose them trust, regardless of what they might state in official communications. Actions like the C# dev kit license footgun/rug pull, the closed sou…

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    Comment #42903362

    The CLI tools have a great record. curl and invoke-restmethod and hurl etc. It's the GUI tools that keep getting monetised.

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    Comment #42833032

    Being anti-cryptocurrency as an organisation really is an important differentiator. Fidelity knows that investors in their cryptocurrency products will lose money in aggregate, but…