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ath92

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    Comment #48679218

    Tapping on the prince also shows move order

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    Comment #48568094

    Waymo too

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    Comment #47465916

    This is not necessarily true for all situations. Northern Europe is planning to produce a lot of electricity with offshore wind, but laying deep sea high voltage electricity cables…

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    Comment #47307505

    My impression is that a big part of the reason for the sudden boom in humanoid robots is that they lend themselves particularly well to RL based training using human-made training …

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    Comment #46911340

    Ending world hunger isn’t that expensive: https://wfpusa.org/news/how-much-would-it-cost-to-end-world-... Nvidia’s profit alone would’ve been more than enough to end world hunger b…

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    Comment #46044615

    Nobody shipped this because previously almost nobody could use CLI tools. Now you can just ask an llm to generate the commands which makes things much more accessible

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    Comment #45189957

    You replaced “1.3B is not pocket change” with “1.3B€ isn’t a huge chunk of this”. Those have opposite meanings.

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    Comment #45080926

    That’s after corporate income tax of about 20%

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    Comment #45073141

    Interestingly Shannon did write about entropy relating to the English language, and how given a sequence of tokens, the next token can be predicted using the probabilities of findi…

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    Comment #44981955

    But that example is of writing a green field library that deals with an extremely well documented spec. While impressive, this isn’t what 99% of software engineering is. I’m genera…

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    Comment #44885266

    > 1) You publishing this informations causes harm …Harm to a company supporting genocide > 2) You are using that harm to achieve your political goals Snowden was also achieving pol…

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    Comment #44867830

    Just out of curiosity, what do you believe Snowden intended by leaking what he leaked? From your comment it almost reads as if you think the publication was the point, not that tho…

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    Comment #44655896

    Both of these can be true. Compare the US to countries like China for example, which has had success growing its economy with more state led companies and financing through state o…

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    Comment #44642990

    Does all of that matter if an attacker has access to your device and can take screenshots of your conversations, or read those conversations out of memory in their unencrypted stat…

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    Comment #44581247

    I’d say this is one of the most impressive demos: https://github.com/ArthurBrussee/brush Gaussian splatting training and rendering using webgpu

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    Comment #44556003

    Couldn’t the browser garbage collect the promises (and their callbacks) that have been rejected or resolved? I.e. effectively “shift” the promises at the start of the queue that ha…

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    Comment #44440651

    Only because everyone believes it’s a winner takes all game and this perfect competition will only last for as long as the winner hasn’t come out on top yet.

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    Comment #44431813

    Barring population growth, there is essentially fixed demand for agriculture. For software we don’t know what the market will look like once everything about making it gets automat…

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    Comment #44310229

    Generally, this is not really true. The point of CRDTs is that as long as all parties receive all messages (in any order), they should be able to recreate the same state. So instea…

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    Comment #44308002

    The game has definitely changed. It used to be profitable to be a photographer for hire, and that’s no longer the case. But the revenue generated through pictures (by influencers) …

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    Comment #44307853

    This is true, but: - there are more programmers today than there were back then - the best programmers are still those who would be considered technical back then

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    Comment #44296317

    While most people are fine after taking psychedelics, some people experience lasting visuals after a trip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percep... There are…

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    Comment #44286690

    And in those cases, most people condemn it. But when it’s an algorithm (which was created by humans) we say “these people were already insane, and the creators of the algorithm sho…

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    Comment #44257130

    Regular users don’t think of push notifications as something that needs to go through some central server owned by Apple. If Alice sends Bob a message, shouldn’t that require only …