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Comment #48039114
This is just the fallacy. Political groups are coalitions not single monoliths.
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Comment #47979433
I’ve seen a tremendous amount of content about AI water usage, mostly from pro AI sources. The most common type is comparing AI to particularly water intensive agriculture. The res…
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Comment #47950784
Responding to tone but not to content is what a dog does.
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Comment #47757494
Why would we expect John Deere to have a low AI adoption curve? It's main product line is just as computerized as Tesla's.
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Comment #47718253
Geologically speaking it's just one really cool layer.
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Comment #47666958
Code quality is a tactical concern and products live or die on strategy. I wouldn't recommend neglecting tactics if your strategy doesn't put you on the good side of a generational…
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Comment #47440609
There's a reason we had a few years of heavy anti police protest across the US.
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Comment #47338150
Safety and freedom is incompatible with direct political control. Respect for truth is a false value if what truth is is to be put to a vote or changed to match the whims of whoeve…
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Comment #47335984
The decline of technic sets is such a shame. There's so little support for anything but representative models of specific cars, despite the platform being able to support a ton of …
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Comment #46981624
To be fair that's more than a little bit present in most superhero media.
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Comment #46857905
Kernighan's Lever - https://linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/index.... This article is perennially posted here and is probably the best breakdown of this quote.
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Comment #46783838
You aren't renting walking distance to a butcher baker and candlestick maker for less than $3K for a studio. That's an aspirational lifestyle for a few neighborhoods.
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Comment #46633318
Deeply hate this. Just add a small fee. It's just a couple bucks. What are you, cheap? Open Source Software underwrites everything. It makes the largest human endeavors work. It ma…
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Comment #46621023
Folding drying racks come in several shapes and are very affordable.
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Comment #46620944
The article does go into this and gives lip service to the idea that a secure third party could expose age without exposing identity. Ultimately, there's still the problem that eve…
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Comment #46579161
There are several humans who need to make decisions between bad training data and life or death decisions coming from an LLM.
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Comment #46503419
Games are a zero marginal cost industry driven by hits. The cap is pretty high. The floor is what you should be worried about.
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Comment #46278126
Unions are useful because they are a counterparty to negotiations with management. They have leverage because they are able to represent labor as a single entity. If they are only …
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Comment #46192614
Having a relational database in a gui was great. The problem with access was that it tried to support network applications as a backend but supported a punishingly low number of co…
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Comment #46112413
It's a myth in the most literal way. Fleming published and promoted his results despite a lack of reproducibility. By the time he won the Nobel Prize, he had backformed or misremem…
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Comment #46111251
So many other good details that get to how impossibly multivariate biology research is, like the need to have several days at the exact temperature. It's not uncommon for results i…
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Comment #45900783
Chatbots enable self destructive manipulation of others at scale.
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Comment #45605376
I like your angle, but most applications is a big difference from most companies. Serverless comes after deciding whether or not to break up the monolith, and after breaking up eng…
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Comment #44976432
It sounds like it's a B2B SaaS product that's gone through multiple pivots with very weak guidance on product on every step. Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but it's a very comm…