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biot

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    This is the LLM equivalent of a riddle, eg: “A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 die. How many are left?”

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    Comment #47012382

    Depending on how you define 3D printing: braille.

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    The article says: > The full menagerie of shapes is too diverse to get a handle on, so mathematicians tend to focus on convex polyhedra The phrase "tend to focus on" suggests it's …

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    Comment #45698971

    Presumably a simple sphere would trivially qualify as being unable to pass through itself.

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    > Serverless Advocate: Yes, but instead of paying for infrastructure overhead and hiring 5–10 highly specialized k8s engineers, you pay AWS to manage it for you. This argument lost…

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    If you buffer starting with the ( character, then you'd still send the [text] part of the link, and worst case is that with no matching ) character to close the link, you end up bu…

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    Comment #44184019

    There are a few things in our implementation that make a more general solution unnecessary. We only need the output to support a limited set of markdown which is typically text, bu…

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    Comment #44138843

    This has long been my favorite entry! Still on my todo list to go through and fully understand it.

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    Comment #43940280

    Maybe as an eventually consistent life form using extremely slow message passing. Though gravity becomes a major factor that would limit the size unless it’s incredibly sparse. One…

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    Comment #43864985

    While the search offered is handy, I watch logs on multi-pod workloads via: kubectl logs -f -l app=api --max-log-requests=50 This follows along all pods with the given label (app: …

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    Comment #43405662

    You can run ad blockers in mobile Safari. This one works great: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-focus-privacy-browser/... -- it's both a browser itself as well as acting as a…

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    Comment #42923254

    The revenue milestones appears to show annual revenue goals rather than monthly. For example, if you have only 1 plan at $1/month, the $1000/month target shows you need 84 subscrib…

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    Fun fact: it's a different device, but the principle is the same as the device used in the documentary Tim's Vermeer. It results in the images overlapping between your left and rig…

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    Comment #42218110

    > However, if it's inside a plastic case that blocks light, it doesn't. You want an ordinary diode to allow current to flow easily when it senses light? Simple: shine a powerful la…

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    > Seems like all these other factors should matter too! The way I read it was that there are some minerals that are no longer there to begin with because they're simply not in the …

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    > I think an IDE, a keyboard, and a projector are better than printing code blocks at a specific revision which is identified by a computer-readable id, and which must be given a n…

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    From the article: > "This is a big object. An object of this size is going to have the equivalent impact energy in the hundreds of megaton approaching a gigaton," Brown said. "That…

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    The interviewee touches on this: > And so I would say, in response to what’s often asked, which is: If depression isn’t simply an abnormality in serotonin, why would you prescribe …

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    Comment #39488157

    I suspect a lot of people overestimate how special their code is. Also, if your code exists in a private repo on GitHub, then you're already trusting the same third party when usin…

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    If some company’s alcoholic beverage doesn’t get approved, you wouldn’t say “finally some faith in the firearms system” just because the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and E…

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