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bruce343434

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    Comment #49241614

    Tis not shared

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    Comment #49156024

    Perhaps they just used the exact same random seed everywhere?

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    Comment #48952779

    > last month I spent almost 10k USD on tokens. It sounds so insane It is. That kind of money would change my life and this guy spends it on prompts that "really force him to think"…

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    Comment #48948129

    C++ compilers do this too, thats why so many to-be-linked symbols start with "Z"

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    Comment #48926506

    addressing any of the points would require locking the AI down and making it less general and less "agentic". Your concerns make sense if you look at the AI as an information retri…

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    Comment #48917593

    Prompt injection (or llm social engineering" is fundamentally unsolvable, though with training its effectiveness can be reduced

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    Comment #48829055

    the optimal crime rate is non zero and the same goes for traffic death rate, because to bring them to zero would imply a dystopia where personal freedom is seriously limited

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    Comment #48815080

    :set {:job "Engineer"} :where |(= ($ :job) "Developer") What is going on there in that where syntax?

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    Comment #48794633

    Is there a nautical map equivalent of osm or organic maps? One that emphasizes waterways by drawing them thicker when zoomed out like regular maps draw roads thicker? Plan routes o…

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    Comment #48676212

    Because you can deduplicate certain parts of the logic which make the whole thing less error prone, such as if c x=1 else x=2 If I ever want to change x, or refactor this code some…

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    Comment #48661620

    tldw: - wider wheels are marginally less efficient but almost negligible - rims with larger diameter have larger air resistance. Probably because the rim patterns intersects the ai…

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    Comment #48585010

    “I have seen people technically meet the 30% rule and still feel financially strained,” shares Linda Grizely, a certified financial planner and financial wellness speaker. “The pre…

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    Comment #48579207

    Why would the company pay more when they can just not pay more? The only things I can see happening is they might lower prices as competition ramps up, or in general as there is mo…

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    Comment #48578874

    Everyone else will be 5% more productive. Then no one is "more" productive. So everyone has a higher output, but the same wages and hours worked. There was only a gap when usable A…

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    Comment #48577921

    I want it to cause a traffic accident. If I'm going down, so is everyone else. I'm already dying anyway. Grok 10000%

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    Comment #48442185

    The issue is how easy computers make everything, and how well processes scale with computers. Back in the day to heist data you'd have to physically break in or infiltrate, rummage…

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    Comment #48425887

    I agree. I tend to use the gnu "asprintf" which simply returns a properly allocated char buffer with the formatted string in it. And on platforms that don't feature asprintf (windo…

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    Comment #48425857

    The accumulator pattern keeps simulations stable in the face of variable frame rate. Accumulate the frame dt into an accum variable. If accum>fixed_physics_dt then step_physics unt…

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    Comment #48422803

    I'll change your mind: If you pass NULL as the destination pointer, it doesn't write any string. If you combine this with %n at the end of the format string, you can get the exact …

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    Comment #48422651

    what happens when ALL the stocks have been bought back? what is the natural conclusion? you get extra points if you mention dilution i.e. oops we turned on the ~~money~~ stock prin…

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    Comment #48422571

    That's just dividend stocks with more shady. We promise to invest the dividend you would have gotten into ourselves to become more valuable bro. But that will only be reflected in …

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    Comment #48422373

    > not concerned about the actual economy. Why would it be? Non dividend stocks only have value because other people think they have value (i.e. greater fool theory). Only dividend …

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    Comment #48409924

    HaikuOS got this right. Tabs are a property of the OS side of the window, not the application side

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    Comment #48370990

    More efficient in terms of bandwidth (not) used. More costly because it has to be stored somewhere instead.