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cbsmith
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About cbsmith
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Comment #49100806
The article concedes that there is a minimum power consumption. Thinking that therefore defines your generation strategy (e.g. I will have plants that constantly generate that mini…
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Comment #49100757
...because they have other goals beyond reduce carbon emissions.
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Comment #48725505
Better a financial barrier than a physical one. If satellites and spaceships are literally smashing in to each other, I have a hard time interpreting it as anything other than a re…
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Comment #48519292
Are there other OSS LLMOps projects that have overtaken you? I couldn't think of one.
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Comment #48342428
As someone who has jumped from one industry to another: I'm sorry, but domain expertise isn't much of a moat. Yes, it takes a while to learn a particular industry/business, but it …
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Comment #48173838
Confirming it was fixed and it worked well.
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Comment #48144413
Installing collected packages: sortedcontainers, boolean.py, urllib3, typing-extensions, tqdm, tomlkit, tomli-w, tomli, tenacity, stevedore, shellingham, ruamel-yaml, regex, PyYAML…
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Comment #48142328
Wow. I remember the Toronto PET Users Group. That takes me back.
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Comment #48139604
He he. If you think the costs for an education will go down because they're seeing fewer applications and they're getting less funding from other sources, I have bad news for you.
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Comment #48123512
This is a bizarre article, and it kind of reminds me of the concept that the only truly good software is the software you've never used.
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Comment #47953108
Also correct. I see the problem as particularly rampant with the video sites.
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Comment #47949021
I was going to say: "in what way is the problem restricted to health?"
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Comment #47936400
It's kind of a comprehensive guide to all the ways that restricted shells don't.
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Comment #47857248
Yup. Sounds right. Interestingly though, you can use the new input cover with the older frames.
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Comment #47856077
More like the reverse: if you want the new battery you need a new bottom.
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Comment #47789958
Ask yourself why airlines deliberately overbook flights while venues do their best to never overbook events, why are subject to identify verification before a flight, and why you g…
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Comment #47788639
> If only the federal government were allowed to pursue this case, it would have ended when the administration changed. This is more why DOJ cases should remain independent from th…
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Comment #47788616
> Because artists don't always want to extract the maximum money possible from their fanbase? I think that's both true and not. The larger truth is that trying to maximize the extr…
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Comment #47788591
> They don't seem to mention the most obvious reason: the same companies profit from both the primary and secondary market. That's not true. Ticketmaster has a monopoly (or near-mo…
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Comment #47788564
> Why not just ban the transfer of tickets and allow refunds? There are laws against transfer bans. Also, people don't like being required to provide identity information just to b…
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Comment #47788533
> A perhaps bigger issue is the vertical integration (if that's the right term) of first-party ticket sales and resale in one company. The monopoly findings were about vertical int…
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Comment #47713837
Appears being the operative word.
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Comment #47713830
It sort of doesn't matter. Bottom line is it isn't an effective platform for them.
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Comment #47712367
If you think it is "essentially zero cost", I'm going to respectfully suggest you do not understand what you read. If you think they reached 13 million people on X last year, you d…
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Comment #47712282
It's really weird that the EFF would post something on their own site to speak to their supporters, and that it would employ "identity-group-affirming language". Just because they …