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> Any Tokens-as-a-Service provider will refuse to serve those tokens to customers in the US. So under a ban rest-of-world gets to use cheap open-weight models but American companie…

Are you a bot or bot-assisted? Repeating back the content of a comment and then asking a generic follow-up is a strange pattern.

Alternatively, day parking rates drop enough (due to market forces) to compensate for the cost of the toll.

> even if you're not driving in downtown Manhattan, you will still pay the cost to enter the city through the normal entrances Incorrect--if you take one of those bridges/tunnels b…

It’s a pointless affectation that distracts from your technical content. The evidence for your behavior being distracting/provocative is right here in this thread.

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> in a group chat where your dancer buddy Rex is learning to surf, it’s a killer. Maybe, but this class of jokes/riffs is going to get old, fast.

> Agreed, but that noise can be contained with an effective Faraday screening. I don’t think car manufacturers are saying they don’t know how to shield, they’re saying it would com…

Got a pointer (or search terms) for this? I’d like to learn more

Official rules say otherwise: "Each puzzle includes at least one “pangram,” which uses every letter." https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee -> click on 'How to Play'

Those terms are synonyms (at least in US academic parlance)

This fantasy of the line workers getting rich at cushy jobs does not seem to be related to reality?

Sorry 1 does not make sense. It's not like I bid on a house based on its square footage, and then only find out the address when I win. Even in the US, walkability scores, satellit…

You don't need to 'ride out winter'; there's a sweet spot around 100-hour storage where you can unlock a huge amount of grid resiliency and decarbonization (you can keep as many di…

40 years later and MacOS app menus are barely changed: Apple - (Current App Name) - File - Edit - View - [App-specific items] - Window - Help For Finder, there's still only one app…

The linked article says the 2 bits are stored on Apple’s servers. I.e. they could persist even if the device were bit-for-bit reset to factory state.

The narrative that most homeless people in SF come there from other places is contradicted by data. In annual surveys, ~70+% of people who are homeless in SF lived in SF when they …

+1. You can still use the PW generator to achieve this but it’s a bit clunky.

In the US most states (37/50) don’t have sales tax on groceries. Also food bought with SNAP benefits (food stamps) is exempt from sales tax in all states.

As it says at the top of the page, this article is basically a precis of a journal article, which--hurrah! is on Sci-hub: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1177/009614420528271…

> It then claims, without reference, that the VCR was a market replacement for physical sexual encounters. It goes on to ignore that AIDS was a health epidemic related to these sex…