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cultofmetatron

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    Comment #49212847

    you can't beat the Zorhan!

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    Comment #49192620

    I found the new deepseek flash is so good I rarely have to pull out gpt sol anymore. if anything for coding tasks, gpt sol ends to go out of scope and I have to reign it in. Trying…

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    Comment #49179918

    its a bit like how big companies will pullin a CEO who;s job is to do all the unpopular stuff and then summarily dismiss him after (while keeping the policies he created in tact). …

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    Comment #49166213

    both democrats and republicans take their money from the same donors. its all a show.

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    Comment #49066432

    probably the arbitrariness of it. PEMDAS is more or less burned into my brain at this point but its basically the qwerty of notations.

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    Comment #49066405

    the whippings will continue until Dx core 4 metrics improve

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    Comment #49003066

    I do recall that a "famous redditor" was driven to suicide for making works available and he wasn't even making money for it.

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    Comment #48979503

    "Yet" is the keyword. it won't be long before we arent' any different from china at the rate we are going at and I think a lot of us would be better off preventing the west from tu…

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    Comment #48976871

    western elites are currently at odds with the chinese elites and every impressionable idiot is being inundates with antichinese propaganda. Lets be frank, every single issue we hav…

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    Comment #48966110

    elixir also has hygenic macros ala scheme. it also easier to write and read day to day compared to erlang. elixir also made strings more manageable. they made a bunch of tangible i…

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    Comment #48879322

    I've been suspecting this myself and its probably the biggest thing I dislike about ai having taken over the proffession.

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    Comment #48830987

    what you want a game where they take into account the expansion of space? are we also going to model the complete breakdown of causality on the otherside of the ftl?

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    Comment #48817187

    I'm currently in bangkok atm. where can I go try this soup?

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    Comment #48794926

    > Yes, there is a middle ground. Elixir's Ecto does this well. Ecto is by far the closest thing to a perfect pattern for abstracting over sql that I've ever seen. I WISH other lang…

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    Comment #48758832

    > worship of a single person, personal loyalty triumphing over competence, and the Chinese economic machine, subject to whims of a single person, seems to be slowing down. The whol…

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    Comment #48758726

    > There are plenty of disastrous decisions in the last 70 years at the level of major policies. one thing I've come to respect about the Chinese is that while they make huge decisi…

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    Comment #48730881

    > If you weren't OK with that you weren't eligible to serve on a jury. same reason they are really out to disqualify jurors who know about jury nullification https://en.wikipedia.o…

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    Comment #48718192

    > Once of age, no need, come of age, can remove. children don't tend to object to losing rights they never had in the first place. get them used to livign with less rights and a lo…

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    Comment #48717589

    > There is surely an international special interest group lobbying for this? yea, you know who they are, I know who they are and we all knoww what they are tryin to hide. but anyon…

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    Comment #48705943

    as a CTO, its been crazy pushing back against these AI mandates. Almost always from VCs and non technical contributors. I'm pretty liberal about using AI but it has its limits. I t…

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    Comment #48705383

    no kidding. I learned last week that they have intercontinental high voltage DC transmission lines.

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    Comment #48701839

    SOTA AI is the only place where we are ahead. china has us beat on manufacturing, logistics and workhorse grade models like deepseek pro and glm5.2. we're increasingly irrelevant

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    Comment #48642475

    if only there was a magical place where geothermal and hydroelectric is ubiquitous and the weather is cold enough that no one is going to be complaining about free heating.

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    Comment #48629764

    lets say you have a table that is partitioned. how do you lint/format "any select into this table MUST include the partition key in the predicate and any join must include it in th…

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    Comment #48627190

    I seriously dont' know all this big hullabaloo about one shot prompting. by definition, a single prompt wont' constitute the complexity of a software project. ergo, what you'll get…