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cwillu

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    Comment #49206846

    This aged well…

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    Comment #49192358

    SpaceX, not Starship. While I don't agree with the “starship will never orbit” haters, the viewpoint itself is coherent.

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    Comment #49190471

    Not having massive exposed and untested surface area is very much desireable. Every platform has a highly restrictive list of formats and containers for this exact reason.

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    Comment #49174558

    If Big Deployment is using a stock ffmpeg build rather than one that actually enables only the things they actually use, I feel like that's on Big Deployment.

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    Comment #49163550

    If you ask for a beef patty here, the server will look confused, and then bring you a hamburger patty on a plate

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    Comment #49130654

    The most common control circuit has the button triggering a relay which then powers its own trigger until the circuit is interrupted elsewhere; this isn't compatible with the same …

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    Comment #49129300

    The 90s called, they'd like a word.

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    Comment #49129184

    His link includes procedures, which suggest he was testing the hardness of some surface coating or similar: > For the pencil hardness test, reference ASTM D3363, pencils of increas…

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    Comment #49129123

    Their discomfort at being reminded of the real world consequences of their actions doesn't make what you said stupid.

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    Comment #49116541

    “as part of a sprawling operation that seeks to defraud online merchants and advertising networks.” Oh no! Not the advertising networks!

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    Comment #49107108

    But how will my PM get his fancy overlay of our website with the heatmap of user clicks and dwells to grossly misinterpret?

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    Comment #49104933

    git add -p or git add ‹file› -p

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    Comment #49101569

    It wouldn't be the first time ollama's llama.cpp fork reintroduced bugs and was missing important optimizations.

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    Comment #49090204

    And? Currently patents are predominantly used to prevent interoperability and impose costs.

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    Comment #49089870

    It comes with the territory; IMO if you don't occasionally have a few comments go negative, you're probably not saying anything of value.

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    Comment #49089621

    Allow me to translate: “It a near certainty that they will fuck you over eventually; the question is will it be next year, next decade, or will you win the lottery?”

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    Comment #49079785

    https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/math/0411418 for the in-browser html rendering

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    Comment #49074475

    It's not just a loop; it's a knot!

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    Comment #49068735

    I never thought I'd have so much sympathy for Kate “Forgive me, Mr Data; I am not accustomed to work with non-living devices that… Forgive me again. Your service record says that y…

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    Comment #49068708

    It is entirely possible (if perhaps unlikely) that the correct theory of everything is a relatively straightforward expansion of the current standard model.

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    Comment #49067785

    > No one would use the other maps because other maps are worse. Do you realize how many commercial driving apps are based around OSM data?

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    Comment #49063965

    Days since my last exposure to “I'm sorry, you're absolutely right, that's wrong”: 1

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    Comment #49062266

    Because of shitty over-zealous blocking, probably.

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    Comment #49052034

    A different country... without an extradition treaty.