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dbeardsl

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    Comment #49251894

    My first query: > Make it a little warmer in here. The reply: > "name": "set_thermostat", > "arguments": { > "temperature": 65, > "mode": "cool", > ... > "reasoning": "'warmer' imp…

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    Comment #48315068

    > They were not allowed to do that Incorrect as the article points out with an image of the contract: > However, it was brought to my attention by site user @luddevig that Chrystal…

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    Comment #47880476

    I appreciate the reply, but I was never under the impression that gaps in conversations would increase costs nor reduce quality. Both are surprising and disappointing. I feel like …

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    Comment #47671326

    > and that's entirely the point of music That's very reductive. Music, like writing or painting, is a medium, not a thing with intrinsic purpose. It can be a means of communication…

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    Comment #47079106

    Neither do cars until very recently. A tool doesn't have to be unsupervised to be useful.

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    Comment #46545200

    "Technically"? It's just wrong and I'm not sure which they were intending. Similarly, " miles and miles per hour are different units, it's not just a technical distinction. A journ…

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    Comment #45957182

    I believe this is off by 5 or 6 orders of magnitude. Looks like it's more like 200,000Twh / Yr https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption

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    Comment #45587950

    That’s fair, it’s not ok to pretend desert has no life worth protecting. However, there is a lot of it, and as far as impacted animals per acre, it’s got to be near the bottom. Thu…

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    Comment #45033092

    I think you missed a 0. I've never heard of an AC unit for a house that's 400W. 4000W and above is more common. Google: > An AC unit's electricity usage varies by type, with window…

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    Comment #44806692

    I think this is incorrect reading of the numbers I've never heard of `{number} {plural magnitude}` meaning `mag / number`. I've only ever seen it mean `number * mag`. As in 3-thous…

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    Comment #38723921

    I would say he's not in trouble for gaining access to systems, it's for extortion: > He worked with Kurtaj and other members of Lapsus$ to hack tech giant Nvidia and phone company …

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    Comment #38631178

    An FCC commissioner indicates that the FCC is yoinking the award because it thinks SpaceX won't hit the 2025 targets, yet many other award recipients have no service and no rollout…

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    Comment #38631114

    Here's a dissenting opinion from FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-105A3.pdf > What good is an agreement to build out service by 202…

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    Comment #32958702

    This person (James Halliday I think) is a huge contributor to the node community. 1000+ node packages: https://www.npmjs.com/~substack

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    Comment #22902725

    Sounds like you have taken this pretty far, do you have any example outputs? The only one I found via your website was a PDF with a low res image with no context.

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    Comment #15868449

    Off by a factor of 10. 0.025mcg * 8000 = 20mcg

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    Comment #11040028

    And restricted access to their data + cease-and-desisted anyone who wanted to augment the CL experience. They're still in business because they are shrewd and have the critical mas…

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    Comment #11040008

    For my team's (~20 people) uses, Github (and the tools we and others develop ontop of it) meets our needs amazingly well and literally would be 100% worth the price at 10X the cost…

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    Comment #9302529

    https://www.ifixit.com announces iFAXit! On-demand repair guide delivery (to your fax machines! For free!)

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    Comment #8978129

    Myself and a number of others have used this generic development and design contract: https://github.com/danielbeardsley/service_contracts I negotiate the terms, make local commits…

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    Comment #7635718

    tldr; During an npm install of the tar module I received this: npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/tar npm ERR! registry error parsing json npm ERR! SyntaxError: Unexpected tok…

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