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dmurvihill

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    Comment #49027839

    Wow, good to know. Can you tell me what company you work for so I can make sure it's not part of my stack?

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    Comment #49027697

    A 400k mortgage needs a new roof after 25 years. A data center needs its hardware completely replenished after 5 (or less).

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    Comment #48961173

    Looks like StackOverflow was already declining by the time ChatGPT came out

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    Comment #48938851

    Love that theatre

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    Comment #48938520

    Actually, the group in question have repeatedly and vocally asked others to speak up when they see nonsense like this.

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    Comment #48938456

    It depends on the application. Dissertation? Hell naw. Blog post? Absolutely, run it through that thing.

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    Comment #48911819

    I bet the author submitted "to BBB-, one above junk" and an ignorant editor turned the minus into an em dash

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    Comment #48691794

    Very cool, thanks!

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    Comment #48557355

    ARR is best month times twelve, not revenue per year.

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    Comment #48531086

    The Uber drivers created that value and should get those billions, not Travis Kalanick.

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    Comment #48531032

    What's missing is that the billion-dollar value is based on the expectation of exploiting the employees/customers/environment to achieve profit in the future.

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    Comment #48531017

    Luckily, billionaires don't have to worry about that.

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    Comment #48530888

    That's why they're so keen to build out all these data centers; the massive capex is their only conceivable moat. Whether all those additional parameters actually make a competitiv…

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    Comment #48524340

    Collecting rent maps exactly to that definition.

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    Comment #48524333

    I don't mind ending the type of construction that's recently been occurring.

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    Comment #48524162

    The payload yes, the exploit hopefully not.

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    Comment #48524156

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48524149

    I mean, it's no SF, but Minneapolis definitely has an affordability problem. Every major city does.

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    Comment #48524140

    Sure, when you kick out all the poor people, the city definitely does look richer.

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    Comment #48482699

    This is a leadership failure. People who want to do a good job always get fired for taking too long.

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    Comment #47282887

    The burden of proof is completely uncharted when it comes to LLMs. Burden of proof is assigned by court precedent, not the Copyright Act itself (in US law). Meaning, a court lookin…

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    Comment #46459709

    Short: Elements of Style, Strunk and White. Comprehensive: Chicago Manual of Style

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    Comment #46330950

    Got this kind of crap from multiple tickets I filed with GitHub

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    Comment #46330909

    "People say that you should not micro-optimize. But if what you love is micro-optimization... that's what you should do." -Linus