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drdec

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    Comment #49241518

    IMHO, the verbosity is an attempt to make the results more deterministic. The more specific the prompt, the less wiggle room.

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    Comment #49241466

    That argument is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. There is no perfect security.

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    Comment #49241432

    I've set up a second user on my machine just for running AI. That way I have the additional layer of OS protections against it doing something like that.

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    Comment #49181142

    I am saying there are unintended consequences to such changes. If all the grocery stores all at once raised prices 5%, your margins might turn negative. And most of your neighbors.…

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    Comment #49180984

    Some companies run at an extremely narrow margin. For example the margin for grocery stores is reportedly 1%. If you changed the tax system to tax gross revenues, now those stores …

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    Comment #49180944

    Because if you are someone that generates good content you might not know anything about designing or hosting websites. But they can ask an AI to do it for them so they can focus o…

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    Comment #48971747

    An important part of my observation is that everyone is using them, not just that they are available

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    Comment #48932415

    I wonder if the real difference is that everyone has earbuds versus playing through a speaker

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    Comment #48907634

    One part of me wishes for multiple levels of logical commits. When using GH we essentially have one level. The PR is the like a roll-up commit and then we have the component commit…

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    Comment #48872670

    Approximately ten defensive linemen

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    Comment #48822887

    people have been making similar predictions about the US and soccer since I was a kid. Youth soccer is incredibly popular yet...

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    Comment #48809466

    > the safe drawdown rate of 4% per year IIRC this rate is based on some standard retirement length (like 30 years), not forever.

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    Comment #48451899

    > Manhattan Scalpers won't leave unsold seats to a game like this In this situation, it is unlikely that is it scalpers with the really desirable court side seats that fetch the hi…

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    Comment #48451847

    > Most of these tickets will go unsold I'm sure. The tickets have already been sold. These postings are for resales.

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    Comment #48386363

    You probably use direct deposit in which case your employer already has your banking info

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    Comment #48267116

    Yes, technically payroll taxes are not income taxes. And people who that x number of people do not pay income tax are implying they are paying no federal taxes when that is not tru…

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    Comment #48261449

    People who complain about people not playing income taxes ignore payroll taxes.

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    Comment #48257005

    I feel sad that what I think of as the obvious solution, companies using subdomains like internal.microsoft.com instead of making a million different domains, is so far from happen…

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    Comment #48003595

    Accessibility, if I am not mistaken

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    Comment #47868750

    I believe the grandparent is referring to the US Senate, which was designed as the state's representation in the federal government, and where each state gets 2 senators. This mean…

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    Comment #47852543

    They are talking about the price on the shelf vs the price at the register. The price tag on the shelf has information identifying the product. The price at the register is obvious…

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    Comment #47832659

    I think the common use of the term capitalist is as a participant in capitalism. This is distinct from someone who is a proponent of capitalism as a system, which appears to be the…

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    Comment #47580241

    > I'm not convinced it's actually safer to have kids in the back. I thought that a major reason for placing children in back seat was because of the air bags in the front seat repr…

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    Comment #47520208

    AA displays the boarding time in the app instead of the departure time once the flight gets close enough (like same day) >If they printed the exact time boarding starts and people …

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    Comment #47431668

    can anyone recommend similar hardware compatible with linux? that also supports the three fingered drag and other stuff mentioned in the article?