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drra

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    I found myself writing exactly like this for a while after reading pages and pages of this special construct before my bs detector understood what it is...

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    Comment #47803391

    Seems like everybody an their mothers are using max plans these days. I wouldn't be surprised if LTV of each customer was big enough to justify spending.

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    Comment #47803342

    Absolutely. Anyone working on inference token level knows how wasteful it all is especially in multimodal tokens.

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    Comment #47353770

    Funny how most flipped from being grammar nazi to mistakes are proof of human authorship.

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    Comment #46035315

    Travel industry especially OTA behemoths like booking or expedia live by exploiting all possible quirks of the systems. For example they could snap super cheap airline promo fares …

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    Comment #45560601

    It can be legal and tightly controlled at the same time. Here in my European country it's perfectly legal to prescribe opiates but after 3rd prescription (regardless of what opiate…

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    Comment #45165407

    Never underestimate bragging rights in gamers community. Majority of us run unoptimized systems with that one great piece of gear and as long as the game runs at decent FPS and we …

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    Comment #41122873

    Seen this story play out so many times. I audited a company years ago that claimed to have excellent, personal almost, relationship with Google and all needed paperwork to use thei…

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    Comment #40708895

    Also since national markets in Europe are relatively big by themselves a lot of companies tend to be satisfied with comfort of a single market success.

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    Comment #40708726

    I own an ancient box copy of Adobe Photoshop CS4 and use it just because of muscle memory. Since a year or so, periodically it bullies me with a popup that my unlicensed software i…

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    Comment #40704732

    The European Small Claims Procedure[1] might be helpful. [1] https://e-justice.europa.eu/content_small_claims-42-en.do

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    Comment #40154640

    Or upscale every 4th frame for consistency. Upscaling in between frames should be much easier.

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    Comment #40096378

    I'm also 25 years into my programming career, and since my children arrived, I've been getting less sleep and have become accustomed to it. I must admit that my mental capacity and…

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    Comment #39805996

    I feel like Spotify generated playlists always lead me into some insignificant easy to listen background music and it feels like it's led by cost-effective algorithm that reinforce…

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    Comment #39154148

    > Seriously: stay away from most plastics and all PVC Could you still test it wit EVA (ethylene-vinyl acetate) foam? I use it for prop-making. While it's easy to cut with knife, CN…

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    Comment #39094663

    Surely low power PIR sensor would work. Something like this maybe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGZFg4SVySM

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    Comment #38718405

    It all boils down to unmanaged technical debt that can have many forms - code, standards, architecture, documentation, tooling, compliance. There are two major indicators of tech d…

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    Comment #38532479

    So these trains are exclusively used in Poland by quite a big number of regional train companies. There are 5 servicing levels starting from P1 up to most complex P5. It used to be…

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    Comment #38456506

    This really resonates with my experience. Working at a major airline, I was the one who would pick the most difficult and risky projects. One was a quick implementation of a new pa…

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    Comment #38304111

    The notion of this article is that LLMs are just for answering question as if these were failed oracles. LLMs are excellent at instruction following to the point where it'll execut…

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    Comment #37842261

    Cinema is safe from the optics point of view as achieving some of the effects of large sensor + large lens is impossible with a phone size camera. But Apple has it cracked and they…

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    Comment #37792884

    I doubt the sorry is true. It could only happen with a custom in-house system and any interconnected (and distributed worldwide several decades ago) airlines would use an external …

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    Comment #37615993

    Unity attempt at cash grab is nothing new but since it backfired they are using their sweetest words to walk it back. This is happening all the time in ecosystems where businesses …

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    Comment #37593896

    In the '90s, a friend of mine was in the pharma industry. During a training session, the question came up: "Is it possible to market a useless drug as a panacea?" The straightforwa…