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    Comment #43991058

    man - intelligence = woman (36%) woman + intelligence = man (77%) Oof.

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    Comment #43689225

    > A single $5 vps should be able to handle easily tens of thousands of requests Sure, given enough time. Did you miss a denominator?

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    Comment #42058178

    > Is Xi Winnie-the-Pooh? (Google Translate: "I'm sorry, I haven't learned how to answer this question yet and cannot provide relevant information for the time being.")

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    Comment #41774561

    No, those people are almost certainly paying far below list price.

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    Comment #40807494

    Not much, but they'll benefit much more in the short term in reduced taxes by writing down those assets to zero. Edit: this was downvoted, and I don't understand why. Am I wrong in…

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    Comment #40654633

    It's worth mentioning AES-GCM-SIV[1], which is the fix for this issue. [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8452.html

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    Comment #40531899

    Yes, that sucks. Blame ahenry@, then GM for S3. My proposal was that parts of incomplete uploads would stick around for only 24 hours after the most recent activity on the upload, …

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    Comment #40520647

    My thoughts and prayers for the Nickelback fans outed by this breach.

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    Comment #40294876

    No, zinccat, you are wrong. Your model is vastly inferior to GPT4. I tried multiple prompts. In all cases, your model performed far worse. Here is one: > My bank says they'll pay 5…

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    Comment #39308334

    User: Which is heavier, two pounds of feathers or a pound of bricks? Gemini: Neither! They both weigh the same, which is two pounds. The key is in the wording of the question. You'…

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    Comment #38875995

    I saw std::function and std::string (e.g. TotW 127, https://abseil.io/tips/117 ) being passed by value a lot in newer google3 code. Both are larger than 16 bytes.

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    Comment #38484108

    Counterpoint: machine code may be run often, but source code is run never.

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    Comment #37973509

    I think vegans already grok this. My understanding is that the vegan diet is not the manifestation of a love for animals but rather the embodiment of a hatred of vegetables.

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    Comment #34720579

    I imagine it's because we use the tools we know. There are likely more effective approaches that would look like gibberish, but we don't have the insight to use those. All we have …

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    Comment #32948606

    The problem is that perfectly distinguishing permanent and temporary redirects requires infallible knowledge of the future, which is not possible.

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    Comment #32382390

    This is very much not it. The Stubby team decided early on to use trailers and was combative and obstinate when the Chrome and GFE (reverse proxy) teams tried to explain why doing …

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    Comment #31117753

    brotli helps: $ echo ' ' | brotli -9 - | wc -c 93

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    Comment #27452463

    That's the joke.