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float4

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About float4

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

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    As someone who's in his late 20s and didn't (consciously) witness the dotcom crisis I want to ask the older people here: was this also part of the dotcom bubble era? Were people wo…

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    Wouldn't you get >50% of the usefulness and 0% of the risk if you add read+draft permissions for the email connection through a proxy or oauth permissions? Then your claw can draft…

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    Comment #43663253

    For me it's a bit of both. I'm working on exciting energy software with people who have deep knowledge of the sector but only semi-decent software knowledge. Nearly every day I'm r…

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    I should have read this 12h ago! This afternoon, I tried to create my first simple agent using LangChain. My aim was to repeatedly run a specific python analysis function and perfo…

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    Comment #43279766

    You call it silly because you could be doing useful stuff on your phone. I'd go one step further and say that even if you're slacking off that's not necessarily a bad thing. Everyb…

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    Comment #42621359

    > Bezos nailed it on this topic: “[...] [I]n our retail business, we know that customers want low prices, and I know that's going to be true 10 years from now. They want fast deliv…

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    > Except Dairy Queen, Wendy’s, and McDonald’s outside of the U.S. don’t have this problem. Heck, even Ikea has successfully been selling ice cream (from self serve machines!) here …

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    Comment #40086064

    I was under the impression that Netflix was not deemed video sharing platform because they don't actively dictate what is and is not allowed on the platform the way YouTube does. B…

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    Comment #40085899

    Multiple reasons: 1. Size. DMA requirement is >=7.5b turnover in the EU, or worldwide market cap >=75b. Not the case for Spotify. 2. Non-provision of core platform services. It's n…

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    Comment #39928963

    https://archive.is/Lhkml

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    Comment #39747186

    Most people buy pea protein isolate. This is a more complex product where the protein has actually been separated from the remainder of the peas. (Not sure if it would qualify as u…

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    Comment #39719654

    > he made his students work use pens while taking his tests This is very common in the Netherlands, I think that's why it was a rule of his. In general, the Dutch education system …

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    Comment #38076030

    > look for the spouse sitting quietly on his phone, but please don't bother him Might as well just be someone with social anxiety. Many people like that in tech.

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    Comment #37880527

    Shakespeare had an exceptionally large vocabulary. He constantly used words his audience / readers didn't understand. And that's okay with you, because he was "expressing and trans…

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    Comment #37880022

    > Good writing is about expressing and transferring ideas. Not everything is a scientific paper. Good writing can also be art. There's a reason why Shakespeare wrote his 18th sonne…

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    Comment #37778651

    What happens when you place your phone in the microwave (don't turn the oven on, obviously) and walk away with your speaker? I'm curious what kind of range you're getting. For refe…

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    Comment #37512236

    There is no one way of doing this. What you write is correct, but most people use the (IMO simpler) 3rd digit rule: the decade is decided by the third digit of the year. So 2020, 2…

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    Comment #36934928

    Or at least show us how long the sky's been up currently? I have no idea if this page is 2 days or 2 years old, and I'm too lazy to check archive.org.

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    Comment #36833935

    Toyota already said it was around the corner in 2017[0]. Now it's 2023 and it's still around the corner. I'll believe it when I see it. [0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bertelschmi…

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    The S3 was the real problem. VanMoof released the VanMoof S3 in 2020, which was €2000 (the predecessor was close to €3000). The S3 sold very well because of its low price and great…

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