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Comment #49244770
So many possibilities for error... Is every case of dementia diagnosed accurately? Is there a difference between professions how likely their dementia is to be diagnosed accurately…
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Comment #49147103
Can you link to those recommendations? I can't find anything on the Norwegian public health sites specifically about farmed salmon.
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Comment #49105366
I think the answer is much simpler: They didn't recognize the potential of that specific architecture. I don't think anyone could have. They valued the perk to employees being able…
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Comment #49105167
So why is op trying to publish?
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Comment #49091040
The ids were used in a limited context and it compared to all the other ids generated in the same context. Yes, absolutely nonsensical. I find it interesting that presumably the LL…
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Comment #49081368
They do tend to overengineer. The other day 5.6 Sol generated a while loop around a uuid4 call to make sure the generated ids were unique... I wonder if that's also how I'd behave …
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Comment #49071305
Infinite scroll with htmx: https://htmx.org/examples/infinite-scroll/
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Comment #49002770
Why would local be cheaper than api rates?
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Comment #48989303
What does weak connections mean in this context?
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Comment #48857678
What fraction of Google is owned by the engineers at Google? 5%? That's nothing compared to the bargaining power obtained by organized labor, actual socialist organization.
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Comment #48856320
I mean why do you say that large tax evading organizations, operating in an extremely capitalist environment, steered by a small, unfathomably rich, group of people with uncommon a…
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Comment #48856267
If there's no shadowy cabal then why do our politicians continue to pass domestically unpopular laws? I mean, there doesn't have to be a literal shadowy cabal, the effective "cabal…
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Comment #48856222
Don't you think modern image analysis tools such as llms will be easily defeated by measures such as adding colored rings? A couple of years ago you could add some pixels to an ima…
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Comment #48856093
Are you calling Macron a "leftist"? It does help your argument because it's a tautology that "the leftists failed to provide prosperity" if the entire political spectrum counts as …
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Comment #48856030
> the EU is toothless and lacks the spine to twist some arms in order to see its interests represented on the world stage. The rhetoric right now is just bizarre. Why should the EU…
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Comment #48814191
Why do you say that?
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Comment #48748096
They said "there are algorithmic changes that remains to be discovered" and you said they bought into the idea that "all we need is more context". Seems like opposites to me.
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Comment #48658678
Looks great! One minor correction - the `summarize` function in duckdb can also be used in CTEs etc. But you have to wrap the `summarize` in a `from` clause like this: with some_ta…
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Comment #48537587
This is the HTTP/1.1 standard: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2616 Then there are also HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. That's just HTTP, curl supports 27 other protocols.
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Comment #48532491
Call it progress, call it "economic leverage", a very inflated stock market is no good measure for either. It's true the US economy has grown faster than the European in the last t…
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Comment #48529215
To be fair the value of the stock market is not a good indicator of progress. The US stock market is incredibly inflated. Besides, it's a bit strange to argue that it's impossible …
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Comment #48528399
To add to that: There are also "compounding effects" from investments made by tax money, just as for any other investments, the difference is that the compounding gains are collect…
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Comment #48528340
That's a misunderstanding of the original argument. It's not about billionairs "doing something bad". The claim is that the only way to become a billionaire is to benefit from an u…
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Comment #48528286
Well put!