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hapless

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    turns out there is more involved in performance than just clock rate who knew? (everyone)

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    Comment #48708638

    definitionally that's "for some intents and purposes" my man

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    Comment #48664608

    clearly german regulators and/or voters disagree, as is their right nevertheless it is very easy to start a business , and this man is complaining about an entirely separate proble…

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    Comment #48664125

    It's an important rule if you want the liability protections associated with a limited liability corporation If you just want to start a business, without any associated shell comp…

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    Comment #48301415

    "Most people are not autodidacts because most people have no material reason to learn a specific topic (i.e. their job does not require it) and the problem with learning for the sa…

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    Comment #48152209

    SpaceX and Tesla’s not-so-arm’s-length transaction are like, textbook cases for fraud It amazes me investors or the sec will put up with it

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    Comment #47965627

    10g-base-T is a sick joke high latency, high error rates, and terrifying heat output from SFPs (which the author noted for himself) the only cat6 left in my home network is the lin…

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    Comment #47760775

    the best/worst part of this is that it is obviously not written by steve blank. it does not look, read, or track like a steve blank blog piece he obviously generated large parts of…

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    Comment #47665410

    Go ahead and require a special gadget to get an "electronically transferrable ticket," no skin off my back. That is a feature I will never use. Don't bother your season ticket hold…

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    Comment #47665395

    Forgery is a non-issue -- this guy is a season ticket holder. Literally all they need is his government ID checked against a list. The "problem" they were trying to "solve" is lett…

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    Comment #47665355

    Forgery isn't relevant. He's a known individual, a season ticket holder. He's not some random dude showing up with a paper ticket.

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    Comment #47638957

    After his stunt with the mass firings "because of AI," employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings with Jack Dorsey . These clowns live in a dreamworld created by their…

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    Comment #47583405

    The Concorde and the Tupolev both relied on afterburners, because they operated under similar design constraints -- the "western" jet engines in the Concorde were not that much bet…

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    Comment #47581649

    Chaika was not a copy of a Packard. (They certainly admired the Packard bodywork, but Soviet industry was in no way ready to clone a Packard sedan) Tu-144 was not a copy of the Con…

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    Comment #47429154

    the reason "reader mode" isn't the default is to discourage website authors from intentionally breaking reader mode -_-

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    Comment #47408836

    beyond meat was a super cynical bet that ordinary non-vegetarian consumers would no longer be able to afford meat, so they would turn to meat substitutes even if they were more cos…

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    Comment #47299286

    Clown shit. Sell your ORCL while you can, folks

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    Comment #47299262

    You don't have to actually do #3. What most companies do is just get a UL certification (to reassure consumers) and put the label "no user-serviceable parts inside" on the case (to…

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    Comment #47032298

    humans without credentials are bad at basic algebra in a word problem, ergo the large language model must be substantially equivalent to a human without a credential thanks but no …

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    Comment #46807778

    spiritual successor? how about "ghoulish horror" ;) the worst example of "second system effect" i have ever heard of

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    Comment #46807767

    amusingly Motif and CDE were derived from HP attempts to copy Windows 2.x and the betas of Windows 3.0 not windows 3.1 -- windows 3.1 was popular! Windows before 3.1 was distinctly…

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    Comment #46807721

    the common element between VMS (the subject of this post) and Windows NT, is Dave cutler. Cutler lived in an extremely overcomplicated world of VMS kernel primitives, and given the…