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Comment #42763455
Given that screens are always adding their own light, it’s impossible for a screen to ever be equally bright as a piece of paper next to it. The screen will always be brighter.
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Comment #42753851
Grindr was forcibly divested, so yes, it has happened
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Comment #42703245
What you said seems contradictory. You open with the premise that intelligent youth go the finance / CS / MBA path instead of engineering and then say that those who do go into tra…
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Comment #42652531
It's not typically considered, but it matters when comparing against an economy that primarily manufactures goods.
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Comment #42635247
I assert this without evidence, but I would highly suspect club attendance numbers and rave attendance numbers to be strongly correlated.
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Comment #42631305
Milk actually has a ridiculous amount of sugar. 11g per cup! That makes it hard to drink if you're trying to cut back on sugar.
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Comment #42631285
Why is it that only "doing nice things" or "volunteering your time" makes you a good person? Does a traffic engineer not better the lives of others? What about a farmer? Where does…
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Comment #42609128
Not that you'd buy organic pasta on a tight budget, but organic wheat products are not fortified, at least in the U.S. Just FYI to anyone wanting to exclusively eat pasta.
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Comment #42607164
The one use case I’ve found LLMs excel at is using a new library. Even if it gets a lot of the API wrong, figuring out most of the setup / boilerplate is useful.
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Comment #42607138
You’d rather ride a train for 20 hours instead of a 2 hour flight?
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Comment #42600096
I think I misunderstood your point. It sounded like you were arguing against telling the scout group prior to the conviction, because they were innocent until proven guilty. But fr…
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Comment #42599565
Were they convicted? It seems irresponsible to let someone strongly suspected of harming children to continue to have close contact with children. “Innocent until proven guilty” is…
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Comment #42587395
They don’t always have the audio stream, e.g. when someone is using an audio receiver.
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Comment #42581572
I know someone who worked on smart TV software. They explicitly added audio fingerprinting via integrated microphone so they could determine which programs you were watching for ad…
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Comment #42548696
I feel like we're talking about semantics here. You must posses drugs before / while actively using, and heavy addicts use multiple times a day.
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Comment #42548504
I'm in NY. Possession of a controlled substance is a class A misdemeanor here[0], which can carry a maximum prison sentence of 1 year. 0: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/…
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Comment #42548423
> We can't arrest them before they do anything violent Why not? Using drugs is illegal.
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Comment #42548392
Since this hasn't gotten much attention, I just wanted to say that I think this is a cool project. Nice work!
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Comment #42548283
I agree with the sentiment that great APIs are a prerequisite to great SDKs, but great SDKs are really about time saving. Consider AWS's API, which requires a specific signing mech…
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Comment #42548026
Not OP, but > What is that based on? This is based on the fact that we have finite resources. Any resources that go to housing drug addicts could have been used for something else.…
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Comment #42547992
I'm not asking you to do research, I'm asking you to look up definitions you don't understand. There's a difference.
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Comment #42546105
I'd recommend a quick Google search for "types of homelessness" or "chronic homelessness" before proffering any personal attacks.