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irishcoffee
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Comment #49199755
You never went to a programming competition in school? None of what was said is novel, it’s all been around forever, the tricky bit is the regurgitation software mucking everything…
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Comment #49199657
Drones and defense have nothing to do with expense. It is 100% about getting on the approved vendor list, at which point the prices go up. It’s not like PCB boards in the defense i…
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Comment #49175565
Ah, I have a trolley to show you.
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Comment #49174791
I’m absolutely on the record of being against nukes. Not really sure why you posed that personal attack, but it’s about as shitty a thing as you could say. You feel better?
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Comment #49174661
Then what is good will? A movie character?
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Comment #49174339
How’s this. I can tell you with absolute certainty the US has a lot of munitions, they have not run out. Let’s stop pretending that the only reason Iran isn’t glass at the moment i…
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Comment #49164886
Ah.. yup.
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Comment #49157920
Back in “the day” nerds just bought the hardware to fuck with. Some of us still do. Claiming that compute is the barrier to entry just means you’re not a nerd. That’s ok.
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Comment #49140520
If that is the load-bearing part, I failed to make my point.
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Comment #49138348
The joy of working with seasoned cast iron cannot be overstated. Heavy isn’t bad, we could all do with a bit of exercise. Easier to clean and maintain I disagree with, if you’re wi…
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Comment #49138216
I agree, it should not get brushed aside. Food insecurity is used as a mask for actual problems. It’s atrocious.
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Comment #49138033
No. I already said I wasn’t interested in that debate.
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Comment #49137507
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Comment #49137476
It is very amusing to me that the outrage is with the car manufacturer, not the ad economy.
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Comment #49136004
I understand being mad, I also get mad. This is a bit unhinged.
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Comment #49135652
There is value in learning how to launch a model and develop an environment with which to interact with it. This understanding is basically a pillar of a “hacker” ethos. But if you…
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Comment #49135582
Objectively, the left has this very strong ideology of “education will fix everything, and until then we know what’s best for the masses” This went too far with the whole woke thin…
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Comment #49129829
That’s your take? My phone inserting a space? Ha, alrighty.
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Comment #49129044
Medical care is what you’re talking about. Insurance is just a construct around it.
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Comment #49127383
> Food insecurity is the limited or uncertain access to enough safe, affordable, and nutritious food to live a healthy life. It means people do not know where their next meal will …
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Comment #49108034
Super intelligence is reasoning quickly? That’s what we’ve reduced it to? Don’t tell Mozart.
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Comment #49105635
Coin machines are really solid at accepting money. I feel like it’s a solved problem. Edit: I’m dumb, the order of operations is backwards. You’re right, it’ll never be solved.
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Comment #49105629
Upvote to you if you understand the obsolete rationale why it’s 80.
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Comment #49102179
It seems a little bit cherry-picked that you selected an article about people on food stamps and federal aid during a global pandemic, which saw absolutely massive amounts of peopl…
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Comment #49092366
“Threatens earths stability” So do nukes. Or a series of earthquakes. Or a really bad set of solar flares. Or a world war. This just in, death threatens life. The internet sucks.