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jboy55

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    Comment #48798462

    Which is why its more surprising this was first announced last year and there's no Proof of Concept demo yet? But really, I've given up on ink jet printers, and have gone the cheap…

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    Comment #47346197

    Imagine doing AI development in waterfall. You spend weeks writing your prompt, when you think you have it perfect, only then do you submit it to the AI. Then you wait a week or so…

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    Comment #43796077

    >The problem is, with modern cars it's not "just" a multimedia interface like a car radio - these things are also the interface for critical elements like windshield wipers. I don'…

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    Comment #43795199

    >Agreed on the TV - but everything else? Oh hell no.. Then you go to list all the problems with just the car. And your problem is putting your own AI on a car to self-drive.(Linux …

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    Comment #43074205

    "This is a very strong first world POV. Those U$D 300 rank pretty high across world's minimum salaries " My point, since I was replying to a poster who said the above, was if you a…

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    Comment #43072073

    So starting with nothing at all, what is the total cost of ownership for the flea -cope? My guess, its over $300, (if $300 is your annual salary, your existing phone will probably …

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    Comment #42377782

    Its unfortunate that the author is using VGA signals on LCD displays as "retro". I remember well my first experience using a LCD monitor for work. It was for my first "Silicon Vall…

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    Comment #42331768

    From https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PHEB/2024/12/05/24340001/2/WE... TSUNAMI THREAT FORECAST...UPDATED --------------------------------- * THERE IS NO LONGER A TSUNAMI THREAT FROM …

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    Comment #41905677

    Here you go, https://youtu.be/qvtRfWO_J2M compiled on my laptop on WSL. sudo apt install x11-common libx11-dev make ran with cat horizon.sc pittsburgh.sc | ./banks

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    Comment #41607484

    Yes, all good. My point was that you aren't being charged with having Tor in the scenario that was described. The existence of Tor on your computer might work as connecting the use…

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    Comment #41606136

    Drugs are sent to you and intercepted. You claim, though your lawyer, someone was just using your house as a drop and you have no idea who ordered them. They get your computer, you…

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    Comment #41595688

    And yet every paint manufacturer has hundreds of swatches of various colors that their paint 'comes in', even though there is practically an infinite possibility of colors availabl…

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    Comment #41595586

    And before Salesforce the costs were 10x for CRM software customization.

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    Comment #41595536

    I think the point was that you aren't being "charged" with using Tor, you are being charged with buying drugs online. You have Tor installed and unfortunately a very small percenta…

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    Comment #41595502

    I remember reading on here years ago that people were concerned that the government was reading their "private" emails. I've always just considered email to be sent in plain text. …

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    Comment #41012910

    Considering Crowdstrike mentioned in their blog that systems that had their 'falcon sensor' installed weren't affected [1], and the update is falcon content, I'm not sure it was a …

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    Comment #41010235

    I was thinking, this doesn't seem like its a case of all these machines still on an old version of windows, or some specific version, that is having issues. Therefore QA just misse…

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    Comment #40530775

    Great if you can wait 9 months for the pipeline to start producing babies, but the analogy is if you want the first one in a month.

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    Comment #40166726

    It'll be CPM ad spend or maybe even conversion based, so, they can put a budget up and it'll be up to the traffic for the spend.

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    Comment #39320529

    > In Facebook engineering management the internal target was 6% IIRC. I haven't seen a NRA rate enforced at Facebook, however 6% is the target at Amazon.

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    Comment #39257449

    Only on WB2.0+, for a decent number of years we didn't have that.

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    Comment #39247623

    The Mac barely survived Wintel, so its not that apt of a comparison. If Microsoft didn't port Word/Excel over, I don't think we'd have many options now.

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    Comment #39247611

    There weren't any 'default' icons, so the workbench didn't show you everything on the disk, only programs with ".info" files which had the icon. You had to drop to the command line…

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    Comment #39247580

    I really think that the Amiga 3000 killed the Amiga. When it was released, instead of move another decade ahead graphics wise, it was 3-4 years behind. 640x512x16colors?!? The 3000…

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    Comment #39218400

    I wonder how much infighting there was between orgs at Microsoft over this. with an Outlook/Word PM escalating... "Make the languages understand smart quotes!"