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johnobrien1010

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About johnobrien1010

python programmer wannabe

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    Comment #48887539

    Working on a SaaS application that helps academic researchers conduct systematic literature reviews

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    Comment #48378711

    This assertion seems light on sources. What evidence do you have to support your claims?

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    Comment #48376800

    It seems prudent to me to not assume anything either way until you have more information

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    Comment #43917562

    Wanted to point to the startup the author seems to be running, which is to sell insurance somehow tied to Bitcoin: https://meanwhile.bm/ For the record, that strikes me as seriousl…

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    Comment #43613403

    > Take whatever job you can now while continuing to look for your next role. This. And by any job I mean any job. McDonalds, book store, what have you. A good friend of mine droppe…

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    Comment #43560252

    Wayback Machine Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250311184956/https://pages.cs....

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    Comment #42922600

    USAID was established by an executive order and then also created by law by Congress: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title22/cha...

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    Comment #42748800

    I haven't done it but it looks like an ESOP something you might to look into.

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    Comment #42185235

    What business did you build around it?

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    Comment #42008776

    I see. Thanks for clarifying.

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    Comment #42007460

    In THEORY yes, but in practice, there are not a ton of journals I think that will actually publish well done research that does not come to some interesting conclusion and find som…

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    Comment #42007123

    Yeah but without a hardline how would you decide what to publish?

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    Comment #41920217

    Another reason that they should never have been allowed to ingest all the books in the first place. Without paying for the rights to use the digital form of the book, a use which i…

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    Comment #41800711

    All the arguments for where to place control over who decides what gets built IMHO are just political power grabs from one constituency or another. Different companies do it differ…

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    Comment #41779768

    The approach is fundamentally flawed. You can’t query an LLM as to whether it has a theory of mind. You need to analyze how its internal logic works. Imagine the opposite result ha…

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    Comment #41387207

    My fridge stopped working last year. We called a repair technician, who swapped out the whole PCB and charged us a few hundred dollars. In retrospect, I think it was one bad relay …

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    Comment #41157462

    Which part of that is a pun?

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    Comment #40461124

    Good demo videos: https://daylightco.notion.site/Eye-Strain-Free-w-the-Dayligh...

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    Comment #40212359

    I think I must be looking at this wrong, how are "Photographic plates and film, exposed and developed, other than motion-picture film" the most complex product? Surely CPUs are har…

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    Comment #39897109

    > [JO:I agree that they are all goals. My assumption though is that just reaching those goals is not sufficient for success.] I agree with this (and the clarification in the paragr…

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    Comment #39895895

    Responses inline. > Headlines are so non-specific that you could “deliver” a headline that could easily not really meet a customer need. I don't think so - the headline is simply t…

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    Comment #39893742

    This is a joke, and the reason why is because even if you “deliver” a headline, you are unlikely to be “done”. It runs counter to the approach of incrementally shipping functionali…