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jxcole

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About jxcole

I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space

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    Comment #48031481

    Have you tried it out? https://askubuntu.com/questions/629632/can-you-boot-ubuntu-s...

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    Comment #47569123

    The obvious solution is to just copy paste it into Claude itself and ask it to fix. Works for almost any Claude problem

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    Comment #46627468

    A better analogy would be to compare it to being able to install anything from online vs only installing from an app store. If you wouldn't trust an exe from bad adhacker.com you p…

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    Comment #44087857

    IANAL but I would be scared of getting sued. For example, if I try to give a perfectly good car seat to good will they refuse to take it for liability reasons. Baby safety is serio…

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    Comment #41521017

    He would need to fire at least 30% of the staff to make a difference. You can't fix the rot that started with the McDonald Douglas purchase by changing one person.

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    Comment #40990892

    If you look carefully you see that they actually started with a much bigger drone and then shrunk it down. The minimum is 9 mg (that they could build) but it sounds like the design…

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    Comment #39655994

    Each pilot can have a button they must always press, if both are released loud tritones alarms and flashing will fill the cockpit, something no one can sleep to.

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    Comment #36778515

    Surely any one with 700 million users could just build their own?

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    Comment #36296747

    I disagree completely. Facebook was just Myspace without the terrible UX. Google was just Yahoo but better. Tech businesses can easily move in over each other if there is a way to …

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    Comment #35192068

    I think it's possible that some generous person determines a sequence of prompts that generate, say novels, and then pipes these prompts into a program causing thousands or even mi…

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    Comment #34427778

    Why would that make it less reversible? Honestly it's not like it was ever easy to reverse DNA damage. Reversing other kinds of damage might be harder, but unless you have more inf…

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    Comment #34358052

    This seems to be Hinton's MO though. A few years back he ripped out convolutions for capsules and while he claims it's better and some people might claim it "has potential", no one…

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    Comment #34202946

    "everyone depends on their particular bolt, and we are all screwed." I love clever puns.

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    Comment #32607978

    For the curious: it's not intentionally NSFW but the filters aren't very good (if there are any) so you do see occasionally inappropriate images.

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    Comment #32574668

    Really? https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/andy-warhol-campbel... (Yes I get it's not technically a watermark, but it certainly qualifies as a trade mark in a similar fashion…

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    Comment #32504566

    Apple's stance on air tags is ridiculous. For one thing, you will only know if someone is criminally tracking you if you are an apple user. Android users have no luck. Secondly if …

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    Comment #32388112

    This article misses the point completely. Fundamentally the question is, if some technology has made us twice as productive, why don't we work half as much? This will never happen …

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    Comment #32108259

    I bet it was a co worker who wanted to leak but also didn't want to be blamed. Or maybe even a coworker who had a grudge against the defendant and didn't care about the leaks at al…

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    Comment #32108173

    Having been on a jury in the US one time (attempted murder), the purpose of this system is probably not at all obvious. The idea is to put 12 people in a room and force them to agr…

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    Comment #31831478

    If you're going to cheat why not all the way: document.querySelector(".time").innerHTML = ' Time: 0.0001'; Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(".theSport input[type='checkbox']"))…

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    Comment #31718447

    We used almost this exact scheme for app id indices and the curious problem we had to design against was inadvertent profanity. At some point we decided to just never use vowels to…

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    Comment #30180598

    I feel like you are very defensive here and I want to be sure we take time to recognize this as a real accomplishment. Seriously though, I do doubt I can be fully replaced by a rob…

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    Comment #29948591

    IIUC most of the mass required to build plants comes out of the air (CO2). Of course, any astronauts wanting to utilize these fungi will have to take some amount of other resources…

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    Comment #29667935

    > If someone is competent enough to sustain 2 jobs, they will also get quickly promoted to 2x their salary if they are working one job. I've found the opposite is true. If you are …