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Comment #48671279
Too little thermal gradient. What you could do is to use a heat pump to spend a little electricity and turn the waste heat to hot water usable for heating (winter).
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Comment #48271481
> When every subsystem and data format is carrying around its own Turing complete bytecode and JIT LLMs enter the chat
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Comment #48073191
> Can you tell me what is the budget necessary to supply AI tools capable of substantial research assistance to all academic staff at a university? I think the GP meant that *if th…
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Comment #47722355
Why is vendoring frowned upon, really? I mean, the tooling could still know how to fetch newer version and prepare a changeset to review and commit automatically, so updating doesn…
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Comment #47367863
Why would it decimate the Windows market? From my experience, there's a strong correlation between iPhone and Mac usage. Looking at the stats, the Win:Mac ratio is 4:1 but Android:…
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Comment #47156302
The assumption is that a "waymo bus" would be hailed by an app and the service would plan routes on demand. In such case, bus stops would be needed only in busy areas or in places …
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Comment #47155222
Taxis/Ubers/... can and do stop in the middle of a street. Why would that be different for a bus picking up a single person?
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Comment #47002357
Good context. They're commenting only on why are they increasing some setup fees though, not justifying their existence. The Hetzner setup fees were in place already before the RAM…
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Comment #47000441
Hetzner charges a fee for setting up your bare-metal machine. Often zero for their smaller machines and for those in auction. Probably they don't want someone to order a large flee…
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Comment #46952189
> This is a common prepper trope, but it doesn't make any sense. In case the supply chain breaks, preppers don't want to be the ones that starve. They don't claim they can prevent …
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Comment #46884477
There are multiple companies doing that. I was using one a few years ago, also don't remember the name, haha. I guess it's an obvious thing to sell, if you go through the process o…
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Comment #46599612
> Could you split up the traffic across dozens or hundreds of IPv6 source addresses? Yes > I can see how this significantly increases complexity for tracking Not really. You just t…
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Comment #44632301
In fact, sometimes I open bash even from zsh. When pasting from a script and debugging why something doesn't work as expected, I don't want bash-like. For ad-hoc loops, bash-like w…
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Comment #44510126
In Czech, which uses the long scale, yes. The equivalent of "milliardaire".
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Comment #44433871
They have some headers for authentication. The payment part is for the price negotiation. The headers tell you that Cloudflare wants to charge you for this particular content and y…
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Comment #43862659
Wow, that's stretching it a bit, isn't it? I'd say the spirit of open source is that others are free to modify the code and that's it. This requires a good license, the possibility…
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Comment #43439327
A plural of regex is regrets...
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Comment #43414034
The rabbis wanted to be on the safe side, I guess.
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Comment #42997982
Hey I'm not saying it's always a better way or that all apps should be developed in a certain way. But it's a trend, people are doing it for a reason and I think I understand why. …
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Comment #42997201
You split your app into components and separate it from the backend using an API. This allows you to build a bigger development team. The result will be less efficient but more fea…
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Comment #42997159
I guess because of the assertion that "there is only one God".
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Comment #42962361
Oh, that sounds right. I have quite lean arms and I had a few experiences when people (including me) were surprised that I was stronger than someone more muscular. The downside is …
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Comment #42897612
You can still have a full object that carries both state and function pointers.
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Comment #42872760
I realized exactly this after some frustration with a few phones. I found GSMArena that has extensive reviews including sample standardized photos.
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Comment #42869522
What do you mean invariably? There are some topics that the models refuse to discuss or provide very vague answers. Some interpretation will be subjective, for sure. But you can al…