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magicalhippo
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Comment #49218728
There's not a lot to do. They have enough hydrazine left to keep them pointing back at earth until 2040 or so[1]. So you could perhaps make them point in different directions for a…
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Comment #49180616
Yeah my 80 year old mom uses the "pink busses"[1], basically a multi-passenger taxi where she books a trip in advance and they go from A to B, but also the other's trips. So takes …
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Comment #49179605
Here in Oslo, Norway they've also been ripping up roads to make bike lanes, make streets one-way to accommodate the bike lane and so on. And yeah, initially not a lot of bikers. Bu…
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Comment #49174327
As an employee hell no. I've done a couple of crunches, but efficiency tanks. Plan better, be more agile, solve the immediate issues rather than getting fancy, so much one can do i…
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Comment #49174163
I guess I should have mentioned we're in EU and not US, and we're small (~100) so we don't really do contracts but full-time employees. I guess for short-term contract work, fully …
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Comment #49171450
We have some workers in other countries, and we have local companies for each of them due to all the legal stuff. We also want to meet them fairly regularly, about once a month. Th…
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Comment #49167830
I admit I'm not fully attuned to the cyberpunk genre, but I loved playing Mean Streets[1] as a kid and feels it should get a mention. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Street…
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Comment #49167646
If you compare the code using the presented framework to code using say immediate mode library like ImGui[1][2] for example, the presented framework does indeed seem to be exposing…
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Comment #49152515
To be fair, there's a difference between a movie that gets pirated at release vs one that is pirated weeks or months before release.
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Comment #49151727
Or won't hire that extra person when they need to increase output.
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Comment #49142494
> And if the peer follows a standard that says your offered ciphersuites are all insecure, then you're out of luck. Not even that. Many peers disconnect you if you offer any insecu…
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Comment #49139840
I found the article very hard to follow. Then I read the domain name and it all made sense... Guess our pattern is different, not really felt the pain point the author is talking a…
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Comment #49119889
Or heroin[1]? [1]: https://museum.dea.gov/museum-collection/collection-spotligh...
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Comment #49110811
> You can tell people the temperature will go up in 20 years I think the biggest issue with the climate change communication is that the scientists decided to focus on a temperatur…
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Comment #49108330
How does it compare against Unsloth's UD-Q2_K_XL which has the same size? Ie, why pick yours over theirs?
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Comment #49092104
I've found I ask that question often, but for me it's because I'm interested in learning about new stuff, so if they work with something I'm not familiar with I'd find it interesti…
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Comment #49090724
> one person on reddit suggested using it in an email interface rather than a chat interface Kimi Pen Pal. Bring back lettets and postcards. Do OCR, and use one of those 3D printer…
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Comment #49090653
Well considering he also said you'd be winning so much you'd grown tired of it, it seems clear he operates with inverse logic.
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Comment #49090202
She was more charitable in the inteview over on the Plain English YouTube channel[1], though based on what she said there it sounded like she had missed some points of the movie. T…
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Comment #49080282
Well, the point was that nobody uses it...
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Comment #49079863
Frustrating article. It tosses around stats, but doesn't provide any comparison or otherwise to provide context for the reader. If you don't need that context you almost certainly …
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Comment #49079692
Full title: Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences
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Comment #49079535
I reached the same conclusion. Yes, absolutely let the code be self-documenting by structuring it well, using well-named functions and variables and so on. This will make it clear …
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Comment #49067242
It claims to support using multiple devices RAID-0 style, which should boost performance, but yea probably not very useful for most. But still fun you can run it at home.