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mej10

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    Comment #49076849

    It is obviously not going to be until some really bad series of cyberattacks or a chemical/bioweapon attack before anyone takes regulation of models seriously. They are _obviously_…

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    Comment #39530207

    Can someone help me understand the licensing of this? https://github.com/sdv-dev/SDV/blob/main/LICENSE It was MIT licensed up until 2022 where it was changed to what it is now, whe…

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    Comment #31505031

    There was/is a game called Shattered Galaxy that was best described this way. Several factions continuously battling over discrete territories. There would be calculations througho…

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    Comment #24594147

    > I don't get the impression that they had a "ton" of money when they started. Viaweb was PG's first company, which sold to Yahoo for $49 million in 1998. Just as an FYI -- I think…

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    Comment #23923159

    For what it's worth, that is illegal in the USA at least. Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act passed in 2008.

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    Comment #23724451

    Straight up plagiarizes The Beatles here: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#dr.-seuss-oh-the-places-youll-go " There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known. Nothing you can see that isn…

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    Comment #20029806

    actix, cdrs, rusoto, cadence, diesel, futures/tokio, serde, chashmap, slog, postgres, criterion, r2d2, chrono That isn't all of them but those are the main ones.

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    Comment #20005471

    Interested to know what Rust was missing. I built an ad exchange last year and it has been great. I have been using nightly builds, mostly for access to async/await, and it has bee…

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    Comment #20001623

    Cool! I am working on almost the exact same thing. Grats on shipping!

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    Comment #19653829

    I wonder how enforceable that patent is.

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    Comment #18282950

    I have also had many lucid dreams -- I used to practice lucid dreaming. This is like a lucid dream but there is no narrative or control over what is happening -- only awareness. It…

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    Comment #18279256

    Nope, though I am familiar with that, too. At least in my experiences with hypnogogia I have some "control" or at least a feeling of control over what is happening to some extent. …

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    Comment #18279091

    I have become conscious during dreams that I would describe as "being in a river of disjointed thoughts and emotions" -- the experience is exactly like I was witness to the many th…

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    Comment #17910009

    There is a typo in the first subheading: "Project Refrences"

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    Comment #17566549

    We have, so far, only made a GraphQL endpoint for internal use. It has been awesome for quickly finding things in a medium-complexity database schema (30 or so tables, bunch of dif…

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    Comment #16618091

    Pretty much anyone working in ad tech. Not necessarily trillions at a time, but even small ad tech firms deal with billions of new data points across many dimensions every day.

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    Comment #16446099

    ... you mean like async / await?

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    Comment #15963956

    Very inspiring work! Would love to try it out.

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    Comment #15931866

    How many paying customers does an app like this have? Seems cool but niche.

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    Comment #15676553

    Ah, I have looked into Datomic a bit but didn't realize this, though it makes sense in retrospect.

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    Comment #15674033

    I was under the impression, based on its docs, that Datomic only supports processing transactions serially through a single transactor.

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    Comment #15662125

    Do you have good examples of > easily do that with a single aggregation REST endpoint too, provided you have resource links in your responses I work with/on a "REST" API that has a…

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    Comment #15656902

    Personally, I think it would be morally reprehensible to use energy to keep BTC alive if there are vastly more efficient alternatives that achieve the same goal. Though I am intere…

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    Comment #15600959

    They've been releasing new features for it at a pretty steady rate. I think it is a safe bet in terms of sticking around. It fits in well to the overall Google Cloud Computing offe…