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msylvest

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    Comment #49017719

    I have had a lot of sympathy for this statement, LLMs could lower the bar to use of formal methods. But thinking it over in the context of BDD-driven development I am no longer rea…

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    Comment #47279775

    I had a VHF+UHF bands, no morse, in Denmark half a century ago. Dropped it after a few years.

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    Comment #47272505

    Around 1990 I attended ISO/JTC1 meetings generating standards for data communication. I still recall my surprise over the heated arguments over these words between the UK and the U…

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    Comment #46400536

    Some of all this gold is still on display in Spain. Earlier this year my wife and I visited Granada in southern Spain. Vast amounts, truely impressive, of gold are exposed in its C…

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    Comment #46145714

    I learned about SWI-Prolog around 1994. Amazing that it is still available & updated - even with its original name :-)

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    Comment #45511266

    Would https://litestream.io/ perhaps help?

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    Comment #44994328

    I remember admiring the intent of XSLT when it was born. And how difficult it turned out to be to write; using XML framing makes it terse/verbose/arcane, eg. when compared to the c…

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    Comment #42468282

    And Message Authentication Code

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    Comment #42145548

    Calling out to some chess-playing-function would be a deviation from the pure LLM paradigm. As a medium-level chess player I have walked through some of the LLM victories (ChatGPT …

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    Comment #41129500

    Thank you for writing this up. I'm an 'existing free user' and blocked the same way from the dashboard.

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    Comment #40499510

    Neat! Couldn't but ask myself why the OP should need Ruby...

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    Comment #39665749

    I have not tried this out but https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish - a companion to soft-serve - could be helpful to you

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    Comment #39252012

    Within the area of viscosities reciprocal seconds is an accepted standard unit

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    Comment #38046395

    Some years ago I was wondering what the words 'There is a balm in Gilead' means. Spent hours googling, both in English and Danish (my native lang). Found Jer 8:22 "Is there no balm…

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    Comment #35584192

    In those days I worked for Intel in a branch in Copenhagen, Denmark. Doing Ethernet stuff, pretty far from the CPU dev and fab running the company. Incidentally Phil Zimmermann, ma…

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    Comment #32847861

    Denmark is still offering boosters - in a prioritized manner. First those aged 85+, second 50+, even below that if exposed by diseases. From what is written I would expect (third) …

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    Comment #29880057

    Right - I must have missed that

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    Comment #29873131

    As a native Dane I can say that this translation is pretty good. What Ekstra Bladet is going to do with its recognition still has to be seen. I think that it has a point - the way …