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n3150n

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    Comment #38961811

    Although I understand your point, Shoshanna Zuboff would say otherwise. We are the resource; not the product, neither the consumer. According to her, "their" product used to be inf…

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    Comment #38709544

    It is not. As the function `print("hi")` is executed, the argument type in this case becomes `Any`, as it would be for any other executed function. As stated in the typing document…

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    Comment #38709308

    Could you expand on it? It is truly surprising for me that anyone would find code with type annotations to be significantly worse, for any reasons whatsoever. On the contrary, I jo…

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    Comment #38569777

    Twitter is a word in itself, though, both a verb and a noun [0]. [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twitter

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    Comment #38225741

    Indeed it is, but the second body's mass may be neglected if it is orders of magnitude smaller than the larger body. Or at least that's how I understand it (I'm not a physicist).

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    Comment #38225645

    Compared to the invention of the Internet and/or the WWW, I'm of the opinion that calling Google (the search engine) or PageRank (the algorithm) one of the Great Inventions in Huma…

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    Comment #38197671

    That's an interesting perspective, and although it might have contributed, I wouldn't put that much weight onto crypto's legacy for AI, IMHO. The first papers that used GPUs to tra…

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    Comment #38075506

    After thinking for a while on why it would be so, I've come to the conclusion that the truth of this statement (yours) ultimately depends on whose pair of eyes is watching it, IMHO…

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    Comment #38061399

    Reminded me of this great literary article I read not too long ago, detailing some of the story behind the TMSC factory of semiconductors. Truly a marvelous read, if you are intere…

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    Comment #37759026

    Are you for real? I'm also not trying to be snarky but... $ cat $(find . -type f | grep -vE LICENSE\|README\|BUILD\|bazel\|git\|docs) | sort -u | wc -l 8360 unique lines scattered …

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    Comment #35978712

    > Implementing laws without being able enforce them is not only ridiculous but harmful [...] Not all crimes are preventable, which doesn't mean the laws aren't enforceable. Example…

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    Comment #35008473

    I only recently heard about it the first time as well, but used to reconstruct a 3D image of the inside of a nuclear reactor. https://phys.org/news/2023-02-muon-detectors-remotely-…