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phoobahr

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    Comment #48248598

    LLMs as “AI” is a scam, and a dead end. They might be useful for some things in some situations and they are here to stay… for now. They won’t be the future though.

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    Comment #46700752

    Immaterial - no liberal government in Canada could be said to be “far left”.

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    Comment #46640793

    It's even better with a "AeroPress Flow Control Filter Cap". No dripping, no inversion, and a little extra resistance improves the cup (I think).

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    Comment #45332334

    Ah yes. Complaining about brown people in the capital of a decayed empire that spanned the globe. The sun never sets on this crap.

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    Comment #45304190

    “The best downloaded for iOS/ipados” is yt-dlp. Install in ashell, view with VLC.

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    Comment #43584144

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    Comment #43501211

    He spouted every kind of hateful shit, and surrounded himself with even more vile shitstains. Every terrible thing imaginable was put on the table. Some Americans may not have like…

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    Comment #43501115

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    Comment #36638179

    spoken as someone who doesn't need health care (yet) spoken as someone who doesn't need schools (yet) spoken as someone who doesn't need reliable infrastructure (wtf?) Better take-…

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    Comment #35455672

    In addition to this here's one really specific case: ever had a pandas groupby().apply() that took forever often mostly re-aggregating after the apply? With columnar data DuckDuckG…

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    Comment #35250233

    If you're particularly envious you may want to consider asking how those who can't drive make do in your location. Life's about making choices and seeking different perspectives mi…

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    Comment #34240441

    Similarly one of my most important projects reads a lot of api calls returning serialized json. Those calls are expensive so I have, over time, tried many complicated cacheing mech…

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    Comment #32651643

    Similar situation here; I try not to unplug mine :) That being said the heat output is so low my mini lives in a drawer and serves to host time machine, a Jupiter notebook server, …

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    Comment #32553600

    Covid-19 is a vascular disease. Turns out several organs (not just lungs) have a lot of vascular area. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7556303/ https://www.frontiersin…

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    Comment #32004132

    Nope - this is a real issue inside our domestic borders. The country has two official languages but only one region that legislates one of them as second class. Additionally - Queb…

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    Comment #31657343

    I do primarily use it as a laptop... but ~30% of the time it comes off the case and gets carried for data input. Then it's the best tablet I can spend money on, has a very responsi…

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    Comment #31657058

    Sorry, I haven't used it so I can't say.

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    Comment #31646663

    I write a lot of python. A fair chunk of inside Jupiter notebooks. Safari is a capable browser for accessing remotes juypter lab servers and there are a couple developers one-uppin…

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    Comment #31646556

    Blink: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c... >, or Shellfish: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c... >, or aShell: https://www.go…

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    Comment #31161766

    Not to mention: media relations, community management & risk exposure are all really really hard problems. Hard problems that an entity like twitter has to sink huge effort into ju…

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    Comment #30354843

    Here's some money to go f--k with another country's capital. This is not a good look.

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    Comment #28400589

    Well just try using google in China for one thing. I really don't get the outragefilter here - Apple (take 'em or leave 'em) lays out for the public a system for checking uploaded …

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    Comment #27102145

    The US is a super power built on stolen land with stolen labour and stolen IP that really "came into it's own" on a tide of stolen valour post WWII.

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    Comment #26907666

    A less flexible, but _much_ more performant option, is ashell.app " rel="nofollow">https://holzschu.github.io/a-Shell_iOS/">ashell.app

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    Comment #26701910

    Guh, this is truly terrible. >CAN EPILERT PREDICT SEIZURES? >Epilert cannot predict or prevent seizures. >Our technology is designed to detect patterns that could be >associated on…