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phyalow

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About phyalow

pjs202 {a.t.} alumni.cam.ac.uk

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    Comment #49241773

    Auckland was locked down for months

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    Comment #49231922

    I spent $18k in credits last month, I have 3x 20x Anthropic accounts (for Fable to bypass limits) which runs me another $600ish p/m and then a chatgpt pro account another $200 p/m.…

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    Comment #49146138

    Story of my life. One day something novel will fall out of the ether and not decay rapidly.

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    Comment #49081174

    https://open.substack.com/pub/nathancofnas/p/dei-fraud-and-c... I would suggest it is a little more than a “mix up”. My alma mater has a responsibility here to act.

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    Comment #49003075

    These comments feel like llm authored astro turfing…

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    Comment #48792019

    I wish more Kiwis knew this.

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    Comment #48426731

    I was granted a free subscription to the FT when I was at grad school 9 years ago, surprisingly it still continues to work to this day…

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    Comment #47887688

    I use XFCE too, simple and doesn’t get in the way.

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    Comment #47789802

    [flagged]

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    Comment #47572249

    Or you can just try stuff and see if it works

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    Comment #46885268

    “Mid level developer $150 per day”, is that a joke? Also the math in this gist doesnt math. So maybe the chargeout rate is highly informative. 2/10 would not read again.

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    Comment #46716122

    AI reply. Hmm

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    Comment #46480598

    Unfortunately thats how the politics and economics of violence work when you are the most powerful country in the world (n.b. I am not American and think this situation is deplorab…

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    Comment #46480387

    As Jonathan Turley reports https://jonathanturley.org/2026/01/03/the-united-states-capt... this operation will be justified as executing the criminal warrant (issued by the Biden D…

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    Comment #46381312

    * /|\ [ROOT] n=25000 / | \ [N] [I] [C] .33 .51 .94 Merry Xmas Nerds!

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    Comment #46134250

    Sorry but this just reads as hyperbolic one shotted nonsense

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    Comment #46055801

    Its reductive, but also roughly correct.

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    Comment #45897584

    Bot comment. Its not x its y… Why bother?

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    Comment #45590427

    I love it

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    Comment #45566937

    I had to bash my head against the wall and submit myself to paying for a creative cloud license. At least acrobat just works. Although I wish there was a reasonable alternative.

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    Comment #45531072

    Absolutely.

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    Comment #44878692

    Maybe, I'm just having fun reducing entropy locally in my codebase, while it gets ejected as heat in some data center on the otherside of the planet.