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ploynog

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    Comment #44811716

    No, you are just oversimplifying the issue. Of course, if you were regularly riding before and very fit and change to an e-bike out of laziness, the net effect might be negative, t…

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    Comment #44786265

    Being daft on purpose? I haven't heard that using an alternative browser suddenly increases the traffic that a user generates by several orders of magnitude to the point where it c…

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    Comment #43126092

    Double-blind review is a mirage that does not hold up. While I was in academia I reviewed a paper that turned out to be a blatant case of plagiarism. It was a clear Level 1 copy ac…

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    Comment #42781241

    I think the complaint is that you only get told that you require a paid plan AFTER signing up. At least on a brief look on the Play Store page and your website, it does not immedia…

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    Comment #42685597

    > Have you tried asking it to do something useful rather than ask it to solve gotcha word problems? What you call "gotcha word problem", I'd compare to typical math problems where …

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    Comment #42685159

    With LLMs I am in this strange place where I read all of these amazing things that they supposedly all can do. And I have no doubt in my mind that they probably can. And then I ask…

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    Comment #42620838

    > Why would I want a clock that is, on average, a half minute off? Because in 99.9% of the cases I don't care about the seconds, it takes away space in the top status bar, and the …

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    Comment #41836140

    You'd be surprised by the amount of brightness and color produced if you are turning things on-off sufficiently fast.

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    Comment #41738847

    Cool story bro. Let me tell the guys at work that we should just run .NET on our multi-core digital signal processors. And we should also teach them not to get their delicate timin…

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    Comment #39273310

    Wouldn't that be some form of kinetic orbital bombardment. Not sure that you want to have this in your backyard.