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profunctor

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    Comment #49069776

    Did they ever?

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    Comment #49053529

    This is probably bait but FYI it’s not normal to send thank you emails in much of the world following an interview so perhaps consider that not everyone thinks like you and it’s no…

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    Comment #48839230

    Note it’s all nationally significant infrastructure, not just data centres. And thank god because this country can’t even build a rail line without having to fight every minor conc…

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    Comment #48388743

    With a harness you could feed the code to a linter and if there are errors feed that to a model automatically. It’s amazing that the models are good enough that I haven’t bothered …

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    Comment #47652582

    Children will pay nothing, same as very mentally ill or extremely disabled people.

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    Comment #47504159

    Why? The dashes?

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    Comment #47212306

    Make it so that they don’t birth and rear but instead birth and then rear with a partner who will contribute equally. Also financial subsidies so that a child becomes at least neut…

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    Comment #46720694

    Perhaps the engineer could sit down for 8 hours a day during the work week. The Silicon Valley obsession with having no life and working weekends is so endemic.

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    Comment #45917759

    Is this proven?

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    Comment #45846577

    Book stores did not stop existing. They are everywhere. Book sales are up in recent times.

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    Comment #45148858

    The reason is cost, LIDAR is expensive.

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    Comment #44816823

    This article feels like it’s about what and how this person stores their dotfiles and then has two lines about them feeling too personal to share. I’m surprised it’s so highly vote…

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    Comment #44768255

    Having roommates (aka sharing a home) when you leave your family home has been the norm forever. Roommates are not poverty

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    Comment #44583973

    How do you expect them to make a living? News and magazines were always behind a paygate.

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    Comment #42992161

    Have you seen them in real life? They are much more interesting in person.

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    Comment #42955310

    Ireland did not eliminate its native population.

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    Comment #42455228

    If your pr deploys a machine learning model then that would be a suitable comment. I suppose the idea is similar, we can determine that this drug helps so a (hopefully) statistical…

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    Comment #41983183

    If you are using vscode in the copilot chat you can use @workspace and it tries to get the relevant files and context.

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    Comment #40616645

    To be honest after reading this article I think the title should be “Humans have transformed the isle of Rum’s landscape”

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    Comment #40013016

    Yes and to add on to that, the reason this decision is criticised is that it is very difficult or even impossible to properly blind a puberty blocking study. If you give people fak…

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    Comment #40011552

    Edit: I did a bit more reading and had a look at an trans group’s reaction to this report: https://transactual.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/TransActual-Br... . Certainly not as clear …

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    Comment #39395717

    What do you want to world to do? Russia is already under increasingly crippling sanctions and many countries are funding + arming its opponent in a war.

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    Comment #39382169

    Free school meals don’t happen everywhere at all times. Food banks are incredibly stretched. Many people are not “reasonable” but have alcohol/ drug dependencies or mental health i…

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    Comment #38629468

    Aren’t the guarantees the SLA that is agreed with Amazon, Google etc?

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    Comment #38452854

    Yet again the workers suffer from the incompetence of the ownership class.