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About proverbialbunny
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Comment #46585380
In Australia Coca-Cola isn't allowed to import coca leaf extract for flavor, so it tastes very similar to one of the 3rd party knock off brands you'll find in the US. In Australia …
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Comment #44692282
>In 1980, good programmers spent a lot of time thinking, and then produced spare code that they thought should work. ... But programming now isn’t so much like that, said Sussman. …
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Comment #44692210
If they really like building stuff like this they can get a career that does it, like Embedded Engineer or Firmware Engineer type roles. And if it's just a hobby that's great too. …
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Comment #44692181
Caching and loading times mostly. I'm on old.reddit.com too and I use the mobile app (including the 3rd party ones back when they existed) for one primary reason: Two windows I can…
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Comment #30643946
If you want to get a bit more into significant numbers, Apple has the largest number of games for any platform and it has the largest number of gamers. They're mobile games, but on…
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Comment #29280507
Today the world's best players (not just chess) play against bots like AlphaZero. They can learn from their opponent. Today that is what it takes to be the best in the world. Even …
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Comment #28372225
The current standard already accepts a comment line at the top, so in this case technologically it is easy, far easier than most problems. However, getting a consensus from a commi…
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Comment #28227475
I wouldn't mind an updated standard to CSV that has the type information in the first line with the column labels. I feel like this is all that CSV is really missing. As a format w…
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Comment #28227353
The same argument could be made for all other data formats. CSV is like the C of data formats. It's incredibly stable yet simple enough you can make your own variant if you need to…
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Comment #27765337
You're not the only one thinking it. It seems like everyone today sells a cloud JupyterLab / Jupyter Notebook instance, from Google Colab on. What makes Jetbrain's iteration far be…
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Comment #27598150
After WW2 propaganda got a bit of a bad name for itself so it renamed itself public relations. Anything that talks about propaganda and not PR is out of date, but still valid.
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Comment #26470443
It can but it's the kind of prescription where you don't take the drug out of a medical facility.
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Comment #26401751
It sounds like you guys could use a YMCA or community center catering to these types. My grandmother was lonely so I convinced her to go to a YMCA for exercise reasons and she made…
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Comment #26279923
This is a pretty big deal. One benefit it gives is it's much easier to write code evaluated at compile time. Most Rust libraries use generics, so if you use a library, compile time…
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Comment #26277258
Thanks ^_^
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Comment #26267593
Does anyone have an alternative site they go to to buy household goods than amazon.com? Mostly kitchen supplies. Amazon often sells items lower quality than Walmart. It sucks and i…
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Comment #26256833
Have you tried seeding something on bit torrent? That's a pretty easy way to tell.
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Comment #26254418
It's also a lie. AT&T currently has a slow lane. Eg, I have fiber gigabit duplex, but for encrypted uploads to unknown servers, I get throttled to 10mbps. This restricts VPN traffi…
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Comment #26146562
As a general rule of thumb there is at least a 2 week delay from getting COVID to death, so it's too early to say going off of a death count. Alternatively, looking up how many new…
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Comment #26005706
Duels are legal in a lot of the US, so not really necessary.
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Comment #25963430
Stock has a 2 day settlement period, so Robinhood could pay out, but it would have a 2 day delay before an ACH transfer would start when liquidating their account.
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Comment #25950964
Someone not on Robinhood can buy it.
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Comment #25939078
Cool! Did you consider using BERT instead of GPT-3? Any idea what the pros and cons with each approach are?