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retrochameleon

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    Comment #49250461

    Curry Hyuga, Burlingame, CA

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    Comment #49202389

    I skimmed through a few articles. These look really high quality and engaging. Makes me feel like a kid reading some of the cool STEM Encyclopedia-type books like from DK.

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    Comment #49178036

    Thank goodness

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    Comment #49133536

    San Francisco is an example of a place with higher than average Japanese population where you have a chance of getting some really good authentic stuff. I recently ate at a place t…

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    Comment #49107839

    An obnoxiously ignorant suggestion for Japan, of all places.

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    Comment #49014494

    Hopefully in decades hallucinations will be largely solved.

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    Comment #48987862

    Uggghhh, I hate Lua. I hate the syntax, everything being tables, and.... dun dun dun 1-indexed arrays. I wish we wouldn't keep going back to it. I understand the appeal for some us…

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    Comment #48987809

    You're free to express most things except the things they really don't like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSPM-7 Quote from the NSPM-7: > There are common recurrent motivations an…

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    Comment #48833417

    Keeps them running until a breakpoint they hope is coming where all the AI investments and infrastructure they have places them at the top of the world. I (and it seems most tech c…

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    Comment #48825727

    This feels like an attempted primer and justification for major bailouts to the big AI companies. And this is all a problem that the companies have created for themselves by going …

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    Comment #48820591

    When science is already experiencing a funding stranglehold, how do you expect researchers to have access to do experiments in space?

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    Comment #48820571

    Asteroid detection is certainly affected by satellites. The ever increasing number of satellites makes observations that normally detect asteroids very difficult. It is very easy t…

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    Comment #48741954

    I agree with your point. I also agree that parents taking zero accountability for their kids is BS. I think we are due for some improved tooling to provide for parents to monitor a…

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    Comment #48670162

    Look up Benn Jordan's video on datacenter infrasound. Just because you can't perceive the noise doesn't mean it's not there and it doesn't have an effect on the human body, especia…

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    Comment #48646550

    More and more repitition. You get better at recognizing familiar scenarios and employing an effective measure without thinking about it too much. Early skill curve can be rough. Re…

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    Comment #48646500

    Weird. Are you paying someone in order to access the game?

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    Comment #48572616

    The project looks different from what I was expecting. Why is there a pre-built knowledge graph? Why wouldn't the tool build a graph from MY environment and stack of skills, MCP, e…

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    Comment #48530481

    I think his personal impact is overstated. Maybe I have a bad taste in my mouth from overzealous fanboys, but all I see is a manchild who likes scifi and tech, and threw a bunch of…

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    Comment #48393451

    Frankly I've tried quite a few clients and haven't found one I can settle for. I used Mailspring for a while because it was close to being a gmail experience, but that went some ki…

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    Comment #48224240

    I had a low stakes cyst removal from my butt crack once. Sparing the other details, the anesthesiologist explained the different drugs, one to numb, one to prevent my memory from f…

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    Comment #48224133

    How is this an argument when you can use extensions on the desktop version?

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    Comment #48209975

    This recent focus on ibogaine is annoying when we have previous promising success with what I understand to be low risk side effects in a controlled environment using substances li…

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    Comment #48209886

    I've been trying to work out a way to use my Steam Deck as a controller for my PC. In a perfect world I would be able to do it directly over USB or Bluetooth, but this might be the…

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    Comment #48165047

    Thanks for introducing me to those concepts. If I take the Bitter Lesson into account, I would frame this as needing more focus on enabling a general intelligence to use tools more…

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    Comment #48151394

    Using Linux is a learning experience. You will inevitably face and solve numerous problems over time, but every time you do, you come out of it understanding what's going on under …