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rig666
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Comment #46098666
Yes because all the teenagers reading Marxist works are well adjusted and based in reality. It's humorous how debased from reality John roger's quote is. It doesn't challenge Rand'…
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Comment #45084287
I was just trying to learn how to use dfroidcl last night on termux and kept running into this error. I thought I was doing something wrong.
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Comment #42965071
Does my software have the right to read the contents of a DVD and sell my own MP4 of it then no. If a streamer plays a YouTube video on there channel is the content original then y…
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Comment #42282635
Reminds me of how they archived data in blade runner with librarys full of little crystals as optical storage. With Sony soon to stop making blue ray it makes me fearful in what to…
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Comment #41684829
Let's be honest. The mental gymnastics to avoid calling it a rescue is just a political knee jerk reaction to Elon Musk's ownership in SpaceX. If you lose your ability to become ob…
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Comment #40795966
This is definitely true. I find there's a certain irony in society that we condemn people who aren't sceptical of anything until they are then we condemn them again. Some of the wo…
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Comment #40721409
I had a friend recently tell me about how his excess power is put back into the grid and how he hopes our area sees negative rates eventually like this. My cynical side was quick t…
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Comment #40397064
One of favorite pastimes out here in the northwest is getting old books from pay by the pound thrift stores. I've found over the years at anything past the 1880s people find worth …
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Comment #40276686
Or better yet make the switch to Linux. The steam deck really changed the gaming atmosphere.
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Comment #40020331
I relate with this sentiment. Part of me is happy that my whole house is filled with solid wood furniture for cheep, but I'm deeply saddened by people's lack of value for real thin…
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Comment #40015570
I like the cyber deck in theory but a project I've always wanted to take on that I felt would yield more value is to restore and upgrade an old ruggedized laptop. I planned a proje…
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Comment #39710104
I'm pretty certain that the other side of your political leaning would say the same thing about your party. Ask anyone about there political merchandise and they will never see it …
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Comment #39488408
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Comment #39367042
I have this same issue. I just wanted to be able to put my thoughts to paper. Especially ToDo notes when the boss is verbally listing out everything they want you to do off the top…
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Comment #39004232
I do find this to be somewhat true as well. Most tech journalists make news for everyday people and not really for people and not for technical professionals. There's some holdouts…
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Comment #38433049
My guess would be that men aren't selective as women. Therefore, for the handful of men that most women find generally attractive the effect is a lot easier to measure. Yes men can…
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Comment #37634499
In the age of mobile devices littered with sensors, randomness is far more achievable. I made a random number generator in Automate that takes takes the end digits that are really …
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Comment #37317306
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Comment #37225384
>$15 per search What chumps, just use https://freepeoplesearch.com Ya it has ads but out of all the hundreds of "free" sites it has actually the most amount of free information.
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Comment #37149281
It's shocking to see the data that has been collected on a platform as simple as Twitter. During collage I was intern at a legal firm, and one thing I've learned is the more info s…
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Comment #37142995
my first way of showcasing this was by taking a spare computer sitting around the office then writing a little python script that used and LLM to parse information out of file name…
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Comment #37135608
This isn't our field but its something similar. So say some of your clients are old publications. Some have articles dating back to the 1800s. Nearly all the work is digitized but …
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Comment #37134769
Nothing complex actually but it is a little messy and cobbled together I run oobabooga's API on docker with a 13B 4bit quantized model. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation…
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Comment #37134511
Ya prompt engineering can be a more difficult than it looks. Especially when dealing with less intelligent models. That's why I recommend having an error checking stage were the mo…
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Comment #37134377
Just a suggestion but they have 4bit quantified models that are even smaller and faster that the 8 bit. Your average 13B 4bit model is only about 8-9gb of VRAM. Using this I bet yo…