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rob_c

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    Comment #48614457

    There are extremists who claimed the ocean would be destroyed by acid rain, oil would run out by 2020 and co2 levels would push the temps to 25+C in the UK for most of the year. No…

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    Comment #48611029

    Yeah that article is missing a very major point that immigration in the UK hasn't meant assimilation or a coherent mixing of cultures as people want or may have observed at times. …

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    Comment #48610921

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    Comment #48398886

    No, that's the quality of candidates. I wish I was joking as a PhD holder for only 15yr. A lot of skill of is getting bled into the private sector because getting the PhD in a lot …

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    Comment #48398509

    Those who can use it better, those who can't out who cheat are (for now) let down by obviously cheap and slightly crappy models. The worry is in ~5yr time when the generic models c…

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    Comment #48365089

    > You pay red hat for compliance reasons You may, have you heard of docker?

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    Comment #48357318

    So why else do we pay someone to package and certify/verify open source projects? This is absolutely 90++% of what should be RedHats core day job.

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    Comment #48356171

    Again. "AI" for what it is is just basic "ML". And say it with me ML has no form of agency. This is a human screwing up and blaming their tools. Nothing to see move on. Unfortunate…

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    Comment #48308174

    I'm fairly sure the FPGA space is big enough there are alternate products for most of the offerings

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    Comment #48308164

    Think academic and small companies who don't pay for support opening corner case issues all the time publicly. They want none of the complex support unless you pay (reasonable imo)…

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    Comment #48308119

    But you just showed you have deep pockets and they think they can get you to open it again every year for the rest of time. Xilinx was never positioned that it made sense for them …

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    Comment #48262328

    Or the stupid stop being so loud

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    Comment #48261581

    No. Not at all. The simulations were based on old data with the artificial cut off. The particles were and are much much smaller. Please don't recite rhetoric and do some reading. …

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    Comment #48261553

    Global fact most died from a related underlying disease and COVID simply hastened on the process. Actually killed from just this is way below the 1M mark globally. Also we've now r…

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    Comment #48261542

    Water + heat + sieve Unless you have industrial pollutants in which case you also have someone to blame... We didn't get this far as a species being that ignorant

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    Comment #48261532

    The alternative being to tell your neighbour to tell their neighbour to stop defacating in the river or you'll stop paying their bills to bring the analogy closer to home...

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    Comment #48184188

    So your position is 0.01 Vs 0.001 and given error bars bigger than that you're arguing that I'm clearly wrong to say 0.1 is wrong... Slow clap...

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    Comment #48184167

    > the anti-mask wackos Well thank you for your service to stupidity. The only measure of worth was actual social distancing which was quickly admonished by the pointless mask argum…

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    Comment #48180573

    > some nuanced point it's not nuanced to point out a very large statement which at the time was very VERY anti-trumpian and pro ultra-left, lest not forget "hug a tourist", "lets c…

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    Comment #48180532

    > you guys I'm a wonderful citizen of heir u-turn starmer unfortunately so plenty of wanting to clear the waterways here :P

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    Comment #48180515

    > With what money? There's a reason they're dependent on USAID. How much does BASIC hygiene cost it's like manners. It's education (which is more than well funded at a "throw cash …

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    Comment #48177177

    > Why should we expect the US to step up? Le all-mighty dollar, it tastes best when given freely no? > It's almost as if the double standard is off the charts. I agree. I love how …

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    Comment #48177136

    It's healthy to remain sceptical of all information, pointing out a very widely blindly trusted organisation has serious problems which means this trust and faith placed in it is b…

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    Comment #48177104

    which is the statement being made to cancel the money since after X years there are almost zero deliverables rather than being the a&e dept for the world, in countries where leader…

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    Comment #48177100

    No, it raises the question of what is going wrong if you've spent the last x years teaching them to fish and they still refuse to. Either your approach, their willingness or someth…