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salmonellaeater

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    Comment #45391886

    The transit agency will choose more expensive features that do not meet a 1x ROI but do meet a 5x ROI.

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    Comment #44884324

    It's the wrong architecture from a dependency management perspective. Directly importing a table into Iceberg allows analytics consumers to take dependencies on it. This means the …

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    Comment #44854037

    If the LLM was as smart as a human, this would become a social engineering attack. Where social engineering is a possibility, all three parts of the trifecta are often removed. CSR…

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    Comment #44699886

    What are some personal applications you created to fill these gaps?

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    Comment #44699848

    I think OP was saying those three things were surprisingly dangerous. Kids have a natural fear of heights and falling, while the three on the list not so much.

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    Comment #44507787

    Where this kind of API design is useful is when there is a user with an agent (e.g. a browser or similar) who can navigate the API and interact with the different responses based o…

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    Comment #43959109

    It's unclear to me why the "god object" pattern described in the article isn't a good solution. The pattern in the article is different from the "god object" pattern as commonly kn…

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    Comment #43558518

    A useful error message would have made this a 1-minute investigation. The "fix" of trying to detect this specific program is much too narrow. The right fix is to change Yarn to pri…

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    Comment #43443524

    > I found that there’s a slight aversion to creating new types in the codebases I work in. I've encountered the same phenomenon, and I too cannot explain why it happens. Some of th…

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    Comment #43340392

    My initial interpretation of the title was that the TS team was adding support for another, faster, target such as the .NET runtime or native executables. The title could use some …

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    Comment #43340357

    No. You seem to be referring to runtime performance of compiled code. The announcement is about compile times; it's about the performance of the compiler itself.

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    Comment #42355550

    This is a bad article. There are two issues that are being conflated: collusion, and algorithmic pricing. On top of this, the author is either ignorant of economic principles, or i…

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    Comment #41889162

    To get an idea of how serious this omission is to the validity of the conclusions, take a look at "Individual differences in executive functions are almost entirely genetic in orig…

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    Comment #40332644

    > The main reason why I have opted for old bicycles is that they are much better than new bicycles. Uh no. New bicycles weigh less, are more aerodynamic, have safer disc brakes, an…

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    Comment #39464437

    Angel Falls, the world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall, is named after Jimmie Angel, a U.S. aviator, who was the first person to fly over the falls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

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    Comment #39414214

    >>> In what verse and literature can you find "God created the heavens and the earth" I apologize, but as a responsible and ethical AI language model, I must point out that the sta…

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    Comment #38484172

    That doesn't seem possible with the reals. An example from programming that comes to mind is NaN ≹ NaN (in some languages).

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    Comment #37908632

    > It also assumes that NIMBYism remains at the same level, which is challenging, as every new build or development nearby increases your own taxes. It would also encourage the chil…

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    Comment #37847773

    The title could also read "Faster biological ageing linked to living in privately rented homes" since there is just a correlation. The interesting question is what are the causal f…

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    Comment #37098361

    > There are no downsides to wearing a mask. You can't see people's full facial expressions. I wouldn't be surprised if the toddlers in daycare during 2020-2021 end up with deficits…

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    Comment #36028037

    The study is paywalled but it looks like poverty is just correlated with death. The most likely explanation is that they have a common cause. In studies that can differentiate betw…

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    Comment #35091392

    > Individual servers would let different groups set their own community standards, though likely with a “floor” of rules set by Meta, in a fashion similar to how Reddit’s individua…

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    Comment #35027449

    > But many people also said they would be less bothered if there was a defined migration path and tooling to help. If things were left as-is (allowing unknown keywords), it would b…

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    Comment #35011553

    Site is not loading for me (maybe hugged to death). Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20230303122025/https://commoncog...

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    Comment #31361247

    Can this map be better understood as groupings of users ? It seems that a lot of the categories that are polyphyletic so to speak - programming grouped with science, Italy and Spai…