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Comment #49062257
You probably have a bad Thunderbolt chip. No way around it besides SPI flash (which is honestly pretty easy): https://gitlab.com/MobileAZN/lenovo-t480-thunderbolt-firmwar...
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Comment #48973547
The contrarian in me wants to say Margaret Mitchell.
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Comment #48715937
What? Gold underwent a massive revaluation with the end of Bretton Woods in 1971. It was prior to then that government were actively involved in making the price of gold artificial…
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Comment #48624248
Per their status page, the main product now has one 9 of uptime.
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Comment #48395816
It continues to astound me that no one has given LLMs the full Derrida treatment.
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Comment #48151617
Rwanda has prospered for the past three decades while Malawi has floundered because Rwanda is run by an effective dictator engaging in developmentalist nation-building. Malawi has …
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Comment #48002411
https://www.deltaheadtranslation.com/MGS2/DOTM_TOC.htm
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Comment #48002374
Had this statue been erected in 2006, it would’ve been an immortal masterpiece. Had it been sculpted in 2016, it would still have been a great statue but flawed. But it was made in…
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Comment #47987528
Well yeah, LLMs generate resumes (and other text) that they judge as superior to alternative plausible texts. Why would that judgement change just because a different instance hasn…
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Comment #47942604
I mean, the name of that whale is now Teresa T. You gave it that name.
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Comment #47931167
The idea of using the moon as a weather satellite is rather ingenious.
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Comment #47870236
I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that it took over two years for this data to be released after it was collected.
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Comment #47484599
>which makes buildouts difficult without significant state support Which is why I said to subsidize it as state policy in the original comment. >cost to build is significantly high…
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Comment #47484040
The U.S. spends $500 billion a year on electricity[1]. $2 trillion dollars worth of bonds to lower the price per kWh is modest, especially given that it would enable new tax revenu…
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Comment #47483724
I am speaking from a position of total ignorance, so this is probably a dumb take, but I don't see why rich nations[1] don't simply subsidize mass nuclear energy production as stat…
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Comment #47483034
Just delete the model file?
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Comment #47482969
See also: public school teachers. You either need to be insanely passionate or incredibly stupid to take ~$55k/year for long hours as an educator that is also a babysitter. And ins…
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Comment #47343183
Also in the pipeline: elimination of jury trials https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2x01yne13o
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Comment #47228422
> They've pushed AV1 (and other) encoders forward substantially. AFAIK fansubbers were the first to adopt 10-bit video, way back in 2011.
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Comment #47210315
Looking at Google Maps, there's Al Dhafra Air Base a couple of miles to the datacenter's south, an oil refinery a bit to the east, ports to the north, and a military academy to the…
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Comment #46880265
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/09/23/ban-sales-po...
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Comment #46880235
Counterfeiting money is bad, and should be illegal (the wisdom of forcing such software into printers notwithstanding). Manufacturing your own products is good, and shouldn't be il…
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Comment #46880154
None of what you said is true. > the federal Gun Control Act of 1968, which gives you the right to manufacture a fire arm There has been a right to manufacture firearms since befor…