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sb057

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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…