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snitty

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    Comment #49186655

    Yeah. ML is all well and good, but how are they going to do the science their machines design? Atoms cost money.

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    Comment #48985970

    A single function button should not behave differently based on where on the button you click it. EDIT: It's also WILDLY inconsistent. Click and drag on a button and the shape does…

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    Comment #48406323

    I've been using this knot for a decade or so, and my shoes have come untied twice. Both times I stepped on a loose end and pulled it open. It's incredible

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    Comment #48008128

    >55.5B Is this offer on a timer?

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    Comment #47991290

    How is the demonym not Clojuristas?

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    Comment #47882485

    Apple also has an entire international retail arm.

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    Comment #47815135

    May his memory be a blessing.

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    Comment #47716287

    Rad Hardened parts are "Commercial off the Shelf" parts. VORAGO, TI, and others provide rad hardened parts via vendors like Mouser and Digikey. They're just much more expensive.

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    Comment #47493353

    A "runway incursion" is a very broad term that includes everything from this accident to a single engine Cessna moving past the hold short line prematurely at a quiet airport. FAA …

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    Comment #47390619

    This is shockingly similar to microbial motility mechanisms. Like random walk plus chemotaxis.

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    Comment #47210577

    https://xkcd.com/1053/

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    Comment #47207729

    In this case aromatic means a ring of atoms where there is electron sharing among all the members of the ring. They're called aromatic rings because before they understood the stru…

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    Comment #47207551

    >Move over cyclopentadiene anion—there’s a new five-membered aromatic ring in town, and this one is made of silicon. CHEM-Es are build a little different from the rest of us.

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    Comment #46983981

    So here the test was effectively given a set of relevant facts, can we influence the way a judge (or LLM) rules based on superfluous facts. The judges were either confused or swaye…

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    Comment #46983901

    Arguing that this is a Common Law matter in this scenario is funny in a wonky lawyerly kind of way. The legal issue they were testing in this experiment is choice of law and proced…

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    Comment #46805257

    I miss Delicious Monster's Library app

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    Comment #46480287

    I find this much more readable than KCL[0], but I also understand the ultimate goals of the two are probably a bit different. [0]: https://zoo.dev/docs/kcl-samples/pillow-block-bea…

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    Comment #45964410

    That's why I run my server on 7100 chips made for me by Sam Zeloof in his garage on a software stack hand coded by me, on copper I ran personally to everyone's house.

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    Comment #45650387

    But that bears no relation to what happened in the video.

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    Comment #45650372

    >As I understand it, this is sort of simulating what it would be like to capture this, by recreating the laser pulse and capturing different phases of it each time, then assembling…

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    Comment #45644029

    I remember programming in Forth on my Palm Pilot, as there was a Forth interpreter for it.

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    Comment #45537214

    Is the US going to invade Oslo in retribution?

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    Comment #45504064

    How many years were you in kindergarten?

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    Comment #45503925

    And yet there is clearly a market for easy-to-program MCUs for hobby and educational purposes.