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spywaregorilla

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    Comment #42087833

    You assume they all shared the same tech stack

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    Comment #42052818

    The pension funds are protected, but that does not mean anything close to your promised benefit is available for you to receive. It also creates a recurring liability that the comp…

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    Comment #42052721

    It's better to not gamble your retirement on the assumption that your company will be solvent in 40 years. That's not really antagonistic in any way.

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    Comment #41874061

    Is that really kids liking history or is that kids thinking war is cool? History is also largely a joke subject that's just interesting fun facts and dry US history repeated ad inf…

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    Comment #41865278

    That's not unreasonable if you have good tests that hit the right elements. My experience about 10 years ago with the AP exams were very positive. The tests were good, and even tho…

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    Comment #41840219

    Building a ship containing delicate sensors that needs to get into space, arrive at the target, and beam back measurements on the first try with a very low tolerance for error is h…

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    Comment #41787441

    A quick google suggests to me that smoking trends are still falling in the US and globally on average. imo smoking is considered lame to americans as a sign that someone doesn't ha…

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    Comment #41787380

    What exactly is it? I get the sense it's basically a knowledge graph and an inference engine. But what was it actually doing in terms of submitting queries and spitting out takeawa…

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    Comment #41777942

    > during pre-training, there is never an incentive for the model to say "I don't know" because it would be penalized. the model is incentivized to make an educated guess The guess …

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    Comment #41745133

    Can you identify any of these models?

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    Comment #41620032

    I remember playing one of these a decade or so after it came out. Found out there were hookers and a prompt on whether or not to have safe sex. Despite my attempts, I was unable to…

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    Comment #41506913

    My point is not that you missed on some sweet cash. My point is that it's an example of extreme privilege and wealth opportunities that most people cannot afford. The post comes of…

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    Comment #41501114

    If you didn't work for two years, the cost was "less than a used tesla" and two years opportunity cost of missed wages.

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    Comment #41484611

    Neon Genesis is moreso Christianity as an aesthetic.

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    Comment #41441682

    Those poor fools and their 11 digit lifetime revenue figures

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    Comment #41441662

    I really feel like epic games should be paying games to let people use their consistent character across games. It doesn't need to be significant. Just the metahuman mesh.

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    Comment #41403833

    > 5. A negative view would be that AI coding assistants mean people don’t necessarily need “libraries” like this if an LLM can spit out the same results in a couple queries (rather…

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    Comment #41396356

    Well, a battery is going to boost it substantially

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    Comment #41394667

    Well, that claim isn't true. Solar + Storage is cheaper than a gas peaker plant, but it is not cost competitive with a base load gas plant.

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    Comment #41394608

    Gas is being subsidized

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    Comment #41394580

    11k for my house in MA net of a few thousand in subsidies last year. I don't think I really believe your quote of 40k. Does that even break even on energy bill savings?

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    Comment #41390831

    What is this exactly? The front page doesn't make it clear to make what ibis is besides being an alternative to pandas/polars.

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    Comment #41370425

    So you're saying the engineers were totally grounded and apple business leadership was not.

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    Comment #41368264

    Do you have any evidence to suggest the engineers believed that?

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    Comment #41368098

    Hardly a discovery given that it's just the exact same thing as always but sure