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swifthesitation

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    Comment #46066448

    really wonderful explanation

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    Comment #42801539

    could you link the HN thread?

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    Comment #42796651

    Is your spacebar okay?

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    Comment #42705218

    You click the drop down menu for model selection and choose 4o with scheduled tasks

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    Comment #42444027

    It really is a great shot. I always daydream of showing today's technology to the great the great minds from centuries ago. Not sure why, but I do.

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    Comment #42437825

    I don't think so. It seems to just lower the ram needed for the context window. Not for loading the model on the vram.

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    Comment #42428099

    > What would be an upsetting revelation about extraterrestrial life forms? That they're here to eat us.

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    Comment #42336777

    Same. "Fairly disappointed" would be an understatement.

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    Comment #42336705

    > nadir Great word, TIL.

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    Comment #42336673

    Thanks for the archive link. And to your question, It was _never_ customary. It's weird, it's not okay, it's brainwashing, plain and simple. I'm a US citizen, our history is rooted…

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    Comment #42336623

    Does anyone else find the use of 'tsar' off putting? These are not Roman emperors - not Slavic monarchs, nor kings, or other ecclesiastical officials. They're literally rewriting o…

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    Comment #42332922

    When the settlement cost is just the price of doing business... you know they made many times more than the fine.

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    Comment #42270251

    This reminded me of an old article I read about this from `Straight Dope` years ago (2006 in fact!)[0]. > Pollution studies in the Los Angeles basin in the 1980s concluded that mor…

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    Comment #42065467

    I urge you to read this: https://acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acquisitions-1933-and-the-...

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    Comment #41996914

    People who bought M3 arent the target customers. It's those who jumped into the M architecture first with the M1s.

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    Comment #41973176

    Brave browser, Mullvad/Proton, uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, AdBlock, Cookie Auto Delete

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    Comment #41932531

    It sounds like you might benefit from some introspection and mindfulness. Some possible questions to ask yourself (introspection): 1. What are you needing to accomplish before [you…

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    Comment #41789722

    Not sure where you are located. If you're lucky enough to live in the US by a Microcenter computer store they often have refurbished NVIDIA cards for very reasonable prices. I pick…

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    Comment #41724958

    > His incompleteness theorems meant there can be no mathematical theory of everything, no unification of what’s provable and what’s true. What mathematicians can prove depends on t…

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    Comment #41724073

    I'm happy for the author, they're growing. The article is basically how they transitioned from passively accepting external truths and making internal judgements to developing thei…

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    Comment #41672731

    https://web.archive.org/web/20240926013946/https://www.nytim...

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    Comment #41649205

    Animals always migrate for food. We're gutting the oceans of food sources. See new animals is exciting, but seeing them in places they have never been before is very telling of the…

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    Comment #41508397

    > Funny post, pining for the days of old that he never knew. Agreed. I was born in '83. The author misses the things he never even experienced and is living in the 90s-00s "Highlig…

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    Comment #41494486

    Voice of my childhood. Thank you for all the memories.