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tangenter

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    Comment #48951254

    > It is hard to fathom anyone on the planet less qualified than Elon Musk to opine on the value of public service experience when lives are at stake. This is the opening line of th…

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    Comment #48950024

    Gentle reminder to folks to use Firefox or even LibreWolf. These sites and these articles are notorious for anti-user ads. I suspect this article is intentionally lengthy and fille…

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    Comment #48947256

    > It started with Lex Fridman planted interviews to make AI researchers appear human and ends with AI awarding AI prizes. You should expand on this. Would be interesting to hear mo…

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    Comment #48942800

    Long shot - any hope of us getting an MSN Gaming Zone code release? The Lobby and Friends/Messages system? Would help us... counts on fingers 9 greybeards out.

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    Comment #48942092

    Slow is fine, and I do. My personal favorite is a former NASA employee who recorded a series of lessons for students to use to supplement their normal undergrad studies, prepare fo…

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    Comment #48941971

    I have a pile of my own so I know what you are talking about. I love how even today DVD and Blu Ray players look, long after they were released. They are compact and chic, looking …

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    Comment #48939792

    I don’t think they are simplified but they are an introduction course for sure. I think what’s usually missing is integrating (heh) linear algebra with calculus for solving more in…

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    Comment #48939757

    Chill Winston.

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    Comment #48939728

    Personally, I haven’t stopped buying CDs or in certain cases DVDs and Blu-Rays - not of movies but of music. I find it interesting these “went away” but I can see why: nobody I kno…

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    Comment #48938604

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    Comment #48937111

    As I read this article I lament that the childlike naïveté angle is the dominant one used to distill the spirit of creation in most written literature. There are other, more profou…

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    Comment #48937014

    Flagged because not even Google reads their own blog posts. This is LLM slop.

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    Comment #48924693

    It’s interesting to see how independent analyses reach more or less the same conclusion.

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    Comment #48915805

    Aye, the world we live in.

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    Comment #48915340

    We already have a name for this that’s widely used: concern trolling.

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    Comment #48909296

    This is a load-bearing title.

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    Comment #48909016

    Either that or they’ve been repeated by the audience so often as to lose all their appeal.

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    Comment #48908146

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    Comment #48897399

    VW is a massive casualty, but the future of automotive is currently a cutthroat war between BYD and Tesla. Everyone else is, at best, a second tier competitor. Auto industry/dealer…

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    Comment #48894988

    Upvoted. The secret origin story of Kord as he feels belittled by an anonymous online commenter, one of a handful who flagged his submission to HN. A Great War is about to waged on…