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thecompilr

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    Comment #48804408

    I know many cruise missiles use star navigation, I wonder if satellites have any effect on that, and if they do that might be the catalyst to reduce that pollution.

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    Comment #48623736

    That might be true for some of them, but unfortunately I know a few anti vaxxers who also happen to be atheists. They just believe all the various conspiracy theories about vaccine…

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    Comment #46678155

    Don’t they still need to read what AI writes? Or did they skip to the TTS stage?

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    Comment #45444262

    Look at the Hoover dam

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    Comment #44950906

    There is a really good winery in Napa Valley, called Castello di Amorosa. Really good wine, and it is also built as a medieval castle. I bet there are more places like that around …

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    Comment #44687994

    Are they significant?

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    Comment #44155340

    That rail happens to be as the main military supply route hence it is a completely legitimate military target, civilian deaths are unfortunate. Russia simply blocks entire resident…

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    Comment #44153120

    The used regular drones and the streaming was done over regular cellular networks

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    Comment #42283484

    It is crazy that it had to be explained and you feel the need to apologize for it.

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    Comment #41962637

    I recently took a Waymo ride in Scottsdale, AZ and it was amazing, I will definitely be taking Waymo over Uber wherever available.

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    Comment #41781757

    PEX isn’t new, it has been in use for at least 50 years by now

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    Comment #41295479

    Shade is not expensive, at the simplest form it is three poles with a stretched canopy, all new playgrounds in Florid have at least that

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    Comment #41215609

    The M1 was made on 5nm which have long been available to AMD and other competitors in volume.

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    Comment #40481931

    In the US gas prices at gas stations usually also show a tiny 9/10 of a cent in addition to the x.xx price, i.e. actual price is x.xx9 and I have never seen any other value for tha…

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    Comment #40221885

    Freedom collides with a lot of other rights. For example you are not free to murder people.

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    Comment #38708109

    There was an Israeli company that used electric Renaults and provided the battery swapping service. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company)

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    Comment #38249395

    That is different though, they weren’t pushing their own hotels. Google actually built a competing product and integrated it with all its services including search and maps.

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    Comment #38062723

    This is what happened at the last startup I worked at, before we had a product, even MVP level, the CEO hired an engineering manager, who however was really a process person, excep…

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    Comment #38019116

    Then they are really inept at genocide, if over 20 days they managed to kill only four time as many as Hamas managed in a day. It will take centuries and trillions of dollars in th…

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    Comment #34457136

    Why can’t you have more than one job in Europe? But it sure is possible in the US, multiple posts here bragged about scoring multiple remote jobs in parallel

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    Comment #34451280

    The big companies hired so many new engineers over the past fee years, I wonder how many of them just abused the remote work to score multiple jobs? Like where did all those jobles…

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    Comment #34036796

    The original (AFAICT) work on SIMD quick sort, also mentioned in the google post also implemented pointer sort by loading a pointed key using gather instructions and the method can…

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    Comment #33653934

    Obviously compared to any other ALU operation, except the most basic binary ops. It is just a parity of 8 bits, so even in a straightforward implementation you only have three leve…

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    Comment #33643311

    Parity is one of the cheapest thing you can compute in hardware