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tonmoy

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    Comment #49162258

    Just because two graphs looks similar doesn’t mean they are “same”. Shouldn’t we subtract the random bias from the real world data and see if there is any slope remaining (or somet…

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    Comment #49064308

    Wouldn’t it make more sense to build a GPS clock?

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    Comment #48955164

    I’m not 100% sure I follow what you mean, but here is a link from NASA saying our magnetosphere protects the atmosphere from erosion https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/earth…

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    Comment #48734974

    What models are you using? Aren’t you still dealing with some provider even if you are not using their binary

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    Comment #48714366

    There’s argument to be made that SWE hasn’t been cracked either. The latest models are great at coding medium sized applications, but figuring out the requirements and consolidatio…

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    Comment #48648615

    While their conclusion is probably correct, I would have liked to seen the number of fatalities normalized by population, miles driven, number of pedestrian increase, speed limit c…

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    Comment #48525603

    I don’t think you can take a turn until you hit a wall?

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    Comment #48197000

    Another outsider, but Krita seem to be doing really well keeping their UX up to date. To the point where I often use it for a lot of stuff meant to be done by GIMP

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    Comment #47913187

    Blind spot in the process is one thing, support staff not understanding the urgency of something like this and escaping to higher level is another

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    Comment #47834028

    Who knows? The way things are going VCs could start asking claude to review someone’s online presence and Claude might decide karma is the best metric for that

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    Comment #47833355

    Steam wishlist, itch.io number of views, YouTube views and now GitHub stars… I’m tired of all the gamification of creativity. Now if you’d upvote my comment I can get same karma pl…

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    Comment #47833217

    I thought you were quoting a propaganda ad from starship troopers for a second there

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    Comment #47509123

    Im not sure I follow. AI barely consumes energy compared to other industries and instead of focusing on the heavy hitters first wasting time on the climate impact on AI doesn’t see…

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    Comment #47092257

    I’m surprised to see not enough people using xargs, or maybe I overuse it

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    Comment #46961274

    The main issue with population decline is the inability to depend on the growing younger population to fund the retirement of elderly people

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    Comment #46214344

    The less context switching LLMs of current day need to do the better they seem to perform. If I’m writing C code using an agent but my spec needs complex SQL to be retried then it’…

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    Comment #46194198

    Isn’t that a myth? Do you have any sources to back up your claim?

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    Comment #45824030

    From what I read they engine caught fire right after they hit V1, so basically the only option was to take off and solve the problem in the air

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    Comment #45720124

    As someone neurotypical I take it for granted that my feelings most often align with what’s best to fit in with society. A few times it doesn’t and I end up giving in to my feeling…

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    Comment #45673268

    It is often useful to chain multiple sed commands and sometimes shuffle them around. In those cases I would need to keep changing the fist sed. Sometimes I need to grep before I se…

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    Comment #45569688

    Internet was too big to fail in 2000, and in the long run was a net positive for the economy. Yet, a lot of internet companies still have not recovered the bubble bursting

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    Comment #45472050

    Most EVs these days can recharge 300ish miles in 15 mins, but 99% of the time I don’t even have to drive anywhere to refuel as it get recharged overnight in my garage. EVs are waaa…

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    Comment #45368334

    Is that the reason Steam is still loved by users? (not sure how long that’ll last tho)

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    Comment #45349660

    > The FDA has conducted a systematic analysis of literature published between 2009-2024, including published case reports with patient-level information, as well as mechanistic dat…

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    Comment #45333558

    This is how I feel trying to follow tutorials for using LLM or GenAI (LoRA, agentic, MCP what?)