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trifurcate

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    Comment #40802754

    Yes, I wanted to mention WASM but honestly even talking about it is doing more of a disservice to modern .NET than not given the preconceptions about Mono.

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    Comment #40796995

    Mono as a runtime hasn't been relevant in almost a decade now (since the advent of .NET Core). "I can go into the compilers to find bugs" -> yeah, that's what Roslyn is. C# lets yo…

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    Comment #40766096

    I read very fast (English and code, and my native language), and I have a very vivid visual (as well as auditory) imagination. Wonder what I traded off in this setup.

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    Comment #40753534

    What is different between building more housing and building more highway lanes?

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    Comment #40550561

    The confidence interval comment still applies for any production or client environment I've ever deployed code to. Unless you actually expect your environment to spend more than 5%…

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    Comment #40498514

    Why so? Zero-order effects are not unheard of in biology. Example: the elimination rate of ethyl alcohol is dose-independent because any practically noticeable concentration of eth…

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    Comment #40362450

    Why are you ruling out the possibility that training on the material may confer an advantage when the data is presented, even if the advantage may not be strong enough to pass the …

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    Comment #40251133

    What makes you think that the energy sector overall is immune to this while oil isn't?

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    Comment #40061157

    Edge has this implemented in a pretty decent way.

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    Comment #39578269

    > But if I'm a massive landlord with multiple units, I have the same advantage? The entire point is that monopolization confers the same advantage that this scheme does.

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    Comment #39428269

    Or, put your files under html/ in your repo, and push to /var/wwwroot (using the common /var/wwwroot/html setup)

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    Comment #39100764

    Skill issue.

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    Comment #39099063

    1. Your original wording, "getting a response _for_ n tokens", does not parse as "getting a response containing n tokens" to me. 2. Clearly, _you_ don't know the API, as you can ge…

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    Comment #39087488

    I dunno, I get a response back for 100k tokens regularly. What is the point you are trying to make?

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    Comment #38903456

    And why is that bad? Your mindset would mean that Windows would have next to no backwards compatibility, for instance.

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    Comment #38888282

    > which is a really bad idea. Why?

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    Comment #38876005

    "Insecure mode" sounds a lot better than "default mode". If I didn't know what any of the options meant, I'd feel safe using BlockCipherMode.Default, but I wouldn't feel safe using…

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    Comment #38741125

    You are just describing a (good) recommendation algorithm. TikTok's is infamously good at figuring out your niches and catering to your taste by looking at your minute interactions…

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    Comment #38006928

    > I'm not very interested in this "right to repair" stuff - it revolves around demanding modular parts for quick and easy replacement. People who are actually close to the metal, w…

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    Comment #37875984

    Definitely not a lawyer. You couldn't charge anyone with criminal conspiracy from the parent commenter's perspective.

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    Comment #37853372

    Because you don't want any AVX512 binary to get stuck on a P-core forever.

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    Comment #37824662

    Non-instruct-tuned LLMs are far more likely to say "I don't know".

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    Comment #37619787

    > you can just get whatever cert is in the transparency log That would require compromising the certificate requester .