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wyan

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    Comment #49265804

    Your examples are cases in which you know what the bill is going to be before placing your order. With LLMs, you're paying per output token, not per request, yet you don't get all …

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    Comment #49265612

    They offer both a subscription model and a lifetime purchase. Or that used to be the case, at least. But I agree that it feels like it's getting behind.

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    Comment #49255934

    In softness I guess? Because I wouldn't consider any of the "B" series really matte :)

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    Comment #49247571

    How do they compare with Faber Castell 9000? (I normally write with these, in HB or 2B hardness)

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    Comment #49226639

    How are laptop GPUs these days in terms of energy consumption? My last experience was a while ago, but the battery drained fast with them active.

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    Comment #49226488

    I only know the Uni system of a few European countries, but generally I would expect Philosophy to be a prerequirement that you take for your entrance examinations, not during stud…

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    Comment #49226266

    Taking propranolol in this case is, in fact, an example of being a functioning adult, and a solution that also works for oral examinations.

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    Comment #48487679

    I would claim the difference between being rejected an API request and being potentially jailed/shot is significant.

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    Comment #48395301

    Not WW2, but GPS depends on General Relativity to calculate time differences between satellite signals and ground correctly.

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    Comment #47771045

    Not lawmakers in this case, but judges having no understanding of what they're ruling on.

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    Comment #47765850

    How much is it spending in the Anthropic API so far?

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    Comment #47558048

    The fact that the oldest current law in the list is about places where nuns are allowed to be buried is quite amusing, in some sort of way.

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    Comment #47558021

    To be fair, the BOE website often offers the consolidated version for many important laws, which includes further amendments by other laws in one text.

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    Comment #47281583

    It says it's OSS, but I can't find a link to the source code in the website, am I just being dense?

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    Comment #47140435

    Having been both in academia and industry, to me Stephen always sounds too academic for business, but for academia, a mix of too "industry" and a crank.

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    Comment #47140314

    Or accelerated, since development would have ceased to be restricted to Wolfram's employees

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    Comment #47140257

    Isn't there already Maxima which is several decades old?

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    Comment #46532759

    The golden ratio makes for even less balanced paper than sqrt(2)

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    Comment #46286611

    Not closer to the spoken sounds, closer to English orthography.

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    Comment #45539862

    This was my experience too, lots of cities to choose but all of them US-based. Not even London or Berlin. I'll wait and see :)

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    Comment #45273176

    Wasn't Murex some sort of backend software for financial institutions?

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    Comment #44796620

    I used my $20 welcome credit and the Orchestrator mode to generate a JUCE tutorial with kilocode.ai, hopefully I can use it as a base for teaching myself to code audio plugins.

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    Comment #44788832

    Thankfully it's quite easy to go for several weeks without rebooting, but this is so annoying.

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    Comment #44498320

    The purpose of a PhD is to certify that you're able to do independent research. Many researchers retrain (or just add a research interest) in adjacent fields during their postdocs …