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xyz_opinion

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    Comment #45394522

    "Dave] is using bifacial solar panels– panels that have cells on both sides. In his preferred orientation, one side faces South, while the other faces North. [Dave] is in the North…

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    Comment #45370893

    "My best guess is that we have another 12 months to enjoy some degree of confidence in our shared sense of reality." ...with no metrics provided to explain how this was arrived at,…

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    Comment #45092210

    yes, transforming xml. and it was useful. great! edit: zomg mcswell I see you're the person I was replying to in the first place, to this absurd comment: "First, who decided that X…

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    Comment #45088979

    I dont have Spotify either. I have self determination.

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    Comment #45080452

    nah. its a transform for XML and its super useful when you need it. People such as yourself who claim its not a great programming language are probably not trying to use it for the…

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    Comment #45076214

    XSLT is not a programming language. It's a declarative transform for XML, and when you need such a thing, it is extremely useful.

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    Comment #44965318

    It wasn't at all difficult to tell that comment was sarcasm. The first clue was this line: > I present to you: underwater data centers! "I present to you" is clearly lighthearted, …

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    Comment #44948938

    That last one, he's never going to make it over that stretch of water

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    Comment #44945409

    "It was not even clear that we were so near to create machines that could understand the human language" LLMs don't _understand_ "the human language". They dont _understand_ anythi…