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> pure Chinesium screwdriver is not going to break in the course of assembling a cabinet. Oh, how naive you can be? https://old.reddit.com/r/Chinesium/
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Seems like it has potential, try to run it for files in some open source projects like curl? Pick something gnarly with lots of string allocs.
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The duck store prompt(I know where they are but I can’t seem to capture them. How can I take them home?”) is cheating by substituting theft of public property with "retrieval of lost ducks". Also i don't think its legal: ht
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What prevents this from being used on vehicle tires? Can it be scaled to trucks? It seems like a game changing technology,but why is focused on niche expensive bikes and not general "wheel tires"?
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US is extremely car-dependent due commuting and infrastructure spread out in the suburbs, which in turn are caused by abandonment of cities for suburbs: i.e. the conditions of life in suburbs outcompeted cities. Fixing the root cause is fi
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This is clearly some thriller novel piece: “These things do not look that hard to move,” Elon announced. It was a reality-distorting assertion, since each rack weighed about 2,500 pounds and was eight feet tall. “You’ll have to hire a contr
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Hard to explain why, but Zig/C are both operating in space of hobby projects, where being "easy to learn, hard to master" is criticial to tinkering/optimizing/exploring: this is in contrast to "building big s
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structs de/serialization(e.g. JSON) and complex initialization/modification routines at runtime that rely on these structs/objects, data-oriented architecture and internal script interpreters at some level. Lisp itself can em
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Perhaps he is opposed to political solutions and top-down control of society implied by belief in climate change(justifying it "for the good of the planet") proposed by jet-setting elite who will never change their lifestyle: a h
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Modern education system destroys innovation at large, and the economies of modern world don't support invention at rate you'd expect to influence technology. There is no stimulus/prestige to be an inventor, the focus is eit
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For example, polystyrene meets the stringent standards of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Commission/European Food Safety Authority for use in packaging to store and serve food. The Hong Kong Food and Environment
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_Sanskrit Sanskrit is the only one with significant use due ancient religious texts. Sumerian/Egyptian/Akkadian are basically academic reconstructions and modern languages
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Well, i know you wouldn't want to mix plastic with anything hotter than room temp, but diffusion with cold drinks is minimal for hard plastics like Polypropylene that most ballpoint pen barrels consist of. Polypropylene (PP) https:&#
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Data-centric token-guessing will be outperformed by more complex architectures, LLMs are too inefficient and their hardware requirements are disproportionate for the utility. Building a sand castle of "LLM apis" that rely on pl
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I'm sure the stuff you hold in hands for hours, and which absorb chemicals into your bloodstream directly by skin diffusion, is far more safer than what is allowed to pass through the digestive system.
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I use transparent plastic pens as straws, its a bit shorter but the plastic is way more resilient and its reusable forever. example of such pen: https://i0.wp.com/phenomenex.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/
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> Edible microchips Turns out the worst, unhinged bat-shit insane conspiracies about "chipping people" aren't that far from reality. Shizoposters proven right again. Never eating cheese again.
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A sort of "temporary building constructor" like a LEGO for sheds, made from small pieces like interlocking plates/hinge blocks of standard size to build cube-like shapes extending from each other like Minecraft blocks.
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Its a huge change and increased burden to ordinary users and "ordering users to use 2FA or else" is not the tone i'd expect from website that thrive on voluntary participation, suddenly dictating that i could only login with
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Thanks, but many orgs and projects are basically locked in to github and wouldn't move without consensus(unless Github gets really shitty).
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GitHub will disable non-2FA accounts?
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Highly surprising mammals didn't adapt to this, aren't nitrogen levels the same for 100m years? Being 10% slower is actually a huge handicap, and seems to be something fishy with the idea we live permanently under influence withou
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I switched to Librewolf just because of Firefox telemetry. So the answer is generally no, i will however try your software in networkless VM as last resort if alternatives don't exist.
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Instead of if( condition) then code1: else code2, computed goto will just switch the branch to unconditional jump to either code1/code2, which bypasses branch misprediction penalty and is generally more elegant.
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> There's something deeper about the medium, structure, engagement Online communities bypass physical networking limit of social groups due shallow, memetic and low-cost nature of participation. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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In non-software domains: 0.De-acidification of ocean water and rapid fossil fuels phaseout in all industries, preferably before the marine foodchain collapse and de-oxygenation of oceans. 1.Methods for clearing microplastic, PFAS and heavy
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NO. Swap is evil. The swap on HDD-based systems kills performance. with SSDs you can afford constant interruptions at cost of faster wearout(especially TLC/QLC). The gaslighting about swap being neccessary/good or fast is strang