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by fsckboy 17d ago
they anticipated liking the taste?
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by fsckboy 18d ago
the stock market goes up and down daily, but with a functioning economy it will overall be up. from a distance you are right, something that keeps going up keeps achieving new highs. but, if you follow the market on a daily basis, you will
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by fsckboy 18d ago
Albanese is an Italian name, for the record In Albania, Albania is called Shqipëria.
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by fsckboy 18d ago
the Wilshire Corridor view is completely wrong, it should be the stretch of tall buildings a bit above Century City in the Century City view.
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by fsckboy 18d ago
and just to make the point more firmly, PDP-11 didn't have a preincrement/postincrement pair of instructions, it simply had indexing with post-increment of the index or pre-decrement, i.e. one paradigm, not two. Or in other words,
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by fsckboy 19d ago
> and even the pre- and post-increment operators cleanly lined up with the PDP-11 addressing modes. pre- and post- increment operators cleanly lined up with... the programmer's conceptualization and objectives--the index is/wa
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by fsckboy 19d ago
possibly Hokkien 膎汁 (kê-chiap, “fish sauce”) via Malay kecap ~ kicap “any dark clear sauce from soy, fish etc” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup#Etymology
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by fsckboy 19d ago
> A lot of cultures appear to name botanicals using apples don't know if it makes the point or upends it, but the fruit in the Garden of Eden wasn't specifically an apple.
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by fsckboy 20d ago
> Their Silicon was written to be OS agnostic, Apple's was not. i don't think that's accurate. the M series chips and memory architecture enable capabilities for the OS software to take advantage of, and the software and
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by fsckboy 20d ago
there is a Vancouver, Washington, down near Portland, Oregon
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by fsckboy 21d ago
Because Hugging Face is not allied with OpenAI or Anthropic and does not wish to see them entrenched.
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by fsckboy 21d ago
> LLMs are making me lose my savviness preferred: LLMs are making me lose my savvy
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by fsckboy 22d ago
that is the appropriate response to hyperventilating fears of an AI singularity
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by fsckboy 22d ago
> OpenAI is now the biggest cyberattack and AI breakout risk on the planet or, humans at OpenAI are doing this on purpose to kill open source models which are the biggest threat OpenAI faces. OpenAI will benefit from govt regulation. As
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by fsckboy 22d ago
I wish that purchase/shopping search engines were entirely separate and removed from general search engines. "are you searching for information or are you shopping?" when I'm searching for information, so often results a
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by fsckboy 23d ago
whoosh GP is in favor of unions and thinks they perform beneficial public services. They don't. addendum: people who like unions because they balance the power relationship between employee and employer (i.e. the idiots downvoting me,
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by fsckboy 23d ago
> I don’t think the sexist comment at the end is appropriate for HN I don't think the ageist comment in the headline is appropriate anywhere. It is well known that memories and perceptions at every age are largely constructed more
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by fsckboy 24d ago
not sure i get why you don't get it. why have the word frontier if it doesn't mean something different than other words?
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by fsckboy 24d ago
the article and most comments here are focused in the wrong direction. To me the real and only question is, can burying trash in landfills be made environmentally safe, and is it sustainable enough that we can do it for the next 100 years a
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by fsckboy 24d ago
i didn't downvote it but I thought it was pretty empty. "how do i love thee, let me count the ways" has been done before, and his love was more interesting than that you like text editors generically, and you don't menti
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by fsckboy 24d ago
"the efficient frontier" is an important landmark of (investment) portfolio theory. It proves/explains/illustrates how you can combine selections from a diffuse cloud of individual investments and still land on a frontie
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by fsckboy 25d ago
we need an Android app to "actively" complain to and about Apple, and an iPhone app to collectively agitate against Google
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by fsckboy 27d ago
> Burning Man is _not_ the problem Burning Man is completely discretionary, you need to compute the total discretionary carbon footprint, and then the BM carbon footprint
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by fsckboy 27d ago
> pay mine off every month so financially the same as a debit card actually it's better than a debit card, your purchases "float" for half a month on average you get to pay later. if you, as you should, maintain a regimen
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by fsckboy 29d ago
> What makes them dead? It's still the only consistently supported thing I encounter online. online is dead too, no app uses paypal, and plenty of online merchants take credit cards more than paypal; they even offer their own credi
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by fsckboy 29d ago
I've taken antidepressants for years (20 mg prozac) and have sometimes tapered off them, restarting later. I can barely tell that I'm taking them, I feel 100% like myself on--and off of--them. I know they do something because when
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by fsckboy 29d ago
> You legs may have a comparative advantage at running that's not what comparative advantage means except in a degenerate sense. if country A is worse than country B in both making clothes and making paper, their comparative advant
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
given: evidence tampering goal: not getting caught their need: evidence of tampering
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
you raised a good point but (et al) didn't touch on the meaningful questions: where does the "core team" of developers of DuckDB now reside? are they now "captured/cashing-in/getting paid" at AWS, or will
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
The United States of Mexico has 31 states.

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