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jajko
1y ago
You've never seen a 2+1 free or 3+1 free pricing in stores? We have them frequently here in Europe on some things. This is same thing and tbh I am surprised it took so long. And as a father of 2 small kids not complaining at all, havin
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1y ago
Go to Ushuaia, and book a normal ship just like all other folks do. You will have 100x more rewarding experience from all of it, guaranteed. Its not just destination but whole road to it that make such trips worthwhile and you will keep rem
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1y ago
Grandparents from both sides had a small patch of garden, and it was used to the fullest, produce was eaten for rest of the year. Yes a significant portion were potatoes, which are much healthier side dish than ie rice. Mostly boiled or ove
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1y ago
Sounds almost like you definitely shouldnt use llms nor those juniors for such an important work. Is it just me or are we heading into a period of explosion of software done, but also a massive drop of its quality? Not uniformly, just a bit
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You overestimate (on purpose for the sake of argument I believe) how much many rational folks dislike spirituality on its own. Rejecting something we have no way of knowing this or that way is certainly not smart, usually its not more than
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1y ago
In big Swiss cities, I believe its a red kite thats a common sight. I mean really common, always some of them up in skies in central Zurich, Lausanne or Geneva. It feels surreal in best way possible, I come from eastern Europe and cities ba
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1y ago
World suddenly seems much smaller
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1y ago
Sorry but facebook a "high quality product"? It was a bug infested shitshow from beginning to this day, across multiple computers, spanning more than decade and a half. Not just me. Literally their only value is social graph, whic
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1y ago
I only did it once (fb login for airbnb) and I deeply regret to this day. Airbnb cant even migrate my account to another type (plain old username & password is best for me). The reason - over time I started renting an apartment there, t
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1y ago
Why education should be done for maximal profit? Oh the poor CEO, he just wants to bring more value to shareholders! Clearly folks are fed up with eventual inevitable result. Things like education or healthcare shouldnt be privatized, since
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1y ago
Those golden parachutes and lavish lifestyle comes with a cost. That cost is responsibility and risks it brings. Whether he knew or nit is a matter for courst, but in any case he is responsible too. Punish crooks harsh and visibly, reward h
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1y ago
If you couldnt do the task youself (a very loaded statement which I honestly dont't believe), how could you even validate what llm did was correct, didnt miss anything, didnt introduce a nasty corner case bug etc? In any case a very ra
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1y ago
Ha, this sounds like my work. I've developed and evolved a java set of apps that integrate our core banking system with few tens of other internal apps. In a decade and a half, we had very few issues, all easy to handle, and ie app has
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1y ago
Last time I was backpacking in India and wanted to go to Kashmir (2008), violence just flared up badly after long period of peace and was outright told not to head up north from Amritsar. I've read few articles how tourists in Srinagar
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So what? Is 10 some mental limit of names for most population? If I can memorize 8 I can handle 12 or 15, or neither. Making up sub-categories is such a typical bureaucrat's approach to problems. Why should giant planets be in same cat
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jajko
1y ago
> Bodies orbiting the moons don't have a name. Satellites? Natural or manmade, small or big, doesn't matter.
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1y ago
I would rather expect Earth to not have a stable orbit. Either ripped apart from fluctuating tidal forces, flung away or in one of suns (thus boiling would happen, briefly) or just generally a much more extreme place compared to now.
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1y ago
Man, I've been in their underground part, every 5 years they open for public and open the detectors themselves. It was by huge margin by far the best executed engineering of any type I ever saw, and I don't consider myself a nerd
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1y ago
Its an US article, dont expect much. Anything but metric system is the mantra and people's egos won't allow any change
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1y ago
Sorry but this article doesn't bring anything new, this was discussed also here ad nausea for anybody concerned, under any interesting healthstyle article. Or just learn basics of physical activities and how body works, this is proper
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Its not what we is trying to do (at least in official carefully formulated and team-vetted PR statements), but how he is doing it. None of his official big claims were ever realized - wall in Mexico anybody? End of Ukraine war in 24h instea
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1y ago
US fast food slowly spreading like a cancer to cater to lowest social layers ain't something to be proud of. Their products are of much lower quality and taste. Basically spreading obesity, diabetes and cancer further by attacking lowe
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1y ago
If they had good access, why cut the funding? To subvert the security product where they actually have backdoor?
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1y ago
From logical/cost perspective maybe, from emotional not so much... is it really that hard to see it?
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For the LLMs uninitiated - I checked and ChatGPT Plus costs 20$/month, which puts it into same category as those services others build. Is this what you meant by having a subscription? If I don't use ChatGPT for other purposes it
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Luckily for teachers and schools in general, (foreign) language skills are just a small part of overall school curriculum and the higher you go the more this becomes true. LLMs not taking that part away anytime soon.
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1y ago
Whats stopping you? You sound like jaded old fool who made some serious irreversible mistakes in their lives, and now just overflowing with regret and hate. EU may be foolish in some aspects, I agree there, but life quality as in actual dai
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Every country in such position wishes for that (sans mandatory smaller part of population utterly brainwashed on some simplistic panslavic anti-soros fairy tales, when in reality russians cough cough soviets killed more slavs in past 150 ye
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For those who don't even bother reading those few lines in article: > Class A fire rated, or highly resistant to flame, and resistant to rot and pests.
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Yes we all know this, this is nothing new. But its the movement in right direction, especially now, rather than literal burning money on globally-abandoned green deal. Perfect being enemy of good and all of that
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