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by jeeeb 10mo ago
Also the worlds most popular web browsers
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by jeeeb 10mo ago
Superannuation is not a tax. It’s a compulsory retirement saving/investment scheme. However to calculate total income taxes you do need to include the 15% tax on superannuation contributions. If your pre-tax take home salary is $100k A
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by jeeeb 10mo ago
At least in the systems I’ve experienced (Australia and Japan). You can just go to another doctor. There’s no “insurance networks” and no visitation limits. You can go to _any_ doctor nationwide. I’d be curious to know where you had that ex
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by jeeeb 10mo ago
Ummm no… This is total fantasy. Takaichi is a slightly right of centre nationalist. Pushing a mild tightening of some immigration rules to maintain the social contract around immigration, and fend off the right wing populists. Her policies
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by jeeeb 11mo ago
Roblox apparently was at risk of being banned but worked with the government to implement extra controls
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by jeeeb 1y ago
I just wanted to say I had exactly the same experience this month. I was diagnosed with LADA type 1 diabetes. First in my family to have it. My immediate reaction was wanting to put together something to track my diet, blood glucose weight
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by jeeeb 1y ago
After comparing Gemini Pro and Claude Sonnet 3.7 coding answers side by side a few times, I decided to cancel my Anthropic subscription and just stick to Gemini.
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by jeeeb 1y ago
Ahh I see. Thank you for the explanation. I didn’t realise their was user input straight after the system prompt.
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by jeeeb 1y ago
Wouldn’t it be the other way around? If the instructions are at the top the LV cache entries can be pre computed and cached. If they’re at the bottom the entries at the lower layers will have a dependency on the user input.
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by jeeeb 1y ago
They’re offering to fund 160 million euros to bootstrap private enterprises providing launch services to the ESA. Of course they want to review the business plan to make sure it’s viable before dropping a bundle of government money on some
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by jeeeb 1y ago
> It’s not the only reason but an absolutely crucial factor is that EU states protect their domestic auto industry via tariffs and industrial policies/subsidies. The same is true for America.
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by jeeeb 1y ago
The Apache Arrow libraries are a good alternative for reading parquet files in Java. They provide a column oriented interface, rather than the ugly Avro stuff in the Apache Parquet library.
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by jeeeb 2y ago
From the first paragraph of your linked article: > BEIJING, March 31 (Reuters) - China, Japan and South Korea agreed to jointly respond to U.S. tariffs, a social media account affiliated with Chinese state media said on Monday, an assert
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by jeeeb 2y ago
Just like it’s applied to domestically manufactured goods as well … The fact is the tax does not discriminate based on origin of the goods. It’s a tax on consumption. So from the US perspective it matters to the degree that using a false pr
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by jeeeb 2y ago
> Also perhaps our more enlightened policies are helping us achieve that higher per capita GDP? Singapore’s GDP per-capita is likely fairly inflated as it doesn’t correct for the effect of multinational tax planning by large corporations
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by jeeeb 2y ago
It was ceased and the police determined it was a potentially lethal weapon on examination. The suspect was arrested on this basis. Given the circumstances and confession I’m guessing this guy will be let off with a warning (deferred prosecu
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by jeeeb 2y ago
Reading the original Japanese article. Police ceased the coil gun and determined that it was a potentially lethal weapon. The suspect was arrested under current law on this basis. From March next year it will be illegal to posses coil guns
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by jeeeb 2y ago
From the discussion above it seems that browsers have changed their behaviour in the last 10 years based on that study. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42166914
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by jeeeb 2y ago
Toshiba fumbled the initial opportunity with NAND memory but went on to became a major player. The modern Kioxia is one of the largest makers in the world and a direct spin-off of Toshiba’s memory division. They were motivated to claim that
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by jeeeb 2y ago
I disagree with your diagnosis. I think these are good examples of Japanese corporate culture being quite insular, often not just of the world outside Japan, but often of the world outside the same company. Product design often stumbles bec
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by jeeeb 2y ago
Why? They seem to do the job they’re meant to do very well and generally very reliable. The interfaces are simple. The touchscreens are instantly responsive. They support a variety of features. Overall they seem better than the ones Nationa
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by jeeeb 2y ago
Huh? Is this comment meant to be parody? Japan’s full of gadgets to help with everyday tasks, including vegetable peelers. Just visit Daiso or Loft or similar and look around a bit. Or look around your typical supermarket. Instant noddles,
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by jeeeb 2y ago
I’m not sure how unusual it is internationally but KYC laws in Australia will generally require 100 points of identification, usually satisfied by showing your passport and drivers license. Other options include recent utility bills, your b
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by jeeeb 2y ago
This is necessary to prevent islanding. If the inverter outputs when the grid has lost frequency then other inverters can respond by also starting to output. This creates a chain reaction and can generate serious currents in sections of the
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by jeeeb 2y ago
Australia already has a research reactor in Lucas Heights, Sydney. It’s a significant production facility for radioisotopes used in medicine.
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by jeeeb 2y ago
Very area dependent. In more rural area cash only vending machines are more common.
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by jeeeb 2y ago
The main value proposition is being able to query the data in SQL. Personally I find that more ergonomic than Pandas for a lot of tasks. It also works seamlessly with Pandas in Jupyter notebooks. You can query dataframes seamlessly and stor
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by jeeeb 2y ago
Most hybrids sold in Australia are not plugins. In fact, I don’t think Toyota sells any PHEVs in Australia yet. They’re more fuel efficient (and in my opinion nicer to drive) than regular ICE vehicles but the energy they use comes entirely
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by jeeeb 3y ago
> Because lisp syntax (s expressions) are a cleaner and terser superset of all markup languages I don’t really follow this. What makes s-expressions a superset of markup languages? What can’t you express in XML that you can with s-expres
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by jeeeb 3y ago
You can rent movies online though. Steaming catalogs are a moving target but online rental catalogs usually have most stuff available. You also don’t need to drive down to the store and risk getting a scratched up disk that skips over a key

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