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There's some terrible corporate-ware that runs on Linux and Mac, and the company policy will likely mandate the use of it.
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Is there any particular reason for LLVM being slow? Does it do a lot of complicated optimizations when generating code, or is it designed in a way that makes it slow?
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Sonos does surround audio with their sound bars, and you can connect them with Ethernet. There's also a hack to take the IKEA Sonos bookshelf speakers and connect them to different speakers, eg https://makezine.com/arti
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> I really want to test this thing out before I have to use it in a crisis. Definitely do, you can just have a no electricity/running water day at home or go camping to test if what you have is going to work or not. The worst thing
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Are you referring to casting a URL to open a browser on the home hub? I tried that in the past but it was kinda janky. It's definitely possible with something like https://demille.github.io/url-cast-receiver/ thou
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Vim has an actual manual and things stay relatively stable across releases. It's not the case for the voice assistants, where stuff breaks randomly and features are added/removed without notification.
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Internet archive link in case it goes away: https://web.archive.org/web/20240112231322/https://www.amazo...
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I think that's the crux of the matter here. A/B testing can be anything from which page layout leads people to complete their shopping check out process to which ad campaign has the best ad click through rate. The former is pretty
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It's still pretty dumb, though. For example, it'll often misunderstand "turn all the lights off" as turn the lights off or worse, turn the lights on (even though they're already on).
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This really depends on the rate at which air inside the house gets exchanged with air from the outside. In my 2008 house, two air purifiers on low are sufficient to keep AQI at 0 and in the single digits during wildfires. They're rated
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Web developers typically have working debuggers available though.
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That's pretty cool, I wonder how it compares to DuckDB
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The road repairs have to be done either way, taxes just change who pays for them, whether it's gas taxes, overweight vehicle taxes, or general tax revenues. Besides, trucks carrying goods are already taxed based on weight, they're
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Another thing to be careful of is anything that could have adverse health effects if counterfeited, like food, supplements, cosmetics, safety equipment, cooking utensils, and so on. Which I guess leaves books as something relatively innocuo
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> Tick tock, business model. With reputable retailers one doesn't have to worry about getting a fake item, unlike Amazon. And if one really wants a QOWXYZ brand product, it's half the price or less on AliExpress or Temu. Amazon
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San Francisco has one close to the mission and SoMA area.
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Another reason not to scale down the number of humans is that they're needed when automation breaks. Planes could very well fly themselves 99%+ of the time, but you want to have pilots when there are in flight issues that aren't h
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The US compensates its declining birth rate by a large influx of immigrants. In comparison, Japan's immigration numbers are tiny: https://data.oecd.org/chart/5StJ
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Planes could be flown autonomously, as they have all of the systems to fly and land automatically. The problem is mostly about what to do if for some reason the autoland system can't work, if there are sensors that are malfunctioning,
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> And, unlike a bank, your Starbucks gift card balance expires after some period of time. There are many jurisdictions in which gift card balances do not expire, such as California.
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For ML workloads, AMD wasn't competitive due to lack of software support for PyTorch. Nvidia isn't making most of their profit from selling individual GPUs to gamers, they're making money from data center GPUs that are bought
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From TFA: > Numerous lawmakers, including 16 Republican attorneys general, have called on the SEC to ensure Shein isn’t using forced labor in its supply chain before it’s allowed to start trading in the U.S.
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People have to live somewhere, so they might live in them begrudgingly, even though they'd rather live in higher quality dwellings.
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If we're in a simulation, wouldn't that simulation run in a universe that may have different capabilities than our simulated one, such as a different maximum density or even a completely different set of physical laws that governs
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If Bountysource is truly insolvent, then there might not be any money to collect.
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You can bring your expertise in X without the source code that does X. The former is legal, the latter is not.
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If you're in Montreal, keep in mind the library system has a ton of them, so you can see if there's something that she likes.
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They already do a poll thing where they ask "which of the following brands have you seen ads for recently?"
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Some non profits have very well remunerated CEOs.
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That's a good idea. What do you think is a good starting point for this?

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