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I believe they mean utility classes which would need explicit instantiation and lifetime management to run any test that might call them at some point like: MathOperationsProvider::Init(endianness_config, locale, wolfram_alpha_connection).
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If you can reduce the cost of a car trip to fuel + maintenance + depreciation, you are providing a very compelling alternative to private car ownership. It will change everything.
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Travel but don't go mainstream like a cruise. Try adventure travel or unconventional destinations. That's where you meet interesting people and some might live nearby.
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People do much more than narrating natural language. They navigate menus, highlight text, launch apps, type commands on the terminal etc... I don't see how voice can best keyboard and mouse when considering all interactions.
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As far as human computer interfaces go, keyboard and mouse probably win comfortably in both bandwidth and latency against speech to text in almost all tasks. Former also requires a less physical effort and is creates less noise for others.
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The second paragraph begins by saying most of them were retired more than ten years ago.
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If only there were deep pocketed people that took bets on this kind of stuff instead of chasing the web3 bandwagon.
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There is one solution which is very close to what you're describing. Read if you want to ruin the fun for yourself. https://aditya-sengupta.github.io/coding/2022/01/13/wordle.h...
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Maybe don't fake "medical devices" till you make it.
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That's not a fundamental property of fiat money. There is no fee for exchanging cash.
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The difference is that you can pay someone with JPY and that's the whole transaction. When you pay someone in BTC, you also have to pay the power company with something. The system is an inherently leaky bucket.
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You need to pay the miners just to be able to transact with Bitcoin. Gold on the contrary, you can just hand it over to someone else.
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What extra advantages do they get from stable coins over simply walking to an exchange kiosk and buying Euro or USD?
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My naive observations on BitTorrent - Residential Internet connections are asymmetrical. That's a problem and renders many clients as leeches. - It is unreliable for long tail files. If a file is never read, it will never be replicated
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The idea was not house flipping at scale. They wanted to "market make" for housing. Housing market is illiquid. People would leave decent money on the table if they could just sell their houses within hours without having to deal
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No level of radiation exposure is safe. How much of CT radiation is considered acceptable depends on the application.
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He does not need the paycheck. He must think this endeavor is the most worth his while, which is fine.
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> changing the objective function to optimise for health, wellbeing and happiness. Whose? Individual or group wellbeing? Optimizing for one can lead to very suboptimal outcomes for the other.
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Same day delivery is not for the stuff you need ASAP in my opinion. It's for the stuff you'll need on the *next day*. Like buying a specific tool on Saturday for a Sunday home repair project, which could be a big business for Home
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Read the paper maybe? There is a clear regime shift in the suicide data. Maybe there is some other trigger. But the argument of the paper is not without merit. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC81598
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Try wearing them with an imperfect seal. The sound will be quite sub par but it will be consistent. It works for me, because I'm out for a run not an audiophile experience. You'll also get to hear some of the ambient noise which h
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OP's point is exclusivity. Intel chips are not exclusive to Intel branded end consumer computers.
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Clubhouse in a nutshell
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You don't need to control the checkout process to know who bought what from you.
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Why do you think people would implement their own IAP? It would most likely be a few competing platforms like Shopify for web purchases.
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Take it with a grain of salt just like any self reported study. Their preference may very well change when they become the patient.
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YT content is more longform and making that good and engaging takes tons of practice according to my observation. Look at early content of some big names like MKBHD for example. You can see the potential in them but they are nowhere as good
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Tilt is with respect to our orbit around the sun and apparently mostly the moon is to blame for the tilt. https://www.obliquity.com/info/meaning.html
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How hard is it to make airliner lose grip? There is a lot of weight above the wheels and a lot of downforce from the wings.
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I have no hard stats on who buys supercars but I have a feeling a significant number of them don't like the idea of cars not running on oil.
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