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who said anything about speaking?
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Speling is hard.
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What continent do they think they are on?
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> A genuine relationship is not transactional But helping other people often brings happiness on its own.
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But if you eat enough of them then you self-mummify, achieving a sort of Earthly persistence that used to be reserved for people like monks, saints, or ancient Egyptian nobility.
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> As I said, when farming became more efficient, it wasn't great to be a farmer What you seem to be saying is that consolidation of the farming industry into fewer producers with higher productivity was good for food buyers and soci
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Self-correcting problem.
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Thanks for the response - from my perspective the most meaningful measurement of "performance" (basically "efficiency" but also throughput) is computation per unit of energy (and heat which has to be dissipated), but mem
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(2025) Apple adds long-awaited ability to pause irritating FaceTime calls on public transport.
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> I find super fast missiles far scarier than advanced AI But what about super fast missiles with advanced AI?
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> I would question the premise that all or even most of the productivity gains of any past technological improvement have accrued to the benefit of solely those at the top of an enormous pile of wealth. The historical automation story se
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> My employers who are introducing AI are not laughing evil supervillains hoovering up all the excess profits I care less about the motivation rather than the action.
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> You Need a PC for PC Games: Sure, you could use a "PC" (like the Apple II used for the first screenshots) ... if you don't have access to a PLATO system! > Brodie Lockard, who discovered the tile-matching game as he d
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Is it outrageous because "performant" is kind of a vague term. Does it mean... Fast? GPU-friendly? Scalable? Energy-efficient? Reliable? User-friendly? Maintainable? For what kind of applications? Modern Fortran has a lot to offer
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*Super Mario Kart
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They have learnt... very slightly more than nothing from CUDA.
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"Well, some guy in marketing figured that we could make more money by charging more money, especially for things that we didn't previously charge money for. This was validated by ChatGPT as the kind of brilliant insight that quali
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You answer all the questions we do not ask. Please answer the primary question this issue is about. Why is Linux not supported in the BASIC tier? seems about right
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Well, my Ive-cursed 2016 MacBook Pro had 4 (!) ThunderBolt/USB-C ports, which I kind of miss (though you had to use one of them for charging, you could also charge from either side). It was both thinner and lighter than recent 16"
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The Magic Trackpad is fine and works fine both wired and wireless.
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I dislike loud cars and motorcycles, but ALPR should be limited severely. Driving a car shouldn't automatically subject you to dragnet surveillance. Meanwhile emergency vehicle sirens are loud, obnoxious, and (in many cities) constant,
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Ripping those tiny GameCube discs is interesting!
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> most people cannot go to a bank and borrow $500k Unless they can get admitted to a private university and a professional school.
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> Less than 21% of my monthly payment was going toward paying off the loan! Something is wrong with this.
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In wired LAN mode you can play Mario Kart 8 deluxe with up to 12 players, or Mario Kart World with up to 24 players. (picture of original/SNES Mario Kart reminded me of this; note you can also play it on the Switch)
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The balance of 100% of productivity gains accruing to the employer and 0% to the employee may have been the wrong bargain long-term.
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I have found StackOverflow useful on rare occasion, but the friction, idiotic moderation culture, and high noise-to-signal ratio usually made it somewhere I didn't want to return to.
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I almost feel nostalgic for the bittorrent era, when piracy (or unauthorized distribution) was done the old-fashioned way! Though it's a shame that current copyright law is incompatible with building an effective digital library that i
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> They were thick, they cost about $50, and they had titles like “Learning React” and “HTTP: The Definitive Guide”. The most effective way to make money from open soruce was (for a time at least) to be Tim O'Reilly, Amazon, or Googl
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> There are no such examples (recommended for humans, but abhorrent for machines) claiming to be human

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