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by rob74 2mo ago
Even more specifically, it will start off over Greenland, continue over western Iceland and then finish with the sunset in northeastern Spain and the Balearic Islands.
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by rob74 2mo ago
The article gives an interesting overview of the history of hard bread, but doesn't mention how Newfoundlanders eat it today . In a fish soup? With tea? Pure? Or all of the above?
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by rob74 2mo ago
"Close, but only half the cigar"
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by rob74 2mo ago
Well, only 83% non-destructive. According to the video (but omitted from the transcript for some reason) "one in every six crabs dies in the process".
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by rob74 2mo ago
Winning $ 1.25 million is great - but I wonder how they feel about not getting the full $ 2.5 million prize because they missed the 4:1 target by 4% ?
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by rob74 2mo ago
> I've used less tokens in the last 5 years prior to this month than I have this month. So using a bot is almost like having an employee, but instead of a fixed salary, or even an hourly rate, they will just invoice you for whatev
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by rob74 2mo ago
> People who prefer not to enter the recognition zone will have alternative routes available and images of anyone not on the authorised database will be deleted immediately and permanently. So, massive invasion of privacy, but will onl
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by rob74 2mo ago
"Wrong opinions" as in death threats and similar light-hearted stuff?
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by rob74 2mo ago
Juvenile science fiction?! He wrote 1984 in 1948 and died two years later at age 46. So I would say that was his most mature work...
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by rob74 2mo ago
Real numbers include rational numbers (numbers which can be represented as a fraction of two integers) and irrational numbers (numbers that can't be represented as a fraction - the most famous one is probably π). Since irrational
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by rob74 2mo ago
I'm not an expert on floating point math, but the "Does adding a small number do nothing?" example caught my eye, because the numbers used are constants, which are arbitrary precision in some languages ( https:/&#x2F
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by rob74 2mo ago
...although the French spell it with an extra "r". And they had more ships that were named Entreprenant(e) (Enterprising) than Entreprise ...
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by rob74 2mo ago
My overarching thought after reading as much as I could stand of this is: "Wow, sure sounds like Zuck really drank his own Kool-Aid - or if he didn't, at least he wants us all to believe that he did!". The question is not whe
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by rob74 2mo ago
Sure, but if you click on the boat called "Freedom", it shows you the data of one specific boat, not "there are X boats with this name". So I still think it's inconsistent...
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by rob74 2mo ago
I can't help but think this article could have used some more polishing. The stats say that there are 101 boats named "Freedom", but if you enter "Freedom" in the search, it shows 48 boats with names including &qu
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by rob74 2mo ago
Probably because the article only uses data from the US, so it would be a bit strange if it included the name of a British AUV. Or are you wondering why no one in the US liked that story enough to name their own boat Boaty McBoatface? There
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by rob74 2mo ago
> UK Pub Density by Parliamentary Constituency Technically, this is only the pub density in Great Britain - the UK is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", and Northern Ireland is not covered, so...
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by rob74 2mo ago
Sounds good, but what's to stop the party with more money to appeal the ombudsperson decision if it's not to their liking and then apply the "we have a whole legal department for this" strategy?
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by rob74 2mo ago
If you also consider that many of us, via the companies we work for, actively contribute to making the Internet (and by extension, the world) a worse place, the question in the article's title kind of answers itself. It also makes &quo
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by rob74 2mo ago
It saves energy by making them feel warmer in the winter. If they overdo it and freeze to death, it saves even more energy.
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by rob74 2mo ago
As opposed to fossil fuels, which are great for ecosystems, both locally and globally?
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by rob74 2mo ago
Wow, I wasn't aware of that either! I didn't have an AMD K5 PC, but (IIRC) a K6-III - did that still have the same underlying architecture?
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by rob74 2mo ago
> The AMD Am29000 processor came out in 1987, also announced as the world's fastest processor (do you see a meme here?) and it could process one instruction every cycle, so indeed it was fast. The AMD 29k - the fastest CPU you nev
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by rob74 2mo ago
This is indeed what the current US administration is failing at: keeping Trump from governing the US...
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by rob74 2mo ago
Ok, maybe you're one of the fortunate ones. With "if you weren't familiar with the topic", I meant the situation where you know what you want to do, but have no idea how exactly to accomplish it. Especially with framew
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by rob74 2mo ago
True, but it sounded a bit paradoxical to me that the people who work on engines designed to beat humans at chess were themselves opposed to using engines that (arguably) beat humans at programming...
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by rob74 2mo ago
Regarding (2) figuring out how to do things at a higher level (e.g. the general architecture of an application) is pretty different from figuring out things at a lower level (e.g. how to fill text with a certain gradient in CSS - the stuff
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by rob74 2mo ago
He fought the bots, but the bots won?
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by rob74 2mo ago
Unfortunately I can't access the article, but this video by Juan Browne (IMHO one of the most knowledgeable and no-nonsense aviation YouTubers) also provides a very good summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcyup4xV
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by rob74 2mo ago
Average height for boys that were 19 years old in 2019, not for the entire population.

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