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Don't you think the real insensitivity shown here is pushing socialism and asking people to be polite and say "it's not so bad", people who have trauma from actually living in a socialist state? I get that there are pr
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In Belgium they make "Living Wage" extremely unattractive by having a LOT of extra conditions associated with it. In other words: a number of people at least as large as the number getting leefloon choose to instead do with nothin
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Actually 30 is sequential on an hosted Xeon server. No GPU, about 2 minutes for a ~2000 token answer. I should try parallel since you're quite right, I should be able to do faster that way.
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You mean it was a whole political theory resulting in a revolution "to end class society" who immediately, nearly as a first step created a new elite class, equally impossible to enter and with far bigger wealth inequality than ca
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M1 is finishing it's 6th year of life and going strong ...
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3mo ago
Buy an M5 max for $4k and you have a portable Deepseek 0731 for life.
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Reading your comment kind of exposes something about our models. These are not numbers anyone can trust. Like the temperature this summer in Europe these things cannot reasonably be said to be correctly predicted. The IPCC average predictio
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I went to chatGPT to get what the fuck you mean (just in case saving money meant the government isn't giving me or my colleagues access at all to some antibiotics). But sadly it's not that. It's a correct answer, just total
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Take your favorite OCR software. Then take a photo of a document and throw it into ChatGPT, or Gemini, along with the word "Transcribe". ChatGPT wins, by a landslide. BUT AI's advantage doesn't stop there. "Take thi
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UAE oil output hits all time high in 2026
(oilprice.com)
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I guess you have never sued the government, even a local one? Allow me to illustrate how this works: Kids-for-Cash scandal: 2,500+ children were affected by thousands of juvenile cases in a corruption scandal centered involving two judges,
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Very cool.
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And yet ... read the articles. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy04ykxrj5eo Like all such articles they present a LONG list of politicians with "we're committed to/promising to/... phase out
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We have 5 known antibiotics. There are "MRSA" bacteria (which is a property of bacterial species, not a name for a particular species (anymore)) which don't care or react to about 4 of them and the 5th one is showing slightly
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Thank you. Twitter has become such a terrible website in the last years. Well, since Musk, really. Real disaster.
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Extremely "Googly" responses there. Not a single mention of the strategy of Google to include, oh, payment, social gaming, ads ... effectively building it into the system and totally disregarding the reasoning that people might wa
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Ahhh, right. I get it. You are now "part of the unhinged fossil fuel lobby", because the Green party in Germany and it's adherents: 1) have a 20 year history of increasing fossil fuel use, and on a dozen occasions, when cho
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Indeed. They're based on the assumption that reversing these functions is inefficient using standard or quantum computing primitives, depending.
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I've always found that it's pretty amazing how much effective speed can be gained by thinking about your memory usage and doing things that "don't make sense", such as leaving requests compressed in memory. Even re-
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Exactly, this is MUCH less betting anything as it is evaluating options and picking the most thinly veiled excuse to keep spending: 1) economic reality of an aging population and the gdp = population * efficiency equation, which now in ever
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Oh, you forget - we lie about social status, including to ourselves. Women and men. And as for what determines status ... first rule of social interaction: you can't ask a woman her age and you can't ask a man his wage (in other w
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Ireland can't even switch away from diesel trains in Dublin city ... I doubt they will be a good example.
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From different perspectives: 1) political: the only economical natural gas comes from Russia, which means it's a betrayal of Ukraine (especially after the many German, and worldwide promises not to do so) Obviously that hasn't s
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You are obviously referring to trees. So assuming that's what you mean: that won't work. https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/why-dont-we-just-plant-lot-t... Trees quickly reach equilibrium at which point CO2 out
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We won't stop pumping CO2 into the atmosphere (Germany, India and China actually increased coal burning in 2026, in all 3 cases despite all the good news about solar installations). Also we can't prevent fossil fuel producers fr
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Goes to show every army does the same: they make, especially the lower echelons, largely correct predictions of future conflicts. Then they refuse to prepare for them. The more things change.
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TLDR: 3 reasons. First the quickest warming is actually the poles (technically the south pole) which means the North pole cools Europe less. Europe's reduction in CO2 and other pollutants output, cause both more sunlight to hit the gro
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> Sure it's annoying to find a streaming service but once done it generally works. I have 2 words for you: "soon leaving". You may have seen them on Netflix. And in the US you have the advantage it's generally leaving
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The country has also modified the tax code that any EV is ~5000 euro cheaper in acquisition costs (through tax punishment for ICE + tax advantage for EV), about ~800 euro per year cheaper (there's secondary tax measures making ICE vehi
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You mean: it can recover. Also 3M people is probably a lot easier than 220M (and that's just Brazil).
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