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by xmprt 3y ago
The GPT-4 answer is only better in so far as it uses RunTransaction. I don't know why it's trying to loop through the stores and then running the i'th operation on that store when it could have just had the store referenced i
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by xmprt 3y ago
Maybe I should have rephrased it. There are fun ways to live a life without emitting a bunch of carbon just as there are tasty ways to cook vegetables. It's just that people don't want to and more importantly, governments don&#x27
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by xmprt 3y ago
It's pretty easily done too. It's just that it's not a very fun thing to do. Like eating vegetables. It's pretty easily done but that doesn't mean everyone does it.
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by xmprt 3y ago
There are some things that you can only do once everyone has boarded and skipping steps in the checklist is a recipe for disaster.
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by xmprt 3y ago
> They tend to put their carry-on in the first bin they find in the front of the airplane I personally haven't noticed this and I don't think it's very common. I thought that most people preferred to have their carry on in
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by xmprt 3y ago
Ironically Tor is mostly funded by the US government. 80% in 2012. They are still a significant donor however I'm not sure if the percentage is still so high.
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by xmprt 3y ago
If the default setting is to enable the feature, then the feature isn't opt-in because the user didn't "opt" (ie, choose) to enable it. For a feature to be opt-in, the user must explicitly choose/opt to enable it. O
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by xmprt 3y ago
The way I see it, taxes are disincentives on bad behavior. So if you tax high value property more then it hurts people who want to improve their properties.
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by xmprt 3y ago
Great can be defined in many ways. If you want the flexibility of a private plane on a much cheaper budget and you're traveling alone which seems like the case for a lot of business travel then this does sound like a great option.
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by xmprt 3y ago
Just because everyone is doing it doesn't make it any less insane. I think there needs to be some sort of regulation around clauses like that. Companies should be allowed to terminate services but if they're going to do that then
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by xmprt 3y ago
I think we're in agreement. But the original commenter was stating that all companies die or change given a long enough timeline so criticizing a company for dying/changing is pointless since that happens to everyone.
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by xmprt 3y ago
That might be true but it's a very nihilistic way to look at things. I believe SO had many more successful years ahead of it but decisions taken by the company and moderators sped that process up.
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by xmprt 3y ago
And the secret they don't tell you is that at least some employees still need to have that access even at the largest companies. People working on the storage team probably can access the data whenever they like (although it's aga
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by xmprt 3y ago
In your hypothetical where a company gives your their services for free, the company runs out of money, goes out of business, and all of a sudden the services that you were relying on are no longer available. That doesn't seem in anyon
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by xmprt 3y ago
> total amateurs (ie, parents) can home school their kids more effectively than school This is a loaded statement. I'm sure many parents are great at home schooling their kids but there are many who are also terrible at it and home
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by xmprt 3y ago
I think self learning is a natural part of CS education. Even if your first experience with a computer was in college, you still probably ended up spending a good amount of time banging your head against the wall and trying out many differe
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by xmprt 3y ago
Cabs are an idea. Uber is a company. I can't think of any company that I'd predict to last 100 years. Even Google and Apple probably won't last 100 years. I honestly wouldn't even bet on cars being a dominant form of tra
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by xmprt 3y ago
They probably think this is actually a good idea: https://xkcd.com/1292/
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by xmprt 3y ago
There's a big difference in complexity of predriving and having to make minor adjustments vs automatic routing and planning. Kind of like how most cars can do adaptive cruise control but getting full self driving is still a ways out.
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by xmprt 3y ago
Sounds like there's a pretty simple software solution here where the programmed route is automatically varied just like screens do to avoid burn in. Hopefully they implemented something like this.
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by xmprt 3y ago
I sympathize with them but I also sympathize with Valve for being put in a position where they have to support an extremely close and opinionated platform that can change at any moment just because a trillion dollar company decides to.
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by xmprt 3y ago
I believe this is true in terms of the amount of money in the market, but do search ads actually work? I can't imagine them being even half as effective as banner ads or video ads or native ads. So why is it such a big business?
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by xmprt 3y ago
Taxes are set at a multiple levels (federal, state, district, and city) so it's pretty much impossible to show the post tax price on the label. Hidden fees are a completely different issue.
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by xmprt 3y ago
Yahoo was massive at one point and $35B didn't seem like a lot compared to its peak valuation as well as its competitors. I can see why Jerry Yang didn't want to settle when he had seen his company at a much higher valuation in th
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by xmprt 3y ago
I've looked into Arc in the past and it feels like such a fundamental departure from how browsers are normally used. How do you use it and how does it feel better to use than your previous browser?
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by xmprt 3y ago
Incidents like this are why it's so critical to have offline support as a first class citizen.
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by xmprt 3y ago
Wars don't just appear out of thin air. There were a lot of incentives for countries to engage in war. Cloning doesn't really benefit anyone and doing cloning requires a ton of funding and grants and ethics boards reviews. If you&
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by xmprt 3y ago
The amount of times I've been asked to treat a database like any other stateless microservice is crazy. I've been asked to support time machine like behavior where a user can deploy any version of the database (given a list of sch
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by xmprt 3y ago
I hate these unproductive and snarky replies to calls for change (although I don't agree with the parent commenter that the best solution is to reduce the population). You have no idea what that person is doing to offset their consumpt
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by xmprt 3y ago
Full human cloning won't take off because it's too unethical - not because of lack of technological capabilities.

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