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tldr; $70,000 (minus $40,000 in vehicle expenses)
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On the one hand, you say AOC's claims are BS. And then you say that Facebook is: > making money in ways that at least a substantial number of people don't think are "earning" mo…
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> 102. One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means. Seems to be a strike against LLM-based programming systems like Claude.
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> cumin smells like disgusting body odour You're not wrong. If you smell pure cumin (without any other spices or herbs), particularly if you grind and mix it with yogurt to make a salty lassi,…
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That Sam Kriss article is a wonderful read! "If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you" Thank you for posting.
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Dipa Chaudhuri and Puneet Gupta, who undertook the epic translation project, tell us about the many challenges they faced, and the fun they had along the way.
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The entire commencement program is here. Woz speaks at around the 42-minute mark. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4sSfADusN40 …
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I thought this was a thoughtful take by an American based on a trip to China. The author's New York Times feature was also worth reading in full.
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Great read about a niche topic! I know almost nothing about Vietnam, but this article felt like I had visited.
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One more fact that might be interesting about natural diamonds: not all of them are extracted by digging mines;
the oldest way of extracting diamonds is by sifting through alluvial deposits. This met…
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Ha, ha! I thought the same thing: LLM slop. But soon I remembered having seen this Linotype ad before. It's a genuine image. Almost 140 years ago, some human writer came up with short, punchy cop…
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For understanding this type of question, I highly recommend the C FAQ compiled by Steve Summit based on Usenet discussions in the comp.lang.c newsgroup. You should start here: https://c-faq…
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Congratulations, and good luck! It should become very popular. We enjoy going to a similar pinball museum here in Pawtucket, RI, which you might be familiar with: https://www.electromagneti…
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> WFC is a console application that depends only on the standard library. Get .NET Core for Windows, Linux or macOS... Not very familiar with dotnet: does the above sentence mean it's an SDK t…