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913karma·211submissions·May 19, 2013
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When you have 50 technicians going to 500 sites, that is not a Traveling Salesman Problem. It might seem like a Vehicle Routing Problem but it isn't that either. Batch a cheap process at night th…
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"If X is good and it makes things bad, is X good?"
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Anthropoic is approaching AWS levels of sprawl.
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Coway's Mighty2 outperformed the original Mighty, becoming Wirecutter's new favorite air purifier.
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Sunlight strikes doped silicon cells, freeing electrons to generate electricity.
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The myth that rice and beans must be combined for complete protein is false; they are simply very cheap foods.
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I only use Gemini 3.1 Pro. In my opinion, it's is better/cheaper/faster. I'm not coding with it much.
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Scientists witness ancient microbes interacting, maybe explaining how complex life evolved.
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36 doctors declared President Donald Trump mentally unfit for office. Whoopty do.
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Did Mitnick taunt his hunter about kung fu? No, the prankster was actually named Zeke Shif
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Yes, you can only copyright the parts you wrote yourself.
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"what does the dog actually do if it catches it?" Author achieved the senior role, but is unsure what comes next.
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To provide free nitrogen fertilizer pulled from the air.
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Don't those just look like drones?
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Not clickbait: High-energy subatomic electron avalanches and cosmic rays likely trigger lightning!
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Musk demanded control, grabbed a Tesla painting, and stormed out.
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So now when it's down you can multiply that zero you're getting by two!
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Swift intentionally placed his stark and brief epitaph directly beside the gaudy and verbose monument of Marsh. This physical and rhetorical contrast eternally exposed the pompous vanity of his rival.
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Swift wrote his famous epitaph to eternally mock his bitter rival. Thanks, Gemini.
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And with Vercel you get to pay to stay a beginner forever.
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Coolify, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages (and Workers), Fly.io, Render, Railway... Even GCP Firebase and AWS Amplify almost qualify as PaaS.
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Because you can't work without it? Yikes.
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Got it. It's immoral because you said so.
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I agree that it is immoral to obey some laws. Which ones are you saying are immoral here?
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>> The NSF has been fundamental in helping develop technology used in MRIs, cellphones, and it even helped get Duolingo get off the ground. So besides the earth shattering societal changes made …
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>> $10 billion now ... another $30 billion to follow if Anthropic hits certain performance targets...
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Sort of mentioned in one of the side notes: Acetaminophen is the only medication of its kind approved for infants under six months because the liver develops faster than the kidneys.
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Maybe this flood is a response to the constant flood of: "Why do people use Vercel?" "Because it's cheap* and easy." *expensive
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