7bees

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by 7bees 10d ago
Ah yes, just be independently wealthy. Many working novelists have described being pressured by their publishers to write whatever the publisher believes will sell, and many have given in to the pressure because ultimately they need to eat.
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by 7bees 11d ago
Yes, doing bad things can have good secondary effects.
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by 7bees 2mo ago
I mean it literally starts with "What mindless cretin thought that it should be a good idea", and later calls them a "bagbiter". If you were responsible for the change, you would feel insulted. His basic point seems va
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by 7bees 2mo ago
Many fireworks are designed to explode at altitude . The biggest risk is probably if the firework is ingested into an engine (also a major risk for bird strikes).
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by 7bees 3mo ago
> once whatever discussion happens Yes, it seems like a very fast process when you neglect the part that takes time.
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by 7bees 3mo ago
I'm not aware of any organization that has the same requirements to fund its future pension obligations that the USPS has. That requirement was created by Congress as part of a sustained campaign to damage the USPS. It seems like your
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by 7bees 4mo ago
Curly braces are a very uncommon piece of punctuation outside of math and programming. If you picked a person at random, they will find "curly brace" (and indeed, "square bracket") much clearer and less ambiguous. Doub
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by 7bees 4mo ago
That's not what the post you're replying to said, at all. I'm not in a position to evaluate whether they were right, but you've presented this as if it proves them wrong when it's barely related to what they said.
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by 7bees 4mo ago
I'm only familiar with 2 countries where this is a thing, and the US is one of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer%27s_Ring (FWIW, I'm not aware of any country where it's common for software fol
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by 7bees 5mo ago
I think it's an increment on this: https://www.videolan.org/projects/dav1d.html
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by 7bees 5mo ago
The people involved are volunteers. The rules for getting access are readily available, and clearly don't include "some random university student": https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/about-us/how-we-work/a
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by 7bees 5mo ago
I'm not sure I understand your comment; OpenSCAD has functions like sphere(), cylinder(), etc. Most OpenSCAD models I have seen are built up primarily from solid primitives combined using boolean operations, just as you describe for t
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by 7bees 7mo ago
Yes, it is. The article includes a link to a comparison between the default file and the one allegedly used here. The default starts with: _You're not a chatbot. You're becoming someone._
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by 7bees 8mo ago
xAI acquired twitter in 2025 as part of Musk's financial shell game (probably the same game he is playing with SpaceX/xAI now).
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by 7bees 8mo ago
> The actual ingredients are literally on the safety data sheet This is an oversimplification, in a way that is likely not obvious to a lot of people on this (software-focused) forum. An SDS does not have to list exact amounts, does not
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by 7bees 9mo ago
You can correlate microarchitecture to product SKUs using the Intel site that the article links. AMD has a similar site with similar functionality (except that AFAIK it won't let you easily get a list of products with a given uarch).
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by 7bees 9mo ago
Intel doesn't like to officially use codenames for products once they have shipped, but those codenames are used widely to delineate different families (even by them!), so they compromise with the awkward "products formerly x&quot
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by 7bees 9mo ago
It has pretty much always been the case that you need to make sure the motherboard supports the specific chip you want to use, and that you can't rely on just the physical socket as an indicator of compatibility (true for AMD as well).