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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> Usually you can use your own seeds from your production for your next batch. I'm sorry, that is simply not true. Yes, there are so-called "heirloom" varieties that come true from seed, but commercial farming in the Unite
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
As the OP said, "Thomas'" is pronounced "Thomases". "Thomas's" means "belongs to Thomas". Pronounced the same, but spelled differently, because it is a different word.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> it's not even accepted colloquially in spoken English How the hell would you hear the apostrophe in "spoken English"?
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
From reading the summary it appears that an SDR would be compliant, plus it wouldopen up the possibility of listening to many other things besides (for one, you wouldn't need a separate FM radio. For another, it could also receive weat
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
No kidding? The heck you say! Approximately what percentage of the readers of this site would you estimate are laboring under the assumption that eating at McDonald's is healthy? It turns out that it's not strictly necessary to co
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Well, yeah, obviously. That's not the point. That won't make the linked site itself any more legible. I was interested enough to click through to the second page, but stopped reading after a few paragraphs. It's been a long d
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
VB 5 (and, especially, 6) were some of the best UI builders ever designed, IMO. Yeah, there was a crap language underneath, but I've never seen anything better at whipping up a serviceable GUI in a hurry. Back in the day I sometimes wr
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
If it's gonna focus on text only, that tiny low-contrast default sans font is a terrible, terrible choice. After reading a few pages of that, your readers will all be in bed with eyestrain.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
What you describe almost the opposite of the classic "inverted pyramid" style of writing journalism. I agree it's a bad style if you want to have busy people reading your site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> any more so that the developer of a web browser, calculator, or word processor Or even a piece of chipped flint or a pointy stick, if it comes to that.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Do I hear the sound of GPU farms being packed up in preparation for being moved to another state (or, more likely, the next generation being built in another state)? Raw compute doesn't care where it occurs. Anywhere with plenty of rel
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Indeed. I thought they were damned cool. The only thing I didn't like was that I couldn't afford one.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Maybe the overhead is a lot higher there? I know rents are high in the Bay Area, but IIRC they're much higher in NYC? Could be wrong, but that would be my guess.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
And that was because pizza has a very, very high markup to begin with. From a few years ago: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/much-profit-margin-pizza-621... Cost to make a pepperoni and sausage pizza: $1.90. Average sale pr
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Sure, but before that most taxes were in the form of excise taxes and import duties, at least in the US. Alcohol taxes were a big portion of that. When the prohibition amendment was enacted in 1919, that money went away -- in theory because
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Now, that's the opposite of my experience. ChatGPT is better for general questions, while Copilot is better for code. ChatGPT used to be a lot better than it is now.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
It's great at straightforward boilerplate code, and I find it useful. > Solution hits an edge case and eventually ChatGPT4 starts hitting a loop saying it has a new solution or it fixed something but it really didn't. An infuri
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
You misunderstand. I don't think that using "well-known websites" is a good metric in the first place. That's a recipe for stagnation.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Apple rarely invents the first X. However, they often invent the first X that doesn't suck . Turns out that the second one is actually more important.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
There is a difference between "language with the most native speakers" and "language that is the most widely spoken". Mandarin may win the first one, but fails the second one dramatically. Few people outside China speak
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
No, but basing capabilities solely on what they imagine "well-known websites" might want is .
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
I don't think we're dealing with the cream of the crop here. They're not even smart enough to have it make up new, plausible user names.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
I'm still kinda pissed about that, personally. I wouldn't object to it doing fuzzy "Google Knows Best" searches for normies, but I really wish verbatim was still an option. On the other hand, I rarely use Google these da
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
It's pretty good inside Visual Studio Code as well. Sometimes the autofill does the wrong thing, which is annoying, but not often enough for me to turn it off. The live chat feature is also pretty useful. ChatGPT-4, by comparison, seem
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> Can't help but feel for the publishing industry considering how shafted they got by tech. Publishers have been shafting authors for centuries. I'll shed no tears on their behalf.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
That's pretty good. Nice find. I agree with the other commenter that this would be a good default.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
It sounds like it's basically a gigantic cavitation noise generator, so yeah, I'm not imagining that it could possibly be quieter. Today's submarines go to great lengths to avoid cavitation for just that reason. Typically the
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Yeah, if I'm understanding what's going on here, it's going to be noisy as hell. Cavitation noise isn't the only factor making a submarine detectable, but it's definitely high on the list. It's been used to det
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Yes. Unfortunately.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> Why would all/any of that stuff be more expensive for Loblaws than other stores? I see no data for "other stores" in this article.

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