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Hey this is a good stackoverflow answer, why can't I upvote it? Oh.
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Learning to use a REPL. It's been at the core of my coding practice since. Especially using it as a debugger in an interpreted language was a game changer for me. It converts programming into a fast interactive game.
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Is the code for the weather report at all similar to the one for "help I am a prisoner in a vintage dress factory"?
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I aim higher.
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It depends. I've been coding for a living for 41 years and have a feeling I'll get the hang of it real soon now.
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The first-generation iPhone was announced in January 2007. As of November 2018 more than 2.2 billion iPhones had been sold. The child suicide rate topped out when the cell phone market became saturated. Hardly proof but it would be interesting to see suicide statistics broken out by cell phone use.
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  conscious, kŏn′shəs, adjective -- Characterized by or having an awareness of one's environment and one's own existence, sensations, and thoughts. synonym: aware.
Self-attention seems to be at least a proxy for "awareness of ... one's own existence." If that closed loop is the thing that converts sensibility into sentience, then maybe it's the source of LLM's leverage too. Is this language comprehension algorithm a sort of consciousness algorithm?
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No mention of how this can translate smooth motion without VR sickness. Perhaps its a revolution for the people who can tolerate it.
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This is a very frustrating app for me. It is one of the best document sources out there but has become unusable because it cannot retain my selection of documentation. Almost every other time I visit I have to start from scratch picking the stack I use. It's great but not great enough to keep doing that over and over and over ...

I don't have an issue with dropping cookies or local storage elsewhere. I'm on an updated linux chrome. Any ideas?

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