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Ensorceled

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    Comment #49082749

    I'm curious, why do you think the movie will ruin your good memories?

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    Comment #49082696

    They mean "a faithful translation" where "original" means whatever Greek version was chosen to be the source not "original" as in the first text from Homer.

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    Comment #49022019

    > A quick scan shows a lack of rigor that usually points towards zealotry rather than a reasoned position You're doing the same thing: > you imply that models are only trained on c…

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    Comment #48922823

    The EU shouldn't be held to bad decisions made by the US trademark office.

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    Comment #48570890

    This is only true on HN. My parents and siblings and cousins and non-technical friends don't even know what the fuck ML or Machine Learning is ... but they all hate AI because they…

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    Comment #48425097

    > you’d probably want to get the benefit of their performance. What performance? None of these companies have established "performance" and they are all still burning money in a ra…

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    Comment #48425038

    > As for SpaceX itself? I feel the numbers involved all sound a bit unbelievable to me. If the SEC was doing it's job, there would sanctions or jail time for those numbers.

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    Comment #48372498

    Especially when the payoff is "AI will create exciting new jobs" and no one can come up with any jobs that are not just "AI Accountant" where the AI Accountant is just an existing …

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    Comment #48372400

    > I'm trying to figure out if the bad reasons are the _actual_ reason people are generally against data centers. The list is long and includes things like people not being able to …

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    Comment #48372329

    In many places there is little excess capacity. Many protesters know that their electricity prices, like gas prices, will soar and price them out of AC.

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    Comment #48259189

    What is the point of this reply?

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    Comment #48240867

    I've never seen a wealth tax proposal where "wealth" was defined as ~400K in assets. They tend to start in the millions with generous carve outs for IRAs and primary residences.

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    Comment #48223040

    Worse, the constant AI scraping is actually costing content providers additional money for no return. At least Google/Bing/Yahoo scraping would then be used to provide links back t…

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    Comment #48136625

    I mean, brain drains work TOWARDS the US as well, word meanings are not an American centric thing.

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    Comment #47805730

    I think the intent is more "we won't need coders" ... the real goal is to get to the point where Product Managers can just write specs and a working product comes out the other end…

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    Comment #47768198

    Windows is constantly pushing my wife and inlaws to move all their files to OneDrive while Backblaze is no longer backing up OneDrive. There are similar things going on with Apple …

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    Comment #47523896

    I love that when I search for an odd behaviour or bug in macos or iOS, most of the time I will find a years old bug report with some irrelevant or useless "work around". This is no…

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    Comment #47370492

    Interesting that the author flags what is actually one of my pet peeves ... > [Snapshots] get created automatically, often during deletion workflows, and nobody thinks to look for …

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    Comment #47342425

    > If I wanted to read what an LLM thinks, I could just ask it. and > Or do I want an insightful, well-thought-out response, even if it is LLM-enhanced? What is the difference? What…

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    Comment #47274400

    > The person you’re replying to has only posted two short comments in this thread. FYI: You can click on the user name and from there see their full comment history on hacker news.…

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    Comment #47266841

    Honest question: are you enjoying this? I looked at your comment history and you don't seem like a troll. What is going on right now?

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    Comment #47261820

    Of course it is.

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    Comment #47261053

    > Is it wildly uneducated to not know any of the games you mentioned? I didn’t realize education covered less known video games? Yes. It is "wildly uneducated" to have, and express…

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    Comment #47260758

    > If you did subscribe to a newsletter and no longer want to receive it (which is the majority of these cases), then the unsubscribe action is the logical thing to do. Not the seco…

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    Comment #47246952

    > Gmail added a popup asking the user if they want to unsubscribe when flagging a newsletter with the appropriate unsubscribe headers Unfortunately close to 100% of the spam I'm fl…