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GaryBluto

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About GaryBluto

SYNAPSE will fully unite the global village.

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    Comment #49141530

    Popup windows could be easily blocked if you knew how, whilst modern in-page popup modals are much more tedious to deal with.

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    Comment #49059996

    Why should I care that they don't?

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    Comment #49050270

    If you count Google as an appropriation of Googol, surely Nvidia appropriates Invidia?

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    Comment #49042656

    > One could work around Semoi by, for example, typing out a bunch of gibberish, leaving their editor open, and then pasting in an LLM generated texting and minting the proof. To wh…

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    Comment #49033863

    If you wants to make their own forge where LLM-assisted work is prohibited, go ahead. Waiting for people to go all-in on your service and then kicking them out however is frankly r…

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    Comment #49029157

    Indeed. Whilst not the same situation, one of the things I realized while developing a filtering system for various websites was to be thankful for obnoxious mannerisms and phrases…

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    Comment #49019371

    I've noticed a large uptick in websites being more comfortable blatantly lying to visitors recently, where beforehand they'd say something like "for the best experience" or not sta…

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    Comment #48998273

    Incredible. I don't think I've ever had the displeasure of visiting a website that has half a second of cursor movement lag before.

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    Comment #48967711

    You’ve been on HN since 2007 whilst he has been here since 2022, yet you deride him for being an HN “entrepreneur”?

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    Comment #48959925

    I cannot tell if you are being farcical or not. The article is very blatantly not that, if you take more than a cursory glance at it.

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    Comment #48959893

    How the time flies. Now the ENL-world has two thriving cultural revolutions, both at each other’s throats. It’s all become very tiring.

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    Comment #48955310

    > where the retro communities themselves don’t value LLM work What do you mean by “communities”? There was no enthusiast Council of Nicaea where all people who like old hardware me…

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    Comment #48898939

    Does the iPhone need to remain tethered if it is transferred via USB?

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    Comment #48885979

    Scraping has never "intrinsically" been anti-social behaviour, you just don't like it.

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    Comment #48810179

    I use a custom browser extension that is mainly used for filtering out pet peeves and regex matches and was wondering what everybody else used (if they use anything at all?).

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    Comment #48803406

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    Comment #48762753

    I've lived in the UK all my life and have the same thoughts as GP.

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    Comment #48738170

    Is there no project safe from these kinds of obnoxious neo-busybodies?

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    Comment #48689896

    > Anthropic begging for some guidance Anthropic was "begging" to make it harder for competing companies to be founded.