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SmokeyHamster
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Comment #46991165
"join waitlist" Translation, no, AI agents can not create their own bank accounts, but someone's spamming Hacker News to see if there's interest in creating a company to allow that…
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Comment #39609321
>Ugh, no way. Agreed. After mastering the basic cascade, Mills Mess is a great beginner pattern to learn next, but there are way more challenging ones. Burke's Barage is another mo…
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Comment #39424252
This was posted before. Not really 3d printing. It's more of a quick casted mold maker, since it just uses a conventional CNC machine to "draw" the shape in sand and then it pours …
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Comment #39384308
>The external cameras kind of suck. It’s a compromise. There are limits imposed by physics. The other criticisms aren't unsurprising, but I'm curious what he means by this. The cam…
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Comment #39384141
That's true. AMD does make some attractive Radeon cards. However, the real killer feature now is CUDA. Everyone's coding for CUDA, which AMD's hardware doesn't support, so even if …
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Comment #39384070
Do you mean the "Mongee" banana? It is wrapped in a plastic bag, but the peel is actually edible. https://www.newsweek.com/you-eat-these-newly-engineered-bana...
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Comment #39382938
The initial report he's responding to, one saying operating systems will try to schedule non critical tasks to times when electricity is cheaper, is actually a good idea. For most …
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Comment #39382895
But still wrapped in plastic. You know. For your protection...
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Comment #39382873
Would the ban work the other way too? As a PM user, would I stop receiving a ton of spam from Indian addresses?
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Comment #39382858
"India has banned rockyj from posting on Hacker News."
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Comment #39362202
I remember that being the norm as early as about 15 years ago. Thus the reason behind the security mantra, "If it's not secure by default, then it's not secure". Because normies kn…
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Comment #39354675
Is that even logistically possible for rivals at this point? You think AMD doesn't want to carve out a chunk of that pie? What Nvidia is doing is hard and the engineers with the sk…
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Comment #39340819
To an extent, I agree, but it depends on what you're doing. A CNC can get accuracies and scale that's hard to reproduce by hand. Also, a lot of hand tools can be very hard on your …
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Comment #39157603
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Comment #39157515
Seriously. I've been looking for ways to turn that off, without luck. No Reddit/YouTube/Facebook/Twitter I'm not installing an app just to use your browser based service. Stop aski…
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Comment #39138220
Bad guys?! Those rebel scum, killing our brave TIE pilots, are the bad guys!
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Comment #33036691
>My biggest issue with Twitter is the lack of moderation, theres SO much propaganda on there. Yes and no. There's too little moderation in some areas and way too much in other area…
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Comment #33036547
In Dorsey's own words, he was only one vote on the board, and only had 3% share in the company. Whether he put 100% of his time into Twitter or 1%, that doesn't change the fact tha…
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Comment #31657239
>The whole region could turn into something like Mexico City (wealthy center protected by police, surrounded by miles of slums and shantytowns). Importantly, people who serve key r…
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Comment #30462953
If you don't already know, you probably don't want to try committing cyber attacks against a nuclear state.
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Comment #30462943
Skateboard and tight-pants are optional but recommended.
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Comment #25460583
Director of Marketing: Izai Sum Ding
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Comment #25460559
Yeah, this is a problem for a long time on Amazon, especially with a lot of the cheap Chinese stuff posted on there. When some cheap looking product has a dozen reviews all like "v…
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Comment #25444484
Interesting. Does anyone know if it even works anymore?