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TooSmugToFail

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    Comment #49240389

    I would have bet it’s a Terry Pratchett quote, and it kinda is: “"The turtle moves," said Didactylos. "The turtle is a giant reptile that swims through space. It doesn't have to st…

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    Comment #49215635

    Damn. What a shocking level of incompetence. Has Apple really sunk that low?

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    Comment #49026219

    “Brown, a journalist and former member of the hacktivist collective Anonymous, sits opposite me. He lights a crack pipe packed with “ice”, the local version of meth, takes a long d…

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    Comment #48968006

    GoPro was outcompeted on the market. Simple as that. They were made irrelevant by Insta360 and DJI, both with legitimately better products. In my view, the only entity to blame for…

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    Comment #48777442

    Tried clicking the links to the Rivian web page. What a horrible experience. I have been trying to get some useful info about the cars (e.g. range), and the only option I had was t…

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    Comment #48751804

    Ok, this was my sign.

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    Comment #48706422

    Same here. Love the Mindscape podcast. It taught me everything I know about quantum physics (haha). But for me, the bedtime listening is ALWAYS fascinating. It has to be. And I fal…

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    Comment #48185908

    So much more than my average of zero posts and zero replies per year.

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    Comment #48185869

    Oh boy, would he enjoy the modernity.

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    Comment #48101322

    I’d love to try Blunders pls! Thanks!!

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    Comment #47385589

    Seems like the dude ran a girlfriend-as-a-service business model, with non-monetary payment options.

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    Comment #47385520

    TRex is great, been using it for a while. https://ameba.co/trex/ https://github.com/amebalabs/TRex/releases/tag/v2.0.0

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    Comment #45882233

    Wow. Whatever it was, this was deep, beautiful, and moving. One thing comes to mind: this is not a kind of a conversation two human beings could have had. This is a genuinely LLM-t…

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    Comment #45543021

    This dude is attempting to gaslight the entire world.

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    Comment #45532918

    Just a hint?

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    Comment #45023863

    “What's the biggest brand in the world? If you said Trump, you're not wrong.” 3*:

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    Comment #45023856

    “What's the biggest brand in the world? If you said Trump, you're not wrong.” 3 *:

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    Comment #45003587

    Not related to the text itself, but the LLM style more generally: why does it regularly adopt the “it’s not X, it is Y” pattern?

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    Comment #44956394

    Not exactly. What he did is he drew a simple sketch (a drawing of a bird) in an audio spectrogram, played the resulting sound to a (very talented) bird, which replayed the sound to…

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    Comment #44716602

    Why do I need to subscribe to read the article?

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    Comment #44554325

    Daily notes are my life line. If you’re managing any fairly complex organisation and handling multiple threads on variable time horizons, daily notes can be an immensely useful too…

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    Comment #44467928

    This reminded me reading (ages ago) about Altera’s HardCopy [1]: a “process that takes a working FPGA design implemented in one of Altera’s high-end FPGAs (such as Stratix II) and …

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    Comment #44021000

    Grok is the Tesla of AI: poor quality and desperately unreliable hype fuel.

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    Comment #44013725

    That logo reminds me of Zastava Yugo. https://images.app.goo.gl/BgXN2GVErNoMMECf7

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    Comment #43999113

    How come there’s no visible craters?