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I am unlikely to notice what goes on here for months on end.

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #49229120

    five minutes? it took me two minutes to come up with a threat: someone will serve an innocuous page to adults, and some malicious honeypot trickery to children, all based on an htt…

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    Comment #49056563

    nice dotfile

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    Comment #49056535

    there are some early unix tapes floating around, and in those early shells, i'm fairly certain the colon was one of only two special-cased code paths after the command line was par…

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    Comment #48798793

    as a matter of ux, users probably don't need to know that a session is being instantiated, and probably expect a simple play button fun

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    Comment #48656673

    this is a dense comment (there's a lot here to unpack). it sounds like you're saying: once it became clear that conquest with an explicit intended return of large numbers of enslav…

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    Comment #48521740

    wouldn't that be a hash of the image signed by a trusted entity and stored on a chain? maybe i'm overlooking why this doesn't work

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    Comment #48255355

    i can barely accept this is possible

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    Comment #48182102

    it would be helpful to know why this was developed! running data science tasks on constrained systems may be an unfamiliar goal for many on hn, but i can imagine reasons for doing …

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    Comment #48133756

    i don't think time moves faster as we age, i think our perceived duration of early life grows because we keep thinking about it. for example, i have spent 35 years thinking about t…

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    Comment #48119751

    >you'll dance to anything by toad the wet sprocket. loser. love a good screenshot easter egg

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    Comment #47240469

    im[ns]ho, people want desperately to believe that only state funded actors can possess that kind of power.

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    Comment #47186956

    the administration which declares ad-hoc emergencies is behaving as predicted

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    Comment #46822248

    i've been using flameshot with wayland the last six months, simply because i didn't know i couldn't

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    Comment #46810273

    yes, i mutter to the screen "why not just give us your prompt and let us think about it?"

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    Comment #46763418

    we'll be working on that very strongly in the next period of time

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    Comment #46597616

    if it worked on a pentium iii, it should work on a phone with webgl. who's going to port it?

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    Comment #46579306

    should be quite a bit faster than that now. 1-2ms would be normal

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    Comment #46429363

    i often think about all the music ruined by self obsessed dorks singing soulless middle school poetry, and it's the main application of AI i'm quite excited for

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    Comment #46202233

    an icon for "save" will suffice to help me find the portion of the menu with "save as", "save a copy", and "export". when all four have the same icon, or slight variations, i'm bac…

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    Comment #46202138

    i'll never give up the em dash. and i will continue to evangelize the en dash from now–forever (hint hint, ranges should use en dashes instead of hyphens).

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    Comment #46201780

    this has been my casual finding as well. why would i want all that conversational crap in the context window?

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    Comment #46201558

    i had ONE cassette unwind. my less careful friend was always winding them with a pencil. the culprit? button mashing between fast-forward and play.

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    Comment #46176332

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method