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_zagj

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    Comment #47395237

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    Comment #47394425

    And yet, has anyone ever claimed regular marijuana use improved their memory?

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    Comment #47386160

    Did you not see this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282777 Look at how many updoots it has. Look at how many vacuous, enthusiastic replies it got. That post is especially …

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    Comment #47384545

    > I think these issues are totally separate. You don't think the timing is suspicious?

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    Comment #47383961

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    Comment #47379693

    > The chip machines Taiwan uses come from Europe, for example. Yeah, the EUV photolithography machine, but not much else. American companies like Lam Research and Applied Materials…

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    Comment #47379553

    This chart: https://www.longtermtrends.com/home-price-vs-inflation/ And Case-Shiller is based on price-per-square footage, so the argument that houses are bigger is moot.

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    Comment #47375207

    > The MIT license I still can't believe that developers got memed into this being the default license. 20 years ago, you'd always default to GPL and only opt for something else if …

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    Comment #47374968

    > submitted a fix and told them how to and I received a barrage of comments about working for free for a corporation that's making money off me After it became obvious that 1) thes…

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    Comment #47359320

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    Comment #47358877

    > I feel like anyone used AI coding tools before 11/25 and after 1/26 (with frontier models) will say there has been a massive jump in, there is a difference between whether LLM ca…

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    Comment #47358798

    > Well, on one hand they lack new data. Lot's of new code came out of an LLM, so it feeds back. Supposedly model curation is a Big Deal at Big AI, and they're especially concerned …

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    Comment #47357850

    > I've endured 50k runs Did you see this? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/health/running-colon-canc... But I agree with you, I would only want this done if I could get it withou…

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    Comment #47347561

    > Among many, many other things, he invented the term "vibecoding". Yeah, that's a great reason to hate him, but the person you're responding to asked why his Twitter braindropping…

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    Comment #47332471

    Somewhat off topic, but any theories as to why the shilling for Claude (not insinuating that's what the OP is doing) is so transparent? For example, the bots/shills often go out of…

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    Comment #47331508

    It's strange that I don't accept unverified anecdotes on their face, especially when they contradict the best evidence available? Also > calling this person a liar "Liar" implies a…

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    Comment #47330239

    > Odd choice of a comment to post this reply to. How? They claimed LLMs somehow enabled them to write more code in the span of 3.5 years (assuming they started with ChatGPT's intro…

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    Comment #47329944

    > ... you think It was good time? Yes, as do, probably, most people who remember it.

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    Comment #47329909

    Lots of projects have had requirements like this for years, usually to prevent infection by (A)GPL's virality, or in the case of the FSF, so they can sue on your behalf, or less sc…

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    Comment #47329307

    > Realistically, there’s a lot in there now that I simply couldn't have built in a standard human lifetime without them. I have yet to see a study showing something like a 2x or be…

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    Comment #47321081

    > I always assumed this was the case anyway; MIT is, if I'm not mistaken, one of the mostly used licenses No, it wasn't that way in the 2000s, e.g., on platforms like SourceForge, …

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    Comment #47320939

    > The LLM ban is unenforceable Just require that the CLA/Certificate of Origin statement be printed out, signed, and mailed with an envelope and stamp, where besides attesting that…

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    Comment #47319425

    > creator of Redis, published a broader defense of AI reimplementation, grounding it in copyright law and the history of the GNU project Has anyone else lost almost all respect for…

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    Comment #47313323

    This is the still-maintained (v5.0.4 is from 2026-01-23) fork of the open sourced AOLserver.

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