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admissionsguy

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    Comment #48324757

    The modern version is "LLMs produce bad code"

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    Comment #48323080

    I’d argue these are a wholly distinct category of thing than the concepts associated with the words UAP/UFO. Surely there exist experimental aircraft, and that may be of interest t…

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    Comment #48320144

    There is nothing about UAP that can be serious.

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    Comment #48084874

    Will it need bailing out or will it take everyone’s jobs? The opposition to AI needs to make up their mind.

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    Comment #48083116

    I think I watched more Italian Brainrot than all other video content combined

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    Comment #48082760

    I hear that attitude about AI is much more positive in China. So people like him, in aggregate, could potentially be a danger and cause the US to give up the lead for the rest of c…

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    Comment #47818587

    > Most of what people value in public life is supported by taxes Citation needed. If you value something paid for by taxes you should pay for yourself. Feel free to pool your money…

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    Comment #47288950

    [flagged]

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    Comment #46935679

    for the record, my newish mac shows the display settings fine when i type display

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    Comment #46933981

    TIL there is a search bar triggered by CMD+Space. After 15 long years.

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    Comment #46924595

    No a bad thing if you desire the corporate power to eventually become the main force shaping the world :)

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    Comment #46924400

    Hard imagining well designed web app bottlenecked by server-side processing that is not offloaded to database, or done via bindings to libraries written in compiled languages.

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    Comment #46924339

    > solutions written in dynamic programming languages like PHP and Python are always woefully slow True as it may be that they are slow, I doubt it's caused by the use of dynamic pr…

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    Comment #46619229

    Is this what life in Europe has come to?

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    Comment #46388219

    Aeron chair - nothing special, could have done with a 10x cheaper ikea chair

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    Comment #46382758

    Can't they get out and kill the Ubers already instead of sitting in the lot? (half-serious, but I have been wondering what are the reasons they don't just push the price towards ze…

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    Comment #46382694

    So is it the kind of thing that Voynich manuscript describes?

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    Comment #46299346

    there are some but they required this amount of processing https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/06/business/caroline-ell...

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    Comment #46185671

    It's just aging. If you were aware of tech climate in the 2010s, means you are past 30 years old and getting jaded. Young people are very enthusiastic about the AI.

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    Comment #46166470

    Isn't falling for virtue signalling charity donations more of a twattery?

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    Comment #46166315

    Sounds like he is a refreshingly honest person

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    Comment #46093402

    > Illiterate incoming freshman are the product of the public middle and high school systems, not the university system. That doesn't matter for the op's point. Students starting fr…

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    Comment #45880478

    I actually see a large stream of people moving to the US. Europe is doomed.

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    Ask HN: Why do designers have repugnant websites?

    Very weird unsightly fonts either too small or too large, ugly colors, and broken navigation making it nearly impossible to see their past work (which in any case tends to be prese…