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akritrime

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About akritrime

My email is same as my username. And I use Gmail.

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    Comment #45488282

    Reading that article was a wild ride because internally I was like 'haha, stupid AI can't even find the light blue colored sea horse emoji' but then the author casually revealed th…

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    Comment #44471132

    As it is with cash.

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    Comment #44211431

    In a few years as image generation consistency improves, any video game artist can go from just creating characters for some other game dev to creating full-on animated sprites dir…

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    Comment #44211399

    The point isn't about comparing teaching and training. The point is about how humans use tool to improve and advance. It is more about comparing AI to books as an aggregate of know…

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    Comment #44210319

    Is this using OpenAI's GPT-image or something different?

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    Comment #44210303

    Imagine if writers complained that stuff they wrote were being used in literature classes that teaches people how to read and write because how sentences they once toiled over for …

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    Comment #43181223

    From their LTT video, it looked like they chose to do Desktop because of the AMD platform (and not the either way around, where they planned a desktop product and then chose AMD st…

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    Comment #43130966

    To be honest, a distributed logic execution engine is an interesting tech, it just isn't something to build any high value economy on top of.

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    Comment #42954507

    Yeah I was going to comment the same thing. A very big reason why we are even having this conversation about a browser engine powering native apps is because electron exists. Yes i…

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    Comment #42568179

    I am more surprised at how the general notion has shifted towards the idea that Next.js is the default starting option now. It just feels like such a drastic change to me, compared…

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    Comment #42201666

    and who is funding them? how are they paying for their servers? a product can't be free, someone somewhere is paying for it. the main question is why are they paying for it.

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    Comment #40804971

    So what's the AI part in this? (And I am not being snarky or condescending here, everyone assumes that's the default on internet. I have more or less missed the AI wave and just pl…

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    Comment #40678234

    You could already use functional components before. The main issue with React now is all these hooks and effects.

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    Comment #40538170

    That also begs the question how much of that value is substantial and how much of that is just narrative froth from speculation.

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    Comment #38804568

    Didn't they cancel Counterpart? I watched the first season but never watched the second one when I learnt that it was canceled.

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    Comment #38802670

    There are two things. First, a distributed exchange can be built around an AMM, so match making is essentially lazy because you are selling into and buying from an automated liquid…

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    Comment #38802544

    A truly distributed exchange is a protocol and a protocol doesn't really need to make money though. Atleast not in the same way as an exchange needs to. It's only cost is R&D. The …

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    Comment #36450887

    which is why you most probably can't play with plutonium in your backyard

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    Comment #36448322

    yep pretty much. you will call someone but they won't solve the issue, rather just keep you pointing to someone else. ultimately they will just follow their own timeline. they are …

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    Comment #36446622

    > how many people would knowingly buy a house if it came with an expectation that only one specific megacompany with pretty much nonexistant support could ever do repairs/rework/up…

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    Comment #35948805

    I thought c2.com was in the middle of a redesign. Is it actually gone or just a technical glitch?

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    Comment #35890820

    I am in a similar age range and I am drifting towards this aesthetic. I think it's the counterculture of the increasingly sleek websites, with their overcomplicated 3D animations. …

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    Comment #35754949

    Is there any co-relation between heat waves and the temperature during the winter months? Anecdotally, it just seems like we are caught between an ever-lengthening gap of higher te…

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    Comment #35741928

    This provides a very narrow view of India. Anecdotally, I don't know anyone who has any Echo devices in their home. Nobody cares about Fire TV stick, everybody is doing fine with t…

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    Comment #35741819

    Hmm I wonder if my buying habits are different but I have never browsed Amazon to check products. Anytime I want to buy something, I always have the exact brand/product in mind. Ne…