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another-dave
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Comment #49115277
The fact that you had 'hydration breaks' in enclosed, fully air-conditioned stadiums is very telling.
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Comment #49034983
That's not the point he was making at all though. He wasn't saying "buy a fancy pen, it's better for your brain". The positioning is "every time people hear that I write on paper, …
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Comment #49003860
I would've thought you could solve that with multiple agents. So rather than having "Claude" installed as a god-mode user in all channels, you have 10 instances of a bot running, e…
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Comment #48998140
My understanding of what they were saying Buzz is is that agents are "1st class" users in their own right, rather than being an app integration. If you have a user called Claude, t…
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Comment #48976965
that feels like the opposite analogy though - filleting a fish to the precision of a Michelin starred kitchen might be hard, but knives in general are easy to use, even for a begin…
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Comment #48944844
I think it's a really interesting space, because it feels like the answer to what a DM does in context is on a spectrum - as in, their decisions on what is valid/invalid is not pur…
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Comment #48936150
Why wouldn't a player be available though? CD/DVD players won't just suddenly stop working. My CDs and CD players at home from the 1990s are still working completely fine. If they …
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Comment #48934505
this feels like a fun premise! As feedback, I think I'd enjoy it more with shorter words or more guesses
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Comment #48906677
I think most people would consider it something published alright, as other definitions start to become a bit absurd (e.g. reading the menu at a restaurant or the match day program…
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Comment #48890606
This post from awhile back suggests it's at 501 karma - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439437
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Comment #48890472
He'll likely win alright, but at the last GE, he only received 21,225 out of 45,648 votes cast, (so got 47% of the votes on 58% turnout). I think you'll get a non-trivial amount of…
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Comment #48890342
I think Erskine May just says "Members should dress in business-like attire" - so maybe if he had a special 'business bin' as opposed to a 'smart-casual bin' he could argue the poi…
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Comment #48844066
It reminds me of that old parable where the acolyte asks the priest "Father, can I smoke while I pray?" and gets told "No, you should be focusing on praying. That wouldn't be respe…
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Comment #48843594
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Comment #48843583
I mean, even all else aside - why would they need a "perpetual, irrevocable" licence?
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Comment #48731927
"That in itself shows people regard the interaction they had with the company as a purchase, not just temporary access that can be removed unilaterally on a whim." and of course an…
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Comment #48730129
Is it? I thought that's specifically what the OP was talking about — the ranking that their resumé scored on the ATS algorithm.
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Comment #48716734
> If you contribute to open source you are more likely to contribute to the company on weekends I wonder if that assumption is bourne out in reality though? I'd imagine if someone'…
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Comment #48716673
For one, if you go on to Hacker Rank's "Screen" page, they mention the product is used by Stripe/AirBnB/LinkedIn/Atlassian/IBM etc etc. I imagine that there's plenty more companies…
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Comment #48716635
I always find it funny when a technical crowd starts picking on em dashes as a sure sign of AI. I mean, are keyboard shortcuts really that difficult for developers? Some of us alwa…
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Comment #48686809
I find physical menus much easier to search personally - I can "time slice" switching my attention around different parts of the menu fairly easily and home in on which I might wan…
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Comment #48672926
"The effort length and instantaneous power output changes, of course." but that's what the phrase is meant to convey, right? Don't run through consumable X (energy/money/etc) like …
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Comment #48583567
Always reminds me of Guy Steele's "Growing a Language" talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6TaiXzHAE&t=48s Think it's a great fit for IF alright.
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Comment #48569857
It's technically feasible to just draw all the individual dots but it doesn't necessarily convey the information better. When individual points are drawn close together, they're ha…
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Comment #48488598
"Can the sandwich be further compressed? We don’t think so. At one end of the pipeline, development teams need to decide what to build." I mean, but this is talking about the proce…