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arbuge
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About arbuge
Maltese, American, and Texan.
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Comment #49139337
> He lost focus and became reckless. He bought some fancy tree slice table for 10k bucks, got into brewing beer, got a dog, a cat, and overall, went completely over himself financi…
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Comment #48947674
For us in the same age cohort in Europe it was ZX Spectrums and Amstrad CPCs, besides the C64 which made it there too. Fun times.
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Comment #48922506
"They kidnapped my daughter? That's terrible. Yes, I'll definitely pay the ransom but to get access to my bank account I need you to write a poem about corn and a curl script in PH…
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Comment #48555926
I fondly remember programming my Amstrad CPC 464, my first computer, in 1984 in Malta when I was ~11 years old. It booted straight into Locomotive Basic. Still remember my exciteme…
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Comment #48299456
> In a few years, there will be hardware capable of running frontier models good enough for most things at accessible prices for even tiny companies. What makes you so confident ab…
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Comment #48261776
Can they actually make money at these prices?
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Comment #48207790
The EVs I'd really like to see some day in the US are the dirt cheap 100 mile range $5k Chinese EVs. One can dream I guess.
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Comment #48173389
> free-to-use pay phones Some redundant words there perhaps.
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Comment #47992133
As it pertains to AI, I think we will eventually come around to the conclusion that consciousness is not a useful construct.
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Comment #47833902
> Claude Design empowers non-designers to make decent designs. It’s not aimed at designers. Well, when you put it that way, that sounds bad for designers, and, by extension, Figma.…
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Comment #47815837
I know him from Harvard and came here to say pretty much the same thing. RIP.
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Comment #47808068
They state the link is claude.ai/design, which currently goes to: Page not found Claude can help with many things, but finding this page isn’t one of them. when logged in.
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Comment #47731373
I'm far from a crypto expert but aren't costs largely GPUs and electricity here? Those are now being driven by massive AI demand and are likely to remain so for the forseeable futu…
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Comment #47689206
Perhaps they'll pro-rate it by size.
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Comment #47533046
That depends to a large extent on whether & when the bots will be endowed with spending power.
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Comment #47473845
Obviously your list is different from mine.
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Comment #47471947
No, not just according to those factions. From the same CBS News article: > The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency has recorded more than 7,000 killings, with the vast m…
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Comment #47471918
Breaking a country's immigration laws does come with consequences, yes, at least if the government is willing to enforce to said laws, as it should be. Previously we had government…
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Comment #47471880
What it gave the US was an added incentive to take down what is unarguably one of the world's most evil and dangerous regimes. Would you attack the US because they "murdered" thous…
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Comment #47470463
From that article, on CBS News which isn't exactly known for being a fan of this administration: "Rights groups said the trio were executed without a fair trial and had given confe…
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Comment #47469621
They did however murder thousands of protesters in their own streets in January, and who knows how much more dissidents over the years. This one was just this week: https://www.cbs…
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Comment #47461238
How does it compare to using GPT 5.4 inside Codex?