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    Comment #49160397

    Even if the entire Germany stopped existing overnight, this would barely make a dent in global carbon emissions and planet destruction rate.

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    Comment #49141677

    Skills is just lazy loading of well-organized Markdown docs. The "lazy" part is the core part.

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    Comment #49087039

    > An agent that drives a real browser session with my real logins: seller dashboards, banking portals, government sites, ad platforms, .. What are some viable architectures for suc…

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    Comment #49085122

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    Comment #49080380

    Readers describe persistent "AI slop" sensation after 3.5 years of LLMs

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    Comment #49050419

    IKR? "Where's your Bitchat?" is a question better never uttered to anyone in person.

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    Comment #49050379

    > We are Linus, now Now, when we program with the artificial intelligences, we are exactly that same thing. We are Linus Torvalds, not always with the talent that he has, but the r…

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    Comment #49041490

    There you go : https://youtu.be/eiyfwZVAzGw

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    Comment #49040396

    Ending up in spam is not that bad, compared to emails simply dropped silently, without either party having any idea.

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    Comment #49034553

    > I'm either going to ask the AI how to do it First you have to know that "it" exists and is possible. A cookbook like this introduces readers to concepts and features they didn't …

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    Comment #49029264

    Ah yes, CNN, the trusted and unbiased source on capitalism, and especially republicans.

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    Comment #49026061

    Suicidal empathy...

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    Comment #49017361

    "An index is not a horse" is not a phrase I'd expected to read today.

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    Comment #49012780

    > Microservices solve a real problem too, and it is mostly organisational rather than technical. When you have enough engineers that they are stepping on each other in one codebase…

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    Comment #48985425

    > About four-in-ten (39%) say a major reason they didn’t have children is that it just never happened. This sounds.... circular? The reason they didn't have children is they just d…

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    Comment #48984607

    > Most new product launches are an exercise in figuring out what the product requirements should be through trial and error Sure, but these have to be well-defined trials. In other…

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    Comment #48973601

    Cutoff at 17 kHz is certainly a viable trade-off in lossy audio compression, but calling it an _upgrade_ is pretty controversial, if not dishonest.

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    Comment #48944121

    > Yes the code (sorta) writes itself, but the human reviewing, directing, and course-correcting feels worse, not better. I noticed the opposite. When reviewing and directing a coll…

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    Comment #48930899

    Tech companies possess immense resources and huge potential to shape public discourse. Activists (that often includes journalists today) wish to exert power over tech companies for…

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    Comment #48930804

    > In the culture of automation, we wiggle and iterate among four overlapping phases: (1) document the steps; (2) create automation equivalents; (3) create automation; and (4) creat…

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    Comment #48916974

    Create a virtual folder (saved search) that includes all messages from sent and inbox. Enable threading, and you will have conversations.

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    Comment #48914311

    Between the Apple Watch kind of watches on one side, and Pebble kind of watches on another side, there's the whole Garmin ecosystem, a mention of which is notably absent from the a…

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    Comment #48903077

    The debate between these who don't squash and these who do is the debate between these who use the history for bugfixing and those who don't. And I think not using it is throwing a…

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    Comment #48903054

    I was uncomfortable with git until I read (the first 3 chapters of) the pro git book ( free here : https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 ). It provides a great mental model of how git wor…

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    Comment #48889159

    I think Anubis is meant to stop dumb automated hyperscale scraping bots, not smart singular human-driven AI agents.