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balls187
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Comment #49248953
Isn't this the pervert trying to record me in when I am changing in the locker room? Hard pass.
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Comment #49205356
That's right. It's not skill. It's technique. And there are techniques that make it brain dead simple.
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Comment #49048975
I think we're just in an transition point. When I get materials that are clearly AI generated, I look at them as if there was less effort put into it. But that is irrational. If it…
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Comment #49048559
Her ted talk about the math of love is so great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFVXsjVdvmY And when she straight laughs in Michael Steven's face about the price of a pencil. http…
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Comment #49037619
Yeah, never ask a fox to count your chickens.
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Comment #49031455
Not OP, but Sailor KOP Naganita Togi.
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Comment #49031445
I exclusively take notes by hand now, and have amassed a pretty interesting collection of pens, paper and notebooks.
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Comment #48800058
The company that helps connect kids with the adults who want to harm them is having a hard time replacing humans? Shocking.
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Comment #48678295
1: true. 2: that someone else has to get approval for the cost
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Comment #48677925
And AI is the reason why developers are being laid off. Don't trust a fox to count your chickens.
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Comment #48677096
I guess the days of engineers getting to be so casual about memory footprint and CPU cycles is over.
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Comment #48677054
Not OpenAI’s fault that the cost of a shipping container doubled. I collect fountain pens which have nothing to do with the data center market and the big 3 Japanese makers announc…
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Comment #48635564
Valve very much is in the position to subsidize the costs; they charge 30% royalty per game sold. Valve often boasts that they have a very high Rev / Employee number.
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Comment #48462548
Opening paragraph is not the profile of a rockstar developer. At least not the rockstars I had the pleasure of working with.
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Comment #48426524
It had nothing to do with smarts. They held a public comment about the changes and responded accordingly.
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Comment #48425326
I left my comment saying it was a bad idea.
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Comment #48421437
Early on with ChatGPT I had it write a script for an Avengers movie, but all the Avengers have below average intelligence.
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Comment #48421428
More like, HN crowd is anti-HYPE
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Comment #48235666
> So obviously there is no reason to invent things that are not true. Because everyone who has ever been convicted of a crime actually committed the crime.
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Comment #48232199
Thank god. I’ve been waiting to have a reason to tell someone I collect fountain pens. Computers depreciate because they are obviously being supplanted by newer better models—until…
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Comment #48232157
I’ve had the best luck selling in Craigslist. Every other platform has been sub par.
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Comment #48232067
No. Our justice system has never actually been based on evidence. It’s based on the doctrine of judicial discretion in the name of preserving order.
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Comment #48217528
Not just google. I asked ChatGPT about some pen refills, and it gave me a very factual response sourcing to my own reddit post discussing the topic.
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Comment #47980621
Generating a QR code to see the graph online is kind of cool, but also kinda dumb too. I mean, these days kids have smartphones, what's the point of a graphing calculator?
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Comment #47980594
The comments on this are fascinating . Although, I was waiting for someone to chime in with "HP is better cuz RPN." 2 dinners out for a family of four would cover the cost of this …