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bigbuppo

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    Comment #49224481

    Define "squatted domain"

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    Comment #49224444

    And what is the definition of a domain squatter?

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    Comment #49224411

    The concept that the only purpose for anything, whether it's a domain, a pair of shoes, a plot of land filled with trees, is economic growth or investment is a perverse sickness.

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    Comment #49212748

    Static site. If you do go for a WCM of some sort you should make sure that if it has a calendar view of some sort it isn't unbounded but that it only goes as far back as your first…

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    Comment #49212697

    They are poorly implemented by the "fuck you I got mine" crowd. They will get stuck doing things like trying to run through a calendar that could theoretically go back to the begin…

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    Comment #49206738

    There's the hope that they'll make all employees redundant and that businesses that adopted AI quickly will be able to exist as a pure money-printing entity without the liabilities…

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    Comment #49189199

    More specifically, these were for ads. They received compensation to distribute this matierial.

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    Comment #49189156

    As if you didn't need another reason to use an ad blocker.

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    Comment #49187355

    And the worst part? It's still the best option.

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    Comment #49170806

    > This, to me, is one of the major downsides of all this: less collaboration, more individualism Or put another way, it's replacing collaboration and human connection with your tea…

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    Comment #49163104

    Also... if your workflow is "think hard, let LLM write it, read what AI wrote, think hard about what AI wrote, re-type what AI wrote, fix what AI wrote"... Where in the heck are th…

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    Comment #49163061

    More like a 0.1x tokenmaxxing subscriber.

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    Comment #49163042

    As someone that learned typing "the proper way", I have doubts about this.

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    Comment #49161598

    Historically speaking, when the lending spigot is turned off it happens suddenly. But hey, it will be different this time. My future's so bright I gotta' wear million dollar shades…

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    Comment #49160700

    "Oh, you mean we don't have to learn java now? Sweet! Let's keep writing in COBOL!"

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    Comment #49160045

    > A human must verify everything an LLM presents as fact. Everything. If you don’t, we all pay the price. LLMs do not remove the onus of responsibility on the human being, if anyth…

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    Comment #49151773

    COBOL will never die. Whatever this is will only result in more COBOL being written.

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    Comment #49140951

    My point is that far too many people that offload everything to AI tend to just accept the text it generates without thought or verifying what it generates.

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    Comment #49129947

    Oh sweet, nice to see someone writing about multivalue databases.

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    Comment #49126942

    So that's why they're killing off the desktop client. They can't figure out how to make it suck.

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    Comment #49117415

    There's someone I know that jumped head-first into AI... they have embraced everything agentic. While setting up mail on their new iphone they encountered a problem. They had claud…

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    Comment #49099248

    There are two big differences, though. First, humans will generally face consequences for their screwups. Second, AI is doing these screwups at scale while often holding the keys t…

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    Comment #49099225

    Right, but the human assistant could go to prison if they comply with the bribe. Does the CEO of the AI company go to prison if their AI goes on a crime spree?

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    Comment #49098917

    I'm not completely anti-gambling, but I'm of the mind that if you're going to gamble away your life savings you should at least be required to put on pants and go to a sketchy bett…