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bluerooibos

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    Comment #49257686

    +1 for this! Given Ruby's entire thing is code "written like plain English," I would have expected LLM's to excel with it. I've certainly had awesome results.

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    Comment #49210045

    These damn arsonists are really going for it this year, huh? The coordination between them is amazing - being able to pull this off in multiple European countries, the US and Canad…

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    Comment #49169972

    > That won't happen I don't understand how anyone with any degree of technological or scientific literacy or knowledge of advances in the past 100-200 years can say something won't…

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    Comment #49160169

    Gary Marcus has been moving the goalposts since day 1. The guy is a psychologist. Why would anyone care what a psychologist has to say about AI? He's likely made good money from co…

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    Comment #49139439

    They also just ended their referral program without any announcement or warning - referrals page on my account just disappeared, all whilst I'm sending them free traffic. I guess t…

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    Comment #49104828

    > Funded by ... Tobias Lütke Hmm, yeah - no thanks.

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    Comment #49104824

    Seems to have gone full on right-wing fash, similar to DHH. Related post on Reddit from this week which discusses DHH's journey from left to right - https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/…

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    Comment #48986303

    > It rubs me the wrong way that they have to copy everything, the UI is almost exact copy of Codex I'm sure OpenAI haven't copied or stolen anything without permission - oh wait a …

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    Comment #48984100

    > Removing QA makes developers care about production And removing Product Managers makes devs care about the product. Therefore, we should strip away all roles apart from devs..? T…

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    Comment #48956975

    100%. Often open source projects lag when they're too niche or don't have enough interest, but open source AI - I can't think of anything better suited to be open source and the de…

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    Comment #48889867

    An absolute legend. I thought he'd be around for longer. Thanks for making Jurassic Park what it is, Sam.

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    Comment #48837168

    Would you say copying and finding solutions on Stackoverflow is building on stolen property? I'm no fan of AI companies, but I fail to see how people using it to build open-source …

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    Comment #48816250

    > Is anyone making LLM-in-a-box for emergency supply kits yet? Maybe someone should be making this, but for rebuilding society in the event of a disaster - a solar-powered black bo…

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    Comment #48816106

    > Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION ($7.5k) Hmm, I'll come back in a few years when things have become cheaper.

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    Comment #48784578

    Anecdotal, but I'm convinced it screws up sleep quality. I'd just accepted for the longest time that waking up groggy with a slight headache and tired was the norm until I put a CO…

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    Comment #48779494

    Same thought here - beautiful! I'm curious what the price tag is for getting some illustrations like this done for an existing website.

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    Comment #48779296

    > ..and none does. Monsanto begs to differ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowman_v._Monsanto_Co .

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    Comment #48779281

    > this is unbelievably stupid. no company should have rights or patents over a variety of food. Wait until you hear about Monsanto/Bayer - a quick Google of "monsanto food patents"…

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    Comment #48702988

    > Ticks are a problem regardless. Ticks in my part of the world were never such a large problem. It was rare that you'd get one on your leg in the field behind our house, and now, …

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    Comment #48700024

    Another worrying proxy for how deeply climate change is bleeding into everyday life: coffee prices, orange juice prices, and now having to engineer huge trail areas with woodchips …

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    Comment #48698701

    > Probably because American AI companies are on the hook for quite a lot of investment money That's a lot of words to say it's just capitalist greed.

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    Comment #48678701

    > This is just pure greed Well, pure capitalism. I suppose the terms are synonymous, though.

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    Comment #48672855

    Can't beat thermodynamics - there's no free lunch there.

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    Comment #48547768

    > 10 year old dual Xeon server...On 10 year old hardware. Hold on, what are the specs of your rig? How much RAM? I've been considering getting an old refurbished 2018 Mac Mini with…