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bncy

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    ChatGPT just assumed a prompt I use for 6 months is now violating their policy

    Backstory: I used ChatGPT plus for several months now, mainly to aid me with some simple programming tasks and to avoid googling as much. I was using the same prompt for half a yea…

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    I think it all goes back to the fact that if we'd still have stars for rating videos on YouTube instead of algorithm-driven suggestions and no real way to decide whether people rea…

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    Comment #32224120

    >do it in more situations than you think you need and always earlier than you think you need. I can't even count how many this I should just apply that. It's an obvious thing but i…

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    Comment #32098727

    While it's not a bit problem for me, I've got a friend who really needs help with breaking his own monologs, so I'm sending him that

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    Ask HN: Why messenger search is wrong

    Anytime I search for people in facebok's messenger app, ones that I just messaged five minutes ago, search results seem random. I've never seen it give me a person I was looking fo…

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    Comment #31861222

    I don't have any resources to share, but it's great to see that people actually care, your buddy has a great team!

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    Comment #30638054

    What about the correlation between testosterone levels and creativity? I think that those known for being well-performing in their old age are just exceptions. https://www.scienced…

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    Comment #30438727

    It's one of the things I've learned after reading "4 Hour Work Week" by Tim Ferris. If you want to focus, you need to quit caring about what's happening in the world. It's a great …

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    Comment #30407364

    Often I see the argument that smaller phones have smaller batteries. But still phones these days are very thin, I wouldn't mind if it'd a bit thicker but provided me with more batt…

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    Comment #30374090

    > what coding, testing, and shipping looks like with short-staffed teams, teams without dedicated devops experts, and teams where everyone who originally built the system has left.…

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    Comment #30371069

    That's amazing, I often have problems with sending video to my tv, somehow chrome is not that good for it, thanks!

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    Comment #30357715

    Umm, there's a little info button to the right that says that this 'quick' answer was proposed by DuckDuckHack community author.

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    Comment #30331805

    It sounds good for business contacts or people that you might want to interact with for specific reason, but for anyone else? Why would one force their interaction with people if i…

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    Comment #30175567

    Don't get me wrong but I think that's one of the reasons why Singapore is one of the fastest growing countries in the world.

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    Comment #30112899

    I always felt bad for doing things "the pragmatic way", but your comment made me realize that maybe I'm just not experienced enough to embrace the fact that no code is pretty from …

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    Comment #29977890

    I think you're missing the point here. It's great to have cultural heritage, but it's much better to get people out of poverty and hunger first, I think we should mainly focus on m…

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    Comment #29977386

    There was a debate regarding this topic just recently in Poland, where they wanted to introduce something of this kind. This is wrong in so many ways. It will encourage people to b…

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    Comment #29976889

    Strongly agree, all my friends give their kids phones just because they think they deserve some time off from them, I think that's wrong. Never gave my baby a phone, ever and I thi…

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    Comment #29932485

    Not to mention vision that will change due to new ideas or influence that new staff brings to the team. It's not always beneficial for the project. It can go wrong in so many ways …

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    Comment #29931768

    You can just use it with https://syncthing.net/ and you're good to go. It's a fantastic combo.

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    Man, this is great, I've just wasted 30 minutes playing this.