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boredhedgehog

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    Comment #49254817

    > it's just about the getting the knowledge out there that's motivating the creator In that case the creator should welcome AIs with open arms; a human reader will forget eventuall…

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    Comment #49223374

    > I don't get the fuss about MV2 deprecation Just observe this thread. It's a tribal moment, an occasion for a consumer to reassure himself that he has the right philosophy, uses t…

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    Comment #49085825

    But why Bryant over Butler?

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    Comment #49004864

    It's interesting because of the conclusion: a noted expert verifying a surprising LLM finding.

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    Comment #48959151

    But when does a product become waste? When the owner says it is.

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    Comment #48784054

    I just read "The Tallyman", and I have no idea where this allegory and its moral message is supposed to hide. It's more likely that the obsession with this theme resides in the rea…

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    Comment #48539198

    Technically you already have need of another format, because Kindles don't support epub, and your books get converted before the transfer.

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    Comment #48515503

    > Its like driving your car 3 blocks instead of walking, your physical health will suffer. And be sure to only walk barefoot. Relying on artificial shoes weakens the muscles and th…

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    Comment #48417272

    "Translate this poem. Maintain meter and rhyme."

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    Comment #48199829

    Average shot length is down to something like 3 seconds in modern cinema. That's a pretty low bar.

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    Comment #48190620

    You can't just have that. It won't feel good unless you unlock it with honest gacha!

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    Comment #48190019

    I wonder what language the encyclical was written in. Could it be the first one originally English?

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    Comment #48180762

    We should distinguish between the moral condemnation of a behavior and the desire to outlaw it. The latter is hardly Christian in any universal sense and seems to be mostly an effe…

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    Comment #48157478

    > Why cooldowns? Most npm (or pypi) compromises were taken down within hours, But won't more people on cooldown mean less likelihood to catch the bug, thus extending the need for c…

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    Comment #48076398

    I stumbled over that metaphor. Isn't it true that a consequence of setting your kitchen on fire will be a new, better kitchen?

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    Comment #48034689

    That depends on how you count, though. Local storage and cache only have limits relative to available disk space in Chrome, IIRC, and can easily bloat to 100 GB without interventio…

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    Comment #47795548

    Recognizing a unique selling proposition and capitalizing on it should count for the AI, not against it.

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    Comment #47560896

    C-evo development shifted to forks, New Horizons and Distant Horizon. https://app.zdechov.net/c-evo/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/c-evo-eh/

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    Comment #47542121

    According to the CSS, this site requests the fonts Verdana or Geneva in order, and what you say about the capital 'I' is true for the former but not the latter.

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    Comment #47528761

    The aspiration is to replace the movie industry. That's a lot of demand.

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    Comment #47475341

    That line of argument is rather misleading, as some kind of content manipulation is inherent to the service an archive that violates paywalls has to provide. It needs to conceal th…

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    Comment #47233037

    > The person running nanoclaw[.]net can put anything they want on that page tomorrow. A crypto scam. A phishing page. Malicious download links. They could fork the GitHub repo, inj…

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    Comment #47085715

    Looks like Weatherwar 2 for the C64.

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    Comment #47059820

    As described by the posts, the original used 16-bit signed integers. The fix was to switch to 32-bit.

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    Comment #46591525

    I think what Tolkien would have hated the most was Aragorn murdering the Mouth of Sauron. Stylistic choices are one thing, but turning morality on its head is on another scale.