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cpt_sobel

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    Comment #49033997

    Agree with this one and can vouch for it, for a while while living closer to nature I would start my day by drinking water and taking a walk in the forest, actively avoiding screen…

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    Comment #49033985

    > I'm not convinced attention spans themselves have changed; I think it has more to do with the fact that people's brains aren't defaulting to daydreaming anymore when bored. If my…

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    Comment #48975977

    Can anyone explain how they support all 3 browsers' extensions?

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    Comment #48843071

    Bro please center-align the "not affiliated" line at the bottom :)

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    Comment #48842332

    > $10k in tokens a day What on earth is he building?

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    Comment #48842319

    I have a friend who is a confessed LLM-addict and has told me pretty much everything you mentioned (you might be my friend!), I just have a question I want to ask that I never do t…

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    Comment #48842271

    My non-English-native-speaker head of development, to whom I report, does 100% of his work using LLMs and doesn't even check if the code compiles, but somehow this isn't my biggest…

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    Comment #48569528

    > There will _always_ be a pretty big gulf of capability between what you can do with a desk full of hardware at home vs a few racks of hardware in a datacenter True, but this diff…

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    Comment #48473342

    > 7 inches to the iPad mini's 8 inches These numbers don't correspond to the screen size though

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    Comment #48473187

    I think this is the most level-headed take I've read in a while, sums up perfectly the HN discourse on "AI taking our jobs", thanks!

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    Comment #48368052

    I also used to use BetterTouch tool just for this feature, no idea what they have been thinking over at Apple with this delay.

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    Comment #48354448

    I've always felt that his slop movies were just excuses to go film on some exotic island with his buddies, I'd have done the same :)

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    Comment #48354433

    Don't they already have some subscription to get rid of ads?

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    Comment #48323865

    This movie hit harder than my highest expectations from an Adam Sandler movie.

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    Comment #48323851

    > Sometimes it feels like all digital technology is simply an enterprise to replace human to human contact. Hasn't it always been the case that technology reduces the contact with …

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    Comment #48276611

    You're not getting it out of my head that they just used what would be the Apple Car design.

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    Comment #48092179

    Their prices are currently so unreachable because of the big players hoarding every chip they can get their hands on, but if/when the market realizes that locally deployed LLMs are…

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    Comment #48062171

    > It's hard to imagine quickly centering onto a headshot pixel (or group of maybe 12 pixels) with a trackpad These days it's hard to imagine me doing it with a mouse even :) The gy…

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    Comment #48047244

    Does the release of the controller mean that valve solved the issues with the supply chain of their announced products? I know that the main problem is the rising prices of memory …

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    Comment #48047227

    I've always been a M+KB player and especially for FPS games I've always found it impossible to aim with the sticks, so the trackpads really helped in this regard. Especially for ol…

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    Comment #47573152

    > Except in this Mint i've never tried Well, Cinammon is the windows manager for Mint, it's the barebones experience that's the closest to Windows (?) style, it's mostly what you s…

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    Comment #47572951

    > The problem that fucks us over is that Mac OS only has to be better than the competition. I'm with you here, but I'm having a _much_ better time on my Linux machines (KDE and Cin…

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    Comment #47572930

    > Backseat industrial designing through legislation is not the answer. But it _could_ save us from Lenovo or Dell or any other company copying Apple's design practices (and the lat…

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    Comment #47515654

    Drawings then?

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    Comment #47515165

    What market? I thought the whole point was that Sora at the end of the day couldn't find a way to generate revenue