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drw85

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    Comment #48933058

    It was all personal use, just me, doing stuff for my business, I have no employees. If it's for your business, it's not personal...

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    Comment #48843221

    I think the biggest difference is that children don't have mental barriers about those things. They just explore and learn, without any thoughts wasted about the usefulness, pressu…

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    Comment #48816161

    I switched to linux a year ago and in that year had less problems than on Windows. I had some minor problems after updates once or twice. On Windows i had to boot into restore mode…

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    Comment #48815941

    The reason it's free is not because they want you to have it for free. It's heavily subsidized limited trial period. The limits are still generous enough to be useful, but that mig…

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    Comment #48802810

    It has all the signs of LLM-generated text.

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    Comment #48802622

    The problem is that it's too expensive. It can technically do parts of my job for me, but at a variable cost that's higher than mine right now.

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    Comment #48773849

    Ah, that's interesting, i had no idea. Thanks. :D

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    Comment #48762309

    On World 6-3, if i use i.e. d3j to delete the 3 lines it deletes the current line + the 3 below. Vim generally treats commands like that as "do this X times including the current l…

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    Comment #48762215

    I think the reason to use and teach those keys first, is that they can be used in all the motions aswell. The arrow keys can´t and thus do not really make much sense in a vi contex…

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    Comment #48717490

    But those are obvious errors. What if the AI tells you to up your intake of X and it seems plausible? So you up your intake of X by taking some supplement, but upping the intake of…

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    Comment #48717365

    But for obvious cases like this, you don't need a second or first opinion. This case is about handing a 3D imaging result to a text predictor and hoping for a valid second opinion.…

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    Comment #48709243

    Nightmare because the AI is just generating a random text that fits the question.

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    Comment #48683931

    Gamepass was never popular enough to justify the expenses and investments on the level they did. They just thought growth will forever be exponential until they have a billion subs…

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    Comment #48672119

    I personally don't really understand the uproar here. Console games have been $80 for a while now. Most of them don't even let you play on release if you dare to just buy the "pleb…

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    Comment #48672038

    It will, but with the usual delay of 1+ year.

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    Comment #48641412

    Those are the dark patterns. Give a player that is hesitant a good opportunity to place a pretty much guaranteed winning bet and try to get them to cross their threshold. Once cros…

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    Comment #48106439

    I think it's a valid analogy in some contexts. Like when talking to a person that is not aware of non-determinism and hallucinations. Which happens on this website very frequently.…

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    Comment #48106322

    I worked for some large corps and they all had one thing in common. Tons of middle management that makes no decisions what so ever. Everytime you ask a question, they delegate, unt…

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    Comment #48092401

    Would it be a human issue, if you type something into a calculator and the calculated result is wrong? Would anyone use a calculator confidently, if the result was randomly generat…

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    Comment #47851186

    Because you can spend your 100 billion dollars spread over 10 years. If you build datacenters, you have to spend that money now. They're also not paying amazon to order GPUs, they'…

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    Comment #47847103

    Read a book then?

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    Comment #47846933

    I don't think it is more desirable, the iPhone Air has reportedly sold way below expectations.

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    Comment #47752044

    That's a bit like asking 'Why is Harry Potter not a middle aged white woman?'. Because writers of fiction don't have to write about themselves and readers of fiction don't always h…

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    Comment #47323311

    It's not. This is how the free version of Outlook that comes with Windows displays ads.

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    Comment #47323292

    I'd argue that this is much worse in a different way. Imagine the website the ad points to is malicious and manages to install or exploit something. Outlook happily displays and op…