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Comment #49184162
Oh my god for the love of all is holy why can’t I remove Apple Music.
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Comment #48564147
It’s just a SaaS service like any other. They all want to use your data, but there are terms to make sure they don’t.
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Comment #48057948
Maybe a hybrid approach. Scramble to create a final exam/project and give them the option to do pass/fail or a real grade, their choice. And then wish for the death of saas and a d…
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Comment #47785921
No, users should demand it. For open source you get what you get and you don’t get upset. Has anyone ever sued an open source project?
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Comment #47352594
Now what we need is a chat interface to develop these config files.
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Comment #47232484
DMCA?
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Comment #47130360
The future is that people stop buying software and just build it themselves. The spam filter in thunderbird was broken for me, I built my own in hours and it works way better. Oh t…
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Comment #47121418
I don’t like the comparison between humans and humans. Humans don’t travel around at 100mph in packs of other humans. Why not use every sensor type at our disposal if it gives us m…
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Comment #47064445
We need to update robots.txt for the LLM world, help them find things more efficiently (or not at all I guess). Provide specs for actions that can be taken. Etc.
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Comment #46884178
You are assuming they will commit to the solution and ride it to their grave trying to make it work. They will experiment and figure out a way to make it cheaper, or they will give…
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Comment #46881340
You can debate this until you are blue in the face. If the costs are less they will do it. If they aren’t they won’t do it. That’s the only sense that needs to be made.
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Comment #46836742
So is your solution that Europe only creates small companies?
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Comment #46301732
“Even if you can disable individual AI features, the cognitive load of monitoring an opaque system that’s supposedly working on your behalf would be overwhelming.” 99.9% of people …
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Comment #46240161
Because it’s better.
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Comment #45953084
Elastic and many others fail to solve this problem too. There are many different strategies and many of them require ingenuity and development.
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Comment #45590530
Any numbers on how much energy isn’t sensitive to time? Is it reasonable to say that people can just use energy more when it’s windy to save money? Perhaps if could incentivize peo…
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Comment #45469906
There are businesses that attract people that use cards fraudulently and the business gets flagged demand eventually dropped. Gas stations in less desirable neighborhoods in the US…
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Comment #45401752
How is the pig doing?
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Comment #45362055
I don’t think it’s some master scheme. They are trying to make money more than anything else. So they distort the truth to what sells the most. That just happens to be one of two m…
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Comment #45360008
Seems like it would be easy for phone companies to locate SIM farms, no? They can triangulate based on the zillion texts coming from one location?
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Comment #45312333
Are we saying software engineers making $125-150k are middle class? If so, then yes this I absolutely believe this is true. These will still be high level people for the most part …
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Comment #45149022
https://theoldrobots.net/ https://theoldrobots.org/
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Comment #45130038
He did a commercial and helps sales for Ramp and he only has $500k into them? That is either the deal of the century for Ramp or the reporting is inaccurate.
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Comment #45051812
If the motherboards are putting too much power into the chips, why isn’t it their fault?
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Comment #45016584
Do you think robot insurance will cover you if you self-host?