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dwild

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    Comment #40772403

    One advantage of the RFID, is that you can modify the ticket while using it. This is actually what made Montreal choose that solution. There's no internet connection to validate th…

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    Comment #39030369

    Are you saying that's the risk of providing the website URL? Or that it's the risk of the HIBP? Because he does provide the email and the leak name... He even provide indirectly wh…

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    Comment #36748547

    He even pay for the 3D graphics! Essentially he is making ad money, boost his subscribers counts and he is marketing his product sold on the Unity Store.

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    Comment #36554633

    > And yet his older CJS versions get weekly downloads that are magnitudes higher than the newer ESM versions. You write this as if that mattered... Should he only works on stuff th…

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    Comment #36485851

    > if you have completely free speech your inbox gets spammed into oblivion. Don't know for your provider, but on Gmail, I click on Spam and there are all there. It's not censorship…

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    Comment #36265558

    A camera can easily catch someone with an hammer, it's kind of much harder to go one by one to destroy them that way and it's also probably much more dangerous to try to break some…

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    Comment #35883603

    Their AOT solution was clearly too complex for some potential clients, that seems like the real reason they rewrote it all, support for higher Java version is mostly a neat benefit…

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    Comment #35660617

    At first glance it seems to only support bitmap? I means it does seems great, but I believe a big part of Flash is the vectorial format, it's not baked into the image, and it does …

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    Comment #35514015

    They also build their own editor [1] and it's quite good. I'm quite jealous of theses talents. [1] https://floor796.com/editor/l0

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    Comment #35430463

    Are you kidding? You definitely don't have an effective tax rate of 48%... Here in Quebec (which has the highest tax rate) that would make you higher than 400k a year... (45% at th…

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    Comment #35402233

    We all saw the charts showing the number of employees if the past few years and that they just laid off the over hiring... No one remember during that time how we were lacking empl…

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    Comment #35198835

    You can probably say something similar for any form of entertainment. You can always gain something from it (and that's excluding the benefit of doing something you enjoy).

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    Comment #34644371

    Is this actually confirmed as it doesn't even make sense. That page mention a free tier of up to 250 requests, it only mentions search, and even though we can't see the content eas…

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    Comment #34644129

    I means the world isn't binary, obviously there's risk in everything. There's not much incentive to jack prices up 10x, it's their revenue, by doing so they will probably lose some…

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    Comment #34506950

    People can be wrong and can sound quite plausible too. The key is to verify... and that's true for AI and people too, though for sure that's not something people are used to do sad…

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    Comment #34482523

    I learned that quite early, mostly because I'm from Quebec, there's so many of our translation that get lost (I guess it's a question of rights, the translation and original conten…

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    Comment #34083111

    The amount of commercial games that used (and still does actually) Flash is much higher than many could believe. Jackbox is probably one that many here have played in the past few …

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    Comment #33914880

    > He behaved shittily by not honoring an informal contract. Did he not honor the informal contract? What did he not honor? If anything, Carl didn't honor the informal contract, he …

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    Comment #33914817

    > The author is so self-centered they belittle the contributions of other Mojang employees C418 made the music... plenty love it, I don't. Doesn't means it has no value, it has non…

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    Comment #33890645

    >Okay, but what's that supposed to achieve? Not being in the dataset maybe? There's many artists that hate that you can just write "in the style of" with their name. So at least, i…

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    Comment #33868696

    Seems like OpenAI didn't like this kind of poking as now it keep saying this: > As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I do not have the ability to mimic the writing style of…

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    Comment #33861232

    I don't know for you but I'm still amazed at Dall-e and know plenty of people who are too. I got access 112 days ago, and was also relatively impressed before too (but definitively…

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    Comment #33861169

    That sound to me like inference.

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    Comment #33861158

    What about doing wget over https://chat.openai.com/chat ? I don't believe it had much Google result over that when it learned, yet it was able to logically infer it would be a chat…