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efitz

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About efitz

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #49206543

    “Applied the law equally” referred to politicians- did they allow something in some cases but not others, eg “selective enforcement”. Your response was “I’d like to live in your wo…

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    Comment #49203482

    I don’t have that kind of clout or money, but Elon does.

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    Comment #49202499

    Of course that’s a silly turn of phrase but there is a grain of truth. Most people believe that the law should mirror the ethics or morality of the society, and absent something cl…

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    Comment #49202110

    Prime with good marbling + sous-vide makes it easy for beginners to match steaks from the best steakhouses.

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    Comment #49202064

    Of course the government has permission to punish crime. However government officials might find themselves in a courtroom having to demonstrate how they applied the law equally, a…

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    Comment #49171411

    Never seen anyone #E6FFF8 (bottom right corner). An albino that consumed too much colloidal silver for years?

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    Comment #49005180

    Well hopefully we will see the LLMs come up with some epic segues from responses into ads. I foresee a new Reddit channel.

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    Comment #48991358

    Yes, using the API - I gave it an API key in an environment variable.

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    Comment #48988692

    > Here is the method, the results, and an honest account of the limitations. This paper was written using AI, to be honest

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    Comment #48988644

    This is part of it but the models are REALLY good at reverse engineering. With the Bluetooth printer I was trying to get to work without a vendor app, it built a python app to hand…

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    Comment #48988592

    I was doing this the last few weekends with some LoRa smart home devices and a thermal shipping label printer. Also this weekend I found out that Claude is better at writing Home A…

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    Comment #48988567

    A typical US user using a typical browser with typical settings gets an AI summary above search results. If this doesn’t describe you, then ymmv. Talk to your government or turn do…

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    Comment #48975401

    I asked my wife once, how to tell whether a fashion accessory is a knock-off. She said: “look at the woman”.

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    Comment #48975385

    The 90s called. They want their article back.

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    Comment #48971616

    BREAKING NEWS: New study shows that plants consume carbon dioxide, emit oxygen. Implications for greenhouse gas reduction unknown but promising.

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    Comment #48962652

    My typing speed is measured in tokens per second…

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    Comment #48918418

    Nowadays reading HN comments I imagine what it was like watching a buggy whip manufacturers meeting around the time of Henry Ford. The world is changing and many previous assumptio…

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    Comment #48879987

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48851091

    I am not a musician but found this fascinating. Thank you for posting.

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    Comment #48780009

    I’d still make the same argument- the remedy should be monetary damages, not enjoinder. Produce had a short shelf life; enjoinder has the same effect on the farmer as a loss in cou…

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    Comment #48779286

    Oh, and there is a special place in hell reserved for anyone involved in designing food crops that can’t reproduce.

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    Comment #48779272

    Patents on food crops, even genetically engineered ones, are evil. ALL our staple food crops and most non staples are genetically engineered by millennia of cultivation and selecti…

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    Comment #48777738

    What is the difference in functionality?

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    Comment #48777323

    How are the MCP servers compared to Playwright?

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    Comment #48770810

    “Anecdotally, X works better in another country than it does in the USA- the free market is a lie!”