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ericskiff
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About ericskiff
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Comment #48448382
Thank you, this is a huge pet peeve of mine. I mis-click my airpod and suddenly this app I've never used and don't want launches
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Comment #48338710
Just chiming in for anyone else reading this and worried about their hair thinning, this is a thing men worry about much more than women. Bruce Willis, Patrick Stewart, Michael Jor…
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Comment #48023150
What's interesting is that in this article, the author describes making an understandable mistake (accidentally deleting Trunk aka main from source) and how their team was able to …
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Comment #47826994
That comment seemed to revolve around consent. Willful, nonconsensual dosing of anyone with any drug is a violation, and yes doing it and bragging about it is reprehensible.
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Comment #47727524
Fun, but the way they fly doesn't quite match my intuition. Why would an object curve when I send it out on the tangent? Wouldn't that be a straight line unless it's affected by a …
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Comment #46917189
Wooooow, I LOVED this site when it first came out and I still reference it when I talk about the early web and how it enabled me to learn things I never would have otherwise. I can…
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Comment #46917152
This is so lovely! If the original author is here in the comments, some feature requests that would absolutely make my day, presumably from easiest to hardest :) I love this so muc…
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Comment #46341374
For anyone taking this comment seriously, please research and understand the potential long term impacts of GBL before going near it. It's neurotoxic and can cause brainfog and low…
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Comment #46326476
Awesome to see real UX experimentation, and this elicited a strong response from me at first "oh I haaaaate that". On further reflection, this is very interesting and I understand …
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Comment #46112288
I believe this was a statement on cost per token to us as consumers of the service
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Comment #45529159
It all reads like hallucinated slop from top to bottom "I've been tracking software quality metrics for three years" and then doesn't show any of the receipts, and simply lists ane…
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Comment #45527329
go to tax.gov You'll identify on id.me People have just gotten used to this sort of thing unfortunately
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Comment #45267242
Folks have been predicting that the next big shift in computing will be onto glasses that we wear and away from our phones. The tech just hasn’t been there yet and most of the devi…
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Comment #44045891
Has anyone gotten access to Imagen 4 for image editing, inpaint/outpaint or using reference images yet? That's core to my workflow and their docs just lead to a google form. I've s…
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Comment #42585052
I highly recommend the command line AI coding tool, AIder. You fill its context window with a few relevant files, ask questions, and then set it to code mode and it starts making c…
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Comment #42486273
What we can reasonably assume from statements made by insiders: They want a 10x improvement from scaling and a 10x improvement from data and algorithmic changes The sources of publ…
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Comment #42164771
We’ve been hitting this in our work and in experimentation, and I can confirm that Claude sonnet 3.5 has gotten 100% of the way there, including working through errors and tricky p…
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Comment #42164767
Interestingly, I’m pretty sure they mean they hit the limit with tokens on Claude. There’s a daily 2.5 million token limit that you can use up fairly quickly with 100K context So t…
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Comment #41991944
Deskpad might be what you’re after! It’s a virtual display in a window, you can share that instead of your whole screen but still get multi-app flows captured https://github.com/St…
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Comment #41790006
100% Being able to write, code, and read from a large virtual terminal without a clunky visor on would be amazing.
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Comment #41710314
I’ll share my experience and the experience of my kids so far. Aside from blindly copying and pasting a response, in which case the learner wasn’t interested in learning and probab…
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Comment #40989192
For over 10 years we've had people do a paid ~4 hr take-home which is very similar to the work they'll actually be doing (here's a dummy codebase, add a few features fix a few bugs…
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Comment #40312338
Counterpoint - I pay for my whole team to have access, shared tools, etc. we also spend a decent amount on their APIs across a number of client projects. OpenAI has a strong revenu…
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Comment #39979693
I've been playing with Continue: https://github.com/continuedev/continue
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Comment #39965534
Thinking about how this may apply to AI, this research seems to be saying that the distribution of neurons is not a normal distribution, but more akin to the population of a countr…