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fancythat

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    Comment #48269607

    Because they cannot be profitable. Job market is not the same on both ends. If you are east European and you try to get a job in an international corporation, the in all cases offe…

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    Comment #48104161

    Absolutely correct.

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    Comment #48099031

    Thanks for that. I skimmed through provided links, only thing I can conclude was, it was a process of do something and let's hope for the best. I also see references to files not l…

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    Comment #48095160

    Unless there is a way to see or check the whole prompt that made this game, it is hard for me personally to say if this is impressive or not as I don't know what percentage of this…

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    Comment #48094991

    You nailed it, I came to the same conclusion recently. When people show me what have they done with LLM, I am left unimpressed as mostly they show things that can be done manually …

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    Comment #47931882

    Calculations from me and others have proven that cloud providers use 5-10x multipliers when selling you things. The less you use them, the better is your bottom line. At the beginn…

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    Comment #47831811

    I had a similar thinking that this should be one of the most important USP for LLMs in coding. Does anyone here has more insights or experience in using LLM to cut through years of…

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    Comment #47810065

    Ghost guns are not dangerous, people were making all kind of weapons in their basements for centuries.

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    Comment #47687330

    As the old saying goes (I made this up), if it was worth that much, it wouldn't be released to the public. There is absolutely zero chance that something "dangerous" would be avail…

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    Comment #45041975

    Great work sending me down nostalgia memory lane!

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    Comment #44888177

    I agree with you. Unfortunately usually, the simplest explanation is often the truth, so they just probably ignored this issue, until it surfaced up.

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    Comment #44886284

    I don't know how much servers are they using or server specs besides ancient Opterons, but how is this even an issue in 2025? On Hetnzer (not affiliated), at this moment, i7-8700 (…

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    Comment #44306908

    https://archive.is/qYJay

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    Comment #43691326

    I didn't look at this video, but be vigilant when seeing one, as I was also surprised by someone demonstrating what they can do with Cursor and I went so far to install the exactly…

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    Comment #42057766

    I will use an opportunity to confirm that cloud is ill-suited for almost all but niche business cases and majority of users were dragged into cloud platforms either by free credits…

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    Comment #41464684

    Voice, in-person, in a coffee shop, with mobile phones on the table.

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    Comment #41464679

    Nope, that didn't happen. I access Internet for personal use only on my non-shareable mobile connection. I noticed what you are talking about when I google stuff on the workplace w…

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    Comment #41464667

    Well, of course I cannot be 100% sure, but I usually don't see his other interests popping up on my ads. I must say that I am the person that doesn't use ad blockers or similar tec…

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    Comment #41431340

    I have noticed a similar trends, when speaking about some specific topics without following up on the device by traditional means (keyboard), ads started to show up in a day or to.…

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    Comment #40718142

    You are right, some games, especially multiplayer ones will refuse to work in the VM to prevent cheating, but this is, of course, the business decision on their side. You can alway…

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    Comment #40715526

    This works, I can confirm. Majority of malware threat running in a VM as a sign of researcher doing the malware analysis. I am recommending doing this for over 10 years now.

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    Comment #40024811

    Yup, all clear, thanks!

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    Comment #39990563

    Just interested, how do you manage licensing tarpits around certain video codecs supported by ffmpeg?

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    Comment #39536810

    The thing I don't understand is why people go for cloud route for the simple sites, when there are options like Github static hosting or self hosting using secure tunnels from Clou…

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    Comment #38498104

    Pure Golang can take you a long way. There is no need to add unknown libraries / frameworks, until you have a clear requirement for those.