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fl4regun

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    Comment #49250315

    Indy devs are professionals too. Just because they aren't gargantuan megacorps doesn't make them amateurs. See: Expedition 33, made by formerly Ubisoft developers. Same people, dif…

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    Comment #49246661

    are you referring to this section? > Verification is different from generation: Models scoring 98 can solve problems but can't always explain why their approach works at the level …

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    Comment #49246428

    Not sure what point you are making, it is more prevalent now, but it would be wrong to say this is because mars bars are more expensive and smaller.

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    Comment #49246397

    why does it have to be just about the AAA industry? Indy games are amazing now, and usually not sold at full price compared to console games, probably most of my favourite games of…

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    Comment #49246308

    TV's for one, have become insanely cheap. You can get 4k TVs for like, nothing, especially after inflation adjustments from the 2010s. Bigger panels, brighter screens, too bad we s…

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    Comment #49246206

    it is not "pure fructose" - they have different levels but usually it is 50% fructose syrups. Lots of fruits have similar ratios to that too, fructose isn't the problem so much as …

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    Comment #49246161

    not sure if this is an unpopular opinion, but I really do not care about shrinkflation as it related to candy, chips, chocolates, and other junk food. Obesogenic foods should be mo…

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    Comment #49214420

    never seen a better description than your janitor metaphor

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    Comment #49197676

    I've recently taken to learning about plant identification, it's interesting to make observations about all the flora you see walking about. Will need to note these books for later…

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    Comment #49197611

    I'm mostly curious why anyone would bother with doing attacks like this to some random individuals personal blog, was it one person or multiple people? What was the motivation? Is …

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    Comment #49197377

    >you are associating yourself with things like Windows, Mac or Linux But this is nothing like those things.

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    Comment #49197214

    wiki is usually not great at teaching new concepts, better as a reference for someone who already learned something.

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    Comment #49140448

    the commenter was talking about the internet in the 2000s, as am I. I was only born in the 90s.

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    Comment #49140407

    i don't think it's fair to say it was just CS majors, I'm a 90s baby and i was on the web in the 2000s when i was in middle school, I still remember reading web comics and forums, …

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    Comment #49115569

    maybe it is because I am biased but I have almost no expectation for AI to act "ethically"

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    Comment #49113909

    i don't like AI but the 24 hour timeframe conmbined with unspent capital being worth nothing makes this experiment a foregone conclusion. It was basically set up to fail.

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    Comment #49112783

    I was more so asking how does it know where to look to find information, if things are no longer being indexed.

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    Comment #49112370

    but how does chatGPT find information?

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    Comment #49110651

    I know what you mean, but I think most people are not thinking of it in this way. They are thinking of VPN as a service provided by companies such as Nord VPN, and mostly used to g…

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    Comment #49100726

    just don't forget these are temporary, eventually there will be "enough" data centers, and none of these jobs will exist, so if you are planning a 20 year + career, don't count on …

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    Comment #49100707

    Would love to see restaurants in Canada included

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    Comment #49100541

    Is this a real thing that happens anymore? I don't recall when the last time someone made a new genuine connection through one of the major social media platforms (speaking of IG, …

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    Comment #49075670

    the ones I have are from https://onplants.ca/shop/asimina-triloba/ They claim to be grown from seed and so should be viable for producing fruit (as long as you have multiple plants…

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    Comment #49073650

    I will try to check later in the year! I planted a few of my own actually, but considering they are still saplings, it will take some time before i get any fruit myself. I also man…

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    Comment #49073378

    they are interesting plants, not many people cultivate them though, what do you do with the fruit? I hear it spoils fast and is not very marketable because of its lack of shelf lif…