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gibsonsmog

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    Comment #47936384

    Cthulu is supposed to rise and induce madness in the population, driving them towards death and destruction right? Seems like he'd be bored these days

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    Comment #47927160

    The Butlerian Jihad looms

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    Comment #47925279

    Yeah, local is clearly the future. Even beyond the cheap Chinese models you can install the apfel[1] stuff if you're on a mac and want a quick available onboard cli option. And I'm…

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    Comment #47853959

    One thing that has been driving me bat shit as an FE for years is the lack of browser engine implemented basic UI elements as default HTML. The fact that we still need to build cus…

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    Comment #47807818

    At a previous job, we had to refactor our entire front end build system from Rollup(I believe it was) to a custom Webpack build because of this attitude. Our FE process was complet…

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    Comment #47806404

    Feed, cloth and educate our population? What's next? Structure society in a way that benefits the people? How horrifying!

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    Comment #47691375

    I'm curious if there is a particular technical reason you chose to make this as a separate script rather than some kind of Jellyfin plugin? I actually appreciate that you did it in…

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    Comment #47651672

    What a neat LLM question! Most of my results were the same as what you posted except for the first time I asked it which resulted in this pretty interesting answer: Taiwan is in th…

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    Comment #47641318

    Louis Rossman recently posted a video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II2QF9JwtLc ) where he had Gemini replace his 10+ year carefully curated content with AI slop and he instant…

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    Comment #47626997

    I think a web ring combined with some kind of web of trust style system would be nice. Ideally they could be both centralized where an initial creator holds the keys to what's allo…

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    Comment #47264471

    Go old school and have the script inject the "how did this get here im not good with computers" cat onto random pages

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    Comment #47150357

    >Though a variant of the last one may well have happened here, and the justification we read is just the one less damaging to everyone involved Hegseth was planning on getting the …

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    Comment #46893057

    My understanding is that it's quite easy to poison the models with inaccurate data, I wouldn't be surprised if this exact thing has happened already. Maybe not an AI company itself…

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    Comment #46861853

    This is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. I love it.

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    Comment #46732437

    Yeah, seriously. I've seen musicians nearly come to blows over tube vs solid state amps. Music has even more anger associated with brands and technique than gaming or tech. It's ju…

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    Comment #46615218

    If you can, find an old tape deck at a thrift store and look into cassettes as well. They're super fun to find and you can buy new ones from groups on Bandcamp usually way cheaper …

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    Comment #46432989

    It's actually a regression overall compared to physical media like DVDs and Blurays. No director commentaries, no behind the scenes, no silly menu games, etc. Streaming would theor…

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    Comment #46235650

    Based on the article headlines I've seen over the years, I don't think emacs users know what emacs does except "yes"

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    Comment #46151502

    >improve things they are already doing repeatedly. For example, I click the same button in Epic every day because Epic can't remove a tab. Maybe Copilot could learn that I do this …

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    Comment #46057539

    Copyparty has been one of my favorite home lab tools since it popped up. Way better than Samba, less hassle than NextCloud, seemingly has more features than FileBrowser and similar…

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    Comment #46035334

    I just cracked open osx voice over for the first time in a while and hoo boy, you weren't kidding. I wonder if you could still "stun" an LLM with this technique while also using so…

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    Comment #46014321

    Everyday we get a little closer to web rings and I'm here for it

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    Comment #45982089

    I've been a web/ux guy for a long time now and I don't think I've ever used a single mobile app/site that is better than a proper full screen piece of software. It's always been a …

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    Comment #45220987

    I love this. Internet UIs have completely degraded over the last decade and seeing an actual company decide to try something different is beautiful. I barely see devs or designers …

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    Comment #45198087

    This is also how I have traditionally looked at new codebases. I don't necessarily actually clean it up (I dislike changing someones style unless it is completely necessary) but I …