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Comment #49251811
If the western AI companies are forced to comply with this type of BS, and develop their models to do their job while balancing a book on their head and hopping on one foot, the Ch…
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Comment #49213512
The recent Hugging Face incident did not seem like FUD to me
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Comment #49213260
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Comment #49213004
I get the addictiveness of TikTok and Reels but I don't know what the solution is to the supposed insidiousness. They just figured out what you like to watch and showed you more si…
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Comment #49202143
I bought my first LLM subscription with Claude right before they gave access to Fable 5. I got so used to it, when they finally pulled access for me and I had to go back to Opus I …
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Comment #49201816
Intentional anonymity is perfectly tasteful.
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Comment #49200574
> Is "snatching a phone and running off" a common enough problem in some regions that this is worth having? Yes absolutely https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/phone-london-snatch-9.72041…
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Comment #49200399
> the number of games emulating PS1 / N64 aesthetics is so massively oversaturated at this point that I'm kind of burned out on it. The point isn't just to be a novelty throwback a…
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Comment #49174665
I can't compare to PowerShell, I've only ever used the Mac version of Warp (the Windows version is relatively new, I can't attest to the quality) To be more specific about what I w…
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Comment #49173852
I'm not much of a workaholic, I don't really like going outside or getting my hands dirty... But mowing the lawn is nice. It's like doing a giant coloring page with a big thick mar…
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Comment #49173662
I started doing it and immediately felt like I was optimizing for minimal moves like a video game, rather than what I'd actually do which is not the same strategy. There's a handfu…
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Comment #49173439
Yeah I became a fan of Warp when they offered a terminal that treated the input as a normal text input field so I could use my normal keyboard text editing shortcuts. But I underst…
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Comment #49173150
We are all long aware that Jobs was a flawed individual. But he made good products that most people like to use. That was GP they were getting at with "he wants to be Steve Jobs." …
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Comment #49169999
I've seen some very recent niche tech demoing fast-refresh e-ink screens but pretty much everything until now has required a noticeable flash to clear the entire screen on update. …
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Comment #49169636
Playdate's screen isn't e-ink, it's a 1-bit LCD You probably wouldn't want the refresh rate of e-ink for a gaming device.
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Comment #49169394
It's wild cause it was so easy circa ~2010, back before Mojang was purchased. Microsoft makes a web login seem like some kind of lost knowledge like Roman aqueducts.
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Comment #49169262
The issue with owning discs now is they tend to not even have the full game on them. They either shipped the discs before the game was done so there's something practically unplaya…
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Comment #49128788
In September they're bringing the latest major iOS version to the iPhone 11 which released 7 years ago. And from what I've seen on the iPhone 11 subreddit, it improves performance.…
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Comment #49112733
There's nothing to be confused about, this isn't about age verification. It's about increasing surveillance and ending anonymity. The "think of the children" shit is just a tactic …
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Comment #49106230
Looking through your phone at an AR object is not anywhere close to what VR offers. Maybe with a Google Cardboard / Google Daydream type experience. But not holding the phone out i…
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Comment #49106185
Reddit had already acquired AlienBlue which was kinda the go-to iOS reddit app back in the day and I believe it's still the base for the official app.
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Comment #49106175
The official app is so bad that basically all quality posters left, along with practically all decent moderators except power-tripping assholes who are happy as long as they have a…
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Comment #49106132
The fact he even said "can't remember why" makes me think he's fully aware and it's a joke Prospector could even be interpreted/spelled as Prospecter, -er as in "more/better than P…
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Comment #49086966
Whether or not a fetus is human life isn't a scientific concept. Pro-choice people "believe" that it isn't. That's not scientific either.