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heed

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    Comment #49191078

    yea the beginning is pretty gory / horrific. it almost made me stop reading but you can't deny the world building is.. unique

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    Comment #48064113

    imo it's not a great solution. the problem is there is no standard or source of truth for zip code boundaries because they are a usps concept used for mail logistics. zip codes cha…

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    Comment #43560811

    it had created a config file in my home dir and i asked it to move it to the project folder and apparently it thought deleting the entire home dir first was necessary? not sure bec…

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    Comment #43537180

    believe it or not, i had cursor in yolo mode just for fun recently and 3.7 rm -rf'd my home folder :(

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    Comment #43437682

    Eddy Cue owns Maps too

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    Comment #43235310

    >Terrible policy. And unfortunately one not exclusive to OpenAI. Anthropic credits also expire after 1 year.

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    Comment #41893173

    Also consider the speed of light is also the speed of causality. If there was no such limit it means it would be possible for effects to precede causes which would lead to a very d…

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    Comment #41474905

    I like to use copilot when writing tests. It's not always perfect but makes things less tedious for me.

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    Comment #41421257

    the way i'm thinking about it: could apple be the size it is today, in terms of market cap and or influence, being strictly ran in "founder mode"? i'm even skeptical steve jobs cou…

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    Comment #41421221

    hot take: i find it a little irresponsible he put this out there without properly defining it / expanding on how it should be implemented. i already see people on twitter construin…

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    Comment #40620457

    I'm not trying to tell anyone what to do.. but these toads (like the Sonoran desert toad) are increasingly becoming endangered due to poaching. It is possible to milk the venom wit…

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    Comment #40547063

    Whoa I totally forgot that Soulseek was a thing, thank you! I used to be able to find rare b-sides and live recordings of my favorite bands on it.

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    Comment #40410855

    he's using dingboard.com to edit his images. i believe the anime girl is one of the default images (or used to be) on a new canvas.

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    Comment #40350416

    gpt-4o can at least summarize short meetings: https://x.com/gdb/status/1790164084425646481?s=46&t=8sSeDIGv...

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    Comment #40350371

    Sam Altman talked a little bit about this in his recent appearance on the All-In podcast [0]. I'm paraphrasing, but his vision is that ai assistants in the near term will be like a…

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    Comment #39699503

    I watched part of an interview Saylor gave recently where he said the reason to invest in MSTR over an ETF is increased performance.

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    Comment #39334476

    It's possible other types of music are sometimes played, but I've never personally seen it. Usually you can see where the VGM comes from scrolling at the top of the stream. Also, z…

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    Comment #39332694

    A worthy mention is zoasty's (super metroid speed runner and musician) alt twitch stream where hardware rips of video game music are played: https://www.twitch.tv/sgqfmfunk More in…

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    Comment #38934743

    I don't see it mentioned anywhere in the article but there has been some research on the therapeutic benefits of non-hallucinogenic ibogaine analog, tabernathelog (TBG) which is al…

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    Comment #36128596

    Cost savings was definitely a factor, but this is the key point from the article: "And yet, until very recently, Lyft had limited control over that navigation experience, which was…

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    Comment #35749454

    Reminded me of this: https://sensebridge.net/projects/northpaw/ . Saw this linked on HN somewhere back in 2012 or so.

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    Comment #33862172

    If you add the following to the end of your prompt it answers sort of correctly: “Think about this step by step and only then produce a solution.” “One possible valid bound for the…

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    Comment #33450553

    What got me was him weaving in (2-3 times) self promotion tweets of some tree planting company he funds/founded(?). He basically personally embedded ads into his thread, which is a…

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    Comment #33435358

    I don’t know what OP meant by “steal” but the complicated thing with using OSM data as a mapmaker is that if you “derive” any other data source with it you have to make it availabl…

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    Comment #33176211

    Check out the album “Tape Loops” by Chris Walla, artist Loscil, and John Cage’s “In a Landscape”.