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hellisothers

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    Comment #49234306

    Let’s assume we both have nice ranges. - I can temper on my 7k BTU burner - I can boil water quick AF on my 18k BTU burner - setting pan temp isn’t a thing, there are no recipes th…

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    Comment #49234193

    Maybe it’s because my wife is literally a chef but you’ll have to pull her gas range/oven out of her dead hands. She’s worked with induction before for years, it is not the same le…

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    Comment #49234176

    If you do the deep research on this there are many qualifiers to get the result they’re purporting. The main issue is you have to have little to no ventilation to make their number…

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    Comment #49224135

    Or put differently: code as a means to an end vs code as the end. You need both types, the ratio changes as things change, neither is The Way.

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    Comment #49196142

    But are either of these Capitalism? Sure they’re capitalist in the way the world works but the OP is touching on ideals and theory.

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    Comment #49148150

    Maybe but it feels like 1 step forward and 2 steps back. It feels like in the end they’re (companies) still getting 99% of what they had before and the user experience of everythin…

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    Comment #49039102

    This definitely happened, all my yard/lawn items (mower, chainsaws, hedgers, etc) are all battery. So much better.

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    Comment #49031626

    Looks and feels like an Android app from 10 years ago and all this hides whatever setup and management went into getting this going. Plex Just Works, and is very easy on the eyes.

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    Comment #49030773

    Why do you think universal healthcare will make it easier to get the drugs you need? I’d imagine the opposite with additional bureaucracy.

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    Comment #48948539

    In the short term, in the long term everyone else loses confidence in the country to be a good actor.

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    Comment #48909698

    Focusing just on AI wrt our work (let’s say software engineering for now) and letting go the other items. I see a like when this comes up the story is if the AI is doing the arch/i…

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    Comment #48846944

    You can cancel immediately and still get that initial trial/month! I always do this, especially for apps i aspirationally purchase a subscription for a year for (fitness/language a…

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    Comment #48752625

    Is this news to anybody? Feels like I should just point AI and several “foundations of software engineering” and have it churn out blog posts for each chapter.

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    Comment #48679577

    I’m the opposite and never use Booking but part of that is I’m put off by the experience of using the site. Also noticing it heavily skews towards getting you into a hotel in “tour…

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    Comment #48464406

    I’ll bite, why do you deserve this “right”?

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    Comment #48324775

    I love building and upgrading stuff as well as paying (much) more for tools that will last. But this is a laptop not a socket set, paying (a lot) more for worse performance up fron…

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    Comment #48286273

    Yea, Dropbox was a pretty good DSLR camera, problem was everybody has a mobile phone now…

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    Comment #48202244

    Lobbyists?

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    Comment #48194507

    > LLM doesn't feel like a person. It feels way better Somebody trademark this! :D

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    Comment #48194435

    Ease of use. Jellyfin is akin to asking “why don’t people use Linux?” 15 years ago.

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    Comment #48123191

    Labels are good, they help categorize and provide perspectives. Just try to have many of them not one or two :D

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    Comment #48099298

    “In producing textiles but has there been actual positive impact in other sectors?” I’m sure the Industrial Revolution didn’t just happen all at once, it started somewhere and crep…

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    Comment #48096250

    In case the don’t reply I’m betting it was when they changed their API and broke a lot of existing hardware that took a long time to get working right again.

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    Comment #48096215

    > I’m all for paying for a service that offers fair value They say, about not paying for a product to let them stream pirated content from other services:D. I’m annoyed by all the …

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    Comment #47896335

    Same and it is working really well (I say contra to most individual reporting).