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Comment #49115286
You thought your browser was compromised? Pathetic.
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Comment #48508712
I’m not entirely following you. I generally don’t contribute anymore, but in the past I’ve found a lot of maintainers are not actually looking for collaboration, rather free labor.…
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Comment #48508685
I don’t know if it’s just me, and these days I do understand it given the widespread adoption of LLMs, but I’ve always detested the idea that I need to reach out and have a convers…
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Comment #48508417
I think the attitude frequently adopted by open source maintainers - comparing themselves to Spielberg - has been a major roadblock to anyone looking to contribute to open source p…
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Comment #48479159
Well that's horribly reductive. I certainly do not expect everyone in a given field to know absolutely everything there is to know in that field. Crazy enough, I also hold doctors …
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Comment #48419125
100% agree, and so happy to see somebody call this out. If you go on /r/SelfHosted or any other novice oriented forum, you’ll quickly realize that most users are simply “keeping up…
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Comment #48182145
Right right, I'd prefer management lock themselves in a closet and not engage with the outside world.
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Comment #47433139
I think it’s fair to call those things out 100% of the time regardless of the LLM usage. Not sure what gave you the impression otherwise.
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Comment #47431292
Absolutely. Really gross to see. Heavy majority of the complaints boil down to “I can’t blindly trust everything posted here now?” - as if they could before?? So entitled. Also ann…
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Comment #47431037
If you enjoy the flamewar, check out /r/SelfHosted which has been losing it's mind over the last few months. The heavy heavy majority of that community is somehow incredibly anti A…
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Comment #47431012
Sure, I bet they didn't outright dismiss them as useless to the entire field though! I'm sure they still understood the value those fancy tools provided to their peers.
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Comment #44867247
Probably just needs a slight update to expand the relevant context of child comments. I bet it's still comparing "What's the catch?" to the OP article.
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Comment #44801710
Exactly their point. That $50k of rent includes the cost of repairs & upgrades. The $50k you pay the bank does not.
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Comment #42066608
People want prosperous livelihoods not just jobs. Do you think those working those low paying dead end jobs are just completely content with having zero mobility or financial secur…
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Comment #41713195
Pretty funny thread, thanks for sharing. No idea what they are thinking...
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Comment #41713075
The first comment in the thread is a victim of ScanOSS's spam mocking them by opening an issue in their repo following the same format as their bot.
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Comment #40824943
You can go out for drinks with coworkers and not show up hungover the next day... Like, office happy hours are basically a cliché at this point.
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Comment #37002211
Async communication is not even remotely close to socializing, and hardly feels like genuine human interaction.
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Comment #36821445
Have you considered the impact social media has on in person dynamics amongst school age kids? Insanely naive take.
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Comment #36718395
I feel like I’ve seen this headline at least 20 times over the last 5 years.
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Comment #36718386
You’re not wrong, and I hate to defend the US but, come on. The Holocaust is on a whole other level.
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Comment #36703211
> I strongly feel that, unless you have some acknowledged difficulty in dealing with extraneous information, it is just not reasonable to expect the world's data to be presented to…
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Comment #36703112
Advertising, as a field, has had a horrible reputation since way before anyone on this site was born.
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Comment #36574534
> Schizophrenia was already there, the trip made it apparent. That is exactly what they are saying.
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Comment #36545480
Right, if you aren’t already doing this, you’re about to have to screen every single comment online in a fucked up game of ‘human or robot’