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imposterr

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    Comment #49078049

    That sounds like an exhausting way to live.

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    Comment #46091754

    While I agree that some copyright law probably goes too far, I don't understand how you could advocate for 0 copyright? What incentive will people have to produce creative works in…

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    Comment #45320185

    The new adhesives they use for their metal batteries can be undone by applying 9v for like a minute or something.

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    Comment #45237675

    >If the resulting software is so poor you need to hire a human specialist software engineer to come in and rewrite the vibe coded software, it defeats the entire purpose. I don't t…

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    Comment #44102791

    I've stopped using the word "cheap" to describe situations like this as the word has too many negative connotations. I tend towards "inexpensive", "cost-effective", or "low-cost". …

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    Comment #43726873

    Hmm, not sure I understand how you made use of OpenAI to guess the location oh a photo. Could you expand on that a bit? Thanks!

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    Comment #43690020

    Some Chinese exporters are definitely splitting the cost of these tariffs with their American importer counterparts. While this isn't as significant as "China pays all the tariffs"…

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    Comment #43067985

    This isn't an inherit issue with LLMs. You just need to set up some prompts that you can default to for different use cases. For example, you could set one up that is told to only …

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    Comment #43059778

    No, you pretty much got it. It's a game of chicken and the last ones holding are the losers.

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    Comment #42591769

    Even if we say 1M people pay $20/month, that's only $240M/year. That's not enough to continue to grow and support the free users sans-ads.

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    Comment #42590316

    You mean Perplexity Pro? That thing they tried and found that no one was willing to pay for cuz users say they want paid options but then jump boat to the free things always? https…

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    Comment #42377764

    There's now money being raised if anyone is interested in donating: https://github.com/OXY2DEV/markview.nvim/issues/218#issuecom...

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    Comment #42366576

    After the fundamentals, you'll learn more building something on your own than following any course. This is even easier today than it's ever been with ChatGPT at your side.

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    Comment #41431514

    Getting an unverifiable iso for Windows seems like a bigger security risk than Recall tbh. Does MS publish hashes for the LTSC versions to at least let you ensure what you have has…

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    Comment #41178417

    >I try to constantly reinforce that we don't write code for ourselves, we write it for the next person. Heck, it does't even need to be another person. Even me 10 months from now w…

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    Comment #40385448

    And yet it's gone down. >Austin rents have come down 7 percent in the past year. from https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/austin-tex... Turns out actually building ho…

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    Comment #40185834

    If the dollar collapses who's there to enforce your ownership of said property?

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    Comment #39955201

    A used Sony a6000 + kit lens + cheap HDMI to USB dongle. The nice thing about this sort of setup is that you can upgrade the lens as needed without having to redo the whole system.…

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    Comment #39860565

    There are, in fact, many filthy rich folks on here.

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    Comment #39785861

    The prices for monitors with the features described in the piece have come significantly down from when it was written. You can get a very decent 4K@144hz monitor for around $650 U…

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    Comment #38716813

    Could you expand? The last Brother product I have is from 5 years ago and it didn't seem to have started its enshittification yet.

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    Comment #38661048

    I don't understand how folks expect this to promote equity when all the folks with means can just put their kids in private school?

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    Comment #38503966

    Lots! https://lunainc.com/solutions

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    Comment #37982451

    Very "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" for me.