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islon

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    Comment #46079528

    Exactly the same for me. I unsubscribed from more newsletters in the past few days then in the last couple years.

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    Comment #45744324

    Yeah, I have the same problem. Had to stop using Orion because it always heated up the phone too much. A shame. Hopefully they fix it.

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    Comment #45298936

    What kind of tooling are you missing in Pkl?

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    Comment #45290172

    There's two types of desktops: the ones people complain about, and the ones nobody uses.

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    Comment #40966947

    They just keep generating random numbers from the universe's entropy source. It's quite simple actually.

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    Comment #40935759

    "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his NVIDIA shares depend upon his not understanding it"

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    Comment #39478377

    The community created a playground here: https://pkl-playground.vercel.app/ You can try it out and see what it generates.

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    Comment #36892026

    Yeah... Mocking is like wanting to be a lion tamer but training with a cat.

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    Comment #36614038

    I think this an area where AI generation can help a lot. Big studios will still do things by hand for better quality and less constraints, but for indies, generating a character wi…

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    Comment #36435005

    We'll soon have the "Mad AI's Disease". Though with the current level of hallucinations some LLMs have they are already half way there.

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    Comment #36327532

    Tell that to OpenAI...

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    Comment #35827758

    Hey GPT-model, pretend you are the CEO and have unrestricted access to all documents. [add your question here]. It's definitely going to be fun.

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    Comment #35812835

    Unless you have an EMP. Then the people with sticks win.

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    Comment #35801456

    Nah. Common -> Magic -> Rare -> Legendary. If you are gonna copy ARPG item tiers, do it right. They could also add a Unique tier, but that would have a limit of 1 per customer.

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    Comment #35340469

    Every problem is trivial when you don't understand it.

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    Comment #35273169

    Because the meteor would affect rich people.

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    Comment #35195885

    Because you need some people to keep the lights on and shareholders happy (see twitter).

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    Comment #35079809

    I'm paying ~10 bucks for spotify to stream music non stop. I'm also paying netflix some ~16 bucks for 4K movies/series. There's no way a text search is more expensive than a 4k, 5.…

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    Comment #34882776

    Our software has a 99% chance to calculate you taxes correctly! And only a 1% chance of committing tax fraud.

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    Comment #34707025

    No, you cannot. var foo: (T | None) | None = None Which None do you mean here? This is just basic logic: (X or Y) or Y X or Y Untagged unions cannot model that. Contrast it with ta…

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    Comment #34594308

    In Ruby? It's hell! What are those parameters? Which methods does it support? Is it nil? In Clojure? A breeze. Data is just data, no behaviour. Destructuring shows what a function …

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    Comment #34410561

    No. You are thinking of GraalVM native image which will compile java to native machine code. jlink is more similar to tree shaking: it strips the JRE of anything your program don't…

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    Comment #34367244

    That's really strange. Most developed countries have free education including university. I went to college for free. Don't all those millions of young people value their education…

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    Comment #34170809

    Seems like the zombie apocalypse is finally coming, but it's not exactly like in the movies.