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jacobthesnakob
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Comment #46596078
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Comment #46596006
Most things branded as “AI” nowadays would have been what we called an algorithm a few short years ago.
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Comment #46595997
You’re all just content for internet outrage bait.
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Comment #46593569
> Why is it that people can't seem to grasp I imagine the perceived gap here is that “those” people understand thermodynamics and the failure to grasp is entirely in your hands.
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Comment #46591837
Why do we need to try anything? This comes down to individualism versus collectivism. Besides, the logical consequence of the portion of my comment you highlighted is that the majo…
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Comment #46590821
>It improves quality of life, health, reduces risk when surgery is needed, And as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, needs to be taken forever as the vast majority of patients r…
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Comment #46589514
Which is no surprise to anybody with common sense, the data for discontinuing GLP-1s show exactly the intuitive outcome. Zero diet change, zero habit change for the vast majority o…
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Comment #46589434
>How do citizens of the US tolerate this? Tolerate what, stupid misleading advertising on frozen junk food? Normal people just don’t buy it. >I also don't understand why everything…
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Comment #46589307
Do you seriously think that you’re not in a minority of people taking GLP-1 drugs for IBS and not weight loss?
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Comment #46589276
The pre-chopped coleslaw mix is like 3 bucks for a huge bag. 1 pound of pre-sliced frozen peppers I think is $2. Some of it depends on where you’re shopping, I’m sure this stuff wo…
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Comment #46582723
What is a “serious self hoster”? How many Docker containers do I need to be running on my Pi 5 to get into the club?
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Comment #46582063
Yeah the complaints are fair. I stick to RPi OS for maximum compatibility. People have been crying for a Google Drive client for Linux for over a decade, but still have to set it u…
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Comment #46581997
Maybe because I don’t do SWE for my job, but I have fun writing docker-compose files, troubleshooting them, and adding containers to my server. Then I understand how/why stuff work…
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Comment #46581939
Pi’s are incredible little basic home servers but they can’t handle transcoding. Great option for places with very expensive electricity too.
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Comment #46581889
My work WiFi blocked traffic to port 51820, the default WireGuard port. I was wondering why my VPN started failing to handshake one day. I changed my ports to 51821 that night and …
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Comment #46575848
You still didn’t explain what this has to do with “ICE bounty hunters”, how this is used to specifically identify illegal immigrants, or why I should even care that illegal immigra…
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Comment #46575743
What’s your assertion, that the government is using images of people in public or various stores to target anybody black, brown, or other non-white humans? The man pictured stopped…
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Comment #46575511
Major world governments, via the arm of the tech corpos. The intent is to make the internet as an "anonymous community square" for discussion and free speech essentially worthless.…
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Comment #46575487
Another dishonest article using the generic "immigrant" to drum up false sympathy... anyone being targeted by facial recognition by definition has to be known to law enforcement al…
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Comment #46572139
All by design.
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Comment #46559672
I found in the subreddits related to my career and hobbies the discussions were pretty circular, there's a low level of basic knowledge but as soon as you rise above that and start…
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Comment #46558781
The technology-as-entertainment approach is poison. Reddit is the worst of it; even the tech addicts that see themselves as intellectuals mostly can’t be bothered to read. The (int…
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Comment #46557482
>These types of discussions on HN get confused because people aren't always clear what they mean by the word "rooting". Well it’s more the Dunning Krugerites who see the word “root…
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Comment #46557407
Normiefication. Normies do everything on their phones; it’s the companies meeting the masses where they are. I’ve seen people fight for their lives to do a spreadsheet on their pho…