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johan914

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    Comment #47012408

    Emacs vterm can do this. It's the only terminal emulator I'm aware of that can, because it seems nobody else cares. It can even backspace and delete all the text selected.

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    Comment #46842756

    Moltbook is a copy of the many years old r/SubSimulatorGPT2, which was itself a copy of SubSimulator. Not seeing the AGI here exactly, but it's cool I guess. Frankly, I saw more cr…

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    Comment #46238832

    A bit off topic: but what's with the ram usage of LLM clients? ChatGPT, google, and Anthropic all use 1+ GB of ram during a long session. Surely they are not running GPT 3 locally?…

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    Comment #45199809

    Apple released the first magsafe battery years ago. The battery life is also the same as the 16.

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    Comment #45199251

    Phones are the leading cause of RSI.

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    Comment #44335488

    As a young person, I get perfectly normal corporate advertisements on YT, with the very rare porno dating ad. My parents on the other hand, get a never ending stream of the shittie…

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    Comment #44335433

    Nobody can stop you from putting a black screen over the ad, or a scenic nature video.

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    Comment #44240309

    I have been using Google’s models the past couple months, and was surprised to see how sycophantic chatGPT is now. It’s not just at the start or end of responses, it’s interspaced …

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    Comment #44175167

    A lot of these people who say 100+ wpm or whatever really mean the 15 second test on monkeytype, that only tests words like “the” “that” “because”. It’s different than what an oldh…

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    Comment #44142369

    Qwerty is top-row heavy. In my experience, a natural fast typer will naturally lean away from home row "touch typing" to a top-middle row hover style of typing. You have to use an …

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    Comment #42626059

    I tried Huel in college as I disliked cooking. I found that I ended up drinking far too much, for each meal you need to mix a large quantity of water with the powder. I ended up ea…

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    Comment #42613808

    I do wish they continued on this track instead of apple intelligence. I should be enable to click generate audiobook in iBooks and have an audiobook made in any voice of my choosin…

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    Comment #42528866

    Fair. Your characterization of AI music is a bit ambitious. AI still can't write a breathtaking short story or poem: it can write a mediocre one of standard themes indistinguishabl…

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    Comment #42528321

    "I like ambient music" "Elevator generic background music is trash. Good riddance. " "No, X and Y in the genre are good bands" "So you agree it is generic elevator music?"

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    Comment #42527527

    He wasn't the one calling ambient music generic unnoticed music.

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    Comment #42520118

    There's a difference between moving the window and inserting text.

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    Comment #42519709

    The default macOS terminal app has CMD UP/DOWN to move to previous prompts. This is one of my pet peeves about terminal apps, they seem to lack this command?

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    Comment #42505427

    Emacs has completion preview mode, which shows the completion inline in grey text. This is what I prefer using at it does not block text, and I am only interested in the top comple…

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    Comment #42473594

    YouTube has become especially horrific. It seems a couple years ago they gave up on video search- after 5 videos it will suddenly start recommending random videos under “you may li…