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Comment #48765144
I'd say it's cultural. Stiff upper lip and all that. It would be impolite or even confrontational to complain about something, so you have a little moan instead. A common response …
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Comment #48764543
Their comment is even funnier considering the sudden rise of Farage and Friends. Their attempts to claim culture is governed by strong borders is also hilarious when an hour's driv…
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Comment #48764165
I feel this post is also an example of the the British past time of having a moan. It's a stereotype that Brits can be miserable and complain a lot, but the truth is most of us jus…
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Comment #48764035
I'm guessing this is very context/region dependant. Calling someone a nonce as a bit of banter would be more acceptable than calling them a paedophile when I was growing up. I assu…
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Comment #48763879
Arsed. Both are used in my experience, though arsed seems more common. Could be regional.
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Comment #48762282
There's a rather large and easily understood difference between wanting to preserve your Britishness in the face of the Americans, and joining Lennon-Yaxleys band of gammon faced f…
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Comment #48762238
The majority like it, though there's always a debate about the correct preparation method. I've always felt like a bit of an outsider whenever a brew is offered and I ask if they h…
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Comment #48762165
The fact you think he's afraid may be a signal that you also aren't a Brit.
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Comment #48551891
Neuro-sama has been a thing for quite a while, and is much more interesting than ChatGPT in a waifu suit. https://youtube.com/channel/UCLHmLrj4pHHg3-iBJn_CqxA
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Comment #48423024
I'd love to read a full transcript of someone going through this kind of collaborative programming. I see this kind of process mentioned a lot but can't quite figure out the detail…
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Comment #47422665
What makes it humiliating? To me, it's just words, a little childish but still. I'm a Brit though, and I feel we have a much more lax attitude to swearing over here.
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Comment #47319545
The tech doesn't sound that interesting at all. Every AI Degen thread on 4chan and similar has included model fine tuning instructions for a few years now, for the express purpose …
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Comment #47119312
This is completely ignoring the most common reason for not having children that I've heard amongst friends and family: "I can't afford a house, I'll never be able to afford kids."
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Comment #40613641
It's not about testing it with your eyes, but about where the shrapnel might end up if things go very wrong.
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Comment #40472851
Searching for '"AD friendly" email' brings up another temporary email service that this appears to be a clone of ( https://huo.fo/ ), and this hackernews post with you asking what …
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Comment #40323654
Nearly all modern arcade cabinets just have regular PCs in them.
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Comment #37966350
Streaming from console or gpu driver addon trash is normally as simple as clicking a link and/or logging in to the site.
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Comment #37386956
The one in the tweet doesn't look a whole lot better.
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Comment #35768240
Labour are regularly referred to as Tory-lite and with the way it's being run by Keith people feel it's just the Tory party but in red.
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Comment #35161622
>How long until someone comes forward genuinely in romantic love with an LLM? People fall in love over the internet all the time. Maybe this time it's not a real person. This has b…
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Comment #34875737
Sponsorblock is pretty good for avoiding those, too.
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Comment #34847714
He does some processing on the area of the footage with the crt's to make them look nicer on video. You can't actually see the screen, it's just a square the same size as the monit…
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Comment #34829706
This came out recently and shows it well I feel. 2 producers, same vocal software, distinctive sounds between them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMEt3RdqB9Y
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Comment #34752999
He compared taking ecstasy to riding a horse in terms of danger. It's one of many things that led to him being sacked.
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Comment #34461532
It's easy on Windows, just winkey+.