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ksherlock

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    Comment #48063549

    Somebody had fun with the web page. Any-who, --mono: "Berkeley Mono Trial", "Berkeley Mono", "IBM Plex Mono", "SFMono-Regular", Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Menlo, monospace; Berke…

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    Comment #48030853

    https://github.com/OldManYellsAtCode1/agi-up and the OG https://github.com/eviltrout/agi-upscale

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    Comment #48017511

    Scrotepad has a nice ring to it.

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    Comment #48017185

    Scenario: It's Friday night. You don't have to work tomorrow. Are you more likely to pull out your hammer and chisel and work on a classical marble sculpture -or- get shit faced at…

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    Comment #48003783

    Not a thing. eBay did a PayPal spin off in 2015.

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    Comment #47992853

    A lot of companies with satellites are based in California. Enough that every few years they talk about applying property taxes to satellites in orbit.

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    Comment #47992035

    Not to mention American adtech execs. If you think being blinded by oncoming halogens is bad, wait until they also burn ads into your retinas.

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    Comment #47982402

    I don't know if it was done in an afternoon, but... https://github.com/mist64/retro-ps Author: Claude, directed by Michael Steil .

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    Comment #47969552

    I'm thinking somebody got busted with grindr/tindr/whatevr on their phone and is now seeding "random app install" stories throughout the web to explain it away.

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    Comment #47966088

    The other answers (NO!) are correct, but... there was a gcc plug-in to use the llvm backend with gcc. Apple used llvm-gcc (circa 2012; gcc front end, llvm back end) while transitio…

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    Comment #47934075

    Why would a super intelligent robot do work for you? No, super intelligent robot will use it's superier intellect to convince YOU to do the dishes and the fold the laundry while it…

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    Comment #47929513

    unlocked gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-misses-key-revenue-user-t...

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    Comment #47922808

    Per WSJ, previously, they both had revenue sharing agreements. MSFT will no longer send any revenue to OpenAI. OpenAI will still send revenue to MSFT until 2030 (with new caps)

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    Comment #47917281

    This looks like a variation of the Peter principle. That is, your agent is a competent agent, so you give it more access. And you keep giving it more access until one day it's an i…

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    Comment #47907016

    A trick I learned in Ireland is to carefully count out your beans and stop when you hit 239. Because 1 more would be too farty.

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    Comment #47876661

    By default, strings needs a run of 4+ (printable|ascii) characters. This sounds like it was 1 ascii character at a time in a sea of random data (with other alpha chars removed).

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    Comment #47875966

    `M-x kill-emacs` low key slaps, no cap.

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    Comment #47834292

    Wow, I think this is flying under the radar. I've noticed the orange juice at my grocery store 1. seems kind of expensive and 2. is (almost?) entirely from brazil and from concentr…

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    Comment #47812965

    If you had a kid, would you tell him not to bother learning to read since he can just listen to audiobooks? Would you tell her not to learn math because she can just use a calculat…

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    Comment #47798199

    I came here to say that. Especially with the .io TLD instead of .ai

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    Comment #47783183

    8 years ago: Long Island Iced Tea Soars 500% After Changing Its Name to Long Blockchain https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15979024 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-1…

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    Comment #47760468

    The Sam Altman Molotov guy has been charged with ... attempted murder. I realize we're living in a day and age when people are put on trial (and acquitted!) for assault with a dead…