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labrador

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About labrador

Retired Silicon Valley engineer Native of Santa Cruz, live in San Jose mikeburns656@gmail.com

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    Comment #49139199

    better anyway: https://www.memeorandum.com/

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    Comment #49139161

    "We need to find smart people who will work 100 hours a week like Musk" "How do we do that?" "Let's ask them to tattoo our logo before we'll consider interviewing them" "brilliant.…

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    Comment #49099218

    I think the article mixed the two and I focused on the negative. Dissociation is seeing the world in 2D like watching a movie and mindfulness is being fully present in 3D with all …

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    Comment #49098605

    I wish it was nothing

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    Comment #49077797

    I spent months underwater on a US submarine and felt the same thing. Later the Navy pdoc labelled it dissociation, which is in the DSM. Common Types and Symptoms Depersonalization:…

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    Comment #48621395

    ID verification might be a path to allow restricted access to Fable (doesn't mention nationality yet), but I concluded I don't need Fable, which excels more at technical work, beca…

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    Comment #48455296

    Missing from Zitron's calculations is government ownership/bailout of American AI in national security interest and winning the race to AGI with China. Trump has been making noise …

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    Comment #48452726

    I've been a paid subscriber to Claude for a couple of years, but lately I've been reaching for the free Gemini app on my Android Pixel 9 because it's so good at doing searches as p…

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    Comment #48445218

    The SpaceX IPO will need a lot of true believers to launch successfully

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    Comment #48358609

    He was dead set against the mouse as well, preferring dedicated meta-keys to do the pointing That's what I was referring to

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    Comment #48341733

    Jobs did the right thing, which was to make an affordable Lisa for home computing. The simplicity of the mouse was essential. It's sounds like Jef had other ideas.

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    Comment #48222394

    You just made my sub text the text. Money makes the world go around. Who cares about values when there's money to be made?

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    Comment #48216720

    Musk said Anthropic Claude was woke DEI until he said it wasn't. It must be hard for Musk fans to keep up.

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    Comment #47890517

    John Donne said "No man is an island" but other poets and philosophers have said we are essentially alone in this world. I understand the first point, but experience the second, bu…

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    Comment #47890474

    Yes I agree. That's a better word and what I was hoping for. Thanks.

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    Comment #47890282

    As a anti-social person and a misanthrope, these are all tips for amateurs that assume you must be in a relationship with other people. This is not true. One can be a hermit and en…

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    Comment #47449739

    This is so obviously a vendetta against Anthropic. I will be extremely disappointed if Anthropic doesn't win this case.

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    Comment #47374601

    This is an amazing conversation. At 86 yrs old novelist Margaret Atwood blows us all away with her llm skills.

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    Comment #47360409

    Seems like a lot of busy work to me

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    Comment #47299144

    The way Sam Altman bungled the Pentagon deal by swooping in a few hours after Anthropic was fired should be grounds for OpenAI finding another CEO.

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    Comment #47256337

    They are on X as well

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    Comment #47240268

    I'm reposting this I saved from Hacker News user gjsman-1000 because it's so good and so true. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36060678 I really doubt that at this point. Deve…

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    Comment #47199011

    He had opened seventy-seven positions across sixty wallets, betting on our product announcements before they were public. Over three years. Total profit: sixteen thousand dollars. …

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