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lelanthran

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About lelanthran

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    Comment #49225743

    > Don't know how anyone can use YT without it. It's easy, we use FF :-)

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    Comment #49225712

    > The browser itself should ideally be handling ad blocking "The fox himself should ideally be guarding the henhouse"... I mean, you do realise that google has a conflict of intere…

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    Comment #49225692

    > Isn't Brave okay? Sure it is. I use both Brave and FF (FF more than Brave, TBH). Brave's builtin adblocker is pretty great as well.

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    Comment #49223202

    > Mostly because it's generally a bad idea for government to try to compete with a brand new tech industry with hundreds of billions in private capital developing commercial models…

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    Comment #49223174

    > Why phrase it "Chyna" when it's an actual legitimate concern? What's the concern with China?

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    Comment #49222814

    > Pretty sure suit and tie wasn't the dejour whilst they were doing it. It's totally wild that you think the only alternative to anime furries are suits and ties. Just what kind of…

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    Comment #49220840

    You think machines are a race? Where did you go to school?

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    Comment #49220837

    I keep requesting this here, but so far I haven't been given any links. There's probably a good reason for that.

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    Comment #49219962

    Is the revenue up by 2x or 4x?

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    Comment #49219935

    If he is unable to discern a difference, then a paying customer almost certainly won't. We're entering a market of lemons in software. It's going to be interesting indeed.

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    Comment #49219611

    > Lmao, any one else in favor of adding a coding test to be able to post in the subreddit to keep these non-hackers out You think I'm a non-hacker?

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    Comment #49219594

    > It's very similar to being an EM, and if you think EMs are useless, I don't think EMs are useless, I just think that you are naive if you think that LLMs can't do the EM work as …

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    Comment #49219091

    > I know a class of tech workers absolutely fired up about the new Industrial Revolution, That's because they're thinking that they're still going to get paid $200k/y for typing in…

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    Comment #49209134

    If you think that's racist then you're the reason people like trump win elections and the opposition loses.

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    Comment #49208735

    I'm quite sad that I have to disagree with you and agree with GP: if quality siftware mattered to people, Microsoft would have gone out of business a long time ago. If quality soft…

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    Comment #49207887

    > LLMs write better than anyone I've ever worked with If you're talking about prose, this is obviously false. All the LLM prose I see is so mentally fatiguing to read that I usuall…

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    Comment #49207839

    Yes. All beltsnstretch under tension over time.

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    Comment #49207493

    You dont actually need the pin

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    Comment #49206718

    FTFA > Attaching the timing belt while maintaining tension can be somewhat challenging Sounds like a bad design: no tensioner? How do you take up the slack as the belt ages?

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    Comment #49206678

    > DON'T BOIL THE WATER. Water that is hot, but well below boiling "Boiling" differs in temperature from place to place. Mineral content of water, altitude makes a large difference.…

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    Comment #49206586

    > try let it to get a brief of france history which being reading a while hit the button and then the brieft jump into my eye WTF is this?

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    Comment #49206422

    Did you try using the the talaas chat? Something stupid like 18k tokens/second. Think it's called Askjimmy or similar.

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    Comment #49206402

    > is hopeless overexaggeration. Most new models share significant numbers of their parts with the ones around them. I fix cars. The parts are changed in succeeding generations. I r…

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    Comment #49206355

    > You would need some strong supporting evidence to convince people of that. One would be any 6+ year old model of vehicles that sells as well as or better than any 5 year old or n…

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    Comment #49189462

    > You cannot trust the responses or webhooks at all. Well... yeah. I mean it's pretty obvious, no? Here's some things that could go wrong regardless of what care the software tries…