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marcd35

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About marcd35

https://github.com/marcd35

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49254760

    Reddit has already begun the effort to start poising the well - https://www.reddit.com/r/poisonai/

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    Comment #49240022

    That’s an interesting point and we have not really had a reliable dataset to qualify individuals as “professional gamer/streamer” vs a hobbyist. Their content publication history s…

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    Comment #48892909

    agree with all the above. i usually throw on brown noise/moving water youtube videos since the frequencies cancel out most distracting noises. one of my fav ambient music channels …

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    Comment #47676593

    probably not. the engineers dont even know how these things work (see: black box) so how could you even prove that its not doing what it's 'supposed' to be doing?

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    Comment #47676470

    so not only are the sycophantic, hallucinatory, but now they're also proven to be schizophrenic. neato.

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    Comment #47660943

    yeah but see the problem with abba is i just wanna get up and dance and not do any work

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    Comment #47592368

    > 250,000 wasted API calls per day How much approximate savings would this actually be?

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    Comment #47455882

    I agree with this point. There is absolutely a 'left behind' gap that is under-explored. My last job was a cable technician - making house calls to fix wifi, satellite tv, phone is…

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    Comment #47413232

    I'm one of the contributors for the Obsidian RSS reader ( https://github.com/amatya-aditya/obsidian-rss-dashboard ) and one of my first contributions to the project was adding in t…

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    Comment #47196758

    about as much as all the people who signed the petition to stop/slow the rate of ai advancement - nothing other than pointing to it in the future when all has gone to shit and say,…

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    Comment #47196735

    cool. now do something about the hundreds/thousands of people getting rate limited on Antigravity even after upgrading their plans, even on their $250 /month plan. https://discuss.…

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    Comment #47089609

    not OP and not sure of the book but if you're interested in material like this, check out Derek Sivers' work - usually revolves around stepping outside your comfort zone, exploring…

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    Comment #46950043

    I think this decision is more defensive than "losing touch with their customers." The winds are shifting in other countries that are cracking down on social media use for children.…

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    Comment #46925738

    ive never played before. i moved my guys around the map for 6 turns then they just disappeared. also cant figure out how to increase the scaling of the screen

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    Comment #46911612

    HN comments: 53 Comments on actual blog post: 0 Why are people so afraid to leave replies on the author’s OC

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    Comment #46911565

    Doesn’t this just exacerbate the “black box” conundrum if they just keep piling on more and more features without fully comprehending what’s being implemented

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    Comment #46900212

    Proceed, but unwillingly

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    Comment #46810377

    Thank you for the blog post! I live in New England and always had the winter blues, always just assumed it was because of the weather but never acted on it. About a week ago, there…

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    Comment #46785707

    something about giving full read write access to every file on my PC and internet message interface just rubs me the wrong way. some unscrupulous actors are probably chomping at th…

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    Comment #46785625

    5 Million years ago would be insane... but what about.. 5 BILLION years ago...

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    Comment #46770924

    funny story - I had a job recently that installed DirecTV setups for mostly retirement communities. On almost every service call, I'd show up and 95% of the time, without fail, the…

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    Comment #46769312

    While Qwen2.5 was pre-trained on 18 trillion tokens, Qwen3 uses nearly twice that amount, with approximately 36 trillion tokens covering 119 languages and dialects. https://qwen.ai…

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    Comment #46769293

    antigravity is solid and has a generous free tier.

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    Comment #46769138

    i'm no expert, and i actually asked google gemini a similar question yesterday - "how much more energy is consumed by running every query through Gemini AI versus traditional searc…