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ms_menardi

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    Comment #48813136

    Wow! The future is parallel.

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    Comment #48604358

    Increasingly, the "what do we have the most of?" questions will return "RAM" less and less often.

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    Comment #48507971

    make it multiplayer, I dare ya >:) (if you need this kind of motivation)

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    Anthropic is conditioning our minds

    anthropic financially rewards its users by encouraging them to use their software in a certain way. the slow learners, the thinkers, the multitaskers, they are penalized when they …

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    Comment #48365235

    I have like 40 projects that are 80% complete. I've been doing this in my spare time instead of a job. I wasn't trying to make a product. I was practicing. Please hire me?

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    Comment #48304585

    This is the most brilliant thing I've read all year. That note at the bottom... Amazing.

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    Comment #48142155

    if it's the lowest level available, then it's as close to "native" as we can get, so therefore it has to qualify, if we want to consider anything at all to be running "natively"

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    Comment #48125550

    Um... Are you referring to WSL? Wouldn't that be the linux kernel running under windows?

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    Comment #48071877

    > There is the Von Neumann method of generating an unbiased coin from a biased coin. Of throwing it twice, and checking if you got HT or TH. And completely discarding all HH or TT …

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    Comment #47725164

    I had this idea for a "drill" that I'd like to make someday. Basically it was a box with several tentacles snaking out of it. The tentacles would each have a drill on the end, and …

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    Comment #47712628

    I don't want the world, sounds like people would start bothering me all the time. I'd never get a moment to relax. But if I had the world, I'd do better with it than what we got.

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    Comment #47712589

    because they're not selling drinks, they're selling stimulants

  14. story
    Potential Anthropic Price Increases

    just charge more for users who use more. let the people who use it an average amount define the price. I'm talkin', exponential increases for going too high in usage. But, with war…

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    Comment #47685449

    so, basically, anthropic is rolling their own version of whatever secret models the military is working with. and they're licensing it to network security firms?

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    Comment #47522059

    If a kid lives on their own but their mom buys them groceries once per month and their dad swings by on thursdays with pizza and beer, that kid's still pretty darn self sufficient.…

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    Comment #47435598

    It could be an issue of discoverability too. Maybe they just haven't found the to-do app that does what they want, and it's easier to just... make one from scratch.

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    Comment #47434116

    This logic assumes that 35% of Americans WANT to rent their home. Which seems odd to me, if only for financial reasons - why would you pay 1400$ for a 1 bedroom apartment when you …

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    Comment #47434101

    And yet, gentrification.

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    Comment #47417940

    This is great! Two things I noticed immediately: the settings window overlaps with the minimap. I think it'd be neat if you could zoom? The reason I'd use this over a tiling window…

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    Comment #47346550

    The children of soldiers are not legitimate military targets. > ... in my opinion, the school was deliberately targeted because the students studying there were mostly the children…

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    Comment #47302152

    Water is free, it comes from the sky. energy is free, it comes from the sun. cotton is free, it grows from the ground. plastic is not free, there will never be more of it. I think …

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    Comment #47283467

    try asking claude to write in VB6. Make some Active Server Pages. Use COM components. Why not? We can do things "better" now, but what does that matter when you can do the same thi…