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mulr00ney

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    Comment #49109898

    "I have actually heard otherwise intelligent people say things just like that" I think that is the indicator.

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    Comment #48587479

    If vibey readmes are for LLMs like the other comments suggest, they should be banished to a folder where it's clear they're just for a robot so I don't have to look at them. The RE…

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    Comment #48466213

    Seems to be hijacked the video of some game they generated. :(

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    Comment #48397659

    > You go to a university because you are deeply interested in understanding the subject that you study. Doing the homework and the tests are just the "goalposts" to check for yours…

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    Comment #48269866

    Yeah, it's 100% the better term. We've got rules against using engineer here in Canada though several companies I've worked for have called me an engineer. Apparently Professional …

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    Comment #48266918

    Engineers versus "engineers". I have fond memories of a boss who was an actual, licensed engineer while the rest of us were very much normal software devs. Boss was pretty chill ex…

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    Comment #48198584

    >is bad for the environment, is bad for society Can't it be those too?

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    Comment #47963421

    Downvoted because I was flippant about the American comment (because it was _insane_)

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    Comment #47962820

    >It is not up to you to deprive anyone their right to use them. Why is it a right? >Are you going to go after car cameras next? No. A car cannot follow me into a building very easi…

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    Comment #47867065

    I think the `e` looks better in the 'real pixels' example they gave; I find my tends to 'fill in' the space of the top part of the letter, and I suspect in the context of a longer …

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    Comment #47865754

    > And when the EU/Australia/China.. tries to regulate punish those corps, suddenly everyone comes out on HN to explain protectionism, overreach, some -ism, and "actually we need to…

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    Comment #47792098

    > if you edit those [LLM tropes] out, or ignore them, you can’t really argue that the writing produced by these models is objectively ‘bad’ any more. > or ignore them If you ignore…

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    Comment #47660575

    > Unfortunately many believe they can, and it is impossible to disprove. So now real people need to write avoiding certain styles, because a lot of other people have decided those …

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    Comment #47573412

    >I don’t want more “leverage to build and ship”, I want to live in a world where people aren’t so disconnected from reality and so lonely they have romantic relationships with a ch…

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    Comment #47506847

    >The time saved matters, but the real unlock was the mental overhead removed. Every PR used to be a small context switch: stop thinking about the code, start thinking about how to …

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    Comment #47048802

    Go back to Linkedin.

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    Comment #46891626

    >Like...jesus, I expected more/better from folks who digest mathematical proofs and Arxiv papers for funsies, yet so many people here just cannot think critically about complex iss…

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    Comment #46801408

    >No one reads books for entertainment anymore, because paper is an inferior entertainment platform There are more forms of entertainment and people have diversified how they spend …

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    Comment #46301730

    > Esquire writing is so weird. It’s genuinely like a relic from another age. I agree: but to me that's at least something kind of interesting and evocative, even if it's a trainwre…

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    Comment #46231874

    Had CI fail a few times this morning pulling stuff from repos. Seems to have resolved. EDIT: Nevermind, it's still having issues EDIT 2: Now showing as "We are investigating a rise…

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    Comment #46231452

    > The question is I don't mean to be a dick, but no, the question was what is a reasonable cause to bash someone if it's not disliking what they do. I don't know if these weird Soc…

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    Comment #46231031

    What would be a resaonable cause to bash them, in your view, if not disliking what they do? I don't think we should hate them or show them hatred. I don't think that if you're work…

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    Comment #45505392

    Thanks for the insight - learned something here. Didn't know about the hacker, that's pretty upsetting.

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    Comment #45504504

    > In fact, not only protestors but people who donated to the protest got their bank accounts seized. As far as I can tell accounts were frozen, not seized. Do you have a reference …