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mysterydip

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About mysterydip

Computer scientist by day, indie gamedev by night. http://elusivegames.com

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    Comment #49211783

    That’s exactly what an AI prompted to reply to AI accusations would say!

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    Comment #49159338

    Some people think that the only ones downsized were the “dead weight”, so therefore, with them and their bureaucracy out of the way, the remaining people will be faster and better …

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    Comment #49134035

    Unless the watermark is a giant “This is fake” diagonally across the center of the image, everything will get shared virally in the 3 second attention span of doomscrolling without…

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    Comment #49097568

    I finally found a brand+model of jeans that I liked. I don’t have to buy pants/trousers often, so of course the next time I went to buy some it had been discontinued by the manufac…

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    Comment #49097513

    What do you use as “ground truth”? The page says “independent sources”, and I’m sure there’s too many to list, but my question is how are they vetted as being truthful and how are …

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    Comment #49058228

    AI crawlers, famous for respecting robots.txt ;)

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    Comment #49058098

    Something like this: https://github.com/CoolNamesAllTaken/adsbee

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    Comment #49049298

    > Avoid use in operations. Oops

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    Comment #49033939

    I think they’re saying that you could say “I’m going for a smoke break” at work and it was at least tolerated. I don’t think you can say “I’m going for a walk” the same way.

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    Comment #49030078

    I love your design! I used it in a prototype BBS game playable on the web :)

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    Comment #49030030

    something like this? https://kristopolous.github.io/BOOTSTRA.386/v2.3.1/

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    Comment #49029950

    see you again in 2028

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    Comment #49006458

    It would be ridiculous if stock prices jumped or dropped just from a single message by someone! :)

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    Comment #49006430

    I was going to say, I could see them releasing a grill styled like one of their vehicles, but they probably aren’t keen to have more associations of their stuff with being on fire …

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    Comment #48946228

    Bit of an understatement: “The displayed billing estimates do not reflect actual usage and charges.”

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    Comment #48915189

    1 byte files? I guess there’s only 256 options, someone probably copyrighted them :)

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    Comment #48914253

    The golf industry prefers daylight savings: https://gbej.org/golf-industry-fights-to-preserve-daylight-s...

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    Comment #48873716

    It seems like we were on a line of steady progression in features and usability through the 80s and 90s, then basically peaked for a lot of software by the 2000s. Once every featur…

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    Comment #48867196

    Coming in for a landing on a flight recently, I was amazed at the contrast I saw between a housing development of 50+ homes and a golf course across the road that took up the same …

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    Comment #48861859

    That top reply made me laugh out loud: “>Glad it turned out well. >Wonder what the Ryanair social media team is going to do with this one Ryanair introducing new additional charge …

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    Comment #48861801

    or (to put it in an IT context) backup and DR services/hardware.

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    Comment #48850550

    maybe they asked chatgpt about it :)

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    Comment #48797564

    I daily drove it in the 2000s, and loved it. Later I used it for my server VMs due to the small memory footprint and fast remote response. If it supported current applications, I’d…

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    Comment #48782297

    Not to mention logistics. It’s easy to support one of something. Supporting spares, upgrades, obsolescences, etc (plus documentation and training) for hundreds of drones across the…

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    Comment #48741065

    Ah that makes sense, thanks!