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Comment #42329178
Ask an LLM to write it?
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Comment #41651882
All the interesting bones are hidden in the Smithsonian.
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Comment #38356360
It’s just an anecdote but I quit a job because the CEO fired an extremely good manager that I worked with. If a company has issues, a good person getting fired can lead to a mass e…
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Comment #38243935
The chances of this happening before your project is obsolete are pretty slim. Edit: it depends on what you mean by "bites the dust". If you mean "isn't cool anymore" then I'd say …
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Comment #38106746
Try searching for anything related to a recently released video game. Chat gpt spam has made it completely impossible. Even the reputable wikis are pushed down far enough to become…
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Comment #37981638
Have you tried working with recruiters? In my experience applying directly might as well be sending your resume directly into a black hole. If you turn on the “looking for work” se…
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Comment #37816837
Try a keyboard running QMK firmware. You can map a single key to multiple codes depending on the length of the key press. I use caps lock as escape if released immediately, and con…
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Comment #37807798
Are you hiring? I'm looking for a job that will allow me to explore my passions. My passions are: video games, anime, and watching youtube videos about video games and anime.
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Comment #37442775
Not only that, you could see it in the middle of the day. After witnessing that I understood why ancient people considered them an act of god.
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Comment #37330514
The proliferation of LLM spam websites has made it completely impossible to search for any video game related information. Every search returns hundreds of sites with the same garb…
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Comment #37196046
There’s a website called mynoise that has a bunch of noise generators. No algorithms required.
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Comment #37180060
Probably bundling the server side dependencies into the client. I’ve also seen this happen when people add uncompressed 4k png images and the build tool is configured to inline all…
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Comment #36400964
It’s because of yield. More pixels per panel means more panels ruined by dead pixels.
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Comment #36285284
That’s interesting, I’ve been on vyvanse for five years now and never felt any of the telltale signs of dependency (which I am familiar with). I had to stop taking it for a month o…
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Comment #36182954
No, the book does.
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Comment #35999685
Have you ever worked with redux saga? It’s exactly what you’re describing.
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Comment #31531086
"Just" sending it overseas to be coded is more likely to end in failure than success, unless you have a lot of experience and know what the pitfalls are (which is a very expensive …
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Comment #31472433
Counter anecdote: I lived in the tropics for 10 years and met many people with tans and acne.
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Comment #31149598
That’s exactly it; I don’t expect the technology to be sufficiently discriminate.
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Comment #31113965
I believe weaponized drone swarms should be categorized with chemical weapons, cluster munitions, etc. A few thousand drones carrying shrapnel explosives and trained to recognize h…
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Comment #30679883
I’ll address the elephant in the room; I think that at this time, the use case for this with the widest potential for adoption is VR porn. I would very much like to see how well th…
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Comment #29903020
I can’t tell if this is satire or not…
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Comment #29799658
It's important to use precise language when talking about addiction. It sounds like you're interpreting "addiction" as "habit forming", whereas I believe GP means "physical depende…
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Comment #29774322
Maybe life is just an efficient way to increase entropy and thus it will arise wherever the requisite conditions are available.
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Comment #29735093
A/S/L?