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petethepig
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Comment #48510112
I got sent to immigration secondary while crossing the border in Amsterdam earlier this week because they were worried I was taking videos of their “military object” with my meta g…
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Comment #47077379
Is getting something like M3 Ultra with 512GB ram and doing oss models going to be cheaper for the next year or two compared to paying for claude / codex? Did anyone do this kind o…
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Comment #46985642
that's what i ended up doing — it was pretty easy: * download Warcraft II voices * tell claude to wire it all up
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Comment #46750709
I'm no EV expert, but I almost never use my EV's brakes — it mostly brakes using regenerative braking.
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Comment #45778335
funny i was recently picking between a glossy and nano texture screen and came to the opposite conclusion — the glossy screen’s image was so much more crisp, and i didn’t really se…
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Comment #45167745
I have terabytes of iphone photos/videos accumulated over the years. Apple Photos app is trash when it comes to handling large libraries so I’ve been splitting them by year which i…
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Comment #44674102
Many jobs aim to solve problems so well that there’s nothing left to fix — doctors curing illnesses, firefighters preventing fires, police reducing crime, pest control eliminating …
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Comment #44429335
Would love to see this in Cursor. My workaround right now is using a bunch of rules that sort of work some of the time.
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Comment #44327506
Not the first time i see such comparison being made, but it is the first time I see someone go into so much detail about it — great read.
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Comment #38553683
Hi all, wanted to share what we've been working on at Pyroscope. This is a ChatGPT based Flamegraph explainer. Analyzing flamegraphs can be challenging and we often get questions f…
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Comment #38254245
The robotic takeover has already begun; it's just more nuanced and less obvious at this stage.
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Comment #37679223
How much would you pay for a 20x20 inch piece?
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Comment #37676968
I did consider it, and I think you're exactly right RE the direction I would go into (colored wire, larger pieces, etc). But then I had a bunch of other things happen in life and s…
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Comment #37668756
hehe, if anyone's interested, I built a similar machine around 2018-2020 [1], although I never automated the nail pick-and-place part of the process. I also used epoxy instead of p…
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Comment #35489031
Reminds me of the episode from the Office: "why waste time say lot word when few word do trick" [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K-L9uhsBLM
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Comment #35172972
Dmitry here (Pyroscope cofounder) This sounds about right. My favorite little anecdote that I like to tell is that the first thing people often see when they add Pyroscope to their…
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Comment #34892876
This would be my guess as well. I work on Pyroscope, which is a continuous profiling platform and so I see a lot of profiles from various organizations. If you want to save the wor…
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Comment #34698226
I own airpods and I was just as confused.
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Comment #33293494
Great article and all but there's no way I'm going to remember any of it. I think I'm going to stick to "click different blending modes until it sort of looks right".
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Comment #32321146
I’d argue they got more coverage because they went down.