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pilgrim0

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    Comment #49111422

    Also share the icky for greasy sunscreen. But there are some with a matte dry texture that not only serves the purpose but also make your skin looks nicer, since it levels out thos…

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    Comment #48987020

    > The shape of the solution only becomes obvious once you treat the system as a product and define the requirements honestly. The “honest” part is the important one. It’s also the …

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    Comment #48986956

    The path of virtue requires we recognize and appreciate the grace that lies in being humbled by our own stupidity.

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    Comment #48986926

    It’s because of cowardice. Discussing emotions entails being exposed to some degree, but this strain of so called rationality seems rather to be about distancing oneself from the s…

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    Comment #48968358

    Blender does open in a blink, it is scary how good it is. I share the exact same perception as yourself. In comparison, sometimes I need to use Fusion 360, and its performance is a…

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    Comment #48905544

    I think going from horses to cars is one thing, and going from cars to supercars is a whole other thing. We don't see F1 races and go: "Anyday now I'm going to commute to work in a…

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    Comment #48905342

    But "code" is still the core substrate of your production, right? And you probably output even more of it. So how is it that you barely code anymore? One could say you're coding wa…

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    Comment #48903542

    The very question is biased toward the idea that “something is coming”, as if we’re heading to some technological inevitability. I don’t see it happening. This whole “it’s coming” …

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    Comment #48903386

    Extracting structured data from PDFs is something people have been doing forever, way before LLMs, there are state of the art OCR tools out there you can use as a lib, it’s hardly …

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    Comment #48870329

    Couldn’t all of them be right, though? In the sense that every technology associated with the functioning of the universe had a systemic, spatiotemporal and evolutive dynamic, whic…

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    Comment #48792408

    In the day and age of tweets that move entire markets, countries that have official online profiles and use them as a major mean of public communication, Wikipedia policies feel so…

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    Comment #48792366

    It’s also intriguing how an academic article read by no one would pass as valid source but an YouTube channel with multiple videos about the thing reaching millions of people acros…

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    Comment #48600206

    The landing page is the worst place to get in touch with the reality of the product. Take a STEAM store page, it says nothing interesting about the game, doesn’t even has a gamepla…

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    Comment #48566466

    Could they have treated subsidies to inference as a sales and marketing expense, though?

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    Comment #48561492

    What I find curious is that a machine replacing manual work is a new device in the environment, but LLMs are not new a device, they’re a feature on the device, the device still is …

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    Comment #48523278

    The issue with tauri is handling big blobs, you either have to serialize them between processes or serve them to the webview via tcp. Albeit dangerous if done wrong, Electron can b…

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    Comment #48091497

    Get real, kepano. You’re overestimating the consciousness of most casual users. Having godmode, RCE-capable plug-ins behind few safety warnings that most people will happily ignore…

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    Comment #48091387

    Web stack plus lack of resources to architect the proper interfaces is my guess. These are software written in high level js frameworks, thus using poor dataflow patterns by defaul…

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    Comment #48000832

    remapping capslock to esc is something nobody whom i've shamed into doing can go back from. it's just night and day. i've been thinking lately that the reason we need hjkl is vim i…

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    Comment #47930779

    Swimming in borrowed or imaginary cash without any hope of paying it back in the foreseeable future.

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    Comment #47911536

    Who the hell let agents directly use a database? Even humans don’t get this privilege. So, of all things, we forgot how to write APIs now? The article suggests creating a role for …

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    Comment #47911426

    The same applies to the south. It’s shocking to read tales of people spending hundreds of dollars monthly with coding agents, that’s wholly impossible for the vast majority of devs…

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    Comment #47902121

    I’m also in this camp. There’s nothing better than to be lost in your own flow. However, I find these moments to be richer when someone is silently tinkering besides you, in sort o…

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    Comment #47867508

    Like others mentioned, letting the agent touch the code makes learning difficult and induces anxiety. By introducing doubt it actually increases the burden of revision, negating th…

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    Comment #47827604

    Adobe won’t be hurt by this in the professional market because they have inter-app compatibility and a somewhat consistent language, plus you need their software to work with legac…