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pinkcan

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    Comment #36819446

    not a native speaker, but have been reading and writing english long enough to pick up the meaning immediately anyway, had the same though when typing my sibling comment, felt so d…

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    Comment #36819374

    thanks for clearing that up

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    Comment #36810953

    yea, it's just another one to add to a list of expressions that are unnecessarily aggressive, and for which there are better alternatives

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    Comment #36810839

    it's hip, they use hip tech and hired hip folks, so you know it's the place to be ;)

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    Comment #36810797

    what's up with the status page?

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    Comment #36810780

    DO, OVH, and Hetzner are more stable because they don't use buzzwords?

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    Comment #36810746

    monitoring means you might get called-in on your night-out who wants that?

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    Comment #36810334

    > a throat to choke yikes

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    Comment #36805508

    unless the intent of the code is to demonstrate some implementation where the optimisations would be distracting

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    Comment #36805453

    in order to reduce hallucinations one can use other tricks, chain-of-thought and reflection being two popular ones

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    Comment #36797322

    models are still having trouble reasoning – current tricks still depend of feeding back an intermediate answer with a different prompt, but it is still an LLM, and most times the s…

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    Comment #36797283

    that would be copilot not chatgpt

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    Comment #36767813

    parent gave five examples of issues they found while using a taxi in the manner you described you could have just believed them instead of being antagonistic about it, this is espe…

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    Comment #36762135

    > uses half the memory this is false > two orders of magnitude faster incorrect > doesn't let your users DOS you by triggering huge file reads on each request. I understood what yo…

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    Comment #36754754

    congratulations, you've optimised a snippet that never ran – it was typed into the post form from memory

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    Comment #36744158

    and how do you get access to the VPN? all VPNs need authentication and payments, otherwise your just connecting to another open network with the same issues as TOR. if you make pay…

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    Comment #36741467

    import flask import random app=flask.Flask() @app.route('/') def random_redir(): with open('urls.txt') as of: return flask.redirect(random.choice(of.readlines()))

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    Comment #36741426

    I guess I got lucky as it sent me to: https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

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    Comment #36734668

    "Exploring Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as a Potential Treatment for Addiction: Promising Results but More Research Needed"

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    Comment #36734510

    you could start by pushing all articles into a database; have another process quickly label/tag the entries based on the criteria you care about; web or tui app to show you only th…

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    Comment #36734483

    1. the script is generated by the llm 2. the user runs the script that does the scraping these are temporally separate actions

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    Comment #36734236

    what is tor adding to that setup?

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    Comment #36734229

    tailscale got a mini at home serving as an exit node set this up one time the it dep was being obtuse about fw rules, and locked us out of ssh, so we couldn't push to gh - amateur …

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    Comment #36729780

    anonymous/guest editing does not a wiki make

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    Comment #36717070

    > impactful against the users dude, what? People committed suicide the last time this shit happened. Maybe redirect your outrage at the company's executives?