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Comment #49220483
Most polluting power plant so far This race to the bottom will have plenty more to give us in the coming years.
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Comment #49215835
I'm not enough of a conspiracy nut to say the whole HF thing was a PR ploy from the start, but they are certainly milking it well. Open models are on their heels and their attempts…
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Comment #49180786
It is. MCP serves a single purpose: If you ask some company for API support for some stuff you can do via web UI but not API, they might say no for many reasons. But when you ask f…
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Comment #49180709
What hindsight, this was obvious from day one.
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Comment #49167008
> Is public opinion about this case so important to them? They have no chance to win the court case, so public opinion is the only thing they have left to fight for.
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Comment #49152174
Mapy.com does this and I often see and resolve these notes on streetcomplete. It's nice setup, they provide a suggestion and location, it takes little effort to check if you are wa…
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Comment #49144323
Looks handy. Feature suggestion: locked views so all three viewports rotate together.
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Comment #49112427
The code is also clearly all vibecoded. I think this is the usual we get these days: "Show HN: I built..." where in fact author did write neither the code nor the writeup.
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Comment #49089426
It was clear from the start (to anyone who ever designed a protocol [1]) that MCP was a pile anti-patterns. They are slowly undoing the mistakes one by one. Maybe next years versio…
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Comment #49060653
The images you are looking for: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3772318.3792784 Page 13, figure 16. Strange this is not in the article itself.
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Comment #49057019
Even more of a reason for good and easy backup and restore. Before travel back up the real contents and restore a dummy travel backup with random games, stock photos etc. Then rest…
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Comment #49036686
Codeberg is not software. Forgejo is, and remains FOSS. Codeberg provides a free service and is under no obligation to cater to cryptobros and vibecoders. You can buy a VM and host…
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Comment #49032023
You can also buy .is domains directly from the ISNIC registry. Or .de, .to, and few others support that. No registrar needed, they are useless middlemen anyway.
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Comment #49011430
From the prompt: > You should do a breakthrough This is just as funny and ridiculous as those "make no mistake" prompts.
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Comment #48976285
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/3a640e1c5e39aa... String concatenation SQL injection in the year 2026.
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Comment #48970196
Not taking it away. I hate those arguments "it has emdash therefore AI", of course humans also write that way. But poor and excessive usage of them is a pretty strong red flag, als…
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Comment #48967259
In last month or two I noticed semicolons getting used where previously it would be em-dash, in both cases excessively and often incorrectly. I assumed some of my coworkers added "…
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Comment #48894115
This reminded me a lot of Aphyr's interview series.
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Comment #48819547
Thank you! Is that a new feature? I have over a thousand contributions on StreetComplete (casually using it during walks) and somehow I never noticed that button.
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Comment #48783706
Realizing he's just using it to mean remote place in terms of AI bubble (Vancouver! What does that make all the other places that are not major tech hubs?) was a bummer. Who cares …
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Comment #48763579
I see this all the time in code reviews at work. Extremely verbose comments that teach the clueless author how things work but have no place in the final code: aside from codebase …
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Comment #48717340
> So imagine my surprise when I was notified that Google removed the article from its search results You know you can just read the linked articles, right? Edit: parent has edited …
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Comment #48686107
This comment is little abrasive but there is truth to it. I've seen many people who are quite competent under close supervision but completely clueless on their own. We could debat…