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Comment #49237247
Probably every language at once being expressed in the syntax of English.
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Comment #48944153
The dream is "I have an idea for some awesome software, I will set an army of lemmings out to do all the tough work of figuring out how it actually works". Well I do have an idea f…
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Comment #48943453
I don't understand how people are using AI. A lot of the time, what I want to build, doesn't have a succinct English sentence to describe it. If I describe the user requirement I j…
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Comment #48925756
Yeah, still write by hand. Even though the translation from English algorithm to code is the "boring" part that an LLM can do, the process of doing that works as a kind of REM slee…
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Comment #48509599
Maybe we could all pitch in on the most evil book ever, with instructions on how to do every possible horrible thing. Then there would be no reason to add all this censorship to th…
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Comment #48322860
Lots of copies of the Windows source code still on GitHub, which is problematic if you're interested in NT and want to contribute to Wine or something...hard to avoid running into …
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Comment #48226009
Usually when this type of thing happens, all the major players decide to do it at the same time.
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Comment #48219809
It's clearly smarter than any PhD and dumber than any ant.
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Comment #48166979
Yeah, you read it and expect the inversion to be inside-out or upside-down, defined in some hopelessly arcane way.
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Comment #48159065
Works well enough that 1800 cals a day satiates. Caffeine on its own doesn't cut it. I'm scared of intestinal motility sides from GLPs.
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Comment #48158398
Losing 5 pounds a month, 20 down and 10 to go.
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Comment #48156685
Ephedrine isn't banned, not even behind a prescription, there's just rather strict limits on how much you can buy a month. I take a Bronkaid every morning with my coffee.
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Comment #48133452
Hey, it forgot to change the README!
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Comment #48060724
What if it's a really good bit?
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Comment #48042839
Maybe soon there will be a market for a phone specifically for use as a dummy, to get past all this nonsense.
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Comment #47977463
"PERMISSION_SYSTEM" meaning you can bypass the VPN, with no option to override from the user, looks broken by design to me.
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Comment #47970708
Or place offhand comments on potential malicious uses of code, to freak it out.
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Comment #47944605
Interesting how so much money is wasted, likely because they put a period instead of a comma.
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Comment #47918139
Perhaps we could have one column of text that contains the content with no tone, and a second column of text that contains only the tone with no content.
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Comment #47917911
It would hide all comments in the thread, including this one.
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Comment #47592638
Why didn't they open the source themselves? What's the point of all this secrecy anyway?
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Comment #47446724
Hey, the user doesn't need a Google account, that's good. Still a danger of frog boiling but not as bad as I was expecting.
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Comment #47342579
Bring on the AI interviews. I can memorize all the trivia they want. At least then I have a fighting chance, otherwise it's no interview with no reason given. More productive to sw…
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Comment #47245986
Looks like a shoo-in for my next phone!