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quirk
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About quirk
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Ask HN: How do you manage bad artifacts?
We use a repo called business-ops that has read-only codebase access, dropbox access, and g-suite access, along with all our brand/sales/marketing stuff. We use Cursor to work in h…
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Comment #48316215
Dude I loved CDBaby. And yes, even 4 years is kind of a short time to be successful (profitable, sustainable).
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Comment #48217056
Came here to say this. The Space Trilogy is one of the best series I've ever read. That Hideous Strength reminds me a LOT of what's happening these days. Even moreso than 1984. Wou…
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Comment #48099212
An idea I'd like to see: 100 ways to think about God. Book and/or podcast. Bring on expert biographers. Research how Aristotle, Pascal, Lincoln, CS Lewis, etc thought and wrote abo…
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Comment #47706370
This is so full of holes I don't even know where to start. But the main one is that you have a false dichotomy in assuming that individual success and "helping everyone do better" …
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Comment #47404644
False positives would be way better than worthless. They'd give AI bot mods a fighting chance. If you don't think AI generated writing is detectable, ask Google how they were able …
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Comment #47404542
Horrific events happen almost every hour of every day. This is political, and the events that are upvoted are always from the same political perspective. If you don't see this, you…
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Comment #47404453
The best fix I've made to any voice-mode AI is giving it a "done" word. So it has to listen for "pineapple" before it's allowed to process what I said. Just like radio comms (over …
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Comment #47342350
Came here to say this.
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Comment #47342322
I'm sure someone's working on a way to tell the difference programmatically. Maybe a combo of tone, grammar, and some way of telling how fast it was typed using metadata (which may…
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Comment #47312646
I don't think that one's even on the list of top 1,000. It's incredible how hard we try to avoid hard things.
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Comment #47312622
Who built it?
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Comment #47209613
There is another, deeper level of happiness, not mentioned in any of these comments. Around 62% of the US population has found it. That number used to be higher. In the tech world …
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Comment #46623860
https://adamcquirk.com/videos/ - I made videos on the internet 20yrs ago.
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Comment #46602315
A recent X thread by UK MP Andrew Bridgen compiles quotes from 16 scientists who previously worked with or contributed to IPCC reports. The statements accuse the IPCC of: deliberat…
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Comment #45303476
Is Harvard the top university for mining research though? I assumed it would be Texas A&M or Purdue or something like that.
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Comment #45108282
The fact that they are using Wikipedia for a primary data source exempts them from any further serious consideration.
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https://lomborg.com/
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Comment #44675424
Notorious for dropping packets.