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rob

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    Comment #49221551

    Oh no, I get to pay $11/month (after trading in my 15 Pro Max) with 0% interest for a new iPhone 17 and return it for another new one in a couple of years, or buy it outright at th…

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    Comment #49195107

    I need to go look up the CEO of my refrigerator, dishwasher, couch, car, cell phone, TV, shirt and jeans, and oat milk to see if they said anything I disagree with on social media …

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    Comment #49109675

    As the great Nas once rapped: No idea's original, there's nothing new under the sun It's never what you do, but how it's done

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    Comment #49011276

    Because they didn't write all the code by hand? Seems like an odd measurement for determining if a project is ambitious or impressive. Clearly this one is based on the replies here…

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    Comment #49011116

    It's also the name of a CMS from PBS that's been used for years: https://docs.pbs.org/space/B3/4751362/Bento+3.0

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    Comment #49007074

    That's very true.

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    Comment #49006767

    Good idea; I'll make sure we have all random ?date=1970-01-01, ?date=1970-01-02, all the way to ?date=2026-07-22 URLs cached, even the ones that are 404s but the crawlers still try…

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    Comment #49006287

    Agreed; we have a Linode VPS for some small WordPress websites and it was grinding to a halt after an AI crawler started iterating through every possible date in "The Events Calend…

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    Comment #49005598

    You don't have to change it just because one person complained. I personally like the "copy and paste curl command" to install something and I'm sure many others do as well. It's v…

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    Comment #49000287

    Being an early adopter to something like this as an advertiser can probably make you a lot of money. Reminds me back in 2006 when we were running MySpace layout websites and making…

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    Comment #48962053

    I have a subscription. If I don't have anything to do at the moment I don't use it. I don't think I need to set a timer every five hours and come up with tasks to do just to use my…

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    Comment #48922233

    What's with this "harness" word people have been trying to adopt lately? Are we all going rock climbing?

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    Comment #48843153

    Sure ya do buddy, me too.

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    Comment #48843091

    People are going to copy GitHub the way people copied Facebook… how is "Threads" doing again?

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    Comment #48805567

    There has to be some sort of "/humanize-text" skill they can pass the output to before publishing.

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    Comment #48645392

    Getting consistent "API Error: 500 Internal server error" messages in Claude Code right now (10:20 AM EST)

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    Comment #48587275

    "Teknium" was also defending things on X like a Polymarket skill being pre-installed and stuff. Seems like both projects are a bit unprofessional in terms of leaders. Hermes just t…

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    Comment #48587219

    Does Hermes still come bundled with a Polymarket skill enabled by default? https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/reference/skills-...

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    Comment #48587153

    Yep, here's the v2 and v3: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 It's almost instant on my new M5 Max w/ 36GB of mem…

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    Comment #48585883

    You have to enable "Experimental Features" under "Advanced." This is the prompt I use (it's probably overkill and can be condensed): https://pastebin.com/raw/RUVAqLCU