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serf

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    Comment #49223361

    Mine too. That and 'adult humor' joke books that were big in the 60s.

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    Comment #49221695

    Well yeah, probably -- during this self made crisis oil prices in the US are some of the most well controlled. Destabilizing everywhere else is a potential step taken toward achiev…

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    Comment #49218173

    > not your $100/month.. This is made brutally obvious by anthropics customer support for people with such accounts.

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    Comment #49210715

    My dad speaks loudly on speakerphone phones in restaurants and public spaces daily because he's a rude old asshole. No one beside myself has ever told him to stop because I think b…

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    Comment #49210476

    Great, I'm glad we settled this once and for all this so that I don't have to shoulder any more blame from Europeans about trump being president.

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    Comment #49204280

    How to get things done with prompts, for one ; a skill that's looking increasingly useful as time goes on.

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    Comment #49187181

    'Help me but don't patronize' is a tall order without some real linguistic gymnastics.

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    Comment #49187112

    All of the legislation and regulation and infrastructure in the world is not going to get rid of stairs everywhere. Medi cal, medicare, and private insurance have all chipped in fo…

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    Comment #49183554

    Yeah, and the hope is that AI will accelerate all of that, too.

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    Comment #49183534

    It's a famous way to phrase rebuttals , famously political ones, and it's been used about a trillion times.

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    Comment #49176882

    These mysteries and more are hidden in the article. >Despite struggling with what she believed to be undiagnosed and unmedicated ADHD, which forced her to study harder and more met…

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    Comment #49174012

    War is one of the most high tech and technologically interesting things humans do, and is often the first place that truly state of the art abilities are showcased. It's not hard f…

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    Comment #49172047

    I don't think these kind of language struggles are as minor as you paint them, especially around regulation and law-making. a well understood and unified spoken language is the key…

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    Comment #49161574

    seems like at that point it'd be a bigger benefit for LinkedIn to provide the one and only model trained to subvert the human capability to detect slop using that new negative corp…

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    Comment #49161560

    fine but please realize that also just pushes people away from caring about the comment section at all, too. I can only read so many (either pro OR against) ".. IT'S AI! ! !" comme…

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    Comment #49161409

    you're right, but flipped on its' head it also means that a well-meaning FOSS project may not ship out a zero-day in the future that affects half the planet at once. now we'll just…

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    Comment #49157622

    mentally I associate all that stuff with the punk/hardcore/post-punk thing rather than nazis anyway -- but all those groups were known for copying nazi aesthetic in a mocking tone.…

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    Comment #49150607

    for high effort MCPs I see the reason. Big MCPs take major tokens to produce and test (if you're just telling an LLM to handle it) , it's nice if there is a high quality well teste…

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    Comment #49146984

    5% of btc users use a hardware wallet and Cardkite wasn't even in the top 5 MFGs as far as i'm aware. also as far as I care the btc community members who chose to go with one of th…

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    Comment #49146453

    >and its will confidently tell you it’s found the best setup when it’s only turned a few knobs. on one hand , yeah : a model being more aggressive towards exploration of the decisi…

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    Comment #49146236

    you don't really need screenshots if you have an engine expressive enough for the scene generation while ensuring the visual appearance of the engine output itself is feasible. tha…

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    Comment #49134695

    I didn't use the feature, so I don't know if it was capable of this, but the thing you describe sounds potentially useful for land developers or folks trying to conceptualize build…

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    Comment #49134228

    energy might be the wrong metric, plenty of energy was wasted spinning up that LLM.

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    Comment #49114234

    the ambiguity of the belligerent in cyber warfare and the near free cost to entry will always be a benefit to people drumming up support against any group. kind of thing where a th…

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    Comment #49102778

    I use local models like qwen to do refactoring; the code and concept already exist, they need refining. I use sota models for concept, implementation plans, and initial deployment.…