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shwouchk

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    Comment #44431019

    > bloated Electron apps that just about everyone on the planet has installed on their computers i guess im the one guy left that has neither edit:quote

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    Comment #44428293

    i dont know what all the hype is with gemini 2.5, at least the currently running instance. from my experience at least in conversation mode, it cannot remember my instructions to a…

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    Comment #44400628

    saw this post last night and tbh thought it a bit weird since initially it was described by author as “alternative to emailing yourself” - like, really? after 20 years of dropbox? …

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    Comment #44365247

    i was replying to “install your preferred editor on the remote” - without syncing your config, you might as well just use vim even if it’s not your favorite. most of my remote edit…

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    Comment #44361787

    use sshx remote

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    Comment #44361778

    installing an editor on the remote sure works - my mention of vim was not an accident, it is my preferred remote editor. some of us are bitextual ;-) - but then you lose the seamle…

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    Comment #44357887

    tramp is great. all the other mentioned solutions are nowhere near as seamless for “just do what i want, without distractions”. vscode? “trust me bro, i will run a networked daemon…

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    Comment #44243863

    this is already happening in full force. sota models are already poisoned. leading providers already push their own products inside webchat system prompts.

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    Comment #44227301

    g has been demanding a valid phone for years, as have most other major providers. if you lose the number you sign up with, you can potentially get locked out of the account. whats …

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    Comment #44198246

    haven’t used claude code directly, but at least through copilot ive seen it read my makefile, extract the command, and run it directly after modifications. telling it to use make h…

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    Comment #44194806

    thats how b&m food distribution often works: vendors pay for shelf space. that’s how barbers works: they pay for a chair. that’s how many professions works. you pay for access to c…

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    Comment #44194783

    actually, many grocery chains in many parts of the world charge vendors for shelf space, and the vendors choose what to place on those shelves.

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    Comment #44167367

    yes, you right. im not helpless and all the new ai tools make this even easier.

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    Comment #44167324

    and yet you're here https://xkcd.com/386/ you have absolutely no idea how i gleaned and/or verified this information, nor tried to ascertain it. moreover the specific thing we are …

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    Comment #44167221

    try to find a date on a dating app, you will experience firsthand

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    Comment #44167072

    im sorry to say, i think this boat has sailed. it is already widely used as you fear. to me it seems like the best scenario is to go along and try to at least make it a force of go…

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    Comment #44122863

    signing it is effectively the same thing. question is how to prove that what you hashed is what was there?

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    Comment #44121723

    warc is not a panacea; for example, gemini makes it super annoying to get a transcript of your conversation, so i started saving those as pdf and warc. turns out that unlike most w…

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    Comment #44121561

    sign it with gpg and upload the sig to bitcoin edit: sorry, that would only prove when it was taken, not that it wasn’t fabricated.

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    Comment #44121554

    i was considering a similar setup, but i don’t really trust extensions. Im curious; - Do you also archive logged in pages, infinite scrollers, banking sites, fb etc? - How many ent…

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    Comment #44121506

    You obviously know enough to stake your reputation on the line, anon

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    Comment #44121489

    this might be true in the future. right now a lot of the “architecture” is directly built into the prompt. even in the future, the model that is directly responding to you will lik…

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    Comment #44113551

    Very interesting, thanks for sharing! FWIW gemini explicitly told me that it ranks question difficulty from 1 to 100 and depending on the bin allocates more or less resources to an…

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    Comment #44103207

    safari still supports it on mac

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    Comment #44102963

    dynamic variables (esp default) when you are collaborating with many people. when you you know the code well they are incredibly useful