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sixhobbits

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About sixhobbits

https://dwyer.co.za | https://twitter.com/sixhobbits | github.com/sixhobbits

Building https://ritza.co. Technical publishing for your company. gareth@ritza.co

"Open invitation: if you're reading this, I'm happy to receive email about any software/startup/etc topic from you at any time" - contact me on Twitter or by email.

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    Not sure why people are so negative about this, macbooks only really last a few years under heavy use anyway and most small businesses would love to pay $100/employee/month to make…

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    Comment #49208078

    yes this is 100% AI, the article and the 'post mortem'. People are so gullible. Anyone who has read a lot of AI can spot it instantly, but Pangram also says 99% of this is AI. So m…

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    Comment #49172630

    [off topic] I'm a writer too and I know people have to make their money but - Huge subscribe CTA at top - In-text subscribe CTA - scroll through that get pop up in your face full p…

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    Comment #49142122

    they change the elevators configuration depending on peak hours, or if one of the others is out of order then the express becomes a normal one again.

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    Comment #49131586

    Not sure how common it is but Bern train station has 3 elevators, usually 2 are set to normal and one to "express" which means all middle floors (mainly parking) are locked and you…

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    Comment #49117965

    Yes the prompt "only output ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English" does the same thing as the skill. But it's very useful and skills is a good way to share promots, so whatever. …

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    Comment #48996844

    I've been running k3 on a single bigger hetzner dedicated machine to power https://demo.opensuite.online , a work-in-progress open source replacement for Google Workspace, a distri…

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    Comment #48962400

    This seems kinda backwards, as far as I know charities and donation schemes are overwhelmed by clothing donations. Our problem isn't that we are destroying clothes that could be us…

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    Comment #48933068

    Loved my oneplus2, the rest were mediocre at best. Went from great value hardware with open, minimalist software to overpriced hardware and shitty bloated software. Great example o…

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    Comment #48890175

    We already have tags for PDF and Video so I could definitely see one for [LLM] working! Generally I'd appreciate a top level comment from the submitter saying this is LLM generated…

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    Comment #48865697

    because if you don’t put this disclaimer the top comment is always "Acthually this isn't real science because you didn't publish your P value" so you can't win. also the article it…

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    Comment #48865415

    This is a scene in Catch22 IIRC where they decide to stop training the soldiers who need to parachute behind enemy lines because the fatality rate of training was so high that math…

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    Comment #48843369

    non-english, twitter, and probably LLM-generated, and still on the front page. So either people really care about this issue or it's artificial as usually any one of those is enoug…

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    Comment #48836254

    something similar actually really annoys me on linkedin mobile, I'm left handed and often accidentally like posts if I scroll my feed as the like button is very close to where I na…

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    Comment #48753824

    Yeah all claude models are doing this now. I also had a flow where it would enter username and password for demo server that are literally displayed on the page for any human to lo…

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    Comment #48738374

    And here's a similar list of 3400 VCs who suddenly find themselves a lot less open to cold email https://apparent.social/heat-map

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    Comment #48697322

    Nvidia is already selling exactly this I think, not sure when it's expected to ship

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    Comment #48650096

    I have huge respect for Armin but all of the concerns about agents producing more code with less competent supervision from senior engineers doesn't seem that different from the st…

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