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slopinthebag
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Comment #49226205
How can it be extracted if it didn’t previously exist? Economies aren’t zero sum, they can grow and contract.
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Comment #49216780
It’s actually created.
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Comment #49216474
The average SWE makes $400k a year? Are you being serious?
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Comment #49214828
So the politicians waste money and your conclusion is it’s the private sectors fault??
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Comment #49214818
Well said. People won’t like to hear it but it’s true. If you seized the wealth of every billionaire in the US you could fund the federal government for about a year. Of course mos…
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Comment #49214021
I would laugh for a week if the courts eventually found issues with using LLM content and forced companies to either publish their LLM generated code as public domain or they were …
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Comment #49213773
If you don’t know how to write well, the AI slop is less obvious. That’s my theory at least, I don’t understand how people can read these nonsense sentences and believe a human act…
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Comment #49187778
I've gotten pretty strong in the gym, my bench has improved to two plates. I see no reason why it won't continue to improve until I can bench my house.
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Comment #49187739
"We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing"
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Comment #49186120
Because it’s lame and aesthetics matter.
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Comment #49185628
If this actually worked the author wouldn’t be selling it, they would be accumulating generational wealth on the market.
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Comment #49179329
I think it also depends on what you're building. Some solo project or basic html thing? Sure no need to review every line. It's a bit different when you're working on foundational …
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Comment #49177017
Why would that be the default assumption?
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Comment #49172239
Idk about end of the road, I’m sure they can squeeze out some more performance by curating even more data and doing even more RL. But I would bet that pretty much all of the improv…
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Comment #49172177
How did you generate the next word? Did you first read pretty much every written work ever published, including blog posts, forum posts, books, etc? Learn how to imagine everything…
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Comment #49162309
My friend is less sensitive and so just accepts the risk of cross contamination in restaurants, but she chooses restaurants which don’t really use much of her allergen and tells th…
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Comment #49159898
The FDA prohibits blanket labeling of allergens. They might be able to get away with it but it wouldn’t be legal.
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Comment #49159875
Maybe, but going by that 5% of the population have severe food allergies and only ~1% use wheelchairs, so if we accept wheelchair ramps etc. as being a worthwhile investment (which…
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Comment #49158852
Do you also think businesses shouldn’t need to be “forced” to deal with accessibility? Web devs shouldn’t be forced to deal with accessibility either right?
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Comment #49153577
Gamedevs usually have the most powerful machines of all types of devs because of it's very nature. Yes you can't compile Rust on the GPU but big gpu's come with big CPUs usually.
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Comment #49152434
Ok and?
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Comment #49150714
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Comment #49150480
Both API and subscription prices are cheaper with all other models and providers compared to Anthropic. GPT is also better than Claude from my personal experience. GLM 5.2 is equal…
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Comment #49149079
M2 air. Pay to play brotha