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Comment #49220065
Humans do seem to be like that. They need something other than complete free time There's an "epidemic" of people who have nothing to do and for whatever reason can't figure someth…
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Comment #49206019
It doesn't require porn. Most movies, tv shows, rom-coms or dramas, have "unrealistic" depictions of "normal" relationships.
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Comment #49205143
You failed. My steak was thin and 4x2 minutes was too long and it was past well done
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Comment #49205137
Honestly, most places I've been can't do it well. I've had good steaks but I've been to "steak restaurants" and had plenty of bad or mediocre steaks.
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Comment #49204195
It's surprising to me you've been that lucky with Belkin. They do not have a good reputation. Maybe cables are easy so that's an easy bar to pass.
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Comment #49204115
The analogy I'd use is using LLMs for coding is like a movie director does for movies. A movie director does not draw storyboards, they ask an H.I. (Human Intelligence) storyboard …
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Comment #49194601
This kind of stuff is all over Japan. "Stores" with almost nothing in them and me wondering who pays for them. Not that I mind. They are interesting.
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Comment #49194569
My hobby is making things. I used to make them with a screwdriver and a hammer and a handsaw. Then I bought a drill and got some screwdriving bits, an a pneumatic hammer and an arm…
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Comment #49179630
Sounds like the beginning of the end of rust to me AI is a jet engine - Banning is for creation is like saying "we require you to go by ship/car/propeller-plane" Yes, a policy that…
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Comment #49164790
AI can make the scene in 3D. If I can't today it can tomorrow https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2081100592689324502?s=20 https://x.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410727319 even witho…
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Comment #49164738
Apparently buttons in buttonholes as a clothing fastener were not a thing until 1300 ce. Maybe that fact is false but, if true, it's crazy to me it took until 1300 ce to think of p…
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Comment #49164669
The path I see is I just ask for the functionality and AI builds it from scratch. No need for other people's software/libraries. I get it's not 100% there today but I do have that …
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Comment #49132615
According do this video, some of it is I guess regulatory capture? (my memory of that video might be bad) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or1_qVdekYM
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Comment #49132574
Maybe they took their que from Apple. The Apple Store in Ginza Tokyo used to have a 3 floors and the elevator is just set to go 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1. There are no buttons. It …
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Comment #49132561
some elevators have this feature. Double tap a button to de-select a floor
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Comment #49132537
Some elevators do this. It's usually a double tap to clear. THey are less common in the states
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Comment #49132500
It's extremely common in an office building I used to work in. The office has 21 floors and people shuffle between them often. Going up or down 1 or 2 floors there are stairs. Also…
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Comment #49118506
I'm curious what LLM options I can use in Codepen. To be honest, at this point, quite a few of the things I'd want to do in a site like CodePen I want to start with a prompt, then …
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Comment #49104539
The only thing you need to see is how many Apple employees use them. Answer, almost none If it was amazing as a display for work then most Apple employees would be using them at wo…
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Comment #49104473
What is special about the Vision Pro here? Tons of, as far as I can tell, identical solutions have been around for years for other less expensive devices. Other people in this thre…
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Comment #49088582
The instinct to make a game engine is it's well known how to do it and you just follow examples all over the the place and each few days you check off a box and feel like you're ma…
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Comment #49088491
> i can't really say much about the people who say don't program game engines (or whatever thing they don't like) in terms of opportunity costs (a generous name for this category o…
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Comment #49088361
I'm not sure I understand all the hate in this thread. I had a friend who bought a new Mac every year, selling his old Mac. His calculation was that it was about the same price as …
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Comment #49077287
> compared to old-school bone animation where you send the info to the vertex shader every frame? If I understand correctly this really isn't a thing anymore. Instead most modern e…
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Comment #49065904
Here’s an unpopular opinion. almost all ui customization should be buried in settings menus and not available as easy to do my mistake gestures. The first time I want into this was…