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sydd

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    Comment #48936893

    I wouldn't be surprised if models were optimizing for rendering SVG pelicans at this point

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    Comment #48516954

    There are lots of other success stories too. For example there is a reason why Keytruda is the most valuable medicine globally -- it does amazing things against melanoma and lung c…

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    Comment #48460813

    > I'm wondering if an immortal life can be a well-lived life Why not? It does not mean that we will be some omnipotent god. it just means that we wont age. You can still die from p…

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    Comment #46140305

    The more I use AI for coding the more I realize that its a toy for vibe coding/fun projects. Its not for serious work. When you work with a large codebase which have a very high co…

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    Comment #46104614

    Why not? It's relevant for all tasks, and just adds 1 line

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    Comment #45484393

    DeepSeek is constantly updated, as other models too https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates

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    Comment #45435531

    I wonder if it will lead to q civilizational collapse because kids V2 won't have kids. Even today's young adults barely have any kids.

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    Comment #42526017

    We know that OpenAI is verz good at least in one thing: generating hype. When Sora was announced everyone thought that this will be revolutionary. Look at how it looks like in prod…

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    Comment #42480226

    I don't think it's be cause if anxiety, it usually increases drug use not decreases. It's much more about people ha ing less friends and socializing less

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    Comment #42355501

    Russia is putting everything it has to the Ukrainian front since 2.5 years and signs of exhaustion are clearly visible. They have lived up their Soviet tank reserves, are offering …

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    Comment #41423517

    Ehm instead of spending like weeks on this why not use a hardware that is meant for such applications like an ESP32?

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    Comment #41398876

    Because your luggage is not checked at all. I'm sure that a state level actor could circumvent TSA but an amateur could not, and they pose a huge threat too, see the recent bombing…

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    Comment #41398501

    This will be a no go for more and more large companies. We just had a major incident because someone accidentally uploaded our codebase via a VS code extension, lawyers, everything…

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    Comment #40495196

    IMO the main issue are zoning laws and urbanization. You can find lots of articles about rural areas, small villages elsentially dieing out, while large cities just (try) to grow l…

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    Comment #40480417

    I'm kinda sad that the whole voxel technology could not become mainstream. There were some really ambitious projects started in the 2010s like Voxel farm https://www.voxelfarm.com …

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    Comment #39940047

    Are you getting professional help for your son? This might be too serious for just you to solve

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    Comment #39875405

    Also their site was fill with intrusive ads, the repo browser was crap. GitHub was fast, no ads, markdown rendering and a decent repo browser. Also the main advantage of git was lo…

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    Comment #39692770

    > This only makes sense if you think poor people are dumb or naive. They don't know how to compare prices? Its pretty hard when each thing is served in a different size container a…

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    Comment #39418294

    Nope. People are concerned. There has been a million times when people recklessly and blindly did things without carefully examining the consequences leading to terrible results an…

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    Comment #39409355

    Actually your comment gives me hope that we will never have AI singularity, since how the brain works is flawed, and were trying to copy it. Heck a super AI might not even be possi…

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    Comment #39391270

    > Art can become a craft again, not a career The issue is that those jobs that got automated to "become a craft again" have mostly vanished, except for high-end stuff. Some example…

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    Comment #39329972

    > it will be bought in mass quantities by people building out data centers. Isn't this good? The production at scale effects will kick in, lowering the price and supply will meet d…

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    Comment #39149393

    By todays standard it would be a genocide. How do you think people would react if e.g. Russia nuked 2 large cities in Ukraine leading to 100K+ deaths?

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    Comment #39124323

    While you could do that it would just give you false hope. Pubmed contains research from all areas of natural sciences, and you need to get used to the wording to know feasible the…

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    Comment #37702525

    I'm using currently 4: - One pi4 for my homemade 3D printer (a Voron) - One pi3 for a homemade eInk clock/weather station (here I could've gotten with sth much cheaper like an ESP3…