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thethimble

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    Comment #48399897

    > it's perhaps all about who one knows and making sure that everyone gets to tell a story of successful exits. No. It's all about building a great product that people love. Vite is…

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    Comment #47218358

    Perhaps named closing tags like ` ` are a factor?

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    Comment #47209940

    Or users will realize that a trashy ads experience is bad and switch to a service that isn't trashy. I don't understand why there's so much fearmongering about ads when heavy compe…

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    Comment #46978578

    I feel like this is a solvable problem. If you emit an errant word that should be replaced, why not correspondingly emit backspaces to just rewrite the word? I feel like this is th…

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    Comment #46965658

    Handy is great but I wish the STT was realtime instead of batch

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    Comment #46915870

    Why is this relevant at all? Having humans in the loop at some level is necessary for handling rare edge cases safely.

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    Comment #46904711

    If the world is built on AI infrastructure (models, compute, etc.) that is controlled by the CCP then the west has effectively lost. This may lead to better life outcomes, but if t…

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    Comment #46903753

    The AI market is an infinite sum market. Consider the fact that 7 year old TPUs are still sitting at near 100p utilization today.

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    Comment #46903730

    Speak for yourself. I've been insanely productive with Codex 5.2. With the right scaffolding these models are able to perform serious work at high quality levels.

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    Comment #46903709

    The consumers are getting huge wins. Model costs continue to collapse while capability improves. Competition is fantastic.

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    Comment #46903697

    As long as China continues to blitz forward, regulation is a direct path to losing.

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    Comment #46901335

    This will absolutely help but to the extent that prompt injection remains an unsolved problem, an LLM can never conclusively determine whether a given skill is truly safe.

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    Comment #46863824

    > And not delivering products 2024 revenue of >$100b is quite impressive for not delivering any products

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    Comment #46838722

    Perhaps there should be an EU committee to draft a mandate for a working group tasked with identifying the necessary stakeholders for a preliminary report on digital infrastructure…

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    Comment #46827039

    To each their own! The Discord/Slack frontend reduces friction significantly - particularly on mobile. With proper sandboxing you get real benefits while limiting the blast radius …

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    Comment #46825982

    Clawdbot is one of those things that's really hard to get unless you have experienced it. It's got four things that make it great: 1. Discord/Slack/WA/etc integration so those apps…

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    Comment #46700880

    Or even zellij > tmux

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    Comment #46634856

    I wish one of these models was fine tuned for programming. I want to be able to say things like "cd ~/projects" or "git push --force".

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    Comment #46279097

    But this strategy is also eligible to you. Nothing is stopping you from turning your Roth IRA into a multi billion tax free gain.

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    Comment #46279055

    Borrowing against illiquid assets should be considered a taxable event. Seems like this would entirely fix the loophole.

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    Comment #46103784

    > Running CI/CD pipelines can use significant amounts of energy. As much as it is tempting to have green checkmarks everywhere, running the jobs costs real money and has environmen…

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    Comment #46080165

    Absolutely. The limitations of AI (namely statelessness) require us to rethink our interfaces. It seems like there's going to be a new discipline of "UX for agents" or maybe even j…

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    Comment #46027153

    100% of startups are just software engineering

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    Comment #45923607

    Glad you like it! About to order one now as a baby car!

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    Comment #45923603

    This doesn't fit the narrative of "Elon bad" therefore the Ford 29k vehicle steering loss recall gets two upvotes whereas the Tesla 6k vehicle dealer-installer light bar issue gets…