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thousand_nights

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    Comment #49051973

    for a moment i thought this was a commentary about my relationships

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    Comment #49042986

    i do homebrewing and asked it to compare some beer yeasts for me and hit the safeguards because... biology i guess lol

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    Comment #49042611

    same tbh but i feel like we're still required, maybe not in the same numbers as before, and our job description has just changed. it feels more akin to an "AI Agent Operator" or so…

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    Comment #48659686

    seems to happen daily when USA wakes up and Europe is at peak working capacity, I don't think it's a coincidence

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    Comment #47857214

    there's nothing stopping them from saying that, which is my point which you missed

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    Comment #47856458

    > So we're looking at different options to keep delivering a great experience for users. his title should be changed to Head of Corporate Bullshitting

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    Comment #47856334

    big fan of A/B tests that dehumanize the consumer into some kind of money making lab rat funnel whose only purpose is to be experimented on how you can extract more money out of it…

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    Comment #47711250

    i wouldn't have such an issue with it if didn't completely homogenize every text it spits out. i want to read something that at least resembles the words in the author's mind, not …

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    Comment #47710935

    > no X. no Y. just Z i am so sick of AI slop writing..

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    Comment #47703320

    i use an extension called OhMyECH to show whether a website used ECH, and it is currently very rare that i encounter one that does. at least none of the major websites on the inter…

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    Comment #47673520

    i couldn't finish "Don't Look Up", it felt like sitting through a political lecture. all i wanted from a comedy was some laughs.

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    Comment #47612727

    nowhere near comparable experience if you want to seamlessly use your YT account across a TV + phone + computer i'd rather pay the $10 than pay with my time by being an ad-block wh…

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    Comment #47340795

    i don't care if someone has bad grammar, i want to hear their thoughts as they came up with them, we're all intelligent beings and can parse the meaning behind what you write. i ty…

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    Comment #47273525

    i'm kinda jaded because it seems the type of people that get into politics do it to gain money and power.. so voting always feels like picking the lesser of two evils

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    Comment #47269552

    overblown? billions of users use consumer tier hardware just fine. i have servers at home with years of uptime without any ECC memory

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    Comment #47261515

    the whole concept of a "clean room" implementation sounds completely absurd. a bunch of people get together, rewrite something while making a pinky promise not to look at the origi…

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    Comment #47241639

    naming something tech related without referencing crabs or lobsters challenge [impossible difficulty]

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    Comment #47160377

    the plurality of this website are californians so this whole discourse is about as predictable as can be

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    Comment #47159638

    lol. yeah there is but instead of "farther from the population centers" it is "farther from YOUR population centers"

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    Comment #47153455

    it's funny because you'd think these trillion parameter models trained on the entirety of humanity's written works would be amazing at writing, but instead all the models just conv…

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    Comment #47144255

    at my job we have some 7+ year old nextjs apps that don't receive new features but still do their jobs perfectly fine, and they keep changing random shit around for no reason, we'v…

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    Comment #47144196

    yeah the thing is, if someone can social engineer you on the phone and make you do their bidding, you've lost no matter what

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    Comment #47107492

    an obvious tell from another tech influencer and Hn will eat it up

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    Comment #47103599

    fr idg this obsession with lobsters/molting/claws/shrimps it feels like i'm going insane

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    Comment #47055360

    > I have been experimenting with AI-assisted drafting for HN comments forgive the hyperbole but this seems completely insane to me. like is the purpose of a forum not to share our …