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timcobb
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Comment #49231762
He didn't really take responsibility?
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Comment #49231730
> Bizarre. This is easily the most casually bizarre HN saga that I've experienced...
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Comment #49222763
Probably not china so much as Taiwan, japan, other places
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Comment #49222757
> We got a Pentium III 550 MHz screamer Super nice
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Comment #49213681
Who cares about Pangram? Why do you care about Pangram? Why not leverage our own intelligence? How does this post read to you? To me, it does not read like it was written by AI.
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Comment #49213158
not all crime is illegal, unfortunately.
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Comment #49212857
Pangram is just some BS man can you please stop
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Comment #49188352
It's just the ol', "I don't need privacy because I have nothing to hide" routine, which is, in fact, the naive perspective.
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Comment #49122897
Codex turns over 256k windows for *days/weeks on end* without seemingly much fidelity loss, especially with a goal that anchors it to a durable plan/ledger.
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Comment #49122054
Did you give it access to a planner/analyzer?
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Comment #49103942
Codex uses 256k masterfully, 1M is luxurious but still quite expensive and seems not necessary as a default.
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Comment #49069150
This kind of reads like a blood libel. My guess is they're buying all those books that University libraries are throwing away these days (to see other HM threads for that), kinda s…
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Comment #49065698
For some new custom small thing you'd be better off using not this though, right?
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Comment #48987090
What's the related stack
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Comment #48986932
> One reading is that it was more productive. Another is that most of those commits were busywork (thrash, contention, churn). Kudos
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Comment #48983852
> It leads to an awful experience for a large fraction of users. can you give an example of why/how? I thought it was well done and enjoyable. Regular fast scroll was still as expe…
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Comment #48981287
And this is why we need title insurance :(
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Comment #48959136
The worst stack overflow in this regard was meta. Most pathological corner of the internet I've ever encountered, up there with 4chan if you ask me.
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Comment #48959113
Humans aren't sheep but in the broad average it seems like we have a strong tendency to fall inline. Fwiw I was mostly joking. I agree that the techno overlords have no reason to k…
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Comment #48958216
I can't stop wondering myself.... I'm writing some software with AI and wondering, why am I doing this? Will anyone need this? Will anyone have money to buy this? Best I've come up…
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Comment #48935172
What do you like about AGPL in this context? Building a similar product and curious! Thanks
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Comment #48934531
Drones are only part of the equation you need to be able to forge things