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unreal6

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About unreal6

CS and Philosophy alum at Haverford College Now doing software development in the pharmacy space

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49211034

    Do you have an example? What type of harm?

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    Comment #49159440

    completing the sentence from the article: > but it's not often so neatly packaged.

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    Comment #48983110

    https://www.starbucks.com/menu/product/565/hot/nutrition https://www.starbucks.com/menu/product/1044/iced/nutrition Pulling even their largest coffee drinks (sampling a few) they a…

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    Comment #48979510

    Is this the scandal to which you are referring? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23588202

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    Comment #48937348

    dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935342

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    Comment #48910165

    Is Bedrock a "middleman?" I believe that they run all inference inside of AWS data centers, on their own infrastructure. Their new endpoint even promises zero operator access [0] […

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    Comment #48910127

    > I use their services, but I frankly don't care who provides it. I'll chase the chepest/best and have no issue switching from one to another. For the hyperscalers, there is an eas…

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    Comment #48899313

    As long as token costs are being subsidized, I don't mind that this is the result of the consumer surplus.

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    Comment #48864925

    Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/climate/fish-farm-micropl...

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    Comment #48752554

    I regret having signed up for an annual plan at this point; the rug-pulls are increasingly irksome.

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    Comment #48574565

    https://status.openai.com/ https://status.openai.com/incidents/01KVB9JAB1PP9GS4A6AZ52TT... Appears to have possibly been resolved? I can now converse with chatgpt.

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    Comment #47942737

    How are they "ruining" Amazon with these launches? That is not clear to me.

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    Comment #47402373

    curious: why would this help?

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    Comment #47341039

    I find the consistent anthropomorphization to be grating as well

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    Comment #47172731

    > If you’ve got the manpower and talent, why not play with it and see if anything makes money. In-house startups with stable capital, all that We are no longer in a zero-interest r…

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    Comment #46812886

    You can find the warn notices here. [0] From a quick script I wrote up, it seems that ~60% of layoffs noted on 1/26/2026 are from individual contributors [0]: https://esd.wa.gov/em…

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    Comment #46342129

    Bannon for a while was deeply ingrained in Hollywood. He still earns residuals on episodes of Seinfeld [0], and owns the film rights to Michael Lewis' Liars Poker (even supposedly …

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    Comment #46219157

    [flagged]

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    Comment #45984146

    > Claude: they barely have a signin system at all. Multiple account support doesn’t exist. The minimum seat count for business is nonsense. The data retention policies are weak. Pl…

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    Comment #45429819

    > Connect them with clear APIs that don't have to change all that often, and you can build pretty big things. Emphasis on clear . It's a challenging endeavor to properly draw and e…

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    Comment #44816161

    In the middle of a billing cycle (which could be a month or year, in some cases), I would agree

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    Comment #43683226

    name/link?

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    Comment #43487614

    One would hope that a writer on this subject would have at least a cursory knowledge of statistics

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    Comment #41715269

    was it new?