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usernamed7

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    Comment #49213035

    > the cuts still needed to be made. Which ones? Because there are a lot of instances where genuinely good, productive and useful programs were cut.

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    Comment #49096940

    A true loss for synthwave music. His music was amazing and rich and exciting in a way that many artists fail to reach.

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    Comment #49040150

    > Engineers use random public-domain books as placeholder files all the time Since when?

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    Comment #48752669

    this is "too little, too late" for me. I'll stick with opus 4.8.

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    Comment #48740376

    I was surprised to see .cern as a TLD - i would not expect it to need a family of websites in the way .gov or .mil do.

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    Comment #48727248

    surprised at the responses to this post. While I thought the title was dumb, the underlying thesis is not the ragebait I was expecting, and I actually agree with the author. LLM's …

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    Comment #48704906

    it started out alright, but then it just became obvious. > Wall Street calls it securitization. The merchants of Assur called it Tuesday. was the give away for me.

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    Comment #48621495

    I haven't told you to do anything, only highlighted that you can choose how to live your life, including not using LLM's. Believe it or not, some people actually do derive a great …

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    Comment #48619043

    That's a choice you are free to make, just like you're free to shrug and not use the internet or computers.

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    Comment #48618546

    Let us hope this only accelerates the proliferation of local models

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    Comment #48580758

    > I am telling you the count because the count is the point. > The honest caveat, because it matters: > This one I got right in the original, and now I have the number to back it. …

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    Comment #48532602

    > You ask for a date picker wow... this is me

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    Comment #48499044

    Slashing prices is only going to go so far...you couldn't pay me to use chatGPT or codex. I used chatGPT for a long time but once i switched to anthropic i could sense a higher qua…

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    Comment #48498509

    I agree there is a "sameness" that you get from tailwind. Tailwind has a unique benefit in that you can change the CSS of the page and just that page. There is no chance that you m…

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    Comment #48363426

    this reads to me as a false equivalence. Choosing a Mac is opting into a specific alternative. Choosing Windows is just taking the default.

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    Comment #48350549

    These are long synthwave mixes that were uploaded before Suno became popular (it was released December 2023)

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    Comment #48267837

    I was thinking the same - makes the article feel very amateur and unprofessional. And I know for a fact that AI can do a better job at writing than this, I doubt they read it and h…

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    Comment #48161853

    I've been reflecting on this lately. I bought a window air conditioner which has higher BTU but also has an "app" you can download on your phone. Which I have no interest in. The r…

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    Comment #47661563

    I confirmed searching for "Iran" with a before set ends up showing me all recent results. BUT if i use this search form to generate the query (and not the youtube search bar) it wo…

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    Comment #47613887

    as expected, this is slop

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    Comment #47546541

    I won't be cancelling by subscription because I don't have one :) I have found I get way more value out of subscribing for 1-2 months to a service and then switching to another or …

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    Comment #47392231

    This argument doesn't make sense to me. did airplanes kill road trips? AI lets you go faster, but you don't have to use it at all, or can use it in select ways to collab with. Unle…