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whoamii

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    Comment #49253286

    This letter clearly wasn’t written by AI.

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    Comment #49245428

    What was your assumption about social media ca. 2010?

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    Comment #49192997

    …and this is what an AI First post looks like

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    Comment #49178419

    The more interesting question is, why did it take even longer for the unicycle. Doesn’t have many of the issues bicycles had to solve.

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    Comment #49170502

    Soon there will be a website which translates AI written text to human text… using AI.

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    Comment #49146952

    There are many other factors to consider however. Such as time spent with friends, doing something physical, etc. Plus, there’s a spectrum of ways to use trampolines. You’re still …

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    Comment #49123884

    Absolutely not! But I’m happy to predict…

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    Comment #49106704

    Would you feel better if their life-changing event came from a car wreck? Tragic things are unfortunately part of life.

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    Comment #49104793

    Insurance… lawyers… No wonder most kids these days are glued to screens: liability free! Went to an “amusement” park the other day (US). Throughput of people going down a waterslid…

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    Comment #49064122

    Taylor Swift recently got married east of Seattle

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    Comment #48950738

    Ummm no. Do not show a sign of weakness like this. Address the problem head on and get a credit card with a bigger limit.

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    Comment #48884099

    Found the European :)

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    Comment #48346183

    The real question: did your local LLM write this post?

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    Comment #48087076

    You seem to believe idempotency is a fancy word for avoiding duplicates, which is why we seem to be having different conversations.

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    Comment #48085764

    The topic is about idempotency though, and what you are describing is not idempotency. You are describing something different, and arguing “but it accomplishes a similar thing.” It…

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    Comment #48084896

    You are improvising, and in the process, changing the semantics of a well established design pattern. Do not recommend.

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    Comment #48027543

    The problem is the credit tends to go to LLMs. So there’s an imbalance. LLM did all the work. The person using it made all the mistakes.

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    Comment #47830818

    Proprietary techniques like this are usually a good indication you’re missing something. In this case it sounds like you are missing appropriate validation of the issuer and/or tok…

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    Comment #47789217

    How does a 30” e-ink screen sound?

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    Comment #47774770

    Cooldown is merely a type of flighting. Specifically, picking a flight beyond canary.

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    Comment #47663257

    Right? This is no country for old men.

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    Comment #47643193

    “It’s not the cars! It’s not the guns! It’s not social media! It’s not vibe coding!” Right. It’s always the people. They just tend to bodge things. All the time. So when there’s ne…

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    Comment #47633283

    Like the one where 1.5T in value went pfoof due to reasons you mentioned? I will let people judge whether your arguments are most likely, or whether this is bubble syndrome. Hint: …

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    Comment #47629153

    Unless you’re still senior after 10+ years. Add to that switching companies and coming back same level…

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    Comment #47623519

    For reference, author was a Senior Software Engineer, ie. mid-level engineer.