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yen223
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About yen223
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Comment #49206265
What's special about the fleshy brain that a digital chip cannot replicate its judgement?
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Comment #49138892
Do you have a baby?
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Comment #49133711
I joked a while back that it was faster to vibe-code a white noise generator than to download a white-noise app. I've since tested that theory on the Google Play Store (iOS has one…
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Comment #48957461
It's because OpenAI starts with an O, and an O looks like a butthole?
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Comment #48917653
A site for looking up strata information for apartments in NSW, Australia https://stratachecks.com.au
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Comment #48914461
Often think about how the most expensive part of driving in Sydney, especially in an EV, is parking.
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Comment #48879407
I often think about how nearly everyone in my parent's generation knew someone with polio, but I know nobody from my generation in the world who had polio
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Comment #48814879
I don't think we can predict ahead of time whether we'll need a leap second or not If the question is "why bother syncing time to Earth's orbit around the sun at all", I don't have…
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Comment #48814828
The brilliant thing about the smear is that it distributes the new second across each second of the day, so that each second differed by 1/86400 seconds, well within the margin of …
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Comment #48718027
That's the nature of most venture capital isn't it? Downside is capped, upside is uncapped, why not bet on as many companies as you can?
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Comment #48715933
Do people here not realise that "second opinions" are a thing because humans disagree with each other when presented with the same case all the time? It's not just an LLM thing!
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Comment #48702380
Making secondary cities more attractive ought to be part of the conversation around housing affordability
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Comment #48616127
The biggest problem with CORS is precisely that most CORS errors show up as a frontend problem - specifically, a browser problem - but it needs to be fixed on the backend
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Comment #48603520
Are there any examples of the opposite? Where NewGizmo beat OldGizmo by doing everything OldGizmo did, plus a few extra things?
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Comment #48578168
Pretty funny that in an article that's 99% about apartments, the top comment here is about cars
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Comment #48564027
It's cynical, but the more likely reason is "we can't sell you Fable, we now have all these spare compute, please don't cancel your subscription until after the IPO"
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Comment #48535779
I think it's that too. Burger = burger buns, sandwich = bread I am living in Australia though so might be biased here
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Comment #48534955
If I ordered a chicken burger and got a chicken sandwich, I would be a bit miffed. I think there's an element of expectation-setting when we're talking about authenticity. Personal…
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Comment #48533149
> you guys were being assholes Where was this coming from?
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Comment #48517431
Open source AI will win. It's the same reason why out of all the languages on the web we could have used, Javascript won.
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Comment #48500063
This is a typical bugfix session
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Comment #48499170
I could have sworn Claude Code could already do this before Fable. Things get really magical when it starts working with adb to screenshot and debug Android apps
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Comment #48466172
Indians are victims, and in order to protect them we must deny them the ability to move and work?