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yen223

8,226karma·2,952submissions·June 6, 2012
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Just another software guy.

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Not sure if you're referring to LLMs or humans here
1d ago·view thread
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The numbers seem to support the premise that people are leaving text-based social media. TikTok and YouTube are still growing, while Reddit, Facebook, X and the rest are stagnant or shrinking
3d ago·view thread
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X was popular but never had that many users, not even back in the Twitter days. This is a big part of why Twitter was so easily acquired.
3d ago·view thread
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It's legit funny how often this occurs. We just like to argue it seems
6d ago·view thread
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What's also crucial is having your beliefs be backed by reality, and tossing away beliefs that aren't.
6d ago·view thread
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What's special about the fleshy brain that a digital chip cannot replicate its judgement?
9d ago·view thread
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Do you have a baby?
14d ago·view thread
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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 built in), and…
15d ago·view thread
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It's because OpenAI starts with an O, and an O looks like a butthole?
29d ago·view thread
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A site for looking up strata information for apartments in NSW, Australia https://stratachecks.com.au
1mo ago·view thread
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Often think about how the most expensive part of driving in Sydney, especially in an EV, is parking.
1mo ago·view thread
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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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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&#…
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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 error for NTP. …
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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?
1mo ago·view thread
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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!
1mo ago·view thread
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Making secondary cities more attractive ought to be part of the conversation around housing affordability
1mo ago·view thread
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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
1mo ago·view thread
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Are there any examples of the opposite? Where NewGizmo beat OldGizmo by doing everything OldGizmo did, plus a few extra things?
1mo ago·view thread
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Pretty funny that in an article that's 99% about apartments, the top comment here is about cars
1mo ago·view thread
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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"
2mo ago·view thread
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I think it's that too. Burger = burger buns, sandwich = bread I am living in Australia though so might be biased here
2mo ago·view thread
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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. Personally, I woul…
2mo ago·view thread
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> you guys were being assholes Where was this coming from?
2mo ago·view thread
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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.
2mo ago·view thread