CRConrad

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931.
by CRConrad 2y ago
Oh, most people (outside France, at least) are perfectly fine with Citroen.
932.
by CRConrad 2y ago
But ä.txt is a perfectly normal filename! WTF is there to "normalize" about that?!? Äh, nu går vi och gör något annat.
933.
by CRConrad 2y ago
I'm thinking even bog-standard European umlauts, cedillas, etc go multi-byte in Unicode? (Take a string of ÅÄÖåäöÜü and chop it off at various byte limits and see.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I rely upon FF sync too much. It's handy getting your bookmarks and other details on mobile devices. I would love to use that functionality, but... How?!? Once you have a gazillion tabs open on your phone, the “Open tabs from othe
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Oh ferfuxxake, please stop it with the Valley Girl talk. lol hahaha!
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> But I think your comment was reductive… So what? Reducing a situation to its essentials is an entirely valid argument / debating technique.
937.
by CRConrad 2y ago
Thanks, but alas, doesn't work: I can see the content flash by for an instant, but then it goes away and there's only some Google boilerplate text.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
What do you mean, "deleted files" -- removed from the git staging area with "git rm", or actually deleted on the file-system level? (I don't think it ever added the latter, did it?)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> you won't be taken in by hairbrained approaches. Hare-brained. (Hares are not supposed to be very smart animals.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
"A very comprehensive and precise spec": https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensi... ? Switch in "prompt" in stead of "code", if you will; still pretty mu
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Parent comment's links, but (hopefully) clickable. OpenAI's deviation from its original mission - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34979981 The Altman's Saga – https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> According to your argument... I wasn't making one.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Paywall paywall. (If only pay-with-data. Bad enough.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Eh, what? No, not at all. That was, if anything, the other way around.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> In other words, if Scarlett Johansson had a different voice, perhaps even an unappealing one, would they still have used it Not what you meant, but: No, of course not, because then Johansson wouldn't have been in Her.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yes, AIUI from discussion here last week, Waits used the final Midler verdict as precedent.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Whose Epstein connections are you talking about – Gates or Altman?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
It used to be a directory; nowadays it seems to be becoming more of a social media platform.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The feeds have become really terrible. This wasn't always the case. Before, a lot more weight was given to posts from people you were connected to, vs. the weight given to their overall engagement. Isn't that just, like, the
950.
by CRConrad 2y ago
"But much of what..." Generic enough for everyone to interpret as they want, say from ten to ninety percent.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I think those websites actually have only one partner, one of the tiny oligopoly of advertisement brokers. That partner (*cough*Google*cough*), in turn, bows to the fig leaf of user consent via those interminable dialogs. So the site owners
952.
by CRConrad 2y ago
There's a difference between the answer being unconvincing to people who understand it and not understanding the answer.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Although primarily known for ChatGPT, OpenAI has had a long history since its founding in 2015. No, "since 2015" is by definition not "a long history". For a long history, try the principality of San Marino, or (i
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Funny though how all these oh-so-objctive algorithms -- your rule of thumb for weighting threads, "the flamewar detector" on posts, "SNI", etc, etc -- seemingly always just so happen to have the outcome they have. Sorr
955.
by CRConrad 2y ago
Don't indent lists like that; it makes HN present them as code, so the URLs in them don't become clickable links.
956.
by CRConrad 2y ago
...and software products reflect the corporate structure of the companies that created them. Think I'll be staying away from "AI" for a while longer.
957.
by CRConrad 2y ago
"We're hereby making a legally binding commitment that those clauses are void, whether anyone reaches out to us or we manage to reach out to them or not." Unless and until that's what they say, looks like they’re not d
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Some people are just so deep into fanboiism they refuse to see the writing on the wall even when it's in ten-foot-high letters of fire on a pitch-black background. Of fucking course it's just a performance for the public.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Naïve enough to deserve the downvotes. (None from me; too late.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
"If it's company policy, then how can't you help it, when you're the company?"

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