ChickeNES

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by ChickeNES 5d ago
> forget to pay attention to the community energy and expectations My problem is that I just...don't care about the community that much, and ended up just buying the tools I needed/outsourcing as needed. Though travel time&#x2F
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by ChickeNES 5d ago
This is such a fundamental misunderstanding of how the housing market works, and totally ignores apartments/midrises/highrises. The problem with housing in the US lies with overregulation (mostly in the form of zoning). I know thi
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by ChickeNES 5d ago
> from what I saw at about 2016 the whole DIY machine thing switched. GOOD! Those old DIY machines were awful. Even back then I wanted a printer that just worked, instead of spending hours just to get it printing somewhat accurately. I s
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by ChickeNES 5d ago
There's more than one form of intelligence, and being good at fixing people doesn't necessarily correlate with managing a business. As silly as it sounds, watching Shark Tank will really demonstrate that someone can have a legitim
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by ChickeNES 5d ago
My controversial opinion: chains/large businesses are more convenient, cheaper, better (and more consistent) service, and the big one: you can complain up the chain when a local branch/franchise fucks up vs dealing with a sole pro
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by ChickeNES 5d ago
> relationship with a doctor or practice What if I don't care about this whatsoever?
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by ChickeNES 5d ago
> you'll be waiting weeks/months to see a 'doctor' I live in the US, and this is false, with Zocdoc I can see even specialists within 24-72 hours. All I have is my wife's United plan, nothing fancy,
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by ChickeNES 5d ago
Yet in the US, it was developers following the Levittown model that resulted in tons and tons of single family homes, so I fail to see how the free market is terrible at "pumping out houses fast"?
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by ChickeNES 6d ago
That's a really backwards explanation for styles that executives commissioned, funded, and popularized in the first place
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by ChickeNES 6d ago
I really should revive the Minimoog clone I built senior year of HS/first year of college...
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by ChickeNES 7d ago
> "niche"? It's literally one of the most read pieces of fanfiction of all time. Where did I say it wasn't niche on the internet? Though you seem to be more interested in personal attacks (I'm not even a fucking
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by ChickeNES 7d ago
> has negligible presence in / reach into the US, and is generally unconcerned with the domestic political activities of US citizens. lmao
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by ChickeNES 8d ago
Sure, let's just trade the NSA for the CCP, no issues there.
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by ChickeNES 8d ago
> Where are the millions of robots required You're kidding, right? https://shop.unitree.com/ https://www.figure.ai/ etc
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by ChickeNES 8d ago
You people are so quick to correct me that you don't understand my argument: HPMOR is not niche in the world of fanfiction, and this doesn't require fanfiction to not be niche. You're also answering stats with anecdotes, so I
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by ChickeNES 8d ago
Never said they were colluding. I said I have no patience for incumbents asking for restrictions on a technology that threatens the value of their expertise.
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by ChickeNES 8d ago
I don't think you read my comment? > "I should know, I remember classic Slashdot" It's still a fringe movement even now, at least the turbo fanatic, FSF disciple kind. It was normal companies like Google adopting Linu
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by ChickeNES 8d ago
Then you go and say this: > I work with extremely technical people in physics and AI and none of them have read any fanfic of any kind. I'm sorry, it's you who are in a bubble lol
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by ChickeNES 8d ago
Harry Potter has 600K works on AO3 and 852K on fanfiction.net (with plenty of overlap, granted). That's #1 on Fanfiction.net, and in the top 5 for AO3. AO3 is #53 globally, Fanfiction.net is #572, and Wattpad is #323 by Semrush. Given
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by ChickeNES 8d ago
Fanfiction is such an "extreme niche" that AO3 is #53 globally, FanFiction.net is #572, and Wattpad is #323 by Semrush lmao.
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by ChickeNES 8d ago
> anyone who can recognize Aella is too chronically online. I dunno, I think a ton of people remember the garden gnomes (I know I do, when I saw the name I was like "nah, can't be", but then I googled lmao)
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by ChickeNES 8d ago
Never thought I'd see the day that someone on HN would be celebrating bullying people, thanks for going mask off.
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by ChickeNES 8d ago
"niche"? It's literally one of the most read pieces of fanfiction of all time.
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by ChickeNES 8d ago
I had someone here saying that Trump should sign an executive order to ban all AI generated art, it's all the same crap lol
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by ChickeNES 8d ago
So what you're saying is that, if the same work can be done with fewer resources, that money can be better used elsewhere now?
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by ChickeNES 8d ago
I did! Went to college for CS, glad that I'm being replaced, and happy to see the end of human labor.
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by ChickeNES 8d ago
> Might have to do with the circumstances of Open AIs conduct that was quite sketchy to say the least? OpenAI did nothing wrong, being a Fields medalist does not give anyone a monopoly on the truth.
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by ChickeNES 8d ago
Kinda relevant here: https://jonnegroni.com/2015/04/15/the-humans-of-wall-e-were-... I kinda expect/hope for something like this myself (minus being fat, GLP-1s have that taken care of now, so a future o
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by ChickeNES 8d ago
Model collapse as an insurmountable wall is a fiction dreamed up by Luddites, actual frontier labs understand the failure mode and avoid it.
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by ChickeNES 8d ago
> Do you think human mathematicians will be entirely useless for any kind of input into the act of doing mathematics? Yes, same as any other field. No one is immune

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