ManlyBread

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by ManlyBread 1y ago
They've stopped doing that for about two years but recently hired a bunch. AI did not impact this in the slightest, it was the combination of the post-pandemic slowdown coupled with rising the interest rates that impacted their decisio
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
If nationality would matter here I would be geoblocked and yet I am not.
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
>credit score Non-existent in the country I live in. There's a national registry of debtors and people end up there for a very good reason. >Linkedin, Amazon There's no reason to consider these to be essential services, I am
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
The internet is not a mirror of the real world.
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
I am not comfortable with a private company being the only solution, especially when they have a history of deplatforming sites.
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
Sure, let me just contact that one ISP located in Russia or India, I am sure they will care a lot about my self-hosted blog
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
The real question here is whether there's a better solution for blocking scrapers and spammers thst clearly do not care about any of these things.
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
It's as easy to say that this will poison the context and produce worse results. Do you have any actual examples? Without any sort of an example this sounds like some software voodoo.
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
It's not an apples and oranges thing, it's the same practice of changing one term to an another because someone out there chose to believe that these words are somehow so powerful that they're pushing away swaths of people. Y
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
I really don't understand this war on language that is so prevalent in tech circles. There's a bunch of these like switching git branches from "master" to "main" or "blacklist"/"whitelist&qu
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
Who cares? It's their choice.
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
Seems like the agent takes a lot of liberties when it comes to porting stuff: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Arepomirrorhq%2Fbetter-use... None of these issues seem to be documented outside these files.
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
I'll buy that narrative if you can demonstrate that an another big service lost 11.5% users in the last three months.
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
Bluesky is constantly bleeding users so even if this is true it won't be relevant for long. https://blueskyfeeds.com/bluesky-user-growth?t=3m
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
I was looking forward towards the Classic Offensive mod but then Valve DMCA'd it just a few days before the release. Awful move considering that not only they've okayed it before but also completely ignored the developers when the
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
>229 EUR a month LOL
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
I have used GPT-5 a few times and I genuinely can't think of a single improvement. You could stealthy deploy it in place of GPT-4 and I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
Interesting conversations can also happen under articles that have actual substance, there's no need to tolerate such short blogposts just because these might spawn an interesting discussion. Funny that you mention reddit because this
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
The author couldn't even be bothered to write about the supposed examples of these practices being wrong. The whole thing lacks detail and actual arguments, instead we get "please stop" like it's some sort of a reddit or
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
This is an incredibly short-term thinking. The reason is simple: the author is not obliged to continue while this sort of thing can be demoralizing. I don't know about the author's approach to this matter, but if I would find out
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
What? They have to run the servers all the same.
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
How come this never happens to video game companies that give out various in-game currencies?
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
This article is about nothing, how does this kind of stuff hit the front page? Is it because of bots?
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
>This is a really terrible article. I am coming here less and less because it's either the AI spam or low quality blogposts like these, with very few worthwhile articles in between.
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
So a pre-built prompt is now offered as a major feature worth announcing?
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
>The Poles we've historically had a great relationship with Not really? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Polish_alliance
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
>I don't think anyone objects to what the UK had 20 years ago - genuinely skilled immigration 20 years ago it was mostly Poles whose only quality was that they were willing to work for less than native UK citizens in jobs that said
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
We're back to 2016-2020 where the authors of nearly every single article feel like they have to take a stand against the Evil Orange Man on their blog. 3 more years of this clown show I guess.
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
So it's no different than landing a regular job if you have no network.
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by ManlyBread 1y ago
This can be solved by using Levenstein distance or doing some funky calculations involving a diff-like algoritm that git uses for example. It is by no means a hard problem to solve.

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