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by SoftTalker 26d ago
And LLMs do it a lot but it's not unique to their writing. Plenty of humans did and do use those constructions for effect or emphasis, or just because they think it makes them sound smart, as if they are revealing something profound.
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by SoftTalker 26d ago
Even if it's cheap, 3 implementations are more expensive than one and then you add the additional task(s) of evaluting them and selecting one to move forward with.
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by SoftTalker 27d ago
I probably use LLMs less than most people here, and I rarely use Claude but I've noticed that if I ask ChatGPT about some shell commands or linux admin task, it will give me three paragraphs of " you could do X, then Y, check that
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by SoftTalker 27d ago
I didn't mean to imply that there was some kind of collusion going on, but that sort of thing certainly happens too.
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by SoftTalker 27d ago
If people are born into a situation or simply have had bad luck with who they decided to trust, after enough betrayal you decide that juice of relationships isn't worth the squeeze. I'm pretty much there in my life, I don't s
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by SoftTalker 27d ago
To me it says that someone in the housing authority fell for a sales pitch on metal roofs. "Buy it once and never have to pay for a roof again." That person is now probably long gone, as is the salesman and likely the roofing cont
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by SoftTalker 27d ago
Yep. He's dead, Jim. If reviving XMPP is the battle you want to fight, best of luck but I'd encourage you to take a step back, face reality, and spend your energy on something with a better chance of success. And I say that as som
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by SoftTalker 27d ago
Commoditize your complements. Wide choice and availability of accessories benefits hardware sales.
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by SoftTalker 27d ago
Solar efficiency and cost has really only become economical in the last decade or so, and battery and inverter technology to make it practical for home use or grid interconnect about the same. Wind and hydro are location-dependent, and sol
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by SoftTalker 28d ago
You'd still want to verify that with the court or authority? I've been served before and sometimes it's just a person in street clothes who hands you an envelope. And even if it's a court bailiff or officer or something
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by SoftTalker 28d ago
If it did have any substance they'd connect it to Kalshi or Polymarket and start printing money.
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by SoftTalker 28d ago
The CS building at my local university used to have banners bragging about the average starting salary of their graduates. It was a very naked attempt to attract students based on the money they would be able to earn.
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by SoftTalker 28d ago
TFA is about writing, but the same is true of exercise, and probably most things.
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by SoftTalker 28d ago
Did Michaelangelo paint his works himself, or did he buy a bunch of slaves and give them some prompting?
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by SoftTalker 28d ago
Careless drivers got weeded out. Cars today are safer than ever. Drivers (in my memory anyway) have never been worse.
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by SoftTalker 28d ago
I'm exactly the opposite. I like knowing how the code works, what the data structures are, what APIs are being used, and yes even typing the code into the editor. When I'm working with LLMs there's less thinking. I'm bor
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by SoftTalker 29d ago
You're selling an app, but don't want to share any details, or even name it? Call me suspicious.
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by SoftTalker 29d ago
I've owned two Hondas and I would not touch another one. Both had transmission failures at under 200K miles. They actually are designed so that you can't change the filter without removing the transmision from the vehicle and spli
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by SoftTalker 29d ago
I'm not poor but I think it's ridiculous to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a car. I learned that after buying a new car when I got my first job. Since then about $5k is my limit.
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by SoftTalker 29d ago
A W123 mercedes (late 1970s-early 1980s) is an exceptionally well built car. Reliable, easy to work on yourself if you're handy, parts not expensive. At this point they're getting hard to find and prices for decent ones are climbi
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by SoftTalker 29d ago
There are many points of shutdown that would need to be controlled, not just one. The electrical feed, the cooling, the network, the physical integrity of the computer hardware. All with independent management.
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by SoftTalker 29d ago
Not limited to ads.
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by SoftTalker 29d ago
TBH, that was probably Biden, and Reagan at least toward the end of his second term. There really should be an upper age limit on federal offices.
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by SoftTalker 29d ago
"the things they said" could very well reveal their identity.
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by SoftTalker 29d ago
The old rule of thumb used to be 2x actual RAM for your swap file/partition size. That's probably not right with today's RAM sizes but I'm not sure what the current rule is. I just go with the Ubuntu installer default bu
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by SoftTalker 29d ago
Emacs in a terminal might not, depending on config and terminal capabilities.
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by SoftTalker 29d ago
The strain of yeast, and the local water have a pretty big impact on the finished bread (in addition to the flour used, obviously).
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by SoftTalker 29d ago
Strange, when I buy beer at Kroger and the "ID verification" guy has to come over, he looks at me and just keys in 01/01/1970 as my birth date most of the time. Or just asks me what my birthday is and I give him a random
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by SoftTalker 29d ago
Today's 13 year olds say that word more times than that before breakfast.
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by SoftTalker 29d ago
For a while since RAM sizes have gotten so big I would set up linux servers without swap at all. I figured what is a 2GB swap file going to do if the system has already exhausted 128GB of real RAM? I never saw any issues doing this, but I l

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