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by abtinf 7mo ago
By this logic, you might consider vibe coding a browser plugin that takes any HN comment less than 50 words and auto-expands it into an “insightful, well thought-out response.”
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by abtinf 7mo ago
Yes, and it’s not like they just insta-ban every infraction. I’ve broken the guidelines on this site before. The mods reply and say “hey, stop doing that, here is the guideline”. I stopped doing it. Life continues.
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by abtinf 7mo ago
That’s true. Fortunately, by virtue of it being added to the guidelines, quite a few folks here are prepared to reply to obviously generated comments by simply citing and linking the rule. Just search for “shallow dismissal” to see many exa
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by abtinf 7mo ago
Good. This helps establish it in the HN culture. That’s the purpose of guidelines. 99% of rule enforcement, both IRL and online, comes down to individuals accepting the culture. Rules aren’t really for adversaries, they are for ordinary sit
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by abtinf 7mo ago
Quality is expensive. Lego’s net profit margin is only about 19%. They couldn’t lower prices much even if they wanted to.
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by abtinf 7mo ago
Try a few different CrossFit gyms near you; at least one is likely to have a strong social element. CrossFit is the closest thing there is to secular church, and most of the reason people go to church is for the social aspect. CrossFit has
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by abtinf 7mo ago
I really wish there was a setting whereby I could simply hide all comments from accounts less than a year old. The correlation with LLM slop is simply off the charts. It almost feels like new accounts should be treated like new posts -- i
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by abtinf 8mo ago
Every other country is significantly less free than the US. America is freedom's last stand.
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by abtinf 8mo ago
I don't know if I like Anthropic more, but I certainly like their competitors much less now. The new thing that I know about leading AI companies that aren't Anthropic (i.e. OpenAI, Google, Grok, etc) is that they knowingly suppor
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by abtinf 8mo ago
Typically, VC funded firms are inventing new markets entirely. Simply overcoming startup capital costs is not the argument being made when folks claim dumping.
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by abtinf 8mo ago
Amazon was wildly profitable on a unit cost basis from relatively early on. They didn’t show profits on paper because they reinvested everything into their capital buildout to reduce costs even more.
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by abtinf 8mo ago
> It is wise … to price well below cost push out other players forever I challenge you to name a single successful example of this that isn’t state enforced.
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by abtinf 8mo ago
History is littered with the corpses of those slaughtered by the millions in the name of great leader’s 5 year plans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
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by abtinf 8mo ago
There are so many projects I could use pocketbase for, if only it supported Postgres. I get the philosophical reasons behind why it doesn’t and why it’s SQLite only. It’s just that in a corporate environment, I could trivially deliver full
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by abtinf 8mo ago
You learn when it’s good and bad. It definitely has a “personality”. It is awesome in certain situations, like bumper to bumper traffic. I kept it for a couple months after the trial, but canceled because the situations it’s good at aren’t
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by abtinf 8mo ago
If it actually worked, Tesla would include an indemnity clause for all accidents while it’s active.
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by abtinf 8mo ago
Yup, after getting a Tesla with a free FSD trial period, it was obviously a death trap if used in any kind of slightly complex situation (like the highway on-ramp that was under construction for a year). At least once every few days, it wou
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by abtinf 8mo ago
> we need to get money out of politics. We need to get the power out of politics.
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by abtinf 8mo ago
That transition took 40-50 years. Electrical power in manufacturing was infeasible for lot of reasons for a longtime. Any company issuing such an edict early on would have bankrupted themselves. And by the time it became practical, no such
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by abtinf 8mo ago
> The problem with extremely smart people is not many people understand them. They're typically going to be non-conformist in any event, and may come across as arrogant if they have an intricate belief system that you may not take t
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by abtinf 8mo ago
IIRC, I was able to watch the videos on my 486. It was quite something being able to do that l, while in Windows 95 and switching between apps. Prior to that, I’d only seen FMV in a few video games.
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by abtinf 8mo ago
How does Distr compare to Replicated?
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by abtinf 8mo ago
How many times are you going to submit this in just one week? This is at least the third.
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by abtinf 8mo ago
It’s called mercantilism. It was thoroughly refuted hundreds of years ago.
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by abtinf 8mo ago
Your wiki link contains only a single random reference to that number, and the page it links to justify it doesn’t exist.
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by abtinf 8mo ago
“well” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your comment. Across a number of companies using Redis, I’ve never seen it used correctly. Adding it to the tech stack is always justified with hand waving about scalability.
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by abtinf 8mo ago
After waging war on America continuously for 46 years, the response was to take out a handful of targets, leaving the entire theocratic regime and nearly all of its regional military capabilities intact. Yep, that’ll show them.
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by abtinf 8mo ago
No one is afraid of the US. Iran has continuously waged war on America since the revolution, killing countless soldiers, as well as murdering civilians on western soil. America’s response has been essentially non-existent. Short of an unign
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by abtinf 9mo ago
You insure the property, not the person.
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by abtinf 9mo ago
Downvote me, but gp is obviously an AI bot attempting to train on human responders. No human could possible conflate this game with Conway’s game of life — especially when they explicitly name Conway’s game of life. It is conceptually impos

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