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by alvah 2y ago
Free? Perplexity or Bing. Paid? Perplexity (pro).
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by alvah 2y ago
It's not really the point I'm making though. Google search has become defacto Reddit / Quora search, and they haven't been transparent about this to the public. While they did have to do something about all the AI-genera
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by alvah 2y ago
It absolutely is a disagreement. I don't agree they have the best search engine at the moment. They did until they crippled it with the last 2 big updates.
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by alvah 2y ago
"They simply have a better product" I disagree. 100% they had a better product, but they have absolutely mangled it over the last few updates. Honestly, if I wanted the opinion of randomnumbers45123 on Reddit, I'd just sear
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by alvah 2y ago
"a commission on successful deal is the exact opposite of a rent"? When the real estate lobby makes the whole industry a de facto closed shop, the real estate agencies themselves are full of middlemen picking each other's poc
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by alvah 2y ago
To nitpick your nitpick, lost PLA casting is most definitely a thing; no wax required.
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by alvah 2y ago
You're in the "we only need power during the day" camp, but with extra snark. Well done.
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by alvah 2y ago
"The implicit assumption central to this way of organising the economy is that anything legally on sale is "safe". That it has been checked and approved by experts that know what they are doing and have the consumer interest
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by alvah 2y ago
To be extra fair, "domain experts" in some areas have had a bad few years; there are a couple of fields I can think of off the top of my head where the "experts" wheeled out to advise/scare the public are clearly mo
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by alvah 2y ago
"that also didn’t hurt anyone" Can I have some of what you're on? It sounds like fun. Seriously, nobody in the entire world has been adversely affected by the widespread adoption of LLMs?
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by alvah 2y ago
"Stuff like this is easy to charge back with your credit card company." That sounds like what someone who's never had to waste hours getting 'stuff like this' charged back, with varying levels of success, would say.
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by alvah 2y ago
"In NZ now - going to beach without protection even for an hour is suicide. Also avoid even going outside from 11am till 3pm at peak summer months." I live in Western Australia, which is much sunnier than anywhere in NZ, and this
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by alvah 2y ago
The founders of Conversion.ai / Jarvis / Jasper / whatever they're called today did OK out of it though.
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by alvah 2y ago
I have a bridge for sale. Completely genuine, honest!
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by alvah 2y ago
I use Perplexity (mainly a legacy of wanting access to Claude when it wasn't officially available in my country, but Perplexity offered it & was available here). Search definitely wasn't my use case, but I accidentally discove
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by alvah 3y ago
I wish I could upvote this comment more than once.
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by alvah 3y ago
> The article and discussion are literally about machines moving stuff. In a warehouse, not up the stairs to somebody's apartment...
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by alvah 3y ago
The suggestion was to use Whisper as a fallback where no YT transcript exists.
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by alvah 3y ago
LOL @ $5 billion, but if it that was the valuation, you'd be making parent's point stronger.
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by alvah 3y ago
I agree with the general point but "couple of hours to get to the airport" you must live a long long way from the airport if this is normal.
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by alvah 3y ago
This describes much of Hollywood's output for at least the last 10 years, probably a lot longer. You'd expect removing or lowering the barriers to entry & the cost would result in an explosion of content - there will be a cura
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by alvah 3y ago
California roll != failure to yield. I swear some in here would argue water isn’t wet and the sky isn’t blue…
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by alvah 3y ago
"> I live adjacent to a four-way stop and there's an incident where a cyclist fails to yield nearly hourly. You can blame the cyclist or perhaps a four-way stop with a nearly hourly cyclist incident needs to be redesigned.&qu
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by alvah 3y ago
That wasn’t the comparison. The comparison was every form of pumped storage EXCEPT pumped hydro vs a megapack. I’m sure you’re correct about pumped hydro though, it does seem like something we should do more of.
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by alvah 3y ago
Did you read the part immediately after that?
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by alvah 3y ago
He addresses using existing mineshafts in the article.
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by alvah 3y ago
Allow me to support the completely unsupported naysaying: https://cleantechnica.com/2024/01/16/gravity-storage-101-or-... Cliff's Notes: any currently-considered form of gravity storage that isn't p
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by alvah 3y ago
if you didn't die, you weren't electrocuted, you weren't anything-cuted.
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by alvah 3y ago
Nitpick - there shouldn't be a way to be non-fatally electrocuted. However, the language has been vandalised to the extent that electrocution (literally execution by electricity) now means the same as electric shock.
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by alvah 3y ago
The few words far down the sidebar don't comply with either Amazon or FTC affiliate disclosure requirements. They may have complied when the owner built the site, which appears to have been decades ago.

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