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by baxtr 2mo ago
Recently I was looking for a fun summer book and spent around 30 minutes (?) browsing amazon and asking google AI with no luck. Came by a bookstore yesterday, went in, asked the nice lady, she recommend 3, one was a pretty good match, bough
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by baxtr 2mo ago
The AI apocalypse will definitely happen on a Monday. Remember, robots - unlike lazy humans - work weekends too!
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by baxtr 2mo ago
Just recently went back to ChatGPT after abandoning it for Claude. I must say I was stunned at how good it had become and also how they introduced new product features that I really liked. I wonder if from now on we have to switch providers
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by baxtr 2mo ago
https://archive.is/KXIYN
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by baxtr 2mo ago
I posted this a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990399 Maybe it helps you as well. Additionally I highly recommend the book "Indistractable" by Nir Eyal. Best book on living a distraction free l
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AI text watermarking is not a big deal(seangoedecke.com)
2 points by baxtr 2mo ago|0 comments
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by baxtr 2mo ago
Is China still rising or already in decline?
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by baxtr 2mo ago
I think it’s right if it’s corrected for one thing: It’s not about working hard but about creating the perception that you’re working hard for the company!
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John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter of Advice to His Teenage Son(themarginalian.org)
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by baxtr 2mo ago
I noticed this with Claude a lot. Fable sounds often like a philosopher. Some conversations reminded me of books by Kant.
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by baxtr 2mo ago
> Gaby Luisa was standing outside a dance club in Arizona earlier this summer when a man wearing glasses threw out a pickup line. “Did I just run into my future wife?” he asked. She politely let him know she wasn’t interested and moved
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by baxtr 2mo ago
Do you mind sharing a link to one of these videos?
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by baxtr 2mo ago
YouTube
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A global pipeline-investment boom is under way(economist.com)
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by baxtr 2mo ago
I didn’t find any mentioned of the well studied Hawthorne effect known since the 1920s or so. It describes the psychological phenomenon where people improve their social behavior simply because they know they are being observed, for example
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by baxtr 2mo ago
Let’s consider this logically: What kind of people will not wanting children likely select for? At least two kinds come to mind: 1) People who love children and are willing to have them regardless of the impact on their financial situation.
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by baxtr 2mo ago
I met a guy just recently who separated from his gf because she wanted to have children. He didn’t. If you’re advocating consequences it should apply to both sexes.
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by baxtr 2mo ago
Do you mind sharing the SaaS you were able to replace? If you don’t want to share the name, category would be interesting as well.
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by baxtr 2mo ago
Imagine a world where a bunch of guys are walking around with LLMs wired into their heads. What could possibly go wrong?
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by baxtr 2mo ago
The number 1 rule of the powerful: never ever admit anything. Deny, deny, deny.
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by baxtr 2mo ago
You should get your facts right, this is a propaganda myth.
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by baxtr 2mo ago
there is far more good news than bad news, but unfortunately the human mind reacts much more intensely to the latter.
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by baxtr 2mo ago
The whole point of the anecdote was to showcase that it shouldn’t matter what harness she used. That’s why the question only makes sense if it was relayed to the laywoman, in this case.
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by baxtr 2mo ago
I thought the idea was to test if she gets along without any help
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by baxtr 2mo ago
How should his friend know what a harness is?
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by baxtr 2mo ago
It’s a fun idea to re-animate dead google products by feeding product videos to an AI
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by baxtr 2mo ago
I think this is a protypical discussion in tech. I have seen it soo many times in different areas. The purists ("that’s how things ought to be!") and the pragmatists ("well but it works well and people understand it seemingly
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by baxtr 2mo ago
Google’s culture seems so different from Apple’s which sometimes comes across as overly mature… which I personally prefer though!
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WTF Happened in 1971?(wtfhappenedin1971.com)
4 points by baxtr 2mo ago|1 comments
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by baxtr 2mo ago
I have never understood why it’s not possible to deselect a floor once you’ve pressed the button.

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