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by donkeyd 4y ago
What's the point of that? My mom who walks into a store doesn't adjust for inflation. Her income hasn't been adjusted for inflation, let alone exchange rate. Many people on HN can probably explain why the price is what it is
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> what the analogy to "radioactive fallout" will be from LLMs I think we're already seeing it. People don't understand that an LLM is just a text generator and add value to what the LLM says. See the article below for
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by donkeyd 4y ago
That was a lot of information compressed into a single sentence, but I think you hit the nail on its head. Most things I read about ChatGPT makes me think that most people don't understand what an LLM really is though and make assumpti
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> America, meanwhile, has decent native birth rate AND a culture that's always willing to accommodate new people. And a society that burdens people with debt causing them to work every waking moment while avoiding costly things like
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by donkeyd 4y ago
There's a lot of crypto shills that want to scare people into thinking fiat will inevitably fail, so people buy their imaginary currency.
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Almost exactly 2 years ago, I bought an M1 Air for €1050. That same M1 Air is still being sold by that same store, but now costs €1126. That's a 7% rise in price for a laptop that's now 2,5 years old. This is just ridiculous.
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by donkeyd 4y ago
This is fun for Flight Simulator 2020, click the button twice and fly from the first airport to the second.
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Is Mainsail better than Octoprint? I haven't heard of it before.
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by donkeyd 4y ago
I don't think it is. It starts with the design phase, which is arguably the hardest part, especially if you have no clue how printers work. It's much easier to just start printing pre-made stuff and then learn how to design your o
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> a good recommendation to go “from zero to hero” Below is pretty much how I did it: Step 1: Buy an Ender 3. It's cheap and there are tons of upgrades out there. Start printing stuff from Printables/Thingiverse in order to unde
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> while the lucky ones that got in early and made it rake in the profits In my niche(s), I still see new Youtubers pop up all the time that gain large followings and turn Youtube into a full-time job. Sure, they don't all become ric
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> This 10x productivity absense of a 10x expansion of programming industry (which is very unlikely) I think I disagree. If software then becomes 10x cheaper, a lot of use cases that used to be too expensive to build now becomes affordabl
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> leave for other countries, work for private entities or go into different industries. So... Those people fill in jobs in businesses/countries where there's a shortage, causing a shortage somewhere else? > political soundbi
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> coming generations will have put less effort in than previous This has been happening since the inception of school. Calculators made math easier. Sparknotes made book reports easier. Wikipedia made essays easier. > leading to a fur
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by donkeyd 4y ago
The Dutch experimented with pulse fishing [0]. This had some good benefits for the sea and didn't seem to negatively impact the fishing industry over here much. It was banned again by the EU, according to some due to lobbying on behalf
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> What is the benefit of direct to consumers is you are going to charge more? I'm going to guess there's a very specific target market for this, 'lazy' people with a lot of money who don't really do a lot of rese
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Most people have only their phones, which can also break. But some people only start thinking about that stuff when they look at alternatives like the Yubikey. > they can just break when plugged into a laptop that takes a dive So can the
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by donkeyd 4y ago
It's all just numbers at that point though, the actual money means nothing. He gets to be in the public eye and news all the time. Gets to be defended by fanboys while making fun of disabled people and laughing at design people who wor
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> slow, reasoned, logical thinking that places a high emphasis on internal consistency Seeing it written out like that really makes me understand why (unaware) hypocrisy annoys me so much.
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by donkeyd 4y ago
The ford Fiesta (ST) and Focus (ST/RS) are discontinued in favor of more MPV/SUV type cars. It's such a shame because they're great cars.
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Is it though? > and those useless HR departments staffed by those who can't do real work As written by a guy who is: > author, reporter, editor, blogger and columnist So he just writes about stuff others are doing. Would that be
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Have to say I dislike the fact that Mimestream will cost money, but they don't say how much yet. I don't want to get used to something that will then cost more than I can afford. I don't mind paying, at all, but if it's
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Tobacco companies. No matter what happens, they just seem to be making more money.
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> Not sure how that works exactly My gusss is: If they take a cut in crypto and that crypto increases in value, that increase wouldn't be turnover but it would be profit?
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> few people who won hackathons went on to achieve big things because its a marathon not a 48 hour race It's not just that. It's also because hackathons often favor the flashy over the feasible. The one time I joined a hackatho
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> Is this the real Seymour Hersh? I feel like too many outlets are glossing over this question and are reporting it as fact that he wrote it. I haven't found a single confirmation that he actually did so if anyone has one I'd l
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> The "agree to disagree" is often used as an escape hatch for hypocrisy. Sometimes. Other times it's a great way to point out that hypocrisy by pointing out you all have the same information, yet you come to different con
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> A conversation can be much, much more than a clash of opinions. It can be, but sometimes it isn't. Those are the cases I was talking about where agreeing to disagree can be a good outcome.
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No, they don't. It's not just the CPU, it's also that phones will often take bracketed exposures and use sensor data to align them correctly and automatically create an HDR image, for example. Either that or taking lots of sh
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> the point of a conversation is to win I have a feeling that a lot of people think this. Coming to an 'agree to disagree' is really had for some people. Sometimes there's no other option though, because both people seem t

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