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by eCa 1y ago
> And so doing it myself feels like I'm deliberately choosing to be inefficient People have plenty of hobbies that are not the most "efficient" way to solve a problem. There are planes, but some people ride bikes across co
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by eCa 1y ago
Slight exaggeration: "Against the power of Mordor there can be no victory. We must join with him, Gandalf. We must join with Sauron. It would be wise, my friend."
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by eCa 1y ago
> and many more passengers would have survived than normal? This[1] kind of crash landing is very rare (in that case there was no fire despite being immediately after take off, perhaps because of the cold). Normally an outcome like this
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by eCa 1y ago
It’s not. Plenty of investors might skip investing in arms, petro, cigarettes or betting for moral reasons, even though it might yield more money.
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by eCa 1y ago
Agree completely that it's absolute wild to run such a system without backups. But at this point no government should keep critical data on foreign cloud storage.
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by eCa 1y ago
I read the piece (and enjoyed it) despite the first sentence. I’ve become increasingly sensitive to this kind of fluff. It’s not a hook, it’s bad read-bait.
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by eCa 1y ago
Plenty of new people are created every year, many of whom eventually gets their first ever phone.
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by eCa 1y ago
If it is for checking a box, sure. If it is part of a process that aspires to deliver projects with quality and with somewhat predictable release dates, that seems way too late, imho.
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by eCa 1y ago
I’m firmly in this boat too. If it’s a small change I can likely get it reviewed within minutes, if it isn’t small it should have a review regardless.
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by eCa 1y ago
€58 a month for all local/regional public transport is very cheap. Where I am, in another part of western Europe, a single-region ticket is normally ~30-50% more expensive than the all-of-Germany ticket.
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by eCa 1y ago
I don't use Alex so this doesn't affect me, but: > our plan is to continue serving you. How many months until OpenAI no longer feels it?
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by eCa 1y ago
In the current situation wouldn’t that just mean one more layer that don’t know how to price their product?
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by eCa 1y ago
That’s the thing. The canaries died before the miners realized they were in danger, due to their sensitivity of carbon monoxide and other bad stuff.
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by eCa 1y ago
> Like you realize humans hallucinate too right? A developer that hallucinates at work to the extent that LLMs does would probably have issues getting their PRs past code reviews a lot.
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by eCa 1y ago
Have you confirmed that this is true?
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by eCa 1y ago
> Meanwhile OnlyFans is at something like $30mm per employee Revenue 2023: $1.30 billion[1] Employees: ~1000 So they are at Palantir levels, which still is wild. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyFans
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by eCa 1y ago
> which I wouldn't be able to easily verify, I might even be convinced the LLM has actually demonstrated its case and has conclusively proven that it's right I think this example is one of many that has demonstrated why no outp
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by eCa 1y ago
The question to ask is, why are there less cars? Public transport. As an example, just the tram network had 57 million trips in 2019. The metro, 90+ million trips annually. The commuter rail network? 70+ million. (Source: wikipedia) So yes.
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by eCa 1y ago
Since many years.
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by eCa 1y ago
The whereabouts of system is used in all serious sports, ie those that follow wada rules.
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by eCa 1y ago
I would’ve thought jazz…
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by eCa 1y ago
We Celsius users use decimals if we need higher resolution.
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by eCa 1y ago
You would have been better off asking Wikipedia: https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_United_State...
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by eCa 1y ago
> Not everyone sees or intuitively understands things the same way you do. That is true. And some people don’t see.
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by eCa 1y ago
> This is why I find some of the comments on this thread surprising. Two words: Preference and choice. You prefer it one way and are happy. Other prefer it another way. The fact that they are unhappy is not that you can do what makes you
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by eCa 1y ago
This being 1982 I’ve never even considered that the form could be anything but paper.
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by eCa 1y ago
I (as a non-native English speaker) have pronounced it with a hard g since first i saw it (mid ’90s) and many years before I learned how the creator preferred it to be pronounced. I continue to pronounce it how I prefer it, not as a slight,
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by eCa 1y ago
It was an example of a use case familiar to many here. Some people use Github for more than just git.
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by eCa 1y ago
As an always-sitter, it’s always long enough.
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by eCa 1y ago
One example would be Github for personal projects. There are several other use cases where the phone is a factor for logging into services.

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