hightrix

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by hightrix 6d ago
Fandom and fextralife are the two “wiki” providers that do this. It’s best to exclude them both from all search results. Fextralife is even worse as it autoplays a twitch steam.
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by hightrix 9d ago
Door to door sales men are also "useful", they also help you reach customers. Everyone hates them. Just like ads. Additionally, there is no content that is made better by introducing ads. Ads do not improve any experience.
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by hightrix 10d ago
This is the lie advertisers tell themselves to be able to sleep at night. Ads are cancer on content. No one wants them. They only serve to make the presentation of useful content worse.
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by hightrix 11d ago
Then I wouldn’t shop there or I would use a “presentation” blocker. For movies, there’s a good reason I and many others don’t go to the theater anymore.
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by hightrix 11d ago
3. You can walk into an Apple store and buy a phone without looking at their PCs, tablets, wall of accessories, etc. Apple cannot force you to look at everything else in their store. Similarly, Amazon cannot force you to render the content
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by hightrix 11d ago
It's unfortunate that this is not a downvoted comment on a "hacker" news website. The internet used to be treated as a public service.
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by hightrix 11d ago
Access, yes. Display the content delivered from amazon.com, no absolutely not.
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by hightrix 15d ago
It shouldn't be a label at all. Pedofiles should be called as such, or worse.
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by hightrix 15d ago
Is he still working at OpenAI? If not, did he get fired? Otherwise, he resigned, did he not?
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by hightrix 16d ago
My company uses it. We have a bunch of seats in an enterprise plan and have been using it for 9 months or so. It's a great product compared to Copilot. It is also the first AI tool I used heavily outside of creating random images or
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by hightrix 17d ago
Did you drop this /s? They obviously were not.
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by hightrix 17d ago
Is this really new though? In the olden days, you had some engineers that REALLY cared about linting, various architectures, standards design, and so on when the majority of engineers just follow the spec and standards as is. You need thos
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by hightrix 17d ago
Do you purposefully not use any products that could be used to do anything harmful? A hammer is great for pushing nails into wood. It also can crack someone’s skull with efficiency. I’m assuming you do not use hammers then, right?
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by hightrix 21d ago
It would be even easier to track criminals if we required all people* in the country to wear always on devices with GPS, always on cameras, always recording audio that are illegal to disable or turn off. But that would be OK as long as a wa
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by hightrix 22d ago
And for this admin especially, 3. A way to censor content they don’t like or alter responses to present the admin in a positive manner
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by hightrix 22d ago
Care to expand?
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by hightrix 22d ago
Concerns about noise pollution and increased electricity costs are just morons? What about concerns about air pollution from unregulated diesel generators? Or using large amounts of water in drought prone areas?
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by hightrix 23d ago
I think I'll vote with my VPN protected piracy. If I'm not buying a thing, but instead a limited license to a thing, then I don't care about buying that thing anymore and I'll just take it. I doubt I'll be alone and
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by hightrix 23d ago
> Sergey Brin ($154 billion), the co-founder of Alphabet and seventh-richest man in the world, joined Musk, Bezos and others in being seated behind Trump during the swearing-in. You aren't cynical. Big tech absolutely bent the knee
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by hightrix 26d ago
https://download.edison.com/406/files/20262/202603121511/202...
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by hightrix 26d ago
> California's Public Utilities Commission has not been allowing SCE (or other utilities, like PG&E) to charge rates that would allow them to do the required maintenance to prevent fires. Source requested. SCE made billions in p
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by hightrix 26d ago
Yes. I work in tech and I'm either doing focused work or in meetings. This is the case regardless of in office or at home.
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by hightrix 26d ago
> But there are real problems that it solves and solves better than anything else. I disagree. What problems does it solve better than anything else? Any examples? The best solution is to NOT LIVE IN A SURVEILLANCE STATE.
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by hightrix 28d ago
> The only way radical authoritarians survive on 30% approval ratings is apathy. And voter suppression, vote manipulation, or simply force. I agree with you in that barring the above, there is no logical reason a vast majority of all ele
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by hightrix 28d ago
We do not need Flock in this current iteration of society. In utopia, we would also not need Flock. Privacy should be a human right.
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by hightrix 29d ago
> Democratic party should've stood hard against Antifa Democrats should stand against antifacism? What is your reasoning for this statement?
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by hightrix 29d ago
>This is just disgusting. And this instance is just one of the daily occurances of corruption under the trump regime. They are robbing us blind, destroying the rule of law, and using the constitution as toilet paper. This will take deca
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by hightrix 1mo ago
I don’t have a good answer but would like one. I’ve got a not too old desktop with a 4090 and 64gb of ram, I’d like a local model also.
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by hightrix 1mo ago
I’ve witnessed it first hand, WAY more work gets done when people WFH than in the office. The constant stop bus, or coffee breaks, or “let’s walk over to the other building for this meeting” taking 10 minutes rather than just opening teams
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by hightrix 1mo ago
Many workplaces are global. Even when I’m in the office, I’m still on Teams meetings all day long. Your conclusion is exactly my point. People should work on teams that fit their work habits. Where that falls down is when management hires f

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