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by jjmarr 5mo ago
Last time I went to McDonald's, someone stole my food and I didn't get a refund. I ordered a McChicken + fries at the kiosk. Waited for 15 minutes at the counter before I asked where my food was. The manager took my receipt, said
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by jjmarr 5mo ago
> When parents explain why they work so hard to give their children the best possible education, they invariably say it is because of the opportunities it opens up. But what of the opportunities it shuts down? An elite education gives yo
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by jjmarr 5mo ago
You're missing the historical context. Prior to patents, inventions would commercialized as magic tricks and the mechanisms hidden. Then the inventor died and the secrets were lost. For example, Cornelis Drebbel air conditioned Westmin
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by jjmarr 5mo ago
SWEs get paid to get good at reading documentation on processes. I think HN is biased since we'll only escalate once documentation can't help us. I'm also bullish because AI coding agents give up easily if my problem is compl
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by jjmarr 5mo ago
There's not a single major US airline that is profitable on charging passengers for tickets and flying them to destinations. United is the closest, with only a 0.04¢ loss on every seat mile.[1] the other airlines lose 1-2¢/mile. T
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by jjmarr 5mo ago
The area it's installed in is famous for sculptures of figures that served the British Empire, generally in combat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_art_in_St_James... It's not exactly subtle. A m
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by jjmarr 5mo ago
Shouldn't it also show the version number of the browser the user is currently on?
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by jjmarr 5mo ago
My parents bought me lifetime OBC over a decade ago instead of an XBOX. I get 2200 Robux/month in passive income.
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by jjmarr 5mo ago
Basically, the game takes place in a medieval walled settlement. The person who's on the server the longest becomes the "leader" and gets to tax everyone/manage the settlement/build stuff. This is extremely profitab
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by jjmarr 5mo ago
It's a interactive prompt needing a webcam. You move your head to prove it is a live face.
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They automatically assign you to an age group based on AI/guessing/face verification. If you've been assigned to an incorrect group, you need to do KYC verification with ID.
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by jjmarr 5mo ago
The "child safety measures" was dividing the playerbase into age groups and banning almost all communication between them. The age groups are under 9, 9–12, 13–15, 16–17, 18–20, and 21+. Users only speak to other players ±1 age gr
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Floating Armoury(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jjmarr 6mo ago|0 comments
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
https://proprivacy.com/tools/ruinmysearchhistory Here's a site that automatically uses your browser to do questionable searches to get you on a watchlist. Try it! Nothing will happen.
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
It's the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta. Jewish Community Centers are targeted more for attacks than a YMCA.
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
The younger generation will split, as it always does, between AI-native and "hyperauthenticity" that rejects things even the previous generation accepted. Like how vinyl is outselling CDs. Rather than focus on "Verified"
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
How has AI affected your job and what tools are you using? What's an ask you'd make to startups in the legal AI space? Not selling something, but have heard primarily negative sentiments from other lawyers due to hallucination ris
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
Couldn't replicate this. I comment on HN with my real name. I put in my most recent "long" comments. https://kagi.com/assistant/dba310d2-b7fa-4d30-8223-53dadc2a8... For this comment on economics in the B
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I tricked 3M people into believing in an evil fake polycule(rawandferal.substack.com)
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It was profitable in a mercantilist world in which one must establish an empire ruled by force in order to obtain free trade. The British Empire had the largest free trade zone and made the most money as a result. After the Great Depression
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
Speaking as a C++ developer on GPUs, it's mostly the first. There's so many problems that no other language has due to the backwards compatibility guarantees Bjarne made to get companies using the language. For example, C guarante
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
He's right, though. C++ exists because it was compatible with C code. Not having to rewrite into Java was a major advantage and justifies most of the terrible design decisions made as a result.
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
Humans haven't interacted with computers by typing in "5 columns right, 3 columns down" since before I was born. They use a mouse and keyboard. Meanwhile AI agents are expected to guess pixels and fail each time.
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Sprinting/jump performances are invalidated for world record purposes if there's over 2.0 m/s of wind assistance. There is no rule for marathons.
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
People are not fungible but the role frequently is. You could be an AI infra genius, but if you're in a cookie-cutter consultancy role, that's the salary you're getting.
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
> the price that employers are paying new employees is literally the market rate, seeing as it's the rate in the literal market. I want to drill this into anyone that throws the word "below market" or "above market&qu
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
I'm making an LLM agent that can play DS games. The biggest blocker is clicking on the right spot to move things around in space rather than reasoning abilities. Arc AGI seems to test that as well. Every game is a rectangular grid to m
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If your team is 5 people then sure, it's fine. From my experience in a massive shared repo with unclear ownership...
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by jjmarr 6mo ago
Why would I go with Lute over something like Python if I was starting a new project?

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