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by jrflowers 4mo ago
I am trying to parse this post because it sort of reads like “My neighbors are dumb and we care about the same things” but I can’t figure out why someone would write that How did we get from you saying that you didn’t understand the post th
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
Look everybody it’s 1670s London haberdasher Jonathon Holder!
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
tptacek is arguing that he, specifically, does not care about the Hetzner price increase. Anything outside of that (eg the cost spike in consumer computing https://www.trendforce.com/presscenter/news/20260310-12959
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
If we’re going to define what’s good for the general public based on a single arbitrary product from a company of our choosing, the Steam Deck just got a $300 price increase for the same hardware.
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
I like that you said that it’s not meant to be taken literally and then explained how it is literally true
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
> You don't know how to build a home. I do. Sweet, how do you build a house? > I take the $500k from you and then pay $450k to a bunch of employees Oh. You don’t know how to build a house. You know people that know how to build
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
> Maaaybe we need to revisit some of these easy assumptions on your list? Nobody said that banning Airbnb would by itself make buying housing in New York more accessible. It’s not an assumption that anybody in good faith ever made.
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
Some of them do, like Black Bear Ranch. I’d wager that there are more that just don’t advertise.
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
> (presumably) some qualm This sounds like you’re imagining how prosecutors as a group sort of feel about things, generally, and that this notion you’ve thought of outweighs the demonstrable real-world system where prosecutors are awarde
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
Why would you do that
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
The other party needs to run better candidates. It’s their job to drive voter turnout in their favor (not internet argument warriors) and they’ve lost two out of the last three elections by sabotaging their own primaries and doing “Our ca
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
>So you see why it's an important distinction. No it isn’t. Your treatment of the word ‘opinion’ is wrong. Opinions are subjective, you can’t construct a gotcha out of pretending otherwise.
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
> rejecting out of hand the idea that there could be a true threat requiring genuine caution. What true threat could possibly exist where the models are perfectly fine to use, just only by American citizens?
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
Are you asking somebody what evidence they have that their observations are wrong? Like “I see you have an opinion there. What facts are you aware of that disprove it?”
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
Imagining a time machine from the future arriving in 2020, of all the years, just to tell people about how sort of cool chat bots might get eventually
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
Thanks!
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
I think GP meant Cortana from the Halo video game series and not the start menu bar widget
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
It’s a pretty glowing review about a product that costs money with a two-sentence “Watch out!” at the end of it. Seems pretty reasonable to mention how much money it burned through given that “it’ll circumnavigate the globe instead of walki
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
I’d love to know how many tokens this burned through. Did it spend $20? $30? $80? in order to > debug what was, in the end, a two-line CSS fix That detail is the difference between somebody having or not having Stockholm syndrome
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
“A business that does things that customers actually like is a charity” lmao
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by jrflowers 5mo ago
Looks like it’s 380 in the Swiss Plateau (you might be mixing up sq km and sq mi), which puts its at about ~70% of the population density of the Netherlands as a whole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Plateau
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by jrflowers 5mo ago
If you increased Switzerland’s population density by 50% they’d be in a crowded hellhole like (checks notes) Belgium
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by jrflowers 5mo ago
They wiped out anybody that was hampering their businesses. Leaving the rest as an impossible barrier to entry for everybody else is a feature, not a bug.
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Gemini is currently charging us $1K per hour due a bug with the cache feature(twitter.com)
6 points by jrflowers 5mo ago|2 comments
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by jrflowers 5mo ago
I am not sure what to tell you here, because somebody literally posted the code of a bug that Claude inserted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419197 And your response to someone pointing out that sloppy, buggy c
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by jrflowers 5mo ago
The only reason why people are talking about this is because of the bugs in the code that the chat bot generated OP. People updated to a version of rsync that didn’t work right, the one with all the bot commits in it. This blog post is abou
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by jrflowers 5mo ago
Tl;dr: Yes, it did. Here is some math showing that you shouldn’t care about that.
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by jrflowers 5mo ago
A plunger is a tool for dislodging turds and detritus in a toilet
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by jrflowers 5mo ago
> I'm a guy and stereotypes exist for a reason. What reason is that?
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by jrflowers 5mo ago
>GPT thought No it didn’t

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