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by kbelder 3mo ago
>I wrote that comment entirely by myself, on my phone while waiting for a souvlaki. Perhaps the things that you consider AI tells are simply a use of language from someone in country with a different education system. Nah, your writing w
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by kbelder 3mo ago
I use them and I'm fine with them training on our information and knowledge. It's what it's for. No one takes it or steals knowledge; they just copy it. But because of that, I'm also ok with the Chinese doing it. The
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by kbelder 3mo ago
I'm not producing any youtube videos. I should let everybody know. (Reminds me of https://theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesn... )
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by kbelder 3mo ago
You can't make many national judgements based on the economics of the Bay Area. It's much more sane in nearly every other area (with some other outliers, such as New York City).
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by kbelder 3mo ago
Well, a short time ago somebody made the first LLM. Was that the end of it?
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by kbelder 3mo ago
Everywhere I've ever worked, if I went to management and said "hey, I've got some files from my last job, if you want to see them," they would say "absolutely not, please get rid of them RIGHT NOW," and probabl
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by kbelder 3mo ago
I was thinking that somebody (Me? No... Somebody.) should start a foundation to start making archive copies of models... not for usage, but because every model is a (somewhat flawed) snapshot of the state of global knowledge as of the tim
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by kbelder 3mo ago
I'm guessing this was initially '1.5 metric tons', and through a number of helpful and friendly conversions, ended up at 3,300 sugar bags.
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by kbelder 3mo ago
But AI generated linked content was explicitly not disallowed. At least not at this time.
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by kbelder 3mo ago
No, there were plenty of other reasons as well. I didn't downvote, but I wanted to at the second word.
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by kbelder 3mo ago
There were consumer 8-track writers, and you could buy blank 8-tracks. But it was more expensive and less common; just never caught on.
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by kbelder 3mo ago
>But I won’t let a discussion about X, Grok et.al ever focus on anything technical. Highlighting this sentence, because it exemplifies so much of the contemptable behavior in this thread.
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by kbelder 3mo ago
I kind of doubt that Twitter/X is any sort of net benefit. Boring company was a wash, Tesla is a net positive, although it also has some issues. Paypal was a huge advancement, although it's still deeply flawed. Grok may end up
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by kbelder 3mo ago
I actually don't believe that, considering the way you're defining that salute. In fact, somebody mentioning it is a clear indicator to me that they're engaging in bad faith... similar to seeing someone say "Trump told
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by kbelder 3mo ago
But at every point, your product was better if you still understood the lower level. Your Python is better if you understand Assembly.
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by kbelder 3mo ago
"Less than 5% of Microsoft’s half a billion commercial Microsoft 365 customers pay for Copilot features" Seems to me that 4.5% of 500 million isn't necessarily terrible. What should the rate be?
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by kbelder 3mo ago
How do you judge the caliber of a philosopher?
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by kbelder 3mo ago
>9 degrees F would be already be wild, but 9 C sounds crazy! Honestly, that shifts me firmly into the "I don't believe that for a second" territory. If anybody can actually show the studies with measurements where that ha
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by kbelder 3mo ago
It does a lot; just not any actual accomplishing of goals.
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by kbelder 3mo ago
This has been the standard in many rural areas since the post office was founded.
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by kbelder 3mo ago
When I was younger, I read that stars tended to have a bimodal distribution of rotational periods... many have a period measured in hours, and then another large group (like our sun) have a period of many days. The thought at the time was
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by kbelder 3mo ago
Plus, an important aspect of capitalism is that the employer/employee relationship is freely entered into or exited from on both sides. In communism, that typically isn't the case.
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by kbelder 3mo ago
I don't like how somebody is flagging/downvoting all your comments. This is about your product; it's highly relevant, whatever somebody might think about it.
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by kbelder 3mo ago
Well, restricting posts to those actually accessible isn't unreasonable. Allowing them is HN's worst policy, in my humble opinion.
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by kbelder 3mo ago
An important compilation target for Godot is mobile, since it's obviously a very large games market. And, since the Godot IDE is, itself, an app written in Godot, porting to mobile is almost free. More a question of tweaking than rewr
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by kbelder 3mo ago
https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2026/06/like-an-explosi... $3.86 million claim from a pothole. I'm normally pretty skeptical of damage claims, but that is a pretty nasty pothole.
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by kbelder 3mo ago
The issue isn't the big one. The issue is a minor tremor that happens to crack a vital support beam, or cracks a pipe, and causes $25k of damage.
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by kbelder 3mo ago
"I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University." (William F. Buckley)
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by kbelder 3mo ago
This is true, although I think it correlates more strongly with female participation in the workforce than earnings directly. And it's not a criticism of feminism, just a consequence that we should be aware of.
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by kbelder 3mo ago
Fascists are thuggish also. I didn't say anything in favor of them. More than one thing can be bad.

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