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motorest
1y ago
> they have a branding problem - they are starting to being perceived like a snobby brand with ridiculously overpriced products sold as a status symbol - a Balanciaga of creative tech basically I don't think your opinion is well gro
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1y ago
Is there any conceivable interpretation of how this story unfolded that doesn't lead to the conclusion that the current US administration is thoroughly and alarmingly incompetent?
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> Instead of time it should be energy (...) Then the MBP and H100 are on a more even footing. What exactly is your point? That instead of expressing workloads in terms of what a laptop could do, you prefer to express them in terms of wha
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1y ago
> Plenty of apps violate this assumption and do allow GET requests to alter state. Yeah, that's not a justification. From a RESTful API design perspective, this just means plenty of apps are buggy/critical design problems. A bu
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> I'm not so sure sycophancy is best for entertainment, though. I don't think "entertainment" is the right concept. Perhaps the right concept is "engagement". Would you prefer to interact with a chatbot that
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1y ago
I think the so-called elites are already smelling blood in the water, from the way some billionaires are investing in doomsday bunkers. What strikes me as odd as that, even with all the signs of an impeding crisis, US's oligarchs still
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1y ago
> And research articles indicate that when the model computes that it should employ sycophantism it becomes less useful in every other way, just like a real sycophant. The end goal of a sycophant is to gain advantage with their flattery.
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> You are correct that my math was a little off; by the time it hit 50 comments the skeptics were starting to prevail. I think you didn't even bothered to read your own citation. The first comment literally leads with "This isn
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1y ago
> I read the thread when it had something like 50 comments, and most of them were treating it as either confirmed or at least potentially true (...) I think you're trying to fabricate an alternative version of reality while being aw
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1y ago
> Explain what about Gmail is "highly interactive" because I'm genuinely not seeing it. That's perfectly fine. If you can't see it, you can't see it. You need to know what to look for to see it, though. If y
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1y ago
> Are we, in fact, if we're being honest? Obviously, yes. > I haven't seen anything like that. 99.9% of applications I interact with are just simple CRUD apps. Irrelevant. Being CRUD is completely orthogonal to whether the W
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> Same. I dabbled in the second brain fad for a while, until I realized I already have a first brain. The way you chose to describe keeping engineering notes as "second brain fad" is telling. It says you mindlessly tried to fol
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1y ago
> Then there is the issue they seem to be shoting into all directions, with GUI frameworks, Web, Blazor, Aspire, to see what sticks. Can you elaborate on why you believe that? I mean, with GUI frameworks it's pretty obvious MS is pl
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1y ago
The blogger would do well if they invested some time learning about branded types. https://www.learningtypescript.com/articles/branded-types
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> I think the question we should be focusing on is why this is possible in the first place? No, that's specious reasoning. OP points out the possibility this is not even real. Do you have any indication that any of this is true? Tha
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> The Apple refurbished store has the same model (...) You have to admit this reads as grade A cope. Is it that hard to acknowledge that Apple price gouges all their product line?
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1y ago
This is AI slop, through and through. It's quite possibly a Kindle Unlimited scam, where the author tries to trick/abuse multiple accounts to browse through the book to falsify readership and get Amazon to pay royalties. Flagged,
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> A McDonald's recently opened near me with no seating, and orders can only be placed through the app or at the drive thru. I personally know a couple of Uber Eats restaurants whose only physical presence is literally a garage in a
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Pepe Auth
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> "€20/month from Hetzner" is great until you actually need it to be up and working when you need it. I managed a few Hetzner cloud instances, and some report perfect uptime for over a year. The ones that don't, I was
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Scary stuff. And these are the events that make it to the public. It even involved former police captains. As in plural. Who knows what insidious things have been done to silence bad reviews.
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> Lots of people misinterpret reports like You seem to be confused. I'm talking about planned service life, whereas you're talking about "misreading reports" that cite car age statistics. Please understand they are no
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> Move to the cloud they said. It will be more secure then your intranet they said. Only fools pay for their own Ops team they said. It seems that the fundamental issue surfaced in the blog post is that developers who work on authorizari
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Submitter here. I stumbled upon this link while reading the comment section of this post: Abusing Entra OAuth for fun and access to internal Microsoft applications https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44850681 It should be
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Microsoft identity platform – Secure applications and APIs by validating claims
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Data Replication Design Spectrum (2024)
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> You're reading that wrong. The average age of a licensed car is 12 years. So that means the average age of disposal is 24 years. I'm repeating verbatim claims from car forums made by people claiming to be automotive engineers
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> I always keep my ICE cars for at least 25 years. That's not what service life means. It's a design requirement that is used to drive probabilistic models that determine longevity targets for individual components, and also re
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> EV used cars are basically dead batteries. A quick googling shows some sources claiming EVs are in general designed with a planned service life or around 10 years. That's basically the same planned service life for ICE cars, which
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> Fair, but at the point you trust Amazon hosting your "local" LLM, its not a huge reach to just use Amazon Bedrock or something I don't think you even bothered to look at Amazon Bedrock's pricing before doing that su
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