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by nailer 4mo ago
You're right, Florence!
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by nailer 4mo ago
If anyone's played Assassin's Creed II (or any of the Ezio games) (these older games were produced with help from historians) Ezio's scar comes from a street fight on Ponte Vecchio in Venice: https://www.youtube.co
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by nailer 4mo ago
Non-Android Linux does have users, but people don't use Airpods on their gaming PCs.
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by nailer 4mo ago
> Ambitious could mean so many things. It just means ambitious. That, I would have thought fairly obviously, encompasses more startups but also people wanting to better their lives in some way. > In the GaWC rankings it’s 4 tiers behi
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by nailer 4mo ago
It means more people in Miami are likely to be starting businesses than people here in NYC are. I’m surprised you couldn’t come up with a guess about that.
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by nailer 4mo ago
It is illegal under NY Penal Law § 240.40 to appear in public under the influence of narcotics or other drugs (to the degree that you may endanger yourself/others/property or annoy people nearby). This is a violation (not a crime&
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by nailer 4mo ago
The point re: Paris is that most cities would look better when compared to Paris on safety. > Only London and NY reach the Alpha++ world city designation. As someone that's spent the last two decades living in both, it's a litt
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by nailer 4mo ago
> I'm not sure where "social-justice warriors" comes in to play. See the DSA candidates in the recent elections including the major - they explicitly state they do not support prison sentences and in many cases do not beli
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by nailer 4mo ago
No, he's describing someone so stoned out of their mind they don't know how to drink a soda. I feel most people would read his comment and understand that.
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by nailer 4mo ago
Really? I lived in Greenwich village until last year and I’d have people threaten to kill me for politely declining to give them change. I live in Park Slope now and there’s violent people on the F line all the time. Maybe wealthy neighbour
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by nailer 4mo ago
If the LibDems won the election, he would have reduced tuition fees. The LibDems, however, did not win the election. If preferential voting happened, the LibDems and every other minor party could have had * vast ongoing influence over stude
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by nailer 4mo ago
Hrm. Labour was vastly unpopular. The biggest power move the LibDems could do was install preferential voting (which would harm the two party system by allowing eg 1 minor party 2 major party 3 other major party ...preference
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by nailer 4mo ago
> From what I gather, this is Anthropic-only because of disagreement there. What have you gathered? This very article is about the US government asking OpenAI to limit the release of models due to infosec / bioweapon concerns.
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by nailer 4mo ago
> Like, why would this be true Steel-manning the sovereign citizens movement (which I don't believe in): they believe authority comes from the consent of the populace, which is a true statement and in many countries founding documen
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by nailer 4mo ago
Nope, it's just: > Reid Hoffman has watched the AI industry from virtually every vantage point—as a founder, lead investor, and decade-long Microsoft board member. Nothing about him being an investor in 2 direct competitors.
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by nailer 4mo ago
Doesn't seem to work in Chrome 147.0.7727.137 or Edge 149.0.4022.69. Clicking the different options and then scrolling horizontally or vertically does not change any behaviour, appearance or animation. My understanding is that somethin
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by nailer 4mo ago
> API design, era by era: REST becomes the web's default 2012–15, then the post-REST generation splits: gRPC for service-to-service from 2016, GraphQL for the client from 2017. No. Looking at the diagram, REST is the default until 2
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by nailer 4mo ago
What AI startups is Hoffman the cofounder of?
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by nailer 4mo ago
> He is prominently placed in the field. No he isn't. He's the LinkedIn guy. That's his only success. Good for him but the LinkedIn founder doesn't know anything baout AI. > Has a lot to lose by knowingly making fa
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by nailer 4mo ago
And? Self driving works. I've taken a bunch of cars in Miami and UAE where somebody was at the wheel for legal reasons only.
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by nailer 4mo ago
It means why do we care what the LinkedIn founder has to say about xAI. The answer seems to be "we don't, he's on the board of a competiting AI company"
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by nailer 4mo ago
Not complaining about the downvoting but everything in this comment is verifiable from the links you provided.
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by nailer 4mo ago
Releasing open source tools showing off what you can do with your company’s APIs is part of the job description for a devrel (signed: a devrel).
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by nailer 4mo ago
AFAICT his manager and one of the champions for the tool was Addy Osmani, who is one of the top front end Devrel people globally and who has also left Google recently.
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by nailer 4mo ago
It’s a CLI for Google Workspace. Google Workspace is a genuine Google Product. Edit reply to person below (sorry, rate limit): > Just because you work for Google does not mean you can release products under their name. Releasing open sou
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LLMs do not merely reflect the bias of their training, they police it (2025)(twitter.com)
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by nailer 4mo ago
SBF was one of the earliest funders of Anthropic, Solana, Robinhood and Cursor, mostly around 2022.
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by nailer 4mo ago
It was directional and trendy - which meant it was short lasting. Like building your UI based on floaty 3D shapes 5 years ago, except these days it's much easier to change when you start to look silly.
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by nailer 4mo ago
Not ex-Microsoft, please answer if you are, but fear of Java becoming a universal runtime.
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by nailer 4mo ago
I swear they used to have a feature which offered to find a program that would open that type of file from the internet - it NEVER worked, but they did have the feature.

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