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by plorg 3y ago
Do BoringAI or LibreAI and it's just a fork but you ripped out all the old, bad stuff. (This joke doesn't really work because OpenAI is not really old enough for legacy cruft and isn't actually open enough to just be forked)
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There are also a ton of ~first mover advantages you can't benefit from, be they of untapped markets for demand or the exploitation of underpriced labor, capital, or IP. If Sam started a new company he would not get as good a deal on ha
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Ideology
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With all due respect, this is just the original article re-hosted, which I was under the impression we were advised against submitting as the canonical link. I really dislike MSN links like this because they make it very difficult to find t
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by plorg 3y ago
He's not necessarily taking about this, but titles can also be very long. I think of the Sufjan Stevens song "The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We
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As far as I can tell the justification amounts to, "it has our logo" followed by a lawyer's version of a meaningful look and the "yadda yadda yadda" gesture. And because Homeland Security is largely unaccountable th
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So by that description we're still talking space tugboats. I guess the advantage is supposed to be a lower chance of collisions damaging the tug and producing extra debris?
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I think the author is also try to describe how cyclists train and how recent findings about recovery allow athletes to be constantly consuming calories. But the article is vague and repetitive and it's hard to know exactly what the aut
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by plorg 3y ago
The earnest answer is I wanted to play my ripped mp3s and recordings off the radio on my computer at home. We had slow dial-up and 4 kids fighting over it, but I had my own non-internet-connected computer and an early flash drive, and the s
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Firefox Reader mode works pretty well, but I don't know what the FF situation is like on iOS. I know you can download adblockers for Safari that may improve your experience.
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In the early 2000s I couldn't download Winamp 3 at school because the URL contained the string 'mp3'. I'm sure the school did not care about the distinction.
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If they're delivering a single unit from the factory to your door with a round trip that's a pretty reasonable price regardless how silly the product may be.
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Then also, which specific conspiracy theories were actually confirmed? Part of the problem is that the kernel of truth in the theory is scaffolded out to "justify" the much broader, wilder claims.
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What's weird about this article (and maybe about its reception on HN, although it does further some popular narratives on this site) is that if you have ever known someone diagnosed with a glioblastoma you will be familiar with some ve
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The extent to which adding any mining data center is "good", even assuming that Bitcoin is "good" is incredibly abstract. Yes, it may make that one miner more money, but it creates no new net economic value, its only val
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By analogy it must be good if I just start burning gasoline in a pit because my increased demand will cause oil producers to invest in more drilling and refinery capacity. In fact, if we were just burning gasoline in pits in the 70s we woul
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by plorg 3y ago
The post recommends using lockdown mode and cites an Apple representative saying it would have prevented this exploit.
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The series started with the author writing about the comedy club owner violating Covid restrictions in NYC, which is a perfectly fine subject for journalism. The article you are looking at is a response to the comedy club guy pissing about
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Cool. I've been looking to record a bunch of gravel around where I live (and a bunch of minimum maintenance roads) in addition to the relatively minimal bike-specific infrastructure.
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If you don't mind me asking, what kind of camera/setup do you use? How do you find the results? I have been experimenting with this but the equipment I've been using (a mediocre 4k360 camera) gives pretty bad results, and I&#
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by plorg 3y ago
You can submit your own 360⁰ photos to Google Maps and they will appear in Street View. You used to be able to submit whole tours with navigation through the Street View app, but that functionality is now mainly reserved for paid 3rd party
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by plorg 3y ago
I could personally take or leave live readings of Wikipedia. I wouldn't do it, but I have also gone on my share of solo wiki binges. There's no problem with learning about things. The thing that bothers me is a room full of people
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HN demonstrated its common ability to surface prolific posters who identify as autodidacts and appear to have gone on a Wikipedia binge this morning, but who nonetheless speak with a confidence that until now may only have been demonstrated
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AMO account isn't actually required for the user, it's required for some entity to create the "collection", but you don't actually have to have an account to use whichever collection with FF on your phone. Certainly
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You're making distinctions without differences. This kind of metaphorical speaking is very common in English and is well-understood by people not looking for pedantic argumentation. I will grant that it may be a bit subtle to non-nativ
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I've never given much thought to this, but I use Windows at work and Linux at home and haven't clocked the difference. At work I mapped the up-and-right thumb button on my mouse to "Enter" and the down-and-left button to
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by plorg 3y ago
With all due respect, if I am interacting with your chatbot it's usually because your website provides zero ways to reach an actual human. I have lost count of the amount of times I had a specific problem not addressed in the FAQs, loo
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See about a dozen comments in this thread, PayPal owned it post-acquisition until 2017 when Musk bought it back.
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It could also mean anything from "killing Muslims is fine" to "pursuing a millenialist apocalypse", because "Judeo-Christian" is a political idea more than a moral/ethical or religious one. It contains the
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You can add a root certificate to Android, but if you're not a superuser (haven't "rooted" your phone, different usage) you can only add it as a "user" certificate, not a "system" certificate. After I

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