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by pndy 7mo ago
There's equally complex dining and utensils etiquette in Western culture but it's largely omitted (or even unknown) on daily basis.
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by pndy 7mo ago
It's possible that due to Azure success they decided that consumer sector is a testing ground for their exploitation patterns, where they can test out how much their userbase can withstand before being seriously annoyed. And this is wh
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by pndy 7mo ago
Paint me crazy but for last ~10 years I'm having this weird feeling that FOSS embraces corporate-style of management, development for projects too much. The ethos of having a choices is slowly and steadily being replaced by "compl
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by pndy 7mo ago
Didn't MS rewrote whole panel again in W11? Surely they did that in W10 to re-implement Start menu they removed in W8
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by pndy 7mo ago
Nothing on limiting dependence on online account/services and forced hardware requirements. The rest sounds like every text people could read for decades during Windows installation. Sorry Microsoft, some people already transfer to a d
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Do Large Language Models Get Caught in Hofstadter-Mobius Loops?(arxiv.org)
2 points by pndy 7mo ago|1 comments
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by pndy 7mo ago
Plus code and data at: https://github.com/JaroslawHryszko/relational-framing-agenti...
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by pndy 7mo ago
> mexicans.aliens.gov You mean that 2023 "reveal"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37494876
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by pndy 7mo ago
What was that card game that supposedly predicted the outcome of the future? Was there revealing the presence of aliens in the deck? /s I remember reading shady sites in 00s, where the other side claimed that govts around the world w
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by pndy 7mo ago
Input (from that ancient "harro everynyan" meme clip): I wish I were a bird Output: Reflecting on agility and perspective today. If I were a bird, I’d be leveraging a 30,000-foot view to disrupt the ecosystem and scale new heights
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by pndy 7mo ago
I watched "Lower Decks" episode just to see how they portrayed Deep Space 9, how actors pick their old roles. While they did good job, visuals were giving me this feeling it's a distant memory that fades away. Weird thing t
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by pndy 7mo ago
For about 2-3 years now youtube itself is flooded with countless channels producing generated content. Whoever are the people behind this they know what they're doing and what kind of stuff will give them views and attention from vulne
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by pndy 7mo ago
Over 3 years ago I was in the hospital - they put me on shared room with other men of various ages. The oldest ones liked to talk for hours, doing all sorts "memberberries", elaborated expertises on current state of European, worl
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by pndy 7mo ago
Not sure when exactly that happen but decade years ago or so, people were sharing this spoofed infographic in which the Internet was a cable tv-like service where you'd pick big media sites you'd subscribe to, IPTV/streaming,
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by pndy 7mo ago
I have a hazed memory of a site/software that was collecting postcards from around the world from their users - as a form of appreciation or something. That could become a kind of a solution here but then again, some already mentioned
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by pndy 7mo ago
> They're equivalent to comment sections on news sites. In my country these are either gone or provided by facebook.
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by pndy 7mo ago
Surely that's what happen. They probably couldn't compete with reddit at this point and bots were a secondary issue. Hoping that the interest will develop on its own, partially by the brand knowledge among older users wasn't
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by pndy 7mo ago
Try this: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/462650-hacker-news-filter - works pretty well. And once again, mandatory tags feature which you could either use to hide content or "subscribe" to would help h
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by pndy 7mo ago
It's either some personal unquenched thirst for power or he thought that new digg will be as popular as these ~20 years ago, and that he'll be able to control content submitted and get paid for "promoting" it. I'v
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by pndy 7mo ago
Didn't that fee allowed to change account names of other users or something like that?
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by pndy 7mo ago
IIRC they were working together at the same time. The " 2001 " book set action around Saturn's Iapetus moon and so the screen initially was meant to follow it. But since it was impossible to create convincing planetary rings
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by pndy 7mo ago
Just assume that Ramans were "złote rączki" and everything simply clicks together. I mean, if they were capable to build such ships in the first place, it wouldn't be (and wasn't) a problem to fill these with capable env
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by pndy 7mo ago
So basically Avatar just without all the Smurfs huh? It would be surely minced thru to fit all the standard of the industry - and that's the fear I'm having while craving for screen adaptations of books today.
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by pndy 7mo ago
Perhaps you mixed plots together. "Rama II" takes on expedition to the second ship which ends with 3 people being trapped inside and put on a journey outside solar system. Then "The Garden of Rama" describes how thes
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by pndy 7mo ago
Yes, they did relaunch it as Guild Wars Reforged with Steam Deck and controller support and other changes https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_Reforged
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by pndy 7mo ago
I didn't expect to read bits of GW story here from one of the founders - thanks!
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by pndy 8mo ago
In two banks I was in in last 20 years before and after Payment Services Directive implementation, I was a secondary user to the account. I could do almost anything on the account which saved my mother lots of stress. It's enough for h
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by pndy 8mo ago
KDE Plasma community likes to recreate Windows environment and W11 application launchers instead of "recommendations" section have a more useful plain recently opened files. Which what Windows had not so long ago.
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by pndy 8mo ago
Nothing beats małomiękki
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by pndy 8mo ago
Also, no swearing, no criticism nor using "microslop" otherwise Windows will shock you. "Windows gets an anal probe" - Scu' you guys, I'm gewing Linux

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