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by sillyfluke 5mo ago
Not sure you're aware, but the joke may be on you. It's apparently Putin who's convinced Trump and the Mullahs (not the band) to choose civility over babarity by allowing a superyacht of one of his cronies to pass through the
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
dupes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835490 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845197
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
>Part of me wonders if Karp might just be mocking recent rants by the Trump & Tech Bro's gang. You haven't been following Palantir in the news in Trump's second term I would wager. This is definitely not the case. If i
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
I could have sworn Nelson Mandela played Fortnite growing up. weird.
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
If it's interesting to note that there are mostly nuanced takes and positive vibes in the thread, and an otherwise low-value meta comment is deemed to be a worthy top comment for saying so, then I suggest an auto-generated AI summariza
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
I end up eating a similar breakfast when I visit Swiss/Austrian/Dutch friends in their natural habitat.
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
>people also want phones these days that are physically durable, Anecdotally on this front, I have had to replace the screens of my iphones at least three times in the past (different models). Incidentally, I have never needed to replace
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
I don't understand why people don't just say "This is wrong. try again." or "This is wrong because xyz. try again." This anthropologizing by asking why seems a bit pointless when you know how LLMs work, unles
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
>That cynicism means civic disengagement By what metric? You have to go through Scandinavia, Germany, Spain, and a few Eastern european countries before you get to the US on voter turnout. Not to mention labor unions striking as a form o
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
They don't just wake up one day and want to do this. They fear losing their power and want and try to maintain it at considerable cost to others due to that fear. The dynamics of society become such that the power imbalance and wealth
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
Like you said, it is a failure of imagination. When someone says, "the billionaires and trillionaires won't need anyone else," the dystopian scenerio is not neccesarily "therefore other people won't exist or will ev
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
>The Agile industry moved beyond The Agile Manifesto almost as soon as it was popularized. Yeah, spending the amount of words in this thread trying to diagnose or complain about this simple problem in abstract strokes seems silly and fra
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
Is this sarcasm? What do people who don't want bluetooth on startup under any circumstances do?
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
It's always good to state if the Iranians you know are currently residing in Iran, for clarity. Your paraphased quote also implies that there must be actual regime change for the deaths to be worth it (ie, no IRGC).
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
>There are many hobbies with which people can kill themselves...A grown-up person has rights and bears the consequences of negligence Fyi, the reference to Asia is not about people killing themselves, it's about passing off inadvert
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
I honestly thought this post was going to be about the Iran war.
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
I must live in the upside down. If there are any ardent anti-AI people I come across they're techies. Whereas non-techies are either oblivious or completely and comically locked-in as caricatured in that South Park episode.
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
Speaking of GUI weirdness, I've seen a couple of relatively newer macbooks do this thing where the laptop is shutdown with wifi disabled, but after login on startup the wifi icon displays the wifi scanning mode as if the wifi is enable
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
This comment is amusing considering Tony Blair was one of those notable weird politician converts.
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
When you think about it for more than a second, the title seems ridiculous. It would seem Vietnam and Afghanistan exceed this humiliation by orders of magnitude when considering their cost in blood and coin with nothing to show for it. But
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
It's weird, I don't know how normally pedantic comp sci. people let this meme that the Turing test is beaten by LLMs to spread so unchallenged. As far as I'm aware, there is no restriction in the Turing test that demands that
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
If you want to call it that, I find the confabulation in LLMs extreme. That level of confabulation would most likely be diagnosed as dementia in humans.[0] Hence, it is considered a bug not a feature in humans as well. Now imagine a high-sk
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
If your first priority is judging the author then yes. If your first priority is judging the company, as it is with many people in this thread, then it is less so. In that case, it only suffices to ascertain the truth of the author's s
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
>66F is ridiculously cold to me...I would find that very uncomfortable and elderly people would be shivering constantly and highly susceptible to respiratory illness. I know people who live in the Mediterranean and get by with no heating
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
Not sure, but by Bradley Cooper's admission even his mom is hooked.
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by sillyfluke 6mo ago
>A tall structure designed to put the panels high up in the air and leave a lot of space for cars is a lot more expensive than normal rooftop solar or even field setups. Since you emphasized height of the structures that need to be built
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by sillyfluke 7mo ago
I'm guessing you wouldn't say this if you attended the paraolympics, or perhaps it would enforce your already held views, I'm not sure. But there are already 64 different classes of impairment that compete as far as I can te
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by sillyfluke 7mo ago
I'm relying on memory and it's a little pedantic, but did he actually ever experience life as a slave? His mother was a slave, but as I recall his deadbeat and slaveowner father accepted him as his son and introduced him to French
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by sillyfluke 7mo ago
A reminder that The Count of Monte Cristo is inspired by the mixed race father of the author, General Alexander Dumas, who also had a somewhat fascinating life riding currents of fate during the French revolution. The Black Count https:&#x
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by sillyfluke 7mo ago
>Even US hostage Merz is starting to stutter about it. Is he stuttering into an iron dome? "Volkswagen may turn car factory into Iron Dome hub with Israel partnership" https://www.business-standard.com/world-new

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