stemlord

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by stemlord 10mo ago
This is already underway
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by stemlord 10mo ago
true but j cards hold the torch for diy unique and handmade artwork anyway
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by stemlord 11mo ago
they can reroute the money they were paying for Flock with
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by stemlord 11mo ago
This doesn't seem exhaustive though I guess I'd be super impressed if it were. For example I watched a pokemon dataset get taken down then go back up under a new name a couple times from huggingface sometime in 2023-24, fairly cer
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by stemlord 1y ago
>You can make content without monetization in mind. But it's like giving your time away. You're missing the point entirely, the content I refer to as more interesting is stuff people made for fun or on principle not because o
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by stemlord 1y ago
I find it incredibly difficult to shed any sympathy for youtube "content creators". Youtube was most entertaining, or at least most interesting before anyone was monetizing the platform. Same goes for most of thr rest of the web b
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by stemlord 1y ago
hacking used to be deeply political but i guess i've come to learn over the past 15 years here that such a label here is just whitewashing for the kind of neoliberal capitalistic selfishness that has fueled modern day sv following the
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by stemlord 1y ago
That's extremely unfortunate given that Unity is becoming financially hostile gouging enterprise customers, and apparently Godot is not quite mature enough to compete. Game engines are quickly becoming a problem
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by stemlord 1y ago
>The motivation? A healthy and productive workforce. The greater good. This is so outrageously naive
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by stemlord 1y ago
But we bailed them out during covid
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by stemlord 1y ago
>They might not raze it to the ground, that would have bad optics, but they’re certainly going to try to make life there unpleasant enough Did you hit send on this message on Oct 8 and it just went through?
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by stemlord 1y ago
What is even the point of karma farming on hn?
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by stemlord 1y ago
There is no such on-screen experience that is good for toddlers, imo
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by stemlord 1y ago
I think this is a good idea, given we now see how selfishly most people vote. If an 80 year old man is going to vote only for his immediate self interest and not even for his own generational legacy, then his vote shouldn't count as mu
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by stemlord 1y ago
impressive that you're a senior engineer after only 5 years
46.
by stemlord 1y ago
because junk food
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by stemlord 1y ago
Feature request: the ability to report illegally parked police vehicles
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by stemlord 1y ago
Yeah on my Android device I use an app called Breezy Weather [1] which shows me the temp, weather, and air quality on my lock screen. I'd love to figure out how to get an hourly weather widget on the lock screen though. [1] https:&#x2
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by stemlord 1y ago
ADHD is so stigmatized now that you cannot with a straight face tell someone "I have ADD" without getting an eye roll, unfortunately. many won't believe you were correctly diagnosed I've also found that there's no r
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by stemlord 1y ago
please don't quote the entire comment you're replying to
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by stemlord 1y ago
i think at least one unemployable generation of low skill workers will be sacrificed before this kind of thing becomes good news
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by stemlord 1y ago
Unity is predatorial. I work in a small studio which is part of a larger company (only 5 of us use Unity) and they have suddenly decided to hold our accounts hostage until we upgrade to Industry license because of the revenue our parent com
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by stemlord 1y ago
Sorry I wasn't able to extrapolate the answer from even that sentence lol
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by stemlord 1y ago
But why are people trafficking ants specifically? What do people want out of them?
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by stemlord 1y ago
It's my understanding that the issue is not that they're "espousing the right views" but rather that they have the constitutional right as a private institution to espouse whatever views their students and faculty want u
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by stemlord 1y ago
Seemed pretty clear to me: they not only don't pay nearly as much in taxes as local businesses but are subsidized by local taxpayers
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by stemlord 2y ago
Right, and the reason why professional developers are writing worse code out there is most likely because they simply don't have the time/aren't paid to care more about it. The LLM is then mildly improving the output in this
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by stemlord 2y ago
And I'll be the contra to your take: the iMessage ecosystem is so closed that everyone without iphones can barely even interact via sms with iphone users. This is overall such a huge problem that it makes the closed ecosystem security
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by stemlord 2y ago
>moving the web forward What constitutes "forward" to you
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by stemlord 2y ago
>most code will not be written by humans That cant even be considered a useful metric seeing as I spend similar time reviewing gpt written code

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