thoroughburro

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by thoroughburro 1y ago
Outdoor Gear Lab is great, it’s true.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
“A friend group with an idea to share”
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
You changed the phrase from “runs Windows software and games” to “compatible with Windows software and games”. I’m talking about the former phrase. The latter does imply more, but I didn’t say it; you did.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
The bubble will pop, just like the web bubble popped; and that’s going to suck. AI technologies will remain and be genuinely transformative, just like the web remained and was transformative (for good and ill).
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
No, I don’t agree. And Linux does run Windows software and games; I use this ability all the time. Are there really people who read that and think “ALL Windows software and games” is implied? Bizarre to me.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
But you agree the quote I responded to was incorrect, right?
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
LibreWolf also connects and syncs seamlessly to Firefox Accounts.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
> Here’s something the iPhone isn’t getting anytime soon: honest-to-god browser extensions that you use on your desktop, also on your phone. This convinces me the author is not knowledgeable about current browser capabilities. They proba
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
The future Canadian worker is a Canadian with Indian ancestry, you no doubt mean.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
The heat pump is already so efficient that, I assume, adding something less efficient just makes it worse.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
Do you have readers, or is it just for you?
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
I’ve tried Marginalia about… probably 10 times, at this point? Every time I want niche search results. I haven’t found an interesting site through it, yet. I love the concept and want it to work! I pay for Kagi; I value search.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
By “processes food hysteria stuff”, do you mean “the growing research consensus around ultra-processed foods”?
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
This is the Great Man Theory. It’s a child’s view of history. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
This argument doesn’t hold now that Firefox’s smaller and less funded competition manages to deliver. Being forced to use a webview does not leave you as helpless to implement features as Mozilla stans claim. https://kagi.com&#x2
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
> I keep seeing this line as if people think CEOs shouldn't exist or aren't worth their compensation. That is incredibly incorrect thinking. Good CEOs and bad CEOs are two different creatures and lead companies to very differen
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
Lobbying the government to restrict his employees’ freedom to marry who they want was indeed a political “ideal”, but its actual content is of course important to the context. You make it sound more noble than him trying to make his persona
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
> Since a word from another language cannot be an English word This is false, so your argument is also false.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
You imply it’s the hackers or Hacker News that has changed to create a negative atmosphere. From my perspective, however, it’s the direct result of a very long series of hostile-to-hackers decisions made by Mozilla.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
Your argument is that the wording of headlines is so meaningless as to always be beneath comment? Seems silly.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
It was an extremely common criticism of the passive voice. Yours is the weird take.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
I wish I had your confidence in our now-stacked Supreme Court. And military leadership.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
You’re offering to doublecheck measurements made with a bad ruler by using that same ruler.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
And then make sure the arguments and evidence it presents are as the LLM represented them to be.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
No. A certain gene expression can just be gone forever. Nothing guarantees the desired expression will evolve again.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
> Feel a bit dirty doing it but that's ok I've got 12 vacuums that can clean my conscience. All it takes to lose civilisation is for everyone to think as selfishly as this.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
> If the entry is in English, and the style demands sentence case, convert to sentence-case and output Nope: not possible to automatically determine which capitalised nouns are proper (and thus remain capitalised in sentence case) and wh
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
It has menus, a toolbar, and the AI integration is opt-in.
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by thoroughburro 1y ago
Trusting LLM advice about poisons seems… sort of like being a test pilot for a brand new aerospace company with no reputation for safety.

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