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In you case it is not obvious that it would be a bad deal for the movie makers - perhaps, on net, it would get more people wanting to see the movie?
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You are not wrong, but I also think there is another part at play here: Facebook started out quite open and then gradually became closed (just like reddit and twitter). This is a new product, so they start out open and then slowly close dow
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The number of people in that actual danger is absolutely minute and not worth commenting on.
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Good point. Harry Potter is about a friend group fighting evil in a world of magic. If there is no magic, if in fact that world is less magical than the real world, then a big part of the appeal of the book will be lost. Magic is not a big
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Kids will use perplexity instead if Google does not surface enough good results.
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I don't think Harry Potter will stand the test of time that well. In the world of Harry Potter, there are no cell phones, no internet, no Google and no AI. For my generation that was no issue at all when we got into the books, because
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You should not think that LLMs are a good fit for anything. You should check if they are, and then try to guide it to be better at the task. You should do this because AI is a jagged frontier where humans can't predict if AI is good at
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I don't doubt that it is awesome as an experience. However unless it gets cheaper it is not going to get enough users, and without enough users it is not going to get enough apps. Software devs are expensive and businesses want to addr
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Yes. Very much so. Or at least one that charged SANE rates. I get 100 mb outbound on my resident ISP, and that is unmetered, but clouds that sit almost directly on the backbone somehow charge a nontrivial amount of dollars per GB of bandwid
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Thats a good point, however I might want to set limits higher than my normal usage, just not astronomically high.
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Amazon is not making money on Alex. Thats the problem. They assumed that people would buy a lot more this way, but in reality people just want a robot servant that sets timers and play music.
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I really, really wish there was just a way to put a hard limit on how much a cloud could charge me. I am never going to want to spend 200k of my personal money on some project on a cloud. Never. I don't even want my ant-based basket vi
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Very interesting. A couple of notes here on the C# version. Its using the old format where the Program.cs file has an actual class, whereas as of .NET 6 thats not required. You said barebones, but for any real server you would want to use t
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Counterpoint: I have gotten real value out of dumping broken SQL into ChatGPT and have it fix it for me. I could 100% have done that by myself, but it would have meant I have to go and google the right syntax. AI is great for me, but it is
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In the best world we wouldn't need guns. In this world, we do. The sad thing for me is whom it is used on and whom it is not.
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I am glad it worked for you. I have gotten good results from calendar blocking, so obviously I disagree with Davids rule about only putting things in the calendar that has to be done then. I can see his point for a physical calendar, but on
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I have a theory, to the effect that impacts on you are determined by the magnitude of the news as well as an exponential decay of the distance. To take an extreme example, if Godzilla were to show up and level Tokyo today, that would clearl
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It is one of those books that are really good, and really a product of its time. Most of what you get out of it you can read online and its methods need more than a little tweak today, because our digital systems are so much more powerful t
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Yeah it’s easier than ever right until you lose your iPhone and buy an android.
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I first started to block ads for privacy and to prevent those that takes over the screen, but once you have blocked ads once, you start to enjoy the actual peace and ability to concentrate. Plus ads are for shitty products, since good produ
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Entirely besides the point I was trying to make. I wasn’t trying to say that it’s a good idea for a team, but that git is complicated. Too complicated for beginners.
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Except that Firefox was there first with a free unbundled browser.
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Ah that’s why you removed the “summerize” this page option from extension? I must say I really hated that change, hopefully you will consider making a new extension?
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Search would just farm out ads or develop their own again: its two sides of the same paper, by necessity. Chrome is a loss leader and if cut out to it’s own company will die, because browsers are not a business that can make money anymore (
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On Windows, the default browser is edge, but Chrome is far more popular. What will happen is that people will use Bing without knowing it and then complain that “Google is broken”. To many people, search is google in the same way that a Kle
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It’s also a matter of politics. No amount of investment in public rail is going to make it so that disruptive elements are effectively removed to the same degree as in my car. That’s before we talk availability, comfort, etc. Other than sub
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This sounds like a really good idea, but I wonder if it works when you are writing to think. Like when PG writes essays, could this work for that?
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Git is pretty unnatural, but CVS? That is much closer to the "copy a shared file back and forth between people", except with nice things such as "keep track of who is editing what", "know what the latest edition is&
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LibreOffice can handle a lot (I don't know if it can do the more fancy font features LaTeX can yet) so the case here would be to stay on the command line. And Markdown, well, its great in that it is simple, but I tend to hit its limita
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Should have been rolling out months ago, but better late than never I guess.

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