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by vertis 3y ago
I really don't understand all the people discussing solutions and especially the passwords. Honestly have some respect and avoid ruining it for others. I'm really glad I solved it before coming here and reading through.
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by vertis 3y ago
It's a long term evolving thing > The working class is classically defined as that class which must sell its labour-power in order to survive.[0] It does go on to define working class as essentially blue collar workers, even highly
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by vertis 3y ago
This is why I like to say SQ Language and and AT Machine.
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by vertis 3y ago
How I miss Escape Velocity and Ambrosia Software. It was the first game I bought. Had to call the US at some weird hour from Australia and pay with Dad's credit card over the phone. I'm aware there are similar games like Endless
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by vertis 3y ago
I've found it very rewarding as a source of fantastical ideas. I like that generating items in mid-journey can break me out of one line of thinking even if that's because it's result is absurd.
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by vertis 3y ago
You should definitely stop everything and read it.
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by vertis 3y ago
I think my parents spent about $1600AUD on it, which seems cheaper that the originally priced $2200USD. My very vague memories are that I got it in January 1996, so about 6 months after release. I don't think, for me at least, it was t
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by vertis 3y ago
I took a laptop to school for the entire year in 1996 (year 10 at school) -- a Powerbook 190. It was a great machine, a grayscale sceen (16 grays) and a CPU with 33Mhz -> 66Mhz depending on whether it was on power, and a 500MB HD. It wen
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by vertis 3y ago
It's the same kind of question that gets asked of Christians and it's absolutely an attempt to cut into the faith. Trying to poke holes in religious texts is just obnoxious. I'm not religious but subscribe to the attitude tha
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by vertis 3y ago
The Quebec court disagrees. Google is defaming the plaintif, and doing so in a global manner. Both in their ranking that information as important and additionally in refusing to remove that information when requested. I'm really glad t
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by vertis 3y ago
If I'd been trying to get Google to do something for 15 years and they kept undoing it I'd believe Google wasn't acting in good faith either.
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by vertis 3y ago
Agreed. I mean democracies tell each other what to do in one form or another all the time. The US is not at all shy about pushing other countries around. Sometimes that's good, sometimes that's bad. So much international law is ab
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by vertis 3y ago
Given that this has been going on since 2007 this doesn't seem like the kind of frivilous lawsuit just going after Google's money. In fact it looks like the plaintiff made good faith attempts (and partially successful ones) with G
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by vertis 3y ago
While freedom of speech is protected in the United States, it is not an absolute right, and defamation laws are an example of a legal restriction on speech that is permissible under the First Amendment. Defamation laws are common amongst mo
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by vertis 3y ago
I don't understand how the website in question can avoid a direct defamation suit. While I don't really sympathize with Google in this case because they're somewhat kingmakers as they craft their search algorithms, and theref
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by vertis 3y ago
I pay the Estonian accountant (xolo.io) ~100€ a month and that covers just about everything required to keep the company in good standing. Minor amounts of admin to sign off the annual report (all done with my smart card).
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by vertis 3y ago
It's a fair point, and some of the context that's missing for the LLM is just present in the background for humans. You wouldn't need to be told, it would be whether you were in an acting class or creative writing class (thes
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by vertis 3y ago
It's all astonishing. I don't think it's so much surprised at the limitation as trying to explore the edges. Enjoying finding some of the emergent behaviours.
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by vertis 3y ago
No, I'm well versed in the limitation of the tech. The comparison to what a human can do is just an interesting comparison. It's a feat the GPT-4 model can manage in this context. GPT-4 is also exhibiting emergent behaviours that
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by vertis 3y ago
I'm yet to run into the limitations of either of these on free plans. Supabase seems to be making all the right decisions around feature set. Also, congrats on launching. Best of luck in capturing the market you're looking for.
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by vertis 3y ago
Sure absolutely, but would a human make this mistake? You can't pitch something that already exists (I mean in this context we're pretending, so maybe we can pretend we're pitching that book). But a human (and GPT-4 does) ass
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by vertis 3y ago
Without criticising the current Show HN, there are a bunch of existing Auth services that are free or close to free. - Auth0 (up to 7000 users, if I can read the comparison page right) - Supabase Auth (50,000 MAU).
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by vertis 3y ago
Disagree. You definitely need to reconsider the name. It was my first reaction as well.
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by vertis 3y ago
Prompt: Pretend you are William Gibson. Pitch your next book to your publisher. GPT-4: > Dear [Publisher], > I hope this letter finds you well. As you know, my work has always strived to explore the intersection of technology, society
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by vertis 3y ago
Various European democracies seem to have done fine, even if it is at times the coalitions become unstable. Australia, even with a 2 party preferred, still often has smaller parties hold the balance of power. Often this is quite beneficial
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by vertis 3y ago
Not forgetting that the government is ALSO taking money on the other side of the salary as well. I much prefer Estonia's system of taxation. Flat 20% on share dividends. Any money that stays within the business (or gets spent on wages,
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by vertis 3y ago
The reactions that brought a lot of people to Mastodon are one step in the right direction, but the slowly expanding pool of support is going to be a whole other problem for Twitter. There is no denying that Mastodon and the fediverse still
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by vertis 3y ago
I've been running a fairly custom jekyll blog for over a decade without feeling like it's painful. Does it run the newest Jekyll? Probably not, but since it's just a static generated site it hardly matters. The lighthouse met
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by vertis 4y ago
I guess that's one way of looking at it. You still want to remember the important things though. Memories are funny in that they can be highly contextual. So a picture you took in Copenhagen, however bad/amateur the actual picture
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by vertis 4y ago
I almost never delete things. It's a form of memory and I've definitely found it possible to go back through photos, emails and journal entries to remember what I was doing at that point. Memory is linked so it only takes a few sp

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