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by xnx 4mo ago
Extensions are a much greater security risk than ads.
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by xnx 4mo ago
This is a common myth. I've used uBlock Origin Lite for months (a year?) and still see zero ads. I'm extremely intolerant to ads, so I would leave Chrome if ad blocking stopped working.
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by xnx 4mo ago
I prefer music abundance to music scarcity even at the cost of exclusivity. TikTok has been great at exposing me to songs I wouldn't have found on my own (e.g. Ketjak · Eberhard Schoener · Bali-Agúng https://www.youtube.com&
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by xnx 4mo ago
Smart to borrow when money is cheap if you think you can do something more profitable with it.
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by xnx 4mo ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601162
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by xnx 4mo ago
Is that worse than if Microsoft Exchange only worked with desktop Outlook?
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by xnx 4mo ago
Related: Pear-shaped scooter that's making the rounds on TikTok https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a71446039/florida-man-pear...
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by xnx 4mo ago
Also, everyone wants to live in the same dozen places.
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by xnx 4mo ago
SSD was a big turning point. Before that, there was more case for a database server.
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by xnx 4mo ago
Ah! Thank you. I missed that.
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by xnx 4mo ago
Today I learned that he also did (all of?) the sound effects for Doom. RIP (and tear)
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by xnx 4mo ago
Yes. I meant to point out that "million dollar home" has a certain psychological meaning but it's the same as what a $750K home was just 7 years ago. Mortgage payment vs. household income is probably the best way to assess af
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by xnx 4mo ago
AI (like alcohol) is the cause-of and solution-to all our problems. Computer: Rewrite this python code in Go. Make it memory efficient.
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by xnx 4mo ago
Owners don't want it built. Owners vote. Non-residents (and many renters) don't vote.
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by xnx 4mo ago
Remember $1M today is the same as $750K in January 2019. https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
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by xnx 4mo ago
They almost certainly wanted 3.5 Pro out for Google IO a few weeks ago. They're still crunching on it. No ETA given. Would be fascinating to read about the behind the scenes stories (failed training run?) if they ever get told.
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by xnx 4mo ago
Giant hot air balloon for lift + 4 rotors for steering? It wouldn't be fast, but it might work [in low wind conditions].
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by xnx 4mo ago
> the fallout from this phase of the industry is going to be an exotic form of technical debt This is a common sentiment and possibly motivated by the belief that writing "clean" code was right all along. Even odds that an AI 2
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by xnx 4mo ago
> models have no moat Possibly true. Any smart innovations developed by one organization will be smuggled into others. Training, inferring, and data collection, infrastructures are definitely moats. High-volume usage feedback is also har
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by xnx 4mo ago
https://archive.ph/qwK73
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Don't Blame Plunging Birthrates on Phones(nytimes.com)
3 points by xnx 4mo ago|3 comments
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by xnx 4mo ago
Craigslist is one of the few sites with a UI even better than HN. Totally fits that Craig would have this type of character.
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by xnx 4mo ago
Epidemic of Linkedin/AI style writing here recently. Bring back plain and direct writing. The most important information should be in the title and first few sentences. If you have to tease out what little you have to say, I'm gon
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by xnx 4mo ago
Some say text files work even better: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-th...
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by xnx 4mo ago
> two-person startup is back fund-raising for Modos Flow, a 13.3-inch color e-paper monitor with a higher native resolution of 3,200 x 2,400, touch input, and a 60Hz refresh rate Those are some mighty specs. Godspeed.
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by xnx 4mo ago
> I immediately skip all youtube ads that are AI generated Why not skip all of them? > I can easily spot them You don't know which ones you can't spot.
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by xnx 4mo ago
American exceptionalism is regressing to the mean.
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by xnx 4mo ago
This does suck for Google. Noam will take a lot of Google trade secrets with him to OpenAi. Google's bench is deeper than this one guy though.
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by xnx 4mo ago
> metrics tell a totally different story. Our customers hated it. Customers hating it only matters to decisions makers if it can causally be connected to lower profit in the next quarter. Otherwise, the immediate cost savings take preced
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The Agentic Resource Discovery Specification(developers.googleblog.com)
3 points by xnx 4mo ago|0 comments

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