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by agar 2mo ago
This reminds me of the "I drink your milkshake" scene from "There Will Be Blood." Does the ACM really think LLMs haven't already consumed 90% of the content through other sources?
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by agar 2mo ago
I'm on Teams and Fable is now usage credit only.
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by agar 2mo ago
Note to the site author: Using Chrome's translate tool seems to break your UI. Upon first visit, I was prompted to translate from Portuguese to English and accepted. Subsequent visits required I click the "Translate this page&quot
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by agar 2mo ago
That was an incredible example and I'm frankly more impressed each time I read it at how well constructed it is. You really capture how sensitive the analogy section is to cultural or domain knowledge, and why the College Board elimina
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by agar 3mo ago
Perhaps. I do remember the discussion about whether the SSC consumed so much basic research funding that other areas would have their funding significantly constrained. Basic research has such a long time horizon it's interesting to th
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by agar 3mo ago
I wonder whether the cancellation of the superconducting supercollider was a net positive or negative for science. If it continued to completion, it would have had almost 3x the beam energy of even the upgraded LHC in 2030 (20TeV vs. 7TeV).
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by agar 3mo ago
Have you looked at media ownership recently? The days of a scrappy newspaper or local market newscast are over. Reframe your statement from "People in cities tend to be on the left. Journalism majors tend to be on the left" to &qu
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by agar 3mo ago
For what it's worth, the most effective propaganda is that which reinforces latent biases. Humans en masse are selfish, self-serving, and tribal, so it's incredibly easy to believe that there is massive abuse of social services li
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by agar 8mo ago
Because there is a law against people impeding or trying to influence people within 150 meters of an abortion clinic. Her admitted goal was trying to influence people entering. Will her defense be that she does not believe prayer has an inf
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by agar 10mo ago
Amazon is still at 5 9's availability, they just shifted the decimal point left once.
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by agar 1y ago
Reading the comments, this is both a "nothing burger" and a reason to geoblock California. It does too much, and too little. The costs are too high, and too low. It's an example of corruption, but also a good first start at r
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by agar 1y ago
Same can be said for search. And your statement is provably correct, depending on the definition of "good tool." But it's not only money's influence on the company, it's also money's influence on the /data
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by agar 1y ago
Isn't the Iocaine developer from Australia?
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by agar 1y ago
A great description was just posted as a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45068268#45070258
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by agar 1y ago
Little known fact: in the late '00s, PGP Corp had developed a free standalone "Viewer" to decrypt email if you didn't have the full PGP email product installed (the onboarding process walked you through initial key gener
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by agar 1y ago
Yeah, I wish I read the comments before reading the article. Thanks for the heads up. Honestly the article was not worth the read, let alone the spoiler.
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by agar 2y ago
FYI, you may want to revisit a couple of your "only me" points on the AVP with the release of the Quest 3S. The 3S has an IR blaster that allows it to work in total darkness. Meta also enabled a travel mode[1] a couple of OS revis
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by agar 2y ago
Do you know that you can create a Meta account with a one-time email address, fake name, and no connection to any other Meta service but the Quest platform? That may still be more connection to Meta than you prefer, but to many "Meta i
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by agar 2y ago
I agree that HN etiquette is generally more polite. However, this was in direct response to your comment to him/her: > I don’t think parent knows what he’s talking about. We can all do better.
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by agar 2y ago
> Where did it glow yellow? What time in the video? This is a better view than the sibling comment linked. It's a greater close-up and you can clearly see the yellow glow behind the engine bells. This view is from Cosmic Perspective
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by agar 2y ago
No blog post on this? No further info? No sample output? No way I'm giving this username/password credentials.
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Gauntlet by Donald R. Lebeau, 1984(forums.atariage.com)
2 points by agar 2y ago|2 comments
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by agar 2y ago
A forum thread about an obscure Atari 800 shareware game and the search for the registered version that was presumed lost. The developer appears and gives a lesson on 6502 game engine programming techniques - and the harsh realities of the
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by agar 2y ago
Indirectly related: before visiting Thailand I heard that 7-Elevens were everywhere (they were) and a core part of daily life for locals and tourists alike. I expected them to be more like the Japanese model, but was surprised that they all
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by agar 2y ago
Interesting that they chose an 8 meter diameter, probably assuming a launch on the 9-meter Starship as Blue Origin's New Glenn is only 7m diameter. It would be interesting to see a weight projection for a completed module to see how we
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by agar 2y ago
FYI, those use cases are the present, not the future, of tech. Co-watching TV? Big Screen: https://www.bigscreenvr.com/software Mini-Golf? Walkabout Mini Golf: https://www.mightycoconut.com/minigolf Table T
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by agar 2y ago
Symantec comes to mind.
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by agar 2y ago
If you actually listen to how Zuck defines the metaverse, it's not Horizons or even a VR headset. That's what pundits say, most of whom love pointing out big failures more than they like thinking deeply. He sees the metaverse as t
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by agar 2y ago
Nor could I. And I can't imagine sitting next to my wife watching a football game together on my phone. But I could while waiting in line by myself. Similarly, I could imagine sitting next to my daughter, who is 2,500 miles away at col
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by agar 3y ago
It's interesting how an analysis like this becomes a crucible for one's own preconceptions and biases. Anti-porn? It's because of the porn Anti-LGBTQ? It's because it's hard to have sex "when you're not ev

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