cg5280

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by cg5280 1mo ago
So many websites do popups and it feels so anti-user. Maybe I get unusually annoyed, but I do not need a Gemini popup ad in Google Docs. Just let me do what I came to the website to do!
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by cg5280 2mo ago
It's a feature offered in ChatGPT and other platforms, though probably gated behind paid subscriptions.
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by cg5280 2mo ago
Getting opinionated replies about politics does feel less dangerous than the model shutting up completely when asked about past government atrocities. At least in the west we can freely discuss and criticize.
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by cg5280 2mo ago
Another area where an American technology brand is losing to the Chinese alternative. Alongside EVs, drones, robot vacuums, solar panels.
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by cg5280 2mo ago
I have been using Deepseek V4 Pro for personal projects and it has been great. I think the $20/mo GPT plan is still the strongest value, but only because you don’t have to pay API prices for tokens.
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by cg5280 3mo ago
In 2024, the average American spent about $17,000 on taxes. Nearly $4000 of that went to the DoD, about $3500 went to interest on federal debt. I think it’s fun to think about it in this way. I personally spend hundreds of dollars a month o
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by cg5280 3mo ago
I second this. I’ve been using it a lot (with OpenCode) for personal projects. It’s intelligent enough at a tiny fraction of the cost of Claude or Codex.
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by cg5280 5mo ago
You’re basically so petrified of bricking prod and getting fired that you refuse to even start on your first ticket. The catastrophic outcome is low probability and not worth fretting over. Going out and risking embarrassment is the price o
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by cg5280 5mo ago
Red is the obvious choice from a self-preservation perspective but not a moral one. You're seeing here in these comments that there are lots of blue pressers; they would all die. This creates a snowballing incentive to push blue: peopl
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by cg5280 5mo ago
Red is optimal from a self preservation perspective but is also the antisocial option. Picking blue saves everyone.
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by cg5280 5mo ago
It's also a country. Not sure what insisting we change our demonym accomplishes.
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by cg5280 6mo ago
The problem isn’t the powers that be. A lot of regular homeowners fight new developments tooth and nail. And many blue states unfortunately give them a lot of tools to do so.
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by cg5280 7mo ago
The difference is that public streets are public spaces. You necessarily have a limited expectation of privacy in public spaces. The government likewise already deploys cameras in public places to maintain a reasonable level of order on t
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by cg5280 7mo ago
I actually touched on this in another comment below yours, using Asia as a specific example. Our crime rates are also much higher than those countries. But while our surveillance is not as widespread as other developed nations, it is still
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by cg5280 7mo ago
Our public surveillance is actually limited relative to other developed countries because it makes people here uncomfortable for cultural reasons. You’ll also note that our crime rates are pretty high, especially relative to the surveillanc
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by cg5280 7mo ago
My confusion stems from the fact that mass surveillance is already pretty normal in major cities. Your face is on a dozen cameras anytime you walk through the grocery store. Your precise location is pinged off cell towers multiple times a d
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by cg5280 8mo ago
Colorado is having a record low snow season. It's been tough for skiing.
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by cg5280 8mo ago
In a country with many huge companies selling oil, cigarettes, weapons, etc. there is no shortage of people willing to deal in morally questionable trades for money. I might even boldly suggest that Palantir is arguably far from the worst.
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by cg5280 8mo ago
> The goals and motivation for using these tools, and their broad allowance of access to what should be highly controlled data (or in some cases even not collected at all) is the problem ... focus on the policy decisions that are leading
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by cg5280 8mo ago
You absolutely can download your photos, just not via command line like this project enables.
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by cg5280 9mo ago
I like the inclusion of the graph at the end to compare progress. It would be cool to compare this directly to competing models (Claude, GPT, etc).
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by cg5280 9mo ago
I didn’t pick up on the censorship issue. I just spent a few minutes trying to swipe type “kill myself” and found myself completely unable. I wonder if this is intentional. If so it feels like an embarrassing waste of time.
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by cg5280 11mo ago
A lot of politicians have tried to replicate Trump’s style with limited success. We could probably debate forever what it is about Trump that makes him unique. I think his crude and abrasive personality won people over; it felt authentic an
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by cg5280 11mo ago
You aren't missing anything. This has been an increasingly popular criticism of Wikipedia. They are doing just fine financially.
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by cg5280 1y ago
Hopefully we see enough efficiency gains over time that this is true. The models I can run on my (expensive) local hardware are pretty terrible compared to the free models provided by Big LLM. I would hate to be chained to hardware I can&#x
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by cg5280 1y ago
This website does have a column for BPA/BPS and receipts are indeed listed.
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by cg5280 1y ago
NYC is the only "real city" in the US (that I have visited; Chicago seems similar) and yet NYC is not an easy place to live unless you make a lot of money. I have traveled abroad extensively (including to places like Japan) and th
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by cg5280 1y ago
"Night life" tends to refer to bars and clubs, and regardless of your personal stance on drinking the majority of people going to bars and clubs expect to be able to drink alcohol.
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by cg5280 1y ago
I have been trying to rely on Google less lately, and it made me realize just how important a platform YouTube is. There are reasonable alternatives to Google search, Gmail, etc. For YouTube, nothing.
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by cg5280 1y ago
The days with lots of commits start rather abruptly at the end of 2023, so it being some sort of automation seems plausible.

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