ctack

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by ctack 5mo ago
Possibly related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757838
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by ctack 5mo ago
I have to use opus or it can't even do basic changes.
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by ctack 5mo ago
I can't tell if it's real or not - I don't have the data, but it certainly feels different using it.
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Quantified evidence: Sonnet 4.6 quality regression(github.com)
4 points by ctack 5mo ago|4 comments
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by ctack 6mo ago
I think you've captured it perfectly with "Maybe it's daily reminder that all the luxuries are right here, right under your fingers, if only you weren't so miserably poor?" The enshitification of the car.
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by ctack 1y ago
It’s possible they also see the storm coming and are too scared to do anything either.
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by ctack 1y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20251004003841/https://www.nytim...
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by ctack 1y ago
That makes sense. Even in the Pullman book there were natural roadways for rolling.
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by ctack 1y ago
Certainly brightened my day. “Bro, do you even friend?”
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Want more friends? A better social life? Be like my 85-year-old buddy Gerry(theguardian.com)
7 points by ctack 1y ago|2 comments
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by ctack 1y ago
There are lizards or beetles that tumble down sand dunes. Maybe cartwheeling humans could lead to some adaptation where the whole body becomes the wheel.
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by ctack 1y ago
In one of Philip Pullmans His Dark Material novels there is a race of creatures that have a symbiosis with a tree whose huge perfectly round nut can be grasped by their fore and hind limbs and they roll around that way.
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Stop Begging. Start Building(techdirt.com)
3 points by ctack 1y ago|1 comments
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by ctack 1y ago
Am trying to see a silver lining here. Dirtier air, sicker people. More profits for big polluters. Why vote for this?
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by ctack 1y ago
“Insane” is probably a bit strong
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by ctack 1y ago
Living in rural Spain service is chill. Am used to it by now. Went to an upmarket restaurant in France other day and it took me ages to realise the waiter was vibing me the whole meal for a tip. Such a weird transactional space. Person lite
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by ctack 1y ago
It’s interesting how silent the world seems to be on this. Like it’s it’s just a big nothing burger.
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by ctack 1y ago
Useful anymore, it’s not. We have education now which tells us how to society.
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by ctack 1y ago
How did covid allow a respite?
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by ctack 1y ago
Harrowing to think this is part of a drive to promote far right values through misinformation and where it’s coming from.
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by ctack 1y ago
If big tech gets it’s way and the Digital Services Act goes away, Europe could answer that with a massive media literacy education drive.
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Bit Tech squares off with EU regulators(semafor.com)
2 points by ctack 1y ago|4 comments
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by ctack 1y ago
It’s the kind of thing I think about before going to China or if I were to visit NKorea. But hasn’t this possibility of hardcore border harassment been a feature of visiting the land of the free (the US that is) for a while now? Phones conf
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'This Is Worse': Trump's Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook(nytimes.com)
12 points by ctack 1y ago|1 comments
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by ctack 2y ago
@dang - why flagged?
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by ctack 2y ago
Edit: no disagreement or flagging, just poof, gone. Likely someone knows how to make unwanted conversations go away on platforms like HN.
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by ctack 2y ago
Suspicious that it’s not on the front page.
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US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s(ukrainetoday.org)
1184 points by ctack 2y ago|2215 comments
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by ctack 2y ago
Blue Velvet. Twin Peaks. Lost Highway.. No words, just a feeling somewhere between waking and dreaming.
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by ctack 2y ago
Also came expecting something entirely different.

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