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by geoffpado 4d ago
Helldivers 2 isn't open-world, so probably not.
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by geoffpado 4mo ago
No signs of being AI-generated, and considering several parts of the [codebase of the website]( https://github.com/rubyforgood/rubyforgood.org ) haven't been touched since before ChatGPT was released, I think you mi
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by geoffpado 4mo ago
As someone who grew up in a flood-prone area… yeah. Yeah, they do. Sometimes more than once per person.
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by geoffpado 6mo ago
Can confirm; the cursor goes "beneath" the camera/mic indicator on the MacBook Neo.
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by geoffpado 9mo ago
Whoops. Not sure how I did that.
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by geoffpado 9mo ago
> We often hear that "people leave managers, not jobs." But sometimes, people leave jobs despite loving their managers. These two aren’t really mutually exclusive. Your manager may be extremely friendly and accommodating to you
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by geoffpado 10mo ago
MacBook Air, though the $379 price does seem to be a Black Friday deal: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Restored-Apple-MacBook-Air-13-Lap...
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by geoffpado 11mo ago
Seattle, at least, already has Waymo cars in the "human-driven data gathering" mode that this article is announcing.
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by geoffpado 11mo ago
For those unfamiliar with Apple’s new version-numbering system, this is the version that will be released in 2027, presumably around September or October of that year.
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by geoffpado 11mo ago
Between this and The Browser Company of New York (Arc, Dia) it seems like having a generic name is the way to get acquired these days.
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by geoffpado 11mo ago
I think you might have posted this to the wrong comments thread.
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by geoffpado 11mo ago
> we also estimate that factorising at least two-digit numbers should be within most dogs’ capabilities, assuming the neighbours don’t start complaining first
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by geoffpado 11mo ago
If I’m remembering correctly, the original script he found had different emoji in the two lines (red X vs. green checkmark), but since HN comments strip emoji, pasting it here made them equivalent.
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by geoffpado 11mo ago
In a world where Vine is as successful as TikTok ended up being, who’s to say they get to a point where selling to Musk even happens?
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by geoffpado 11mo ago
I suspect most of GitHub's usage (by repo count, at least) is for closed-source software. It's just in private repositories.
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by geoffpado 11mo ago
Yeah, I was thinking "wow, this is well outside the HN title guidelines" but this feels like a case where humor might win the day.
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by geoffpado 1y ago
> Starting from a white background Possibly an incorrect assumption. As several of the screenshots in the article show, the default background color of the web back then was gray, not white.
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by geoffpado 1y ago
If you go back far enough, they just don't have the issue at all! Running your "detect using cornerMask" script from another comment in this post, I have an app ( https://www.haikuanimator.com/ ) that shows up
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by geoffpado 1y ago
The way I read it, the first dialog showed up the first time you launched the app, and never had the Purchase button. The idea was that 15 days later, you’d see the second dialog (after 15 minutes of recording). Due to the bug, however, the
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by geoffpado 1y ago
Epic has done it: https://www.dexerto.com/fortnite/fortnite-cheater-forced-to-...
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by geoffpado 1y ago
Typo/autocorrect of “porn”, presumably.
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by geoffpado 1y ago
…for now.
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by geoffpado 1y ago
Due to existing laws such as COPPA, Meta already has in its terms of service that kids under 13 aren't allowed to use Meta AI: > Without limiting the Meta Terms of Service or any other applicable terms or policies, you cannot access
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by geoffpado 1y ago
I did appreciate the humor in someone taking my flippant comment about "ejecting passengers" quite so seriously. :)
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by geoffpado 1y ago
Agreed. I feel like if they started ejecting obnoxious passengers mid-flight, people would straighten up *real* fast.
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by geoffpado 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accolades_received_by_...
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by geoffpado 1y ago
Glad to see I wasn't the only one with that problem with the Terra Ignota series. I describe them to people as "my least favorite favorite books" since they're quite good, but infuriating to read. Brandon Sanderson is an
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by geoffpado 1y ago
More discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840582
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by geoffpado 1y ago
Agreed. I tend to stand with the sibling commenter who said "ELIZA has been passing the Turing test for years". That's what the Turing test is. Nothing more.
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by geoffpado 1y ago
Turing's own formulation was "an average interrogator will not have more than 70% chance of making the right identification after five minutes of questioning". It is, indeed, "fool some of the people some of the time&quo

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