nmeofthestate

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by nmeofthestate 10d ago
You should just ask AI, since you used AI to make the encoder and write your HN post.
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by nmeofthestate 19d ago
ChatGPT 5.6-Sol via CoPilot is absolutely fine in my experience - no weird LLM-ese.
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by nmeofthestate 1mo ago
It's remarkable how much it hasn't worked: Google "the Hanover institute" and you get an AI summary that references various Palestinian activist websites, with no actual link to 'the Hanover institute'. Google
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by nmeofthestate 1mo ago
Contemptible cookie dialog.
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by nmeofthestate 1mo ago
Some Conservative activists were campaigning for the joke candidate in the constituency. Although none of the parties officially endorsed him obviously, they have all been gushing about him on social media. I'm not sure the traditional
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by nmeofthestate 1mo ago
0.16% (high estimate) of global water usage by the way.
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by nmeofthestate 1mo ago
> It is clear from the article that what eats up so much RAM is not the weather app itself but the framework it runs on. There is a "Renderer", a "GPU Process",... eating most of it. Got a bit confused by this, becaus
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by nmeofthestate 1mo ago
>It’s rare to see political attitudes change this fast On the contrary - these mass political crazes are like flash-floods these days.
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by nmeofthestate 2mo ago
Weird 'discussion'. Almost entirely single messages with no threads, all with the same anti-Anthropic/AI position.
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by nmeofthestate 2mo ago
This would be better as a drunken rant in a pub, where you could at least get to roll your eyes at your friends while George wasn't looking.
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by nmeofthestate 3mo ago
Oh no. I quite liked this until you said it was art that Represented something.
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by nmeofthestate 3mo ago
The apotheosis of Reddit vexillology where all flag symbolism maps to geographical features.
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by nmeofthestate 5mo ago
True, but I think most people get addicted to smoking when young, and are less likely to just decide to start smoking at 40, especially when vaping is an option.
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by nmeofthestate 5mo ago
There are less harmful ways to get addicted to nicotine that will continue to be legal for people affected by this legislation.
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by nmeofthestate 5mo ago
Reminds me when I was on a business trip in California and bought some Acetaminophen thinking "I'm in the USA - this has to be the hard stuff, right?", only to discover it was just paracetamol.
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by nmeofthestate 5mo ago
I googled it - nobody is buying that thing instead of a normal consumer smartphone. It's like a 'Panasonic Toughbook' in phone form.
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by nmeofthestate 5mo ago
A RAM discussion descends into cranks referring to "Epstein People" and you're the one downvoted - website's absolutely cooked.
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by nmeofthestate 5mo ago
Is this a weird way of saying Opus got "cheaper" somehow from 4.6 to 4.7?
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by nmeofthestate 5mo ago
"otherwise the site owner would have to check if their content is considered adult in the UK and implement something" IMO a small blog website is not going to get pulled-up for this - it's about the author making a point. The
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by nmeofthestate 5mo ago
Shooting isn't the core mechanic in the majority of video games.
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by nmeofthestate 6mo ago
So it sounds like these guys posed as investors, schmoozed politicians, and got them on tape agreeing to do corrupt stuff. The recordings were then released to influence voters. The thing about this is, the response to it will depend on who
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by nmeofthestate 6mo ago
It works, to be honest - I would never let Beige Rock manage my money.
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by nmeofthestate 6mo ago
"Black Cube" - wonder what they're going for there. Maybe "Sinister Obelisk" was taken.
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by nmeofthestate 6mo ago
This naming is great compared to their traditional naming. I immediately know that I need a pro max premium if I want the one that compiles stuff fast and is heavy and has the fans running full speed all the time and only technically works
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by nmeofthestate 6mo ago
"A minifigure head mold evolved from 8 cavities in 1978 to 128 cavities today." Initially I thought this meant a lego minifig head has 128 internal cavities, but finally realised it means a single mould now makes 128 heads.
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by nmeofthestate 6mo ago
The writing style certainly screams LLM.
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by nmeofthestate 7mo ago
I do wonder whether Kotlin is sufficiently different from C# to make it worth developing in Godot in a non-standard way.
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by nmeofthestate 7mo ago
What exactly is an engineering manager?
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by nmeofthestate 7mo ago
They're function calls right? I can't square the "message passing" conceit (implying putting message objects on queues, dequeuing etc) with the claim that Obj-C is just C with some extra stuff.
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by nmeofthestate 7mo ago
My YT Shorts experience: absent-mindedly watch a few, eventually think "damn, these things suck", tap the "show fewer shorts" link to reduce the chance of absent-mindedly clicking on them again soon. The format, with all

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