smoothbenny

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by smoothbenny 4mo ago
$10 one time to a solo dev for something i use 100x a day. people will gripe about anything. take my money, please.
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by smoothbenny 1y ago
Judging by the newly available categories it looks like they may have paid attention to some early feedback :)
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by smoothbenny 1y ago
Ok I read it and I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s center-right
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by smoothbenny 1y ago
ctrl + f “priceline” - 0 results what makes this ai
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by smoothbenny 1y ago
is ai anything more than a shakedown at this point? aside from a few very specific corporate backroom use cases, the pitch for the product currently sold as “ai” is loaded with vague, unclear benefits, marginal utility, and limited real wor
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by smoothbenny 1y ago
citation needed
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by smoothbenny 1y ago
every downvote is proving my point :)
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by smoothbenny 1y ago
> if you are in the centre and find yourself politically homeless This is also an echo chamber
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by smoothbenny 1y ago
Why do you think that is?
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by smoothbenny 1y ago
He is a pretty important guy who does a lot of stuff all of the time that causes ripples throughout the entire world! I don’t read much about him beyond the headlines since I feel the same way about everything he does, but I understand why
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by smoothbenny 1y ago
It’s center-right. Even something as boring as Democracy Now would be a major improvement for this list.
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by smoothbenny 1y ago
tl;dr: It sounds like we agree that the UX is good but the aggregation is bad. To call the problem unsolvable is dismissive and makes the whole endeavor of aggregating news pointless. The mainstream sources are in fact manufacturing the exa
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by smoothbenny 1y ago
UX is nice enough but suffers from same curation (center-right leaning, tech industry-directed) that makes anything like this fundamentally pointless in the long term. Designed to keep readers within the acceptable window of mainstream medi
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by smoothbenny 1y ago
I meant for your reply to every comment in this thread
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by smoothbenny 1y ago
Do you have to use ChatGPT for every response
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by smoothbenny 1y ago
It's giving CVS Bangers[0] [0] https://www.mixcloud.com/TOLKIENBLACK/cvs-bangers/
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by smoothbenny 1y ago
Right wingers love inventing new ways to say the same tired bs. Tbf I stopped reading somewhere between “wither the struggling landlord” and “demonstrating consistency in your worldview makes you a sheep” but did I really need to see any mo
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by smoothbenny 2y ago
I respect them for not immediately renaming the Gulf of Mexico in their product to cater to the whims of the current administration, enough to download the app as a situational replacement for Google Maps. But I’m confused by this. It seems
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by smoothbenny 2y ago
Tried this app last week w/ an EPUB. It read all of the drop caps as individual letters, before moving on to the remaining portion of the word. It said “tilde” before each item in an unordered list. Too distracting to be of any practic
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by smoothbenny 2y ago
In the center of the world https://www.historyingranite.org/things-to-see/maze-of-honor...
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by smoothbenny 2y ago
No one's discussing whether he's arrogant or not, they've all made up their minds. I gave an alternate, more charitable interpretation of his words, that would offer an otherwise offended reader a way to reframe the blog, and
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by smoothbenny 2y ago
> I really don't understand how you can arrive at them considering themselves one of the people who hasn't written libraries. There seems to be a comprehension issue on one side or the other. Can someone point me to where he sa
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by smoothbenny 2y ago
> they note they’re clearly better than most of their competition. Yup, I've noted that three times. Are we still claiming he wrote libraries in C in a cave with scraps? Or just moving on? Poorly written? Maybe. Poorly read? Equally
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by smoothbenny 2y ago
Still not seeing where he said he himself wrote C in a cave with scraps. Not suggesting he's humble, but I still think he sees himself as one of them (he doesn't say he's "better than everyone [at that level]")
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by smoothbenny 2y ago
I'm not seeing where he says he wrote libraries in C in a cave with scraps. That sounds like a few steps beyond writing libraries from scratch (non-specified language). One's competition is their equals, no? It's not a compet
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by smoothbenny 2y ago
Maybe I'm misinterpreting but it seems like he considers himself a part of the "practitioners who haven't put in the reps to build their own C libraries in a cave with scraps, but can read textbooks and use libraries written
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by smoothbenny 2y ago
Huh? I'm not big on police over-reach but to claim that the chain of responsibility for a crime ends at some arbitrary point is silly on its face. Should either side of a hitman-for-hire arrangement not be penalized for participating i
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by smoothbenny 2y ago
The former seems much riskier to transact in crypto vs. buying locally in cash from a known entity
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by smoothbenny 2y ago
> 3. Keeping your savings when the currency of your nation is going through hyperinflation What crypto has shown long term stability and isn’t subject to the same forces that cause volatility in any currency?
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by smoothbenny 2y ago
> There are countless stories of small businesspeople suddenly being locked out of their bank accounts because their transaction patterns looked suspicious This doesn’t sound like one of those stories. Remains to be seen once the prosecu

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