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fancymcpoopoo··on Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages
People will do anything except work
fancymcpoopoo··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
Well I think we have an actor congress
fancymcpoopoo··on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say 'please' and 'thank you'
This is a better idea. Put the headset on a delay so AI can inject the requisite politeness. Construction workers don’t have to turn screws by hand so why shouldn’t service workers have a tool that helps them give great customer service?
fancymcpoopoo··on Thought-Terminating Cliché
Should the use of cliches be made a criminal offense?
fancymcpoopoo··on Vanguard 50-year anniversary CEO letter
Are index funds the biggest amoral pyramid scheme in existence today? It’s incredible how the prevailing advice is to indiscriminately contribute to the largest profiteering organizations. Its like encouraging everyone to go to college. No way it'll go tits up when time to retire.
fancymcpoopoo··on Turkish language has a gossip tense
or so you've heard
fancymcpoopoo··on Show HN: How old do i look –– AI face age detector
> Your photos are processed securely and never stored on our servers.

Whose servers are they stored on?

fancymcpoopoo··on Ask HN: What happened to Larry Page?
if something is intelligent and autonomous it's not a robot
fancymcpoopoo··on When do we stop finding new music?
Very difficult with streaming. Rdio used to have a slider to recommend more unusual music. No other service has this that I’ve found. They keep playing the same songs and artist forever.
fancymcpoopoo··on Ask HN: Is it polite to respond to colleagues using ChatGPT?
Who cares? it’s just a salesperson not a real person. —-chatGPT
fancymcpoopoo··on YouTube has a new design on desktop and everyone is mad about it
it could have been worse
fancymcpoopoo··on Is there a SETI-like project to train LLM on libgen, scihub and the likes?
it's much more thrilling to walk into a bookstore and steal a book the old fashioned way
fancymcpoopoo··on Ask HN: Why sign in/out replaced log in/out?
log in is too technical. over two decades everything has been marketed to as many dumb dumbs as possible.
fancymcpoopoo··on Summary: On Mental Toughness by Harvard Business Review
people need to stop comparing everything to sports. in sports teams you shower with your team mates, you have much closer bonds, and it's only one game at a time. other endeavors don't work like that.
fancymcpoopoo··on Engineering Management Checklist (2021)
don't read it on mobile
fancymcpoopoo··on 'Couple,' 'Few,' and 'Several'
don't be surprised. there's more than a couple of morons online commenting on stuff.
fancymcpoopoo··on Z-Library to let users share physical books
Wish ppl would keep their mouth shut so we could have one good thing for a year
fancymcpoopoo··on Hexatrek: The long distance thru hike in France
love this! i'm wealthy and not creative or chartiable so i just walk to feel good. /s
fancymcpoopoo··on Tell HN: I was offline the whole weekend
you missed a lot of things and now you're 48 hours behind and you can't ever catch up
fancymcpoopoo··on Ask HN: Those with ADHD, how are you doing?
You have to have discipline and desire. Drugs and therapists can’t give that to you. A strict routine helps. Being accountable to other people helps.
fancymcpoopoo··on Gen Z does not feel prepared for success in a digital world
There is no success. There is only pain
fancymcpoopoo··on Show HN: Dreamphilic – Frontpage for AI-generated content
what does AI-generated content mean to you? or are these just terms to be used with no critical thought whatsoever
fancymcpoopoo··on [dead]
So copy it somewhere else and share the link?
fancymcpoopoo··on AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
I like to prefix files with a YYMMDD date, so I made a script to do that when I press a hot key, and also send a text to my wife to bring me a cup of coffee.
fancymcpoopoo··on Ask HN: What would it take for you to switch to passkeys?
in terms of value, i assume the push for passkeys is to make sure you have a device tracking your location with you at all times. so, obviously there is great value.
fancymcpoopoo··on Coworkers are less ambitious; bosses adjust to the new order
you can thank Donald Trump's mismanagement for the new order. One of the presidents of all time.
fancymcpoopoo··on AI Voice Generator: Text to Speech Software
where is the intelligence here? can people stop using the term AI for everything computer generated?
fancymcpoopoo··on EmailTriager
You can’t find any time in a while month to get a coffee… that’s not fine at all
fancymcpoopoo··on ‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ find of 1,300-year-old necklace dazzles historians
> We can call this the "occupying government" (OG) theory of ownership.

Let's not

fancymcpoopoo··on Show HN: Readwise Reader, an all-in-one reading app
If everyone is reading and taking notes, why do I need to take notes? Let them do it.
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