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KingGeedorah

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KingGeedorah··on Lost City: A recreation of Runescape as it was on May 18, 2004
Github: https://github.com/2004Scape

FAQ: https://lostcity.rs/t/faq-what-is-lost-city/16

KingGeedorah··on Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac
> However, 18 months after a one-time purchase, you'll no longer get access to new or updated features.

Is this normal for SaaS?

KingGeedorah··on GPT-4 has become so lazy that people are faking disabilities to make it perform
Multiple people have mentioned this study that shows ChatGPT performs better when the user is nicer to it but I have never been able to find it.

Does anyone know the name of the study or have a link to it.

KingGeedorah··on A groundbreaking study shows kids learn better on paper, not screens. Now what?
> Groundbreaking study

> 59 participants

KingGeedorah··on The Internet Is Being Ruined by Bloated Junk
Someone posted an archive link.
KingGeedorah··on Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific "wellness" products
I thought Americans being sold on Indian spiritualism was a 90s thing.
KingGeedorah··on Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific "wellness" products
Your comment made me look up Canada's food guide. When I was growing up I remember dairy being heavily pushed but if you go there today, there's no mention of it.
KingGeedorah··on Sludge Videos Are Taking over TikTok–and People's Mind
Youtube-shorts block: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/jiaopdjbehhjgokpphd... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-short...
KingGeedorah··on Sludge Videos Are Taking over TikTok–and People's Mind
There are chrome/firefox extensions that turn shorts into normal videos. I also block the shorts shelf with ublock.
KingGeedorah··on Sludge Videos Are Taking over TikTok–and People's Mind
Do you not like icebergs? I thought they were nice ways to organize information on a topic/community.
KingGeedorah··on The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit
I was waiting for you to reveal your comment was written by AI
KingGeedorah··on Deepfaked Celebrity Ads Promoting Medicare Scams Run Rampant on YouTube
The people who can't figure out how to download uBlock are also the perfect marks.
KingGeedorah··on Why Gen Z is plugging in wired headphones and tuning out AirPods
I hate charging wireless headphones cause I wear them all the time but I also end up breaking every pair of wired headphones I have in a few months.
KingGeedorah··on What Goes Up Must Come Down: The Reality of Celebratory Gunfire
>173 feet (53 meters) away from where it was fired - half the length of a football field

>2,805 feet (855 meters) horizontally - the length of eight football fields.

Never change America.

KingGeedorah··on Show HN: Don't Press the Red Button
Fun idea but it would be nice to sort countries by total number of button presses.
KingGeedorah··on Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?
I'm a grad student and I don't really use it for my job but ChatGPT is something millions of people use daily so I think it has a future.

If it becomes as big as Google depends on what Open AI does, Google didn't become as massive as it is just off search.

KingGeedorah··on I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]
Really, never would have thought he was a programmer.
KingGeedorah··on YouTube crackdown leads to ‘hundreds of thousands’ of ad blocker uninstalls
I only started getting hit a few days ago
KingGeedorah··on Show HN: Clone someone and talk to them like in real life
Isn't this what Replika was originally supposed to be?
KingGeedorah··on YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
I feel like if you're the type of person to download uBlock and set specific filters you're the type of person to never click on an ad on purpose.

I don't understand why Youtube is doing this, wouldn't it make their numbers look better if the people that won't click ads never have them delivered to them (5% of users clicked on ads vs 1% of users clicked on ads)

KingGeedorah··on 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps
Currently, in the same boat. Grad school + full-time job + TA work (I know I'm an idiot for doing TA work on top of this). I have no social life, I barely have time to cook.