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Openrouter is useful for quickly testing various models with just one API. In development, it's useful. I would not run it in production tho' for all the caveat mentioned. Go to…
by maeln · Sep 11, 2026
Somebody ate Adam Neely's video hook line and sinker. I do agree, but I don't know how many generations will die before we can overturn the ridiculousness of the current approac…
by mtizim · Sep 11, 2026
Shame is an internalised negative emotion that is a negative anticipation of social stigma. In general, it is a usefulness in thing. If you can’t look back at your behaviour a f…
by K0balt · Sep 11, 2026
I think that this could be useful for the case of learning something by teaching it to someone else, and this someone else being the AI. We all know that learning-by-teaching is…
by kailpa1 · Sep 11, 2026
Why? AI is enriching my life and letting me focus on solving hard problems. I don't believe in the sentience crap and am just using it at face value for what it is, a useful pro…
by borzi · Sep 11, 2026
I love Tidal. That said its UI is remarkably heavy for what it is. You also used to see what quality the songs were in without playing them, but they removed that. They added bp…
by svennidal · Sep 11, 2026
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Utility is a measure of the happiness or satisfaction gained from a good or service in economics and game theory. Read more on Wikipedia