Arainach

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by Arainach 6mo ago
Ted Chiang is the greatest living science fiction short story writer I'm aware of, and ranks highly on my all time list.
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by Arainach 6mo ago
I intentionally didn't say "the population of Russia". Occupying an enormous land mass takes an enormous amount of time (arguably infinite) and resources. OK, Napoleon is right and he's "conquered" Russia in a
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by Arainach 6mo ago
Those are third party extensions, not browser features, and they're not consistently applied. Going from an image to a root domain is not a hierarchy and as a pathological data hoarder who has downloaded a lot of images from a lot of s
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by Arainach 6mo ago
> The problem is, there are two conceptions of the back button, and the browser only implements one. In web browsers, there is only one concept. There is no concept of "up one level in the heirarchy". If you want that make you
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by Arainach 6mo ago
If you believe a war with a country the size of Russia will be over within 4 months you might not be a genius.
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by Arainach 6mo ago
Small reviews allow moving faster for both the author and reviewer. A chain of commits: * Does not go out for review until the author has written all of them * Cannot be submitted even in partial form until the reviewer has read all of them
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by Arainach 6mo ago
That's possible but not mandatory. In the current UX you can only approve/submit all or none.
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by Arainach 6mo ago
Looking at multiple commits is not a good workflow: * It amounts to doing N code reviews at once rather than a few small reviews which can be done individually * Github doesn't have any good UI to move between commits or to look at mul
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by Arainach 6mo ago
It's Meta: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_b...
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by Arainach 6mo ago
> An update is not an ad To be fair, I think echelon was calling out that there are absolutely ads in browser updates now. "Try Firefox VPN!" "Look what's new in Chrome!", etc.
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by Arainach 6mo ago
> Sending you an email after you signed up is "unethical"? I purchase a product from company X. They require an email and will not let me buy without it. I actually do want an email confirmation that the order went throug
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by Arainach 6mo ago
Forcing a cloud login for a desktop operating system is arguably a dark pattern. Defaulting to uploading all locally saved documents to cloud storage is ABSOLUTELY a dark pattern. The prompts every few months to "change back to recomme
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by Arainach 6mo ago
> Why do we have society where this can happen Trying to answer this would fill (and almost certainly has filled) numerous Ph.D dissertations. There are a multitude of reasons. In no particular order: * The utterly broken and ruinous US
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by Arainach 7mo ago
Whether LLMs can create correct content doesn't matter. We've already seen how they are being used and will be used. Fake content and lies. To drive outrage. To influence elections. To distract from real crimes. To overload everyo
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by Arainach 7mo ago
> if you’re blaming the people in the thread for this, I think you’re directing your energy in the wrong direction Much of the current environment is driven by the SF Bay Tech Elite/Culture. Peter Thiel funded and enabled Curtis Yar
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by Arainach 7mo ago
My experience is that Asciidoc very quickly gets into advanced syntax. If you introduce something with advanced functionality onto a team, soon enough someone's going to use pieces that others don't fully understand later. Now eve
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by Arainach 7mo ago
"Better specified" doesn't mean better. A bunch of features doesn't mean better. Markdown is popular because it is simple. I have never had to teach anyone Markdown. They look at the file and immediately see what'
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by Arainach 7mo ago
"Wrong" does not necessarily mean "against the standard". It means "against common usage and good team practice" in this context. It's "allowed" to use raw pointers, malloc, and any number of th
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by Arainach 7mo ago
If you're writing things like that in Markdown files (without being escaped in code blocks as HTML syntax examples), you're doing it wrong.
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by Arainach 7mo ago
Somewhat related past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41120254 Copying my thoughts from there which haven't changed: >To which I say, are you really going to avoid using a good tool just because it
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by Arainach 7mo ago
Businesses and governments do, and they're both the target market and the drivers behind digital sovereignty efforts.
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by Arainach 7mo ago
> What's so special about 1981? Two very significant things happened in 1981. After years of claiming the government couldn't help people, Ronald Reagan was elected and Republicans have been working hard to make that statement
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by Arainach 7mo ago
One of the most common criticisms is the use of the emdash. This is a classic bit of English prose that is not problematic except as a stereotype used to dismiss writing for form rather than for content. Let's grab a few books off the
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by Arainach 7mo ago
Plenty of shortsighted people have done things that are stupid in the long term for short term gains. It's the modus operandi of the US economy since 1981. I don't believe that the people who train models have a secret way of ide
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by Arainach 7mo ago
It's not that simple. LLMs were trained on lots of writing, and the "LLM voice" resembles in many ways good English prose, or at least effective public communications voice. For years, even before LLMs, there have been trend
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by Arainach 7mo ago
> Yes, even their "humanifesto" is LLM output, and is written almost exclusively in the "it's not X <emdash> it's Y" style. ....no. There's not a single occurrence of that. https://key
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by Arainach 7mo ago
> RAV4 non-hybrid is around 35 mpg highway. CR-V 34 mpg highway. ....35mpg at 60mph and little traffic, maybe. I can't speak for that specific model, but most vehicles I've driven do significantly worse than advertised. My Sub
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by Arainach 7mo ago
It doesn't have to be. Comments such as yours add nothing to the conversation. It's an ad hominem attack. In the absence of explaining why you believe it "looks like AI", it's a baseless accusation
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by Arainach 7mo ago
I'm sick of hearing about AI, but I'm significantly more sick of anyone who knows how to write English prose at a level higher than "typical rural American" being accused of using AI to write.
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by Arainach 7mo ago
"An official United States government app is injecting CSS and JavaScript into third-party websites to strip away their cookie consent dialogs, GDPR banners, login gates, and paywalls." In their defense, this is the first thing th

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