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by NM-Super 8mo ago
I don’t subscribe to the NYT anymore (I cancelled my subscription in 2022). I know who Clavicular is because of social media. The fact that the NYT thought the guy was worthy of a profile is yet another piece of evidence that I should never
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by NM-Super 8mo ago
Author here! I didn’t use AI to write this. Jekyll’s markdown to HTML converter helpfully transforms a series of three normal dashes into an em dash. I did use AI to proofread the article, and implemented its primary suggestion (turning dow
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I guess I kinda get why people hate AI(anthony.noided.media)
164 points by NM-Super 8mo ago|259 comments
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by NM-Super 3y ago
Twitter's still working, but it's in a state that I think is worse than before. The spam bots alone seem to be orders of magnitude more prominent. I don't think I'd ever seen a spammer pre-headcount-change, and now &quot
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by NM-Super 4y ago
This article is from 2017. In the meantime, the Haskell community has been playing around a lot with Effect Systems, which give you similar benefits with much better performance and generally less boilerplate. In particular, the effectful p
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by NM-Super 10y ago
I'm a bit torn. I like the design of Unity more than I do that of Gnome, but I think that less fragmentation is extremely desirable. Ultimately, I think it's a good, necessary move. Linux on the desktop will only happen when the e
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by NM-Super 10y ago
I commented briefly on some alternatives here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13716343
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by NM-Super 10y ago
There's very few completely linear relationships in all of economics. Economies of scale, especially, are often at least polynomial. I'd say a website with 100 million members is worth far more than 4x as much as a site with 26.
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by NM-Super 10y ago
People typically use Tumblr at this point. It's not designed for art, and it has issues with big images, but it has a fairly active community, so people use it. There's also niche sites, like FA for furries and various boorus for
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by NM-Super 11y ago
Is anybody really surprised by this development? If you create a platform where people can ask for money, a bunch of people are going to ask for money they don't really need.