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by Pikamander2 1y ago
I've become a lot more jaded about online reviews over the years. I had an Amazon review removed because apparently mentioning that a competing product is more effective goes against their TOS. I had a WordPress plugin review removed b
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by Pikamander2 1y ago
My dad recently got a letter telling him that his bank account would be closed in 30 days if he didn't call the phone number listed on the letter. Upon calling the number, you get an automated system that immediately asks for your soci
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by Pikamander2 1y ago
I was browsing a Reddit thread recently and noticed that all of the human comments were off-topic one-liners and political quips, as is tradition. Buried at the bottom of the thread was a helpful reply by an obvious LLM account that answere
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Assignment 5: Cars and Key Fobs (2021)(web.stanford.edu)
234 points by Pikamander2 1y ago|192 comments
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by Pikamander2 1y ago
Another infamous example is that they accidentally left a Starbucks cup on the table in the final season of Game Of Thrones: https://i.imgur.com/5tlRhti.png Taking into account the already-negative reception of the final se
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by Pikamander2 1y ago
Relevant news article from yesterday: https://www.wired.com/story/new-jersey-sues-discord/ > Platkin says there were two catalysts for the investigation. One is personal: A few years ago, a family friend came t
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by Pikamander2 1y ago
That's true. But on the other hand, "Millhouse is not a meme" is in fact a meme.
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by Pikamander2 1y ago
Switch to Old Reddit, download the Reddit Enhancement Suite, and use filters liberally to hide bad users and subreddits when they appear. The default experience there is terrible these days but it's still salvageable for now.
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by Pikamander2 1y ago
On the other hand, the free options are better than ever. I've only used the free versions of ChatGPT, Claude, and ImageFX and have been impressed by how much you get without spending a dime. The only real limitation I regularly feel i
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
Yeah, the title made me assume that he won a countersuit or got the company fined or something. In reality, he just sent them a slightly-snarky response to their flimsy cease-and-desist, and they decided not to go forward with a lawsuit, wh
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Snappiness: I bought a Kodak Picture Maker [video](youtube.com)
1 points by Pikamander2 2y ago|0 comments
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
It's a decent idea, but it feels like it would have been more useful a decade ago. With modern CSS you can typically handle separators with a single selector and property like: .things .thing:not(:last-child) { border-botto
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
On the off chance that Google is truly benevolent and was just worried about users' security, then they could have easily hidden the required network-reading functionality behind a flag or "developer mode", or only allowed it
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
It was a little bit of everything, really. Discord exploded in popularity because: 1. Its free functionality was more generous than many comparable services. Nobody wants to pay for a Mumble server. 2. Its UI and audio quality and noise can
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
There's also a small subreddit for it if anyone is interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ballionaire
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
Oh wow, you're right. I guess the example link on their home page makes that more clear, but at a glance I thought it was supposed to be an attempt at creating a googl/bitly/tinyurl clone. https://perma.cc/63A
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
Does this solve any of the problems that other link shorteners have, like eventually breaking when the site goes bankrupt or getting blocked by sites like Reddit due to their ability to conceal spam?
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
> working with dates and times in JavaScript will be hugely simplified > To help you get up to speed, there are over 270 pages of Temporal docs on MDN Not that I'm complaining about extensive documentation, but seeing these two l
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
Oh hey, I've used your site before. Thanks for setting it up! One quick point of feedback: The "Learn more about our features and pricing" button appears to be broken, at least on Chrome Android. The click gets intercepted by
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DHS terminates advisory committees, ending investigation of Chinese telecom hack(cbsnews.com)
2 points by Pikamander2 2y ago|0 comments
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
There's an oddly relevant skit of this concept in the American version of The Office: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K-L9uhsBLM
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
Some constructive feedback to the site owner: Instead of having the webpage spend several minutes slowly loading thousands of barely-compressed 500x500 JPG images, please consider this advice: 1. Convert the images to WEBP or AVIF or at lea
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
I mean, it's a little bit of everything. Many cities have overly-restrictive building codes that prevent adequate housing from being built, which raises housing costs. Our immigration rate is too high for the amount of new housing unit
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
Direct link to the report's PDF: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-...
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
If you paid with a credit card, consider filing a chargeback.
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
The real answer is that it depends on what the Supreme Court says. There's a valid legal argument to be made here either way; that the government has some amount of leeway to censor foreign propaganda, or that the first amendment preve
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
The wildest one I've seen is Chrome on Android not allowing screenshots in Incognito mode. I'm struggling to understand the rationale there except maybe to prevent people from accidentally screenshotting sensitive stuff like porn
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
> This is r/assholedesign Don't bother posting it there though, or the mods will remove it because "umm well actually it could have just been an honest mistake therefore it's not asshole design".
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
> In particular I want to draw attention to the nonsensical naming scheme (this is clearly not related to anything to do with GPT) That particular part doesn't mean much. The name "ChatGPT" has become a new and exciting na
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by Pikamander2 2y ago
Yeah, I've always prefered crisp pixel art like what you would see on a Gameboy screen. It's nice to have CRT filters and nonlinear scaling available as an option, but I'll never use them. If the game can't scale up perf

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