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by dmd 1y ago
I'm calendar-driven to such an extent that I joke that all it would take to murder me would be to insert "jump off a cliff" in my calendar.
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by dmd 1y ago
A remarkable number of people seem to think "let's add AI to this!" is (a) always the thing to do and (b) don't even examine the output once before having it go live (or afterwards either).
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by dmd 1y ago
It’s clearly AI generated, and badly.
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by dmd 1y ago
There are roads here that “feel” like a 35 or even 45mph road. The speed limit is 7. Yes, 7. It’s purely for local revenue.
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by dmd 1y ago
People in stores look towards bright lights. Objects with bright lights on them sell better.
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by dmd 1y ago
went to ch.ai and was not disappointed by its content
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by dmd 1y ago
How is tone not part of quality? It’s about preference, and there’s an overwhelmingly consistent result here.
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by dmd 1y ago
19/20 GPT-5. I’m impressed.
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by dmd 1y ago
> More people have HN accounts than bluesky accounts You really think that?
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by dmd 1y ago
And it makes absolutely no sense. I've lived with it all my life (I'm an American!) and it has never made any sense to me.
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by dmd 1y ago
in what world could mm/dd/yyyy not be cursed!? that makes no sense whatsoever.
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by dmd 1y ago
Wipr2 gets 100.
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by dmd 1y ago
https://dmd.3e.org/and-his-boots-are-yellow/
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by dmd 1y ago
[starts watching video] Ok cool it's a file browser, there's a million of the---s----e [keeps watching video] what the fuck
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by dmd 1y ago
This is what I do - when the washer finishes, a light turns on in the kitchen letting us know. Then, when the dryer has drawn power for 10 seconds, the light turns back off, because that’s a good indication that someone dealt with the wet l
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by dmd 1y ago
> won’t accept local pollution Oh, don’t worry, we’re fixing that! :/
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by dmd 1y ago
I described this 25 years ago on blush everything2. https://everything2.com/?node=rutgers+bus+system
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by dmd 1y ago
Every time I read about what Windows users experience daily I think “oh, this must be parody, they wouldn’t literally put random tabloid news headlines on your desktop”. But no, it’s real. It is so bizarre that people put up with this.
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by dmd 1y ago
Why not?
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by dmd 1y ago
Yes, this is a very affluent district. Everyone has a chromebook from school and most have a macbook from their parents. They prefer the phone. (“Big computers are more of an old person millennial thing.”)
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by dmd 1y ago
To you or me, yes. And I would say “oh they just don’t know what they’re missing” but they all have laptops and chromebooks but prefer to use their phones.
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by dmd 1y ago
We’re also in a quite affluent town, and yes everyone does have chromebooks. But they’re considered uncool to use.
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by dmd 1y ago
Nearly everyone in our family’s (public, Massachusetts) high school writes papers exclusively on their phone.
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by dmd 1y ago
What does 'just' mean here? The monetary value of a thing is what people will pay you for it. Full stop.
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by dmd 1y ago
Chatgpt was doing this for a few weeks, several months ago, until they fixed it.
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by dmd 1y ago
Yes, that's in the second paragraph of the article.
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by dmd 1y ago
I love this argument so much. "But judge, there's no way I could ever afford to buy those jewels, so stealing them must be OK."
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by dmd 1y ago
I love the guy, I love mynoise, but he needs to chill out. Nobody "did this to him". This is almost certainly, like 99.99% certainly, just normal internet noise and he's just never noticed before. All sites get this sort of t
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by dmd 1y ago
It's illegal to mention the solar system and football without mentioning one of the greatest pieces of science fiction on the two, Jon Bois' 17776 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776
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by dmd 1y ago
“Walking is free, therefore bike shops should give away bikes for free.”

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