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by dmd 2y ago
in bagging area
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by dmd 2y ago
> HTML breaks not only the philosophy but also many of the tools developed around email I was one of these die-hard-text-only people, back in the mid to late 90s. It was true. People were sending HTML/rich text emails, and it broke
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by dmd 2y ago
These were all, of course, already available in Borges' library.
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by dmd 2y ago
The entire world, other than Antarctica, is a human graveyard, and the American continents have been inhabited for less time than most of the rest.
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by dmd 2y ago
But this is not handwriting vs typing. It's handwriting vs. "a weird input method none of the participants had ever used before", namely pecking at the keyboard with one finger of one hand.
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by dmd 2y ago
It's the general attitude of "I want to know more" vs. "It would never occur to me that there is more to know" or "I would literally rather do anything else than learn more about anything".
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by dmd 2y ago
I really hate to rain on people's parade or discourage them, but honestly - this is not only incredibly low-effort AI slop but dangerous low-effort AI slop. It appears you did little or possibly no research into existing tools, talke
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by dmd 2y ago
I agree with you. I'm saying that cloudflare gets to decide that, not a random HN commenter.
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by dmd 2y ago
Good to know. Please make an uncontroversial list of all the human activities that you think shouldn't be allowed on cloudflare (or perhaps in general). Then we can all agree to abide by it, and human conflict will end!
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by dmd 2y ago
Vaguely related, I saw an extremely nice little bit of UI on a MRI machine console the other day. When planning a sequence of scans, you drag them into a listbox. But once that listbox is "full" from top to bottom, it's hard
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by dmd 2y ago
To get two fabulous new companies, > and <. Or maybe ^ and v ? Or / and \ ?
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by dmd 2y ago
Just a few weeks ago I got an absolutely delightful email: > Ні! This might seem a little out of the blue and it is but a few years ago at a library book sale I got the book "Pi in the Sky". It has your personal library stamp o
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by dmd 2y ago
Massachusetts in nearly last place, right where I expected it to be but always assumed that was just "everyone thinks their own is the worst".
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by dmd 2y ago
You mean you don’t think renaming “Microsoft Remote Desktop” to “Windows App” was brilliant?
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by dmd 2y ago
Nobody’s forcing you to use someone else’s service though.
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by dmd 2y ago
I was told a similar thing when a mentor discovered I didn’t know how to wire-wrap my own CPU from scratch.
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by dmd 2y ago
I wonder how hard it would be to get this running in pcjs so it just runs automatically in a browser. I spent hundreds of hours playing with it in the early 90s.
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by dmd 2y ago
I'm 46 and my grandma had a microwave by the time I was cooking in her kitchen in 1984.
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by dmd 2y ago
GW-BASIC was definitely quite present in the US, being the one shipped by Microsoft with DOS up until DOS 5.
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by dmd 2y ago
> I gave up. That is the idea, yes.
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by dmd 2y ago
Ah, so you didn't click through and actually see what this tool is, you just read the title.
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by dmd 2y ago
That is very useful. What does it have to do with this?
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by dmd 2y ago
This is like having an argument about whether airplanes can fly with someone who has never been in, piloted, or even really seen an airplane but is very, very sure of their understanding of how they can’t possibly work. Among other things:
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by dmd 2y ago
Ok, yes. There are other pieces of code on the internet that use a for loop or an if statement. By that logic what you wrote was also composed that way. After all, you’ve used all words that have been used before! I bet even phrases like “t
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by dmd 2y ago
If it were ever clearly defined or even consistent from input to input I would be overjoyed.
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by dmd 2y ago
Pretty much, yes. My job is pretty fun; it mostly entails things like "take this horrible file workflow some research assistant came up with while high 15 years ago and turn it into a newer horrible file format a NEW research assistant
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by dmd 2y ago
> Right. If you generate some code with ChatGPT, and then try to find similar code on the web, you usually will. People who "follow" AI, as the latest fad they want to comment on and appear intelligent about, repeat things like
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by dmd 2y ago
You can execute the message "We think you, and people like you, should be killed" as well as you like, I'm still not going to enjoy it.
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by dmd 2y ago
There's always the MIT Furniture Exchange! [Note to non-Boston folks: this is a joke.]
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by dmd 2y ago
I immediately pronounced it as “too doody”.

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