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by frereubu 2y ago
I really like the lite version - but then I used to work on an early version of the BBC website where pages over 70kb, including images, would make the ops team growl.
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by frereubu 2y ago
I wonder if the "investigators" were subconsciously not that interested in actually solving the mystery, but were just enjoying the process. Can't remember what it was I was reading recently, but there was a character who del
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by frereubu 2y ago
Being a pasty Brit, going to Australia was a real eye opener in how much more on the ball they were about skin cancer, not just in medical terms but culturally. We're getting better here (I was there more than a decade ago) but it&#x27
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by frereubu 2y ago
What do you mean by this being a "horrible" use of AI? (Although as another commenter has mentioned, this should more properly be called ML).
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by frereubu 2y ago
For my sins I was once in a Microsoft SQL training session. The guy leading it was great, but at the end of every thought he'd make a noise in his throat, like "uhn" or similar. I couldn't stop noticing it acting like a
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by frereubu 2y ago
I run a WordPress agency and while I think the block editor was foisted on wordpress.org far too quickly, it's been a godsend in terms of allowing our clients much more control over their content. The prospect of going back to the Tiny
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by frereubu 2y ago
I have no idea about the quality of the sites this produces, but I think your comment about non-technical folks existing is on the money. There are many people who really don't understand how to properly structure even a simple website
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by frereubu 2y ago
We immediately cancel our subscription as soon as we subscribe for services like Netflix, Disney+ etc, where you keep the service for the month. It's thankfully really easy to susbcribe and unsubscribe these days, so doing it this way
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by frereubu 2y ago
You've phrased your comment as if it's a counterpoint to OP, but it's not - both can be true (and from personal experience OP is absolutely right).
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by frereubu 2y ago
I kinda get where you're coming from, but the comment is about the fact it hasn't been done, and there's no reason why it should be a separate set.
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by frereubu 2y ago
But do they really get upvoted for such pointless comments? I'd be really interested to see the numbers. I suppose it could be cargo culting, where they see others do it and think it must work, even if it doesn't.
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by frereubu 2y ago
I do flag it when it's particularly anodyne, but I'm intrigued by its purpose. Why does anyone bother to do it?
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by frereubu 2y ago
I feel like I've started to see lots of weirdly anodyne comments like this on HN recently, with a kind of pointless summary of all or part of the article. Has this always happened and my LLM spider-sense is tingling too much, or are th
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by frereubu 2y ago
https://archive.is/rqDub
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Why Catullus continues to seduce us(newyorker.com)
70 points by frereubu 2y ago|34 comments
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by frereubu 2y ago
I respect their choice too, but like you the reason for my question was that I feel I can't trust the end product. Alex said "We only make sound-alike changes, like to-morrow -> tomorrow", which I could just about get alon
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by frereubu 2y ago
Fair enough - thanks for the explanation.
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by frereubu 2y ago
Apologies if that came across as at all critical. Genuinely interested in the rationale rather than it being a how-dare-you demand for you to explain yourself!
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by frereubu 2y ago
Another question - in https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-ste... you talk about "modernising" spelling, e.g. changing "some one" to "someone". This may be against the
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by frereubu 2y ago
Do you "claim" a book, to make sure that no-one else is trying to work on the same book? I presume that's part of step 4 in your link, given that it would be heartbreaking to get 90% of the way through and then be beaten to i
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by frereubu 2y ago
I love this. However, I couldn't find an alphabetical list of authors, which is the way I wanted to browse on my first visit. Instead my only option is to show 48 on a page and paginate through, which is tedious. I know there are autho
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by frereubu 2y ago
> It would be a good thing for the world if HN was spun out as a non-profit and maintained long-term. But in any case, we can all hope that it will at least continue to be stewarded by good people for a while longer. If it ain't bro
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by frereubu 2y ago
Every democracy has a failure point. The US seems to be past that now, where the executive is starting to ignore the judicial branch. In my view, if the institutions were working correctly, Trump would never have been able to stand again af
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by frereubu 2y ago
Six have been added since I wrote this comment. Le Pen wasn't the only person convicted in this trial of course...
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by frereubu 2y ago
Not advocating for that specific list of actions, but the idea is that the courts have the power to do those kinds of things, not politicians. That's the whole point - you set up the legal system in a way that helps to keep democracy s
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by frereubu 2y ago
Me either, but a relative who worked in processed foods told me the reason it exists isn't just lazy consumers, it's made from the oddly-shaped (by supermarket standards) offcuts that they can't sell otherwise.
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by frereubu 2y ago
For those wondering whether this is targeted harrassment, France has a long history of this kind of sentence for people of all political stripes. Wikipedia has 108 pages covering just the most significant ones: https://fr.wikiped
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by frereubu 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
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by frereubu 2y ago
Perhaps I could have been clearer, but I wasn't referring to Mitnick, I was referring to the DOGE employee, who is different in important respects from Mitnick.
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by frereubu 2y ago
Assisting cybercrime by the sounds of things: "Two years before becoming a DOGE staffer, Coristine provided network support to a cybercrime group." That enough for you?

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