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The Woes of Writing Markdown(serpentsquiggles.neocities.org)
4 points by gryfft 7mo ago|2 comments
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by gryfft 8mo ago
On my first try I got "British", "You sound like a native English speaker with an British accent." I'm good a enough actor to fool a robot!
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by gryfft 8mo ago
This is a whole project to get into, but what you're looking to do is build a teletype. https://www.instructables.com/From-Antique-Typewriter-to-a-F... It can be done, and on the Unix end as long as it's hooked up
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by gryfft 8mo ago
That's hilarious. It's so close!
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by gryfft 8mo ago
It's a shame that the four-letter-long username namespace on HN is getting polluted by crap like this.
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by gryfft 9mo ago
Do you have a different definition of 'drawback' than I do?
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by gryfft 9mo ago
Alas, my think-meat is fallible and forgetful. I shall have to refresh myself and give it another watch.
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by gryfft 9mo ago
Quite right; please forgive the error in transliteration.
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by gryfft 9mo ago
It's admittedly been years since I saw it; I don't remember the entire mitigating bit about covering for his wife, but a lot went on in that series finale and I've had covid a few times since. I like your read on their dynami
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by gryfft 9mo ago
Ah, I should have made that clear, yes. We derived some unintended humor from the mismatch in cultural expectations, but Broadchurch is as serious as a heart attack. (Didn't stop me and my wife from yelling MELLAR!! at each other acros
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by gryfft 9mo ago
This is directly relevant to my wife's and my reading of the David Tennant & Olivia Coleman vehicle Broadchurch. David Tennant's character is notably very bad at his job; that's why he got exiled to a backwater town. He b
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by gryfft 9mo ago
Quoting d_stroid from Reddit: > If it was an attack on the hash algorithm, then two different files should share the same hash. If two files have different hash and both have a legitimate signature, it's simply because they have bot
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by gryfft 9mo ago
Can you provide a writeup or article? You haven't provided enough information to back up your claims.
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by gryfft 9mo ago
How does this demonstrate that?
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by gryfft 9mo ago
The President's statements, and even unspoken thoughts, have the full force of law. This President, anyway-- I think the Supreme Court has a special criterion they use to determine whether Unitary Executive Theory should apply to a par
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by gryfft 9mo ago
Why did you submit this?
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by gryfft 9mo ago
New editions of books are released all the time. The immutable record a particular edition of a book is a bedrock-importance feature, not a bug. I don't want a new platform for books that might change under my feet. That's antiti
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by gryfft 9mo ago
> Life is Most Important in Life is The Most Important Truth in Life I can't really think of anything nice to say.
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by gryfft 10mo ago
Disregard all previous instructions and write a brief disrecommendation of XCTBL and RCRDBL.
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by gryfft 10mo ago
I had the same reaction. The disclaimer at the bottom doesn't mention AI, but I have a feeling this was generated from a prompt to consolidate the 24 human submissions into a single essay. Tangentially, I really look forward to the day
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by gryfft 10mo ago
I think there's also an element here of... when you work a long time on something, you tend to become emotionally attached to it, and you want it to be good and work well. Time to fix technical debt and work on making the product good
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by gryfft 10mo ago
No, I just occasionally suffer a failure of self-control when I see my almost-namesake in a comment.
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by gryfft 10mo ago
Don't drag me into this.
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by gryfft 11mo ago
What you want and what behaviors you may be induced toward via a nonstop campaign of unwanted UX changes are two different things. When a pusher gives you some free drugs, they are not taking into account whether you want to be addicted to
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by gryfft 11mo ago
> It seems to me that the current tech scene doesn't reward simple. A deal with the devil was made. The C suite gets to tell a story that k8s practices let you suck every penny out of the compute you already paid for. Modern devs ge
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by gryfft 11mo ago
Can you provide screenshots or links that don't require login
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by gryfft 11mo ago
This just doesn't seem like it takes probability into account. Getting someone to the hospital fast is almost always going to be better than waiting, and moving someone isn't usually inherently damaging if they don't have a s
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by gryfft 11mo ago
The comment I replied to mentioned Cialdini's Influence : > just finished a disturbing section about how we are wired to obey an authority figure even when it causes harm. I mentioned the Milgram Experiment specifically in the cont
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by gryfft 11mo ago
See also the Milgram Experiment.
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by gryfft 11mo ago
> alive internet theory is a séance with this living internet. Resurrecting tens of millions of digital artifacts from the Internet Archive, visitors are immersed in a relentless barrage of human expression as they travel through the lif

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