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by lapcat 8mo ago
> I don't get where the reputation came from, maybe from an era that was already only mere memory when I started to use it. Peak Mac design was 20 years ago, before iPhone. That was where the reputation came from. Since iPhone becam
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> its purpose is to steal money from rich people I wish you would have stated this in your first comment.
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> I get a notification every few days Blocking mobileassetd should stop that: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/1/6.html
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> Wow…so laser focused on the trees and on the one man aspect of this. The subject of the HN submission is the California wealth tax, which affects only billionaires. There are only about 200 in California. Moreover, only a few of those
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> I am sure Page pays a lot in taxes. I'm not so sure. That's why I was asking before for evidence. > Every minute he lives and practically every dollar he spends inside California has a tax burden associated with it. In w
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> What I said was his impact on California has been significant in part because of the business he created and the people that business employs having a significant impact. Yes, he co-founded Google in 1998, nobody disputes that. But how
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by lapcat 8mo ago
It seems likely that with the written word, as with most things, a minority of people produce the majority of content. Most people publish relatively few words compared to professional writers. Possibly the LLM vendors could bias the models
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by lapcat 8mo ago
You’ve got it backwards: LLMs were trained on human writing and appropriated our style.
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> Last I heard Google employs around 70k people just in California and that has its genesis in Page and Brin inventing something. Thats pretty damn significant. Those people pay taxes, give to charities, etc… So is your view is that a bu
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> philanthropic initiatives, non-profits > All of which pay taxes I think not. > It's short-sighted to think Page doesn't pay taxes nor contribute to California in significant, meaningful ways. Provide documentation and n
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> it has cost California both Larry's presence and all the tax revenue it made from him. 1. Google itself isn't moving. I don't think Larry is closely involved anymore, and a move out of state seems to prove that. 2. How m
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> Wikipedia uses these, among other characteristics, as potential signs of AI writing From the same article: “Do not rely too much on your own judgment.” “human editors and writers often use em dashes”
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> That was concrete justification for the underlying vibe. But it’s not justification. You made your argument worse, not better, by citing em dashes and quotes.
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> The user's other blogs also have the same telltale em dash usage and usage of “” instead of "". Oh for fuck’s sake. Can we please stop with this nonsense? You must think my blog is LLM-generated too. I’m so tired of the
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by lapcat 8mo ago
The use of em dashes is a human right. I ask that people not discriminate against em-dash users—we should be a protected class—and I refuse to abandon them. Perhaps I’ll have one engraved on my tombstone. He died doing what he loved—dashing
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> Didn't Elmo buy Twitter specifically to "stop the bots"? He says a lot of shit. Robots are the new cars. The Moon is the new Mars. Turn, turn, turn.
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by lapcat 8mo ago
Again, you seem to insist on an ulterior motive, completely discounting the value or pleasure of conversation. In contrast, reading is a solitary activity. Have you heard of book clubs? People read books, and then they get together to dis
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by lapcat 8mo ago
Why do you assume that there needs to be a purpose other than discussing a topic that you're interested in?
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by lapcat 8mo ago
There's nothing I hate more about new Apple MacBook Pros than the batteries that I can't replace myself. It's such an ordeal go get an aging battery replaced, and I tend to go through them within a few years, due to high us
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> The majority of American voters in 2024 asked for this It was 49.8%, which is not quite a majority. It's also worth noting that Kamala Harris received precisely 0 votes in the 2024 Democratic primaries. [EDIT:] I see that the pare
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by lapcat 8mo ago
You're putting a lot of words in my mouth. I didn't call for anyone to be fired. throw3e98 is the one who suggested that Ars Technica was going to fire people, but not for a few days. I merely suggested that if anyone was getting
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> Their CEO posted a quick note on their forums the other day about this which implied they don't normally work on holidays and it would take until Tuesday for a response. Judging from today's editors note, if things need to ha
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> You're speaking very authoritatively about what's "standard", in a way that strongly implies you think this is either the way absolutely everyone does it, or the way it should be done. Neither. I just meant it'
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> It's a holiday weekend in the US so they may need to wait for office staff to return to begin the process. That's not how it works. It's standard op nowadays to lock out terminated employees before they even walk in the
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> Using a flawed tool doesn’t count as intention. "Ars Technica does not permit the publication of AI-generated material unless it is clearly labeled and presented for demonstration purposes. That rule is not optional, and it was no
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> What places on the internet remains where articles are written by actual experts? The personal blogs of experts.
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by lapcat 8mo ago
It appears that you may have misunderstood the preceding discussion. Linux is open source and thus can be audited.
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> You don’t have to apply the same policies to everything you use. What's the reasoning behind it, though? You can arbitrarily apply different policies to different things, but there's no rhyme or reason to that. If the differe
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> The only extension I trust enough to install on any browser is uBlock Origin. Note however that the origin of uBlock Origin is that the developer Raymond Hill transferred control of the original uBlock project to someone who turned out
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by lapcat 8mo ago
No, Safari is really no different here from Chrome, and indeed there's broad compatibility between the extension API, such that in many cases you can use a Chrome extension unmodified in Safari.

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