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by personlurking 2y ago
"In the past three days, I've reviewed over 100 essays from the 2024-2025 college admissions cycle. Here's how I could tell which ones were written by ChatGPT" https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToColl
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by personlurking 2y ago
It's not just moderation. As of one week ago, my stories disappeared and now I have to go into Settings > Archive, to see who viewed them, or delete them, etc. Not only that, but everyone I follow's stories also disappeared unl
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by personlurking 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21448983 (2019, 25 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29210099 (2021, 50 comments)
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by personlurking 3y ago
> similar to a bunch of monitors with a Mac mini, and replacing iPads or single-viewer TVs. Except the Vision Pro maps your home, visually and acoustically. I suppose it's acceptable if one already has a Roomba and an Alexa.
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by personlurking 3y ago
Here's a month-old YT video [11m] on this issue. Top comment is from an engineer on the project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hKXOfQ6JmE > I am an engineer, I live in Venice and I do work on this project. The ga
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by personlurking 4y ago
> TAP never picked up the phone and I ended up having to force a charge after every other airline had come through with a refund... Same happened to me. And I even called an additional time and only dealt with them in Portuguese hoping I
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by personlurking 4y ago
The Inventor of iPhone’s Autocorrect Explains How It Works - WSJ [7m50s] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncj3QAKvBBo
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by personlurking 4y ago
Reminds me a bit of Jordan Peterson's advice to rewrite every sentence until it's the best it can be, and then repeat that with each paragraph. His son recently released Essay, a tool to help write better, in the sense mentioned a
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by personlurking 4y ago
Wow, Fotolog and Orkut. Brings me back to when I was first discovering Brazilian culture and learning Portuguese in the early/mid 2000s.
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by personlurking 4y ago
It'd be great if there was an entire network of these kinds of services, so as to skim what's going on in any field. I've long been interested in summaries + news curation and worked for many years doing just that but I'
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by personlurking 4y ago
The other day on Reddit [1] there was a video of farm animals reacting to their names, but I think it's just responding to the "pet voice", or rather to their food provider vocalizing in their direction. 1 - https:/&#x2
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by personlurking 4y ago
I agree with some of the criticism towards you and also with some of your rebuttals, but one thing your above comment doesn't take into account is that you effectively are part of the problem still. I've been a nomad for over a do
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by personlurking 4y ago
I'm in Brazil and right after I signed up for a new number, I was getting 15 spam calls per day, everyday. They recycle numbers here so some of those were "legit" but meant for previous owners. As an American with a US number
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by personlurking 5y ago
iirc, Dutch got rid of the case system in the 40s, thus making it easier than German. You're right about Scandinavian langauges. I took a few Duolingo courses in Swedish and Norwegian and my several months of Dutch helped me.
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by personlurking 5y ago
After reading dozens over the years, I unfortunately won't read anymore PG essays due to the endless "In high school..." mentions and differences between bullies/jocks and smart kids. I would have long ago succumbed to a
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by personlurking 5y ago
https://archive.md/zY2MA
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The 37-Year-Olds Are Afraid of the 23-Year-Olds Who Work for Them(nytimes.com)
18 points by personlurking 5y ago|34 comments
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by personlurking 5y ago
An idea I've heard is that some tech billionaire decides to purchase a little-used state of another country - say in Central America - and turns it into a technolibertarian country of sorts. While treating it like a company, and thus p
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by personlurking 5y ago
You basically explained my view and feelings on the matter. I watched maybe 10 episodes per year on YT but once it went to Spotify, I don't watch at all. Coincidentally, around the same time he went to Spotify, I started getting really
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by personlurking 5y ago
>It's funny how it's always CP or terrorism we need to watch out for Change the name on the box to something else, but same message. https://i.imgur.com/TAHgUPy.jpg
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by personlurking 5y ago
I'm curious how different digital IDs will work in the near future. Will one app hold all your official IDs or will there be an app for each purpose? After fall 2022, the EU plans to do a pilot of the EU digital ID. It would "let
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by personlurking 5y ago
And now we can add getting ads while at the beach https://www.reddit.com/r/Miami/comments/oovnrj/only_in_miami...
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by personlurking 5y ago
In the past I read a lot of his essays but I can no longer stomach his obsession with (high) school. He overanalyzes it and relates almost every essay to how things are in school and I'm certain someone has made it into a drinking game
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by personlurking 5y ago
When I used the free trial, the main activity was centered around pasting text from other sources/sites, then marking the words you recognize. To me that's not worth $8/mo, much less $40 at the Premium Plus level. I realize t
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by personlurking 5y ago
It does seem good, til you compare price ($8-40/mo) with its limited use cases.
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by personlurking 5y ago
Here's a Twitter thread from a few days ago: https://twitter.com/saifedean/status/1408346196490473476 And one from yesterday: https://twitter.com/SinoCrypto/status/140922743826204672
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by personlurking 5y ago
Check out the lesser known Márcio Farraco's album Ciranda [1]. The title song features Chico. If you like him, you might like another singer-songwriter, Pierre Aderne, too [2]. Both Márcio and Pierre have a French connection, with the
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by personlurking 5y ago
>I grew up going to Catholic schools Me, too. Church every Sunday and Bible studies every week (for many years), plus Catholic school (for a year). I'm not saying they are one-dimentional. I'm saying their views on many subject
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by personlurking 5y ago
I think the problem could have been avoided if she had entered a less strict convent/order (I imagine such a thing exists). That way she could devote her life to it yet still have visiting rights under normal conditions. As an anecdote
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by personlurking 5y ago
An attempt to answer your "what's next?" question: "What about you guys floating $1 billion in “Volcano Bonds” (backed by future #BTC mining output) for El Salvador to pay off the IMF loan - so they can tell the IMF to b

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