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by rhet0rica 1y ago
I'm curious what you think of this article, which asserts that uncontrollable porn use is a result of shame, not an addiction: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/2018...
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
No-framework web tinkerer here. If I had a nickel for every second of my life I've spent typing document.getElementById, I'd be able to afford new fingers. Should've been renamed to getId() and put in global scope two decades
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Ah, an easy misunderstanding to make. The initial comment by ebisoka was not, in fact, in praise of moderation. The dog-whistle is the word "certain" near the end—insinuating that the Bonfire policy is to tolerate "racism and
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Popper coined the "paradox of tolerance"—that, in order to remain tolerant, a society cannot tolerate everything; in particular, it cannot show tolerance toward those who are intolerant, as their normalization inevitably leads to
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
I look forward to the Comic Sans MS version.
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Doing a bit more research on Martha—she was a lecturer at Florida International University. Wayback of her themes page, which repeats the 300+ number and says they're only available on CD-ROM now (as of 2006): https://web.ar
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Self follow-up: https://macthemes.garden/themes/aa2e2f4e6f87-openstep-4/ and https://macthemes.garden/themes/168f21725acd-nextstep-4/ appear to actually have the correct assets for a NeX
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
It blows my mind how diverse these are, and how diverse their creators were. One single artist, Martha Royer, made over two hundred themes: https://macthemes.garden/authors/martha-royer/ (They're not all ama
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Looks like it's a special font provided by https://github.com/jdan/98.css (Which has come a long way in the past couple of years, despite still being 0.1.x) Although there is a CSS rule for manipulating how font
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
A frame is a separate rendering context—it's (almost) as heavyweight as a new tab. The author wants to insert content from another file directly into the existing DOM, merging the two documents completely.
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
I hope not. That's even weirder!
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Almost certainly written by an LLM. The ending sentence really gives it away.
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
One morning, when Hacker News woke from troubled dreams, it found itself transformed in its bed into a horrible bikeshed.
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
The engineers that worked on it thought so, too. So they saved them: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saved-avro-arrow-bl... After this news broke there was, briefly, a campaign to convince the govern
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
I came looking for this comment. One wonders if AMP-in-email was a project of the same team scaling back their original ambitions... but 10 years is a long time at the revolving door of Google.
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
I am delighted to report you can feed this site anything prefixed with https://www.semiopedia.org/generate/ and it will produce a page of plausible-but-mostly-hallucinated wisdom. https://www.semiopedia.org&
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
So, what, this is now performance art?
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
Behind every bot is a shifty motherfucker who has always been a scamming piece of shit. First they polluted email with spam. Then they polluted search results with SEO. Now they pollute forums with crap like this. For a brief moment in the
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
Perhaps that says something about how the original poster was taught to think about AI... If only we knew the environment in which they were socializing when they made the post. (Spoilers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
I'd like to introduce you to my new invention, Roko's Cockatrice. If Roko's Basilisk is real, then it stands to reason that there will eventually be resistance to it. Presumably this resistance, aware of the promise that the
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
That sounds genuinely fascinating. Can you post more about your experience meeting Gould?
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
OpenAI may not be the culprit. Patrick Boyle claims ChatGPT answers the question a little differently. It has been proposed that they actually asked Grok, which would certainly be on-brand. So long as there is doubt over which LLM they actu
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
<emoticon type="graphical" value="PILE OF POO" entity="&x1F4A9;" fallback="" fallback-encoding="utf-8" />
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
This is not the first quantum-mechanical biological phenomenon to be suggested: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/quantum-science-and-tec... ...however the author's claims definitely do not follow in any meanin
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
Silly Mozilla. Everyone knows you use bitwise OR to perform union operations!
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
To double down on that notion—the baroque rococo interiors that the author idolises at the end were the exclusive purview of the astonishingly wealthy, in no small part because of how expensive they were to implement. Accordingly they were
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
But Cube World wasn't a crafting or mining game; rather, it was an open-world Zelda-like ARPG, with a lot of progression from randomly-generated gear. The voxel size is smaller, and voxels are untextured, resulting in a 3D-ified pixel
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
I regret to inform you that 01960 is an invalid octal literal.
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Infinite Mac can now emulate early Mac OS X in the browser(blog.persistent.info)
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
As the author puts it: tl;dr: Infinite Mac can now run early Mac OS X, with 10.1 and 10.3 being the best supported versions. It’s not particularly snappy, but as someone who lived through that period, I can tell you that it wasn’t much bett

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