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by vonunov 10mo ago
You can just whack space a couple of times in the search field on a user profile on the "new" reddit (www. or sh.reddit) and hit Enter
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by vonunov 10mo ago
(btw this is trivial to bypass; actual segregated alt accounts remain the only thing you should rely on if you need compartmented identities/aspects)
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by vonunov 10mo ago
I had a comment auto-removed from a subreddit and when I mailed its mods to inquire what might have triggered it, I was informed that commenting on a post from a month ago (yes really) is now considered a red flag for spam/bot activity
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by vonunov 10mo ago
GNAA Last Measure? It did a little bit more than just opening a bunch of windows and yelling "Hey everybody, I'm looking at gay porn" :)
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by vonunov 11mo ago
https://www.adorableandharmless.com/p/college-english-majors... (People [sorry, no citation] are saying this study is bad and invalid, but I think maybe English majors should be able to manage a bit better than that, e
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by vonunov 1y ago
You can do it yourself in about the same time too https://www.dcode.fr/cipher-identifier
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by vonunov 1y ago
Any day now some smartass is going to start selling analogue newspapers like hotcakes. Speaking of, I wonder how much I can get neohipsters to pay for hotcakes on the street. Slapjacks, I'll call them . . .
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by vonunov 1y ago
Those rental boom lifts and so on? Are these it? https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acsapps.jlg.com+filety... https://www.google.com/search?q=site:csapps.jlg.com+filetype...
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by vonunov 1y ago
How can "correct" have any meaning in style-preference territory? Chicago doesn't put spaces around dashes. AP does. Oxford follows Chicago, and the rest of the UK uses spaced en dashes instead. For typewriting -- and, by ext
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by vonunov 1y ago
I thought he was doing a bit
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by vonunov 1y ago
In the not-too-distant future, AI could replace up to 47% of jobs or more!
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by vonunov 1y ago
[textbroker moment] Oh, and even more aptly, do you remember "spinning"? This was a manual job, if you can imagine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_spinning
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by vonunov 1y ago
technically not the web*
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by vonunov 1y ago
They tried: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/... (see top note) Not sure how that's going.
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by vonunov 1y ago
Besides, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-04272-1#Sec3 >For rainbow trout, an estimated 10 (1.9–21.7) minutes of moderate to extreme pain (Hurtful, Disabling and Excruciating pain combined) are endured by
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by vonunov 1y ago
>Something happened! :( Yes, I love it. How helpful! I'm so lucky to have such a meaningful error message to Google. Now I only have to blindly try a list of 50 possible fixes before I discover that I couldn't save a replay on
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by vonunov 1y ago
[On a thread about how people don't read] Yes, and some of the details really need to be emphasized, because I'm sure that a good chunk of people assume this means "people don't read more than they need to / people
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by vonunov 1y ago
I've had the opposite experience reporting a bug on Telegram. But it was a particularly thorough report (windbg and all) and if that's what makes the difference, it seems like an unrealistic thing to expect of most users.
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by vonunov 1y ago
Well, at least it passes the basic sanity test I've been using. ZeroGPT, on the other hand, gives a "100% AI" rating to the introduction and preamble of the US Declaration of Independence (from "When in the Course of hum
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by vonunov 1y ago
ChatGPT voice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44243641
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by vonunov 1y ago
These are the first four words of each sentence from a thing ChatGPT wrote. I will let this speak for itself, mostly. Can you see the forest past the trees and spot the major "turning points"? (Context: I told it to write at &quot
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by vonunov 1y ago
I really hate some of these questions too. I'm going to talk at the hypothetical interviewer a lot so "you" isn't you. Name a time I had an angry customer ? Lol, like, all the time forever? I almost feel like this one m
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by vonunov 1y ago
> Even times when I was quite literally sobbing I don't remember the emotional impact of This is possibly touching on the problem I'm trying to navigate lately. Someone will display observable emotionality while denying the sub
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by vonunov 1y ago
Now that's good clean, uh, well, that's good fun!
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by vonunov 1y ago
Bummer! I spent years across different jobs with a post-it note stuck to the bottom of my keyboard that said "hunter2" on it, and I never got any post-security-audit remarks on it, not once! :<
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by vonunov 1y ago
Yes, that is the idea. I'm not suggesting that this is a thing anyone should take it upon themselves to do when it's not a practice established in that context. I have had one job I remember, maybe one more I don't, where a c
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by vonunov 1y ago
Sometimes it feels like nobody can have fun on the net anymore. Naturally I'm not for realsies¹ but I should have figured how this would go over, lol. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44207778
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by vonunov 1y ago
Lol, I forgot I posted this. Of course I don't run around actually causing work stoppage for my teammates, but "What do you fantasize about doing to your coworkers' computers when they forget to lock them that would be really
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What's your "coworker didn't lock screen" procedure?
8 points by vonunov 1y ago|29 comments
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by vonunov 1y ago
Don't worry about it. And don't call me OCD!

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