wackget

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by wackget 7d ago
I'm not familiar with the world of academic publishing, so I want to ask: how is the industry making sure that submissions aren't at least partially AI-generated? Is it standard practice for authors to have to defend their submi
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by wackget 10d ago
> "Endeladyze said she felt terrible that she had upset her customers, but she was also frustrated at the idea that she should have been paying a real artist. Making these signs was a job only she had done herself or with employees
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by wackget 10d ago
The actual saying is "The customer is always right in matters of taste." It is misquoted on a criminally large scale.
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by wackget 14d ago
What kind of systems are generating enough useful analytics data to ever scale to petabytes in the first place? It's difficult (for my bird brain, at least) to imagine a scenario where such volume of analytics data would ever be necess
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by wackget 14d ago
Yeah that's cool but your blog won't load on my hardened Firefox: - Uncaught TypeError: navigator.sendBeacon is not a function - Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: WebAssembly is not defined Not sure why a blog entry needs WebA
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by wackget 1mo ago
I wholeheartedly agree on every point. I've felt this way for years. It's scandalous. Many companies also rely on socials as their only effective means of customer service. If you have a problem or want to provide feedback but you
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by wackget 1mo ago
> "size of the World Wide Web (The Internet)" The WWW is not the internet.
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by wackget 1mo ago
Most of the time when people try to define healthy food vs. junk food in a fair and unbiased way, the line gets drawn at "whole foods" vs "processed foods". A typical burger meal is definitely processed food because the
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by wackget 1mo ago
Apple will never, ever add anything even close to that kind of functionality. This is a company which took SEVENTEEN YEARS before it allowed iPhone users to have gaps between app icons on their home screens. If you have ANY hope of Apple
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by wackget 2mo ago
> We are building lots. Of everything. Did you read the headline? Do you know what article you're commenting on?
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by wackget 2mo ago
Why does this article use backticks instead of apostrophes?
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by wackget 2mo ago
Yeah, my experience of Twitter has improved dramatically since I deleted my account and disavowed it completely. I don't even visit the domain. If I need to visit a link, I'll change the domain to xcancel.com instead. Now THAT i
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by wackget 2mo ago
I'd happily drive a Chinese car but I've yet to see one which has physical buttons for controls. They all seem to have gigantic tablet displays. I categorically refuse to buy a car where I can't adjust the climate controls wh
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by wackget 2mo ago
1. Why is this website blocked when I try browsing it using Brave? 2. Why on earth would you want a financial product from a WAF?content delivery company?
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by wackget 2mo ago
But then how do you make knee-jerk reactions on social media to vilify those who hold politically opposite views to yours?
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by wackget 2mo ago
Wow. Opinions on LLMs aside, the CEO writing an article like that makes me think fly.io is a deeply unserious company.
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by wackget 2mo ago
> Decries AI for producing slop > Uses AI to produce website
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by wackget 3mo ago
Replace "Facebook" with "heroin" in your argument and see how ridiculous you sound.
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by wackget 3mo ago
What the actual fuck is going on with web development nowadays? Look at the sheer number of ancillary files in this repo: .agents .claude .config .cursor .dagster_home .depot .flox .github .husky .i
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by wackget 3mo ago
As a disclaimer, the three iPhones I've ever purchased have all been used. I keep them for as long as possible. I don't use iCloud. I don't buy apps. In fact, I don't give Apple any money as far as I know. I wish a Linux
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by wackget 3mo ago
It's difficult for me to admit - because I really dislike Apple, Google, and the other predatory monopolies - but I wouldn't buy a car without CarPlay either. Like I said, it's not because I'm a fan of Apple. Honestl
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by wackget 3mo ago
Consumers need to fight back on this, and I don't just mean by protesting or complaining. Consumers need to start buying more used media instead of buying new. They need to use services like GOG.com instead of Steam, even if it's
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by wackget 4mo ago
First website where I've had to disable first-party JavaScript just to be able to read a text-based article. Even Firefox's reader mode was hijacked by their anti-ad-blocker script. Shameful.
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by wackget 5mo ago
That's cool but your text-based web page won't even display in my browser which doesn't support webgl.
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by wackget 5mo ago
You might have the self-awareness and impulse control to stop yourself from getting addicted to these apps, but the majority of the world's population does not. These giant companies pour millions upon millions of dollars into engineer
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by wackget 5mo ago
This cannot be a genuine take from a real person.
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by wackget 5mo ago
The modern-day cigarette is such a perfect metaphor for social media. A cabal of unfathomably wealthy companies spreading their harmful products across the world; making them as addictive as possible while actively burying the research whic
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by wackget 5mo ago
I would really, really love to know how much of our natural resources have been wasted in producing slop like this.
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by wackget 5mo ago
For anyone who isn't aware, just ignore the above user and their obviously absurdly reductive take.
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by wackget 5mo ago
Except this is self-censorship. The author chose to make it unavailable.

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