wyclif

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by wyclif 5d ago
But it's not at the top because of the AI ad copy.
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Scientists heard a knock at the door. It was a pelican in need of help.(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by wyclif 5d ago|1 comments
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by wyclif 6d ago
Take another look. It does a lot more than Postgres search.
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by wyclif 8d ago
Zhang Zhiyuan has amazing eyebrow game.
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by wyclif 9d ago
The project no longer uses that Bitcoin wallet for bounties.
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by wyclif 9d ago
I think it's wise to be a bit deliberate when turning on globstar in bash. The main cost is occasional slowness on big trees. It's OK to turn it on for general purpose things, but for scripts the bigger concerns are portability an
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by wyclif 1mo ago
This is one of the reasons why open protocols (like email, http, irc, &c) are so important.
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by wyclif 1mo ago
The correct answer is, "Of course he did not; free expression and free speech only exist for people who subscribe to doublethink. All other opinions are thoughtcrime."
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by wyclif 1mo ago
I'm from Pennsylvania and a proverbial stone's throw from where Taylor Swift is also from. Trust me when I tell you that there's nothing "middle class" about her. Her parents are wealthy and this gave her a big boos
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by wyclif 1mo ago
Where's the human poop on the sidewalks? It won't be realistic until it has that.
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by wyclif 1mo ago
Well, there's no accounting for taste. Chuck Berry, the famous rock and roller who wrote "Johnny B. Goode" saw that song get outsold by a throwaway novelty song he also wrote called "My Ding-a-Ling." The masses may
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by wyclif 1mo ago
Yeah, I'm familiar with that quote but as great of a writer as he was, I don't think Faulkner was right about this. To extend his carpentry analogy, if all you read is pulp then you are going to become a pulp producer as a writer.
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by wyclif 1mo ago
I was quite fortunate to have an AP English teacher my senior year of high school that understood this advice, and expounded on it often. I recall that he boiled it down to one simple line: Garbage in, garbage out. What he meant by that w
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by wyclif 1mo ago
Nabokov is even more impressive once you realise that English wasn't even his first language!
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by wyclif 1mo ago
The Name of the Rose by Eco is essential. Don't be fooled if you've only seen the movie, which was not good. The book itself is phenomenal.
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by wyclif 1mo ago
DHH still has a slight Danish accent. But it's nothing compared to what it was when he first moved to the US.
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by wyclif 1mo ago
Dumb question, but what does the green hand denote?
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by wyclif 1mo ago
Doesn't GitHub already do this? (I don't know if they do or not; just wondering).
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I teach calculus at Berkeley. Some of my students can't do middle school math(sfstandard.com)
24 points by wyclif 1mo ago|12 comments
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by wyclif 1mo ago
For example it doesn't block youtube adverts Pretty sure that's not true. I don't see any YT adverts when using Brave, and I don't have any extensions installed.
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by wyclif 1mo ago
I don't think he "fooled the interviewers." The point of the story is that he focussed down on what the company's culture decided was important.
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by wyclif 1mo ago
Au contraire, mon frere. Milton Friedman looks prophetic in 2026, especially his book "Free to Choose."
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by wyclif 2mo ago
Important to remember that this style of writing originates well before the AI era. It's called direct mail marketing. It's the same style of writing you'd read when you got your physical junk mail from your physical mailbox
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by wyclif 2mo ago
It's not on the same level at all as medical records, but I remember years ago when I got my first "real job" working as a credit adjuster at a major credit card bank that you've definitely heard of. Any employee could j
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by wyclif 2mo ago
I thought they both hit equally hard. RIP, Phrack.
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by wyclif 2mo ago
He's asking hypothetically why Google would be willing to give up a healthy, lucrative business to Doctorow-ize their gravy train.
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At the altar of AI capex, Google is sacrificing the golden goose(twitter.com)
3 points by wyclif 2mo ago|7 comments
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by wyclif 2mo ago
In theory I agree. It's probably just a way for people who don't like AI to weaponize the issue.
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Music to confuse AI might be the next new genre(cdm.link)
2 points by wyclif 2mo ago|0 comments
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Big tech's AI-powered 'pervert' glasses are in a losing battle with DuckDuckGo(sfgate.com)
5 points by wyclif 2mo ago|3 comments

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