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I don’t subscribe to the NYT anymore (I cancelled my subscription in 2022). I know who Clavicular is because of social media. The fact that the NYT thought the guy was worthy of a …

Author here! I didn’t use AI to write this. Jekyll’s markdown to HTML converter helpfully transforms a series of three normal dashes into an em dash. I did use AI to proofread the …

Twitter's still working, but it's in a state that I think is worse than before. The spam bots alone seem to be orders of magnitude more prominent. I don't think I'd ever seen a spa…

This article is from 2017. In the meantime, the Haskell community has been playing around a lot with Effect Systems, which give you similar benefits with much better performance an…

I'm a bit torn. I like the design of Unity more than I do that of Gnome, but I think that less fragmentation is extremely desirable. Ultimately, I think it's a good, necessary move…

I commented briefly on some alternatives here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13716343

There's very few completely linear relationships in all of economics. Economies of scale, especially, are often at least polynomial. I'd say a website with 100 million members is w…

People typically use Tumblr at this point. It's not designed for art, and it has issues with big images, but it has a fairly active community, so people use it. There's also niche …

Is anybody really surprised by this development? If you create a platform where people can ask for money, a bunch of people are going to ask for money they don't really need.