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NickDouglas

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About NickDouglas

I write and edit.

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    Comment #49038320

    A "human in the loop" isn't just necessary to manage AI's technical failures or in cases of human responsibility. This paper explores the case where AI provides the "correct" answe…

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    Comment #49037913

    Thank you, this is the deepest comment in the thread (and lol at all the self-demonstrating sentences). I'm annoyed that so many people limit their analysis to shallow things like …

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    Comment #49027762

    Suit yourself, my family ended up with two used copies of "The Hobbit" and we kept the one that some kid had marked up.

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    Comment #48924355

    I might have to explain spreadsheets to my mom first, but then it'll be smooth sailing.

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    Comment #48686940

    How Cloudflare and Signal migrated to post-quantum cryptography

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    Comment #48686861

    I knew Om when I was an ankle-biter writing for a Gawker blog. He was gracious and generous. Felt like everybody's favorite uncle. I hope I can be as kind to others as he was to me…

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    Comment #48221651

    Exception that proves the rule. You know what context that specific recipient needs from you. GenAI usually doesn't.

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    Comment #47805570

    Try "The Illustrated Man" by Ray Bradbury, but skip the terrible frame story. The actual short stories are beautiful literature and canonical sci-fi.

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    Comment #47003487

    You have now. "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash" is literally on the front of Hacker News.

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    Comment #2554496

    I'm really glad I don't know the elephants upstairs.

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    Comment #2554491

    Within the next generation or so too, since the first notices were sent by postal mail.

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    Comment #2404827

    That reminds me of this post on how Craigslist's business is being eaten away, and why it's taking so long (because of the critical mass needed to compete against its network-effec…

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    Comment #2404818

    To only sort by date is simplicity. To only sort by "relevance" as determined by friend-of-friend connections is needless complexity.