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For something like this, I would generalize a "bug" to encompass both software and human processes. Some decision-maker saw some metrics consistent with spam and enacted a spam-blo…

Do you suppose there's any connection between how LLMs write and how humans write?

When I loaded up the page, something like 5 empty HTML files downloaded automatically, did this happen to anyone else? Firefox Linux

> (Is it the year of Desktop Linux yet?) I know this is a bit of a tongue-in-cheek comment but I would argue that the year of the Linux desktop was in 2022 when the Steam deck, alb…

For anyone curious, MCMC = "Markov chain Monte Carlo" - the article doesn't actually tell you what it stands for until a number of paragraphs down. (This is a massive pet peeve of …

I'm not a Go programmer, but I feel like I've sort of "grown up" around them as the language has evolved. for a while I thought that the `if err != nil { ... }` was silly to put ev…

there's this wisdom I read a long time ago: "there's millions of photos of the Grand Canyon. There's only one or two photos of the Grand Canyon with you in it."

some of us do not want to be found. obviously the easiest way to opt out of (most) of these things is to use a port other than 6667 and 6697, but when you've been operating on thos…

If you can get a 5090 for that price, I'll eat my hat. scalpers with their armies of bots will buy them all before you get a chance.

Hey, I made something like this last year. It wasn't a self-contained unit, it was just a receipt printer with a script that would run every morning at 8am, getting the forecast, w…

one thing that frustrates me about current ChatGPT is that it feels like they are discouraging you from generating another reply to the same question, to see what else it might say…

I always thought it was because it needed to be rigid and specific.

>No, the other reason they're using this is to make it so annoying that you'll spend $20/yr to buy a 4chan pass to bypass it. I think this is a really cynical outlook, especially f…

one of the biggest problems that 4chan has to combat is spam. unfortunately, at 4chan's scale, hcaptcha and recaptcha are not free. 4chan is not exactly a font of money, either. th…

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The remastered annoyed the hell out of me because it was so buggy. I ragequit the game because there was some point that I had gotten to where one of the characters bugged out in a…

I don't think the lexer hack is relevant in this instance. The lexer hack just refers to the ambiguity of `A * B` and whether that should be parsed as a variable declaration or an …

> Why load on boot? -> Because we need to, don't worry. I believe the reason stated was "because we know it will not be tampered with after boot". Not saying it's a good or bad rea…

I love seeing Adam Cadre's name in the wild, I know him through the Lyttle Lytton contest that he's held every year since 2001. It's a fun deep dive of terrible (on purpose) writin…

it's dead simple early 90s text based protocol, and the servers have a remarkably lightweight footprint. simplicity also means you don't get the modern niceties like built-in media…

it's kind of disappointing that they're focusing on food in this. I get that it's a quarter of their revenue, but one of the things that makes japanese convenience stores so conven…

The place I run into this the most is, strangely, chipotle.com. Still can't order online on Firefox.

You're asking me to sign up before I can even see what I'm signing up for. Let me look at the content first.

I am begging these language designers to show me what your language looks like right off the bat. It should be the first thing I see on your language's homepage. I shouldn't have t…

This doesn't seem to work in Firefox, tale as old as time.