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I can't think of any case where a human gets confused by some text because a hyphen character was used instead of an em-dash, and maybe that's what you mean by real value. But I se…

You got me excited, because I've wanted something like this for a while. Obviously without the actual extortion, but everything up to that point. White hat scamming, to teach our p…

I'm real xutopia. I'm real.

Beyond the OP's AI-written or AI assisted distinction, I'm also noticing people mimicking LLM's speech patterns. I've read blogs from people who I'm quite sure are above pasting AI…

I'm sorry that happened to you. Sincerely. That sounds incredibly frustrating, painful, and scary. I think your maximalist conclusion of "drugs should be legalized" might have some…

Ah yeah, that makes sense, but I still feel like there's room for a little more discretion. https://tonsky.me/blog/every-frame-perfect/toolbar@2x.mp4 , for example I don't think I …

I'm sure a UI that had none of these imperfect frames would feel better, but now I really want someone to edit each of these clips to show what it would actually look like. At the …

Interesting explanation of a subject I had no knowledge of! I'm familiar with browser accessibility trees, but I've never thought about how operating systems do it themselves. From…

Ah yeah, you're right, that's a misrepresentation on my part - it's based on lines, not the file: > [absorb] splits changes in the source revision and moves each change to the clos…

I appreciate the pushback, but I wasn't actually saying people shouldn't do this. If a neighbourhood is being neglected because of some incentive structure they're powerless to aff…

I see road workers repairing potholes, and otherwise notice that potholes get repaired over time. Presumably there is an intelligent process that leads to this. What alternative is…

My model of municipal maintenance is that a city's road maintenance workers have a long list of known potholes to fix which is triaged with some formula and dealt with day-by-day. …

Wow, awesome. There's also a few on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash_unsorted?t... (In case the OP also made you think of Teen Titans Battle …

Oh nice, this is way better. On finnicky engines, I think if I were to seriously implement this for a project that needed to support arbitrary images, I'd do the dithering server s…

Wow, my first post that's frontpaged and it's the one I put the least effort into. I've at least fixed the noise colour bleed now. This technique does not do any file compression a…

Years of digestive issues resolved by a single massage? I've never heard of an outcome like that before. Could you explain more about how it worked and what this lady's approach pu…

> You cannot require age verification on IRC, XMPP, ActivityPub, Nostr, or Matrix, because there is no single entity to compel. Each server operator makes their own decisions. A go…

> After finding out that the city council was considering a housing element that would have bowed to NIMBY pressure, we sent two letters to the city, reminding it of its legal obli…

Right, but I suppose one issue is that, depending on how concentrated the AI agent market becomes, the rent seeking could eventually potentially just shift to these agents instead.…

Nilay Patel is calling this "the DoorDash problem" and has written an essay on it here: https://www.theverge.com/podcast/823909/the-doordash-problem...

i have blogged and posted sometimes-inscrutable things on this for the last 7 years https://ikesau.co

My brother's got an instance for canadian urbanism and fediverse engineering: https://video.canadiancivil.com