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It's nice, but after a few clicks my LLM content fatigue kicks in.

That is indeed a similar problem. Europe is now aware of this problem and starting to mitigate it, to reduce dependencies on big tech - how hard that may be.

This is what worries me. People become dependent on these GenAI products that are proprietary, not transparant, and need a subscription. People build on it like it is a solid found…

A website that lets you be the "A"I to other people.

Same (GP). Schools were really unsafe places for children back then. It always strikes me of you see movies about schools in that period, that the story is often that children get …

Thanks for sharing this. It is so sad! Sorry that there are people like that. The only thing we can do now, is be better people than those horrible teachers.

As a 10y old, my father taught me about logical ports. I took a very large piece of paper and in a few days, I designed a tic tac toe "computer". It had LEDs that indicated the nex…

Douglas Crockford nearly got cancelled because he qualified JavaScript as "promiscuous". People not knowing what the word means plus having a sense of urgency about sensitivity can…

> You're experiencing something real that the industry is aggressively pretending doesn't exist. I agree with the article and recognize the fatigue, but I have never experienced th…

His point is that the Orwellian way of surveillance is impossible to do in practice, and that a proper science fiction writer would have left the surveillance to machines. So I thi…

DNS is only for resolving the host part. The path is not passing through a dns query. In example.com/blah, the /blah part is interpreted by the host itself. And apart from that I w…

Firefox reader mode also helps

No, that spec is the failed attempt to standardize by Atwood et al., that Gruber sabotaged.

Here is a post from Atwood about it: https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-commo... And an interesting discussion on hn about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

The writeup does not mention Jeff Atwood (Stackoverflow founder) trying to convince Gruber to standardize markdown. Atwood approached him publicly in a series of blog posts, but Gr…

I used to host an SSH server at home at port 443, for the same reason! The sysadmin of my employer was so strict that 'solutions' like this were the way of the least resistance. Se…

He is singlehandedly responsible for using up an entire city's worth of power and water this way?

This comment contains a few logical fallacies. > It states the cargo culted reasons, but not the actual truth This dismisses existing explanations without engaging with the mention…

:) true. I'm a teacher myself. I never dismiss questions, but I do get discouraged sometimes.

Thanks! I didn't know that one. I had a teacher who became angry when a question was asked about a subject he felt students should already be knowledgeable about. "YOU ARE IN xTH G…

Doesn't it state this in the article? > Browsers, search engines, assistive technologies, etc. can leverage it to: > - Get pronunciation and voice right for screen readers > - Impr…

It is about a company, First Wap, that makes it possible to track individuals. Their USP is a piece of software that operates at phone network level and uses the fact that phone co…

Still only one point

Doesn't seem to work on Firefox mobile. On each stroke it only renders one "point".