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I also use backtrack-free cursive too for my own personal notes, by not dotting i, j, and just not stopping to press pen when moving to dash t. One problem I had was that dotless i…

I think you can do that with undoredo by doing all the following: - Having one history bistack for each user or permissions group to enforce ownership; - Giving each new object's a…

To answer the usual question these days: the library, including the README which you can read, was written by hand, without LLM usage. I only played somewhat with Codex later on wh…

The style of the website reminds me of https://faircoding.com/ai/ , which I suppose is an example of these recent LLM-generated websites you're talking about. It likewise has dark …

Thanks for correcting me, I should have read the interview more carefully. >That's not how you title software. You don't say "The Photoshop" or "The EMACS." Nitpick: The Sims, The …

>"Is this derogatory or offensive?" is a basic localization question that is constantly asked in many languages. Yes, including Arabic. While it is pragmatic to chose new names to …

There are over 7000 languages in the world, around half of them dying or having already died due to linguistic domination, in large part English, each with its own set of culturall…

>how they are percieved by the outside world The vast majority of the outside world does not perceive the name the way you do. Even the majority of English users doesn't, as most o…

I've posted an earlier WHOWAS of jiatan here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39868773

Tukaani website states "jiatan" as the nickname of the malicious code committer on Libera Chat. WHOWAS jiatan provided me the following information: jiatan ~jiatan 185.128.24.163 *…

You can try forum-dl, a forum scraping tool I've been writing for this purpose: https://github.com/mikwielgus/forum-dl It's single-threaded, alpha-quality software, and still isn't…

Though I dislike DeVault myself, this is a well-researched blog post that clearly demonstrates that Stallman has an oddly-specific interest in defending adults having sex with adol…

Aw, I didn't mean this to be shown on HN yet. It's still very far from being usable.

You're right that journalists use anthropomorphization much more. But AI researchers also have a long history of choosing terms that are anthropomorphizing or animating. Here the n…

There are many ways one can argue for or against this comparison. This is mostly a matter of terminology. However the problem is that the field of AI has been for many decades cons…