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pastureofplenty

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About pastureofplenty

Musician who writes code sometimes.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46503638

    I can see this becoming a culture war thing like vaccines. Conservatives will become pro-CSAM because it triggers the overly sensitive crybaby Liberals.

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    Comment #46503552

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    Comment #45907764

    Waymo may be currently safer than human drivers, but this right here is why I don't believe for a second they'll stay that way. People will complain it took to long to get somewher…

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    Comment #45907729

    Americans are increasingly adopting the kind of mindset Israelis have, where following the rules makes you a sucker. https://www.thejc.com/judaism/jewish-words/freier-fa15k306

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    Comment #45738148

    Many Americans desperately want to believe that other countries' healthcare systems are "just as bad" as a form of coping.

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    Comment #45738082

    Look at when all the "No Kings" protests are happening: on the weekend. Because there is no way the vast majority of Americans can go on strike, because healthcare is tied to emplo…

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    Comment #45687664

    Kinda ironic that a post about attention to detail was so hard to read. Why is the font size so small?

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    Comment #45563820

    Someone I used to work for was borrowing all kinds of money with seemingly little scrutiny and when she couldn't pay it back the worst possible thing happened. https://sfstandard.c…

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    Comment #45265092

    Hope you like traffic!

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    Comment #45265085

    Sounds like you'd be better off living in a less remote area.

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    Comment #45009410

    One of the houses across the street from me had its driveway dug up, all the way from the street to inside the garage, for what I first thought was for putting a bathroom or someth…

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    Comment #44882761

    This reminded me of how in the early 2000s I was taught to enclose the content of SCRIPT tags in HTML comments, e.g.

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    Comment #44663073

    I'll just keep scraping

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    Comment #44447445

    Stop killing games, and also stop making websites where all you see is a blank page if you don't have JavaScript enabled.

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    Comment #44361596

    How do they breathe? That's what I'm wondering.

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    Comment #43805598

    Seems like the opposite could be true though. AI models now have all been trained on real human-generated texts but as more of the web gets flooded with slop the models will be inc…

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    Comment #43686100

    The plagiarism machine got an update! Yay!

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    Comment #43574627

    Why the light grey text on a white background? Seriously. It's every other website these days. I of course know how to fix this in Developer Tools but I resent that I have to.

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    Comment #43383438

    Apologies for going off-topic but putting light grey text on a white background is one of the most baffling (and infuriating) design trends I've ever witnessed on the web.

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    Comment #43202489

    I was actually just thinking about Grooveshark earlier today; April will mark 10 years since it was shut down.