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"In the past three days, I've reviewed over 100 essays from the 2024-2025 college admissions cycle. Here's how I could tell which ones were written by ChatGPT" https://www.reddit.c…

It's not just moderation. As of one week ago, my stories disappeared and now I have to go into Settings > Archive, to see who viewed them, or delete them, etc. Not only that, but e…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21448983 (2019, 25 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29210099 (2021, 50 comments)

> similar to a bunch of monitors with a Mac mini, and replacing iPads or single-viewer TVs. Except the Vision Pro maps your home, visually and acoustically. I suppose it's acceptab…

Here's a month-old YT video [11m] on this issue. Top comment is from an engineer on the project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hKXOfQ6JmE > I am an engineer, I live in Venice an…

> TAP never picked up the phone and I ended up having to force a charge after every other airline had come through with a refund... Same happened to me. And I even called an additi…

The Inventor of iPhone’s Autocorrect Explains How It Works - WSJ [7m50s] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncj3QAKvBBo

Reminds me a bit of Jordan Peterson's advice to rewrite every sentence until it's the best it can be, and then repeat that with each paragraph. His son recently released Essay, a t…

Wow, Fotolog and Orkut. Brings me back to when I was first discovering Brazilian culture and learning Portuguese in the early/mid 2000s.

It'd be great if there was an entire network of these kinds of services, so as to skim what's going on in any field. I've long been interested in summaries + news curation and work…

The other day on Reddit [1] there was a video of farm animals reacting to their names, but I think it's just responding to the "pet voice", or rather to their food provider vocaliz…

I agree with some of the criticism towards you and also with some of your rebuttals, but one thing your above comment doesn't take into account is that you effectively are part of …

I'm in Brazil and right after I signed up for a new number, I was getting 15 spam calls per day, everyday. They recycle numbers here so some of those were "legit" but meant for pre…

iirc, Dutch got rid of the case system in the 40s, thus making it easier than German. You're right about Scandinavian langauges. I took a few Duolingo courses in Swedish and Norweg…

After reading dozens over the years, I unfortunately won't read anymore PG essays due to the endless "In high school..." mentions and differences between bullies/jocks and smart ki…

https://archive.md/zY2MA

An idea I've heard is that some tech billionaire decides to purchase a little-used state of another country - say in Central America - and turns it into a technolibertarian country…

You basically explained my view and feelings on the matter. I watched maybe 10 episodes per year on YT but once it went to Spotify, I don't watch at all. Coincidentally, around the…

>It's funny how it's always CP or terrorism we need to watch out for Change the name on the box to something else, but same message. https://i.imgur.com/TAHgUPy.jpg

I'm curious how different digital IDs will work in the near future. Will one app hold all your official IDs or will there be an app for each purpose? After fall 2022, the EU plans …

And now we can add getting ads while at the beach https://www.reddit.com/r/Miami/comments/oovnrj/only_in_miami...