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Yeah, I completely agree with that reply, thanks for the link. BTW that Reddit post also has replies confirming my suspicions that the technical content wasn't trustworthy, if anyo…

Maybe I'm too paranoid! If it's not LLM then I don't think it's a very well-organized post though. In addition to the emoji, things that jumped out at me were the pervasive use of …

This article looked interesting, but I bounced off it because the author appears to have made heavy use of an LLM to generate the text. How can I trust that the content is worth re…

Have you seen https://www.craft.do ?

I'm not sure I agree, since there's words like "bookkeeper" that work fine—people just add a stop in front of the k sound and don't really think about it.

Enumerations are never provided for non-cryptic crosswords in American publications.

What is the point of this reply? This is a set of font files, not an oral history project. The creator is not claiming that this is evidence of their craft or taste.

The question itself would be fine if the asker were actually interested in the answer. What's condescending is asking the question while already knowing the answer, with the unstat…

No, Google Reader had a social layer where you could add friends, see items that they recommended, and comment on them. It was really great, but it was ruined by the migration to G…

Yes, in US English you'd say "in school", "in prison", but "in the hospital", for whatever reason. But you'd say "in hospice".

This is interesting but I wish it included some information about the definition of "dissonance" being used. Of course xenharmonic stuff sometimes sounds out of tune just because i…

It's funny that you mention IFTTT because one of the inspirations for its creation was the book Thoughtless Acts? , which is full of photos like the ones in this post: https://iftt…

We collectively tried the approach you’re describing, and we stopped doing it because it sucks. It looks nice in simple cases, but the lack of encapsulation or locality makes it im…

It’s not universal, people just don’t bother writing posts with the opposite perspective because it’s boring. Tiger was my first version of OS X and I think what we have now looks …

This is the Icelandic page. English version here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

I think you're missing that even shallow popular music is fundamentally about the interplay between familiarity and unfamiliarity in a way that's informed by the broader world. Som…

It's weird to assume that all time spent outside a paying job is leisure time. People who have money can afford to spend a lot less time cooking, taking care of children and elderl…