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The unwanted effect of AI overviews, in my experience, is turning their users into very-confidently-wrong arguers of everything. The upside is that telling said users to double-che…

Instructions unclear, I just burned my Retina.

Challenge accepted: https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/tryit.asp?filename=tryjsref_... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/move...

Ah but see, exploiting a Chromium API has let us know you've got this second screen on the side, so we're centering the div on your overall work space. PS: if you switch from the t…

You answered this: > So, bombing civilian boats rather than intercepting them, then bombing the survivors, is not what it looks it is. Would you like to explain what it is? With > …

Would you care to share any source indicating that any of these civilian boats that were destroyed, were carrying human traffickers (but, apparently, not any trafficked victims)?

> It has since been opened by 26% of my subscribers, that's 4,600 people Sadly, open rates are no longer a useful metric in the absolute, at all. Some email providers will block al…

> human traffickers Wait, I might be a bit out of the loop here, but are you saying that "double tapping" boats loaded with victims of human trafficking is "stopping criminal behav…

Thank you! My coauthor Brad and I were subscribing to Ghost just yesterday ; we're going to adopt your model.

This strategy for your legacy would not have been successful with stratoscope.geocities.com (RIP 2009), skyblog.com/stratoscobe (died in 2023 with no data export path offered), Pos…

Hi Simon, I'm not sure I get it completely. If I get it, you're basically using Substack as an email platform. So the blog (the "original") can use Wordpress, Ghost, whatever ; and…

> These businesses weren't paying someone to make a flier. My very first gig out of engineer school was updating the website and flyers for some nightclub in Paris. I was terribly …

It did, however, perfectly get across your point about SNR, in a way that regular browsers can't possibly appreciate.

> Over-regulating AI wouldn't be the equivalent of limiting nuclear arms. With your analogy, which I don't think is the best one to make, it would be like regulating the study of n…

> Disturbing AI aside this tasted just like waking up at home and my mom cooking spam for breakfast. Well one could argue that the menu now features _more_ spam than the actual dis…

As someone who was using TTS to listen to this thread, I can tell you this specific post is about 8 minutes of life I will never get back. I'll email you the bill

Cue the usual "EU is killing innovation because of all of those pesky tech and privacy regulations" thread where non-EU citizens and bots try to convince you that all EU consumers …

What I get from your two excerpts is that prediction engines, which provide liquidity to a truth-finding market by offering an incentive for inside knowledge to be revealed, are a …

The announced rules[0] are interesting, in that they claim that sensitive chats (like the ones you pointed out) will not have ads shown next to them. But - wait for it - memories a…

Ah, despite the admirable variety in timezones for advertisers, it turns out that this is only rolling out in a limited set of countries: Australia Available Canada Available Japan…

This is maybe not extremely on-topic, but when creating an account on their platform, their "Time zone" field is sorted in alphabetical order of CITY NAMES which are listed AFTER t…

Soooo many companies in the French Yellow Pages with names that would translate to "AAA Plumbers", "A, A & Associates Locksmith Company"

For those who (like me) missed the essential key word in the OP's title: This ruling is about copyright, and seems mostly unrelated to recent conversations about escaping censorshi…

> Is a 'bias' in a piece of writing generally a property of word to word choice and sentence to sentence construction or is it something more nebulous? You might be fascinated when…

I was searching for this exact link to share here, and then DuckDuckGo surfaced your post. Reading this article a few years ago was extremely influential for me, as I had been feel…