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Putting aside the "So you hate waffles?" non-sequitur, surely the entire topic of this thread should be a bit of a hint that this misguided policy has not, in fact, "[made sure] co…

> It's not in your interest buy a $200/mo subscription unless you use >$200 of tokens per month This is only true if you can find someone else selling them at cost. If a company ha…

> Puzzles in commercial collections don't usually have that problem, I would argue that puzzles in commercial collections are more likely to have that problem than ones made freely…

> Like how a streaming website will say "Hey, you're using a VPN. We don't allow that" - the user's recourse is to turn off the VPN, or find a new VPN that their service won't dete…

> you're just supposed to know what Kentucky number plates look like from a blurry image, and you're also supposed to know the logo of a sports club? Cool. Knowing exactly what the…

> so what are you going to do with a number like "17" which appears in almost every street in the country? Exactly the same thing that Rainbolt did in this video: cut down the amou…

There's a few open data projects that provide similar features to Streetview and can very occasionally be useful in regions without coverage. But yes, typically outside of Streetvi…

I genuinely can't work out what part of this video you think is US-specific. America is far from the only country in the world that has municipality logos on infrastructure, house …

Yes, I've been using TST without the top tab list visible since about 2012.

About halfway through this blog post the topic of LLM "personas" is mentioned, and while the given examples are mostly just jokes, the actual use case for that would solve the prob…

It's not a matter of "wannabe", it's "wannado". Having a bunch of sycophants in the sidebar isn't going to restore a community unless they're actually committed to making the subre…

What you're describing is administration, not moderation. Very similar concepts, but there's an absolutely gigantic difference in the feel of a community with active moderation ver…

> Moderation is an important job. It's needed. But I can't think of any other social site that has such a bad rep for moderation. Pretty much every other social site of note doesn'…

Evidently not, since that's already a motivation that isn't sufficient to get enough people actually doing the work - and if anything, Reddit taking the step of unilaterally usurpi…

The general unwillingness of people to do unpaid labour for a website that is actively working against them. It's difficult enough to find anyone willing to actually put the hard y…

That's the trick: they didn't keep it at all. By the time that colour scheme arose, the Cold War was long finished. The idea of colour-coding the parties at all didn't really becom…

...that data appears to be claiming that more 25-34yos in the United States use Facebook than actually exist.

> The effort put into this video I’ve only seen matched by on YouTube by “Stuff Made Here” Captain Disillusion is definitely up there. His Flight of the Navigator video is one of t…

There is plenty of addition in modern sudoku, as visible in the example shown in the linked article featuring killer cages.

I'm getting real sick of websites I use becoming less and less functional the bigger they get.

As I continue exploring that site I'm becoming increasingly concerned that it might not be satire.

> Not sure why folks seem to want to exclude humans from nature Probably because the concept of "nature" no longer serves any purpose if you don't, as it doesn't exclude anything. …

> Perhaps we could instead once again employ people to write encyclopedias, and fact check? We have a couple of centuries' worth of evidence that this system is subject to exactly …

> And what’s so bad about medical misinformation vs say talking about murdering people? Predominantly that I'm not aware of a huge number of people who listened to Stan and then co…

I feel like I've read this exact comment on HN before, so either this situation has somehow happened more than once, or this story has been doing the rounds for a couple of years d…