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Why can't you just find authors you like and respect, that you trust not to write slop? Why go all cabin-in-the-woods about it?

They are being built to support an industry which is itself an adverse impact.

Why would you believe anything posted on X? The platform deliberately promotes misinformation, and has for years.

This definitely does not extend to games. I remember microsoft games having terrible UX over a decade ago (not the game, the account garbage around it).

Of course there isn't a physical distinction. This is a bit like saying there isn't a difference between a novel and a poem, because they're just words on a page. The distinction i…

Please explain in your own words how "virtue signalling" differs from "expressing a moral position" and how the difference is visible in the comment you're replying to.

AI writing tics usually also make text hard to read. I figure you mean "tics which don't affect the readability" but these are pretty rare.

I think they would obviously be happy with the alternative wording "it's about what was created" or just "it's about the product". I don't think they care about any aspect of how i…

> unless you believe in blood and soil Not true, there are obviously other ways. There is an intuitive distinction between living in harmony with natural systems and simply dominat…

Care to give an example?

It is far, far less effective than deriving the solution yourself. Don't take my word for it: > If you absolutely cannot do it then go home and think but for heavens sakes don't lo…

Without any way to access the corresponding text, this is unfortunately an idea I hope never gets any significant adoption. I wonder if there is a way to make the underlying text a…

> You knew what was happening at every turn but still got lost somehow. I think this is less "it's using jargon" and more "it's explaining incredibly badly". It is very common that…

I am prepared to admit that the model usually doesn't get things outright incorrect (unless you ask it to count letters). But the solution does contain a lot of nonsense. Not false…

> Reading and Debugging 1.5 1.0 > Code Reviews 0.75 0.75 Since these numbers are made up, I may as well throw my personal anecdote in the ring. I find reading and reviewing far har…

> this is an acknowledgment, not a victory lap > That’s well outside Automerge’s comfort zone, and this note is about what happens out there. I am once again begging people who gen…

The inconvenience is always with the person writing the package. When you restrict the build to a sandbox, if it fails, it's because the package actually depends on the thing the s…

What does "scanning for malware" mean? As far as I know this is a totally open question, and the only credible answers (install in a sandbox) are too inconvenient for widespread ad…

I disagree. Maintainers for the major distributions take their roles very seriously, and do a very good job generally of filtering out malicious packages. The AUR is an outlier, be…

If you let your cat outside, please put a bell or something on them. The average cat hunts far more than they eat, and generally destroy local bird populations.

> So, it sounds like nothing of much value has been lost. Do you actually mean this? To me this sounds like someone said "you never learn anything by reading a high school essay", …

I'll answer in reverse order. I think what you suggest works! Putting it in the wording of my original comment: Mary IS 24, Ann WAS 12, and the same amount of time gets you from 12…

Parental controls on devices are not hard because they are intrinsically hard. The companies just do not care about them, because nobody has forced them to be implemented sensibly.…

> This makes it a bit easier to realize that Ann’s age has to be right in the middle of 12 and 24. How did you actually make that deduction? I can only see it by writing down an eq…

It's not cheating, but it's not enlightening either.