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When you like something and want it to succeed, it’s discouraging to see that thing waste its resources. Especially if you contributed those resources. I never understood how this …

> I watch ten creators. I divide $10 per month between them evenly. They each get $1 per month. No, they don’t. How are you magically sending them this money? They all signed up fo…

Why do you think this?

> Am I using Apple TV? No. Is it really true that they removed the truncation indicator? Yes.

> I have zero experience with these Then please realise your advice is completely unneeded and unhelpful.

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Yes, but that leaves almost everything anyone cares about. Everything except rendering.

It doesn’t lose the tabs at the end of the tab list, for you? Tabs just disappearing after being opened is a daily issue, for me.

> they've been powering through the five stages of grief in coming to terms with that If only! They trashed their reputation by lashing out at their own misapprehensions.

It’s my experience that humans are far, far, far more trustworthy about their limitations than LLMs. Obviously, this varies by human.

> Typst seems to be a cloud based solution with monthly fees? In the exact same way that git is: it isn’t, but one easy way to use it is.

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I’m surprised your projects aren’t plagued by massive waves of scraping traffic like the rest of us. Count yourself lucky, not superior.

> inappropriately dressed How do you think Anubis should dress?

The author’s arguments explicitly don’t dispute plausibility. It accurately states that mere plausibility is a misleading basis for this report, but that the report provides nothin…

Wikipedia is fine for that. My point is that “encyclopaedic information” is low-quality by necessity: there is no shortcut to truly expert information on a topic. Too many have con…

My appreciation of Wikipedia has decreased as my own expertise has increased. A long way before I’m anywhere near an expert on a topic, I begin to spot misleading inaccuracies in i…

Your heuristic isn’t just coarse — it’s misleading.

> I thought xbox was doing well? It very much isn’t.

In the future, this majority who love the artificial pampering will vastly out-vote and out-influence us. I hope it won’t suck as bad as I predict it will for actual individuals.

Do you think it’s risible to avoid pulling the wings off flies?

Or if you just pass through a US Walmart! Tony’s is everywhere, now.

> That's just a manner of speaking in former British colonies, or at least the subcontinent. Which is still a good example of when you shouldn't use passive voice. Clarifying where…

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> How much mundane (ie, non-suicidal) coercion of this nature is happening every day, but does not make the news because nothing interesting happened as a consequence? A lot. Have …